Jan 03 2009
The Older I Get - (awww shucks..! Shekinah BAM, now!)
I turn 41 this year.
Call me wonky, but that actually makes me dance!
When I hit 35, I felt like I had finally arrived. By the time I turned 40, I had been promoted and transported, both employment-wise, and in the realm of the Spirit. I am still in training, both vocationally and ministerially, still finding my kinship-cluster, as it were. I turned 40, and I relaxed. I focused. I was catalyzed. It was downright enzymatic.
So, imagine how I feel thinking of turning 41 this April!!
Yes, I know I’m weird.
My friends, my family, many of them, exclaim as much. Not all, but many. They also fall into all of those expected patterns of perception, and perspective. Even one of my radical, prophetic mamas in the faith, Patricia King, calls this the ’second half’ of life.
Second half? Second THIRD.
(PK, I forever love ya, gurl, but I gotta call ya out on this one!)
I plan on 125 years, minimum should the Lord tarry, that is, of a lengthy, strong life worth living, myself. At 40, I entered the second 3rd of my life.
God has been counseling and teaching me on Redeeming the Time. On the fourth day, God created Time. The evening and the morning of the first day, He created Light, but it was the fourth that He made the sun, moon and stars, etc, and ordained them to be for signs and times and seasons (Genesis 1:14-19).
If God created it, that means He is not subject to it; He’s outside of time. If we are in Him, in Christ Jesus, new creative beings, with the spiritual DNA of our Daddy… then we also are not subject to it. We are, in the spirit, outside of time, inside of Eternity.
Now, our physical bodies are definitely inside of time, and subject to it. But note what this means. Spiritual always, always, always, always rules over the natural. Spiritual is more real than natural. Spiritual created natural. Spiritual is not subject to natural, unless we capitulate to that imbalance. We are spirits, we have a soul, we live inside a body. We have a free will, and we choose what rules over us. Give that choice up to the world, and the choice will be made for you.
A lock has been clicking open for me in recent hours about this. I have had the key all along, I just didn’t know it, certainly didn’t know what it unlocked, nor how to find that treasure and use that key..
We can redeem the time:
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. (Ephesians 5:14-16)
I am awakening from slumber in this area. He has come to give me Light, on this and many other pursuits. I am seeking His counsel, His mentoring. Interpreting The Times, by Dr Chuck Pierce, is in my possession, now. I claim that power, that anointing, that calling, that assignment, that wisdom, that gift, right now, in advance, by faith, before I even intellectualize it, before I even attempt to ascend mentally to it, before it is input into my subconscious. I deposit that into my spirit by faith in advance (and retroactively), in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I am quickened right now to claim that “older gets better” anointing, that Sarah anointing. God had to change her name and do some work in her, but among the results: the older she got, the better she got. To the point that men began to covet her. We have modern day versions of her, in that sense: the late, great Eartha Kitt, the illustrious Josephine Baker, the silken-voiced Sade. .
There are certainly men in these categories, too, but, hey, I’m a girl, so I’m spotlighting sistas.
That anointing? Mine. I’m taking it. I appropriate it now by faith in the Name of Jesus.
So, yeah, no disrespect to youth, but we are still here, and we still have a plan, too. We still have work to do. Forgive those of us who have awoken late in the day, but please remember our father in the faith Abraham. He was something like 75 before God even began calling him.
I am in good company.
Amen.
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