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 The
Set Up!
1
Cor. 1:27
But
God hath chosen the
foolish things of the
world to confound the
wise; and God hath
chosen the weak things
of the world to
confound the things
which are mighty;
(KJV)
How many of you have
experienced God in
this manner? How
many of you can
testify that God
"Set You Up"
for something, whether
it was a lesson to
teach you something of
importance in your
walk with HIM?
Or a lesson learned
for the walk He has
applied to your life
for the perfecting of
the Saints, for the
work of the Ministry
that He has called you
to do in His name?
It all began with my
meeting a fellow
Minister online by the
name of Dale,
Minister Dale
introduced himself to
me and the Spirit of
the Lord confirmed
that he was who God
called him to be in a
Mighty way, we spoke
for a short time
before he began to
testify to me that he
loved scrubbing
dishes, that he once
had a job where he
washed dishes, my
question to him was
this and my thought
about this issue was
this as well, I do not
like scrubbing dishes,
at all, hate it, I
have went to bed with
a sink full many of
nights and woke up the
next morning with
those same dishes in
the sink as if they
were going to wash
themselves, looked at
them and walked away.
There has been times
when I have allowed
those same dishes to
sit for over a week
before I washed them,
this was an issue to
me, I don't like
putting my hands in
grease and grime, I
would prefer just
throwing them away.
While I know there
will be many who are
saying in there hearts
right now as they read
this page, yuck, I
would never, I could
never, wow, how can
she be........and have
all that nasty stuff
in her home.....huh..,
I also know that God
is having me to place
this in writing for
those and many others
whom think that they
have it all together
with HIM and they do
not, but to show you
that God is able to
use the smallest
things to teach us a
Great Big Lesson.
Minister Dale
continued to testify
to me about how he
loved washing dishes,
how he would say to
himself, I am washing
dishes for the Lord as
he did this chore, and
it was a pleasant
thing to him, that
over and over he would
wash and say to God, I
am washing dishes for
Jesus with a pleasant
demeanor which cause
the anointing to drop
on him as he worked
unto God. I
thought of how blessed
the meals where that
laid on these plates
as they were anointed
by Dale prior to being
served to the public
because of Dales love
for Jesus to just wash
these dishes, but I
still had in the back
of my mind, huh, I
hate washing dishes
and that will never be
an anointing that I
will be trying to
obtain.
I also in the pass,
have thrown many pots,
pans, dishes, bowls
away because they
where crowing up my
refrigerator with old
left overs, and the
food would get so hard
in them that I would
not want to put my
hands in them to clean
them, so over the
years I had been
throwing them away.
One day the Lord said
to me, you know, if
you keep throwing them
away you will find in
the future that you
have none at all, I
said to God oh
well Lord, I will just
go and buy some more,
and you know what I
did at the 1.00 store,
we all have them and
they come in handy for
many things so off to
the dollar store I
would go to buy and
replace the things
that I threw away,
pots, pans, dishes,
forks and bowls to
boot!
Although I had been
doing this for years,
I could always feel
the Lord dealing with
me, it was always this
little nudge in me
that let me know that
He was not finished
with this, but He
allow me years of
waist before He show
me the errors of my
ways. It all
began with Dale and
his testimony of how
he loved to wash these
dishes.
On the night of
Resurrection Day, I
was in my kitchen
preparing the Feast
Dinner, as I did, I
had to clean out
something's pots,
pans, bowls left in
the refrigerator with
old left over in them
and if I found some
that looked like it
would need some extra
attention to clean I
would just throw them
in the garbage and
replace them as usual.
I thought to myself,
as I always did,
trying to forgetting
about the testimony of
Minister Dale the day
before of his love of
washing dishes for
Jesus. I tried
to lock it down so
that I would not hear
it in my spirit, but
the Lord kept allowing
me to hear it, and
then in the spirit I
started hearing
singing, it was a mans
voice singing, "I
am Washing Dishes for
Jesus", and it
would not stop, well I
just pushed it off and
kept on emptying out
the pots, pans and
dishes that where easy
to clean off into the
waste, but then I got
to the one that was
and looked to be
difficult, the one
that the food was
stuck to, the one that
wanted to resist
releasing the old food
out of it was a medium
white bowl and no
matter how hard I
shook it the food just
sat there, so I said
to myself "oh
well" I will not
let this bowl stress
me out, in the garbage
with yah and I threw
it away, when I did, I
felt something
different about this
issue and what I had
been doing for so long
like I was being Setup
in some way, and as
usual God said to me
again, you know that
if you keep casting
them away, one day you
will not have any to
throw away, and my
response was the same,
I will just go out and
buy some more.
In my heart I knew
that this time was
different, this was
not like all the other
times, as I threw the
bowl away, the Lord
said don't do that,
but I did not take
that bowl out of the
garbage, and I also
had now a sink full of
dishes with grease
from the pan that I
cooked the Ham in as
well as other things.
After I completed the
tasks of cleaning out
the refrigerator and
looked at the stack of
dishes on my kitchen
table, I was so tired
in my flesh, between,
making the dinner and
cleaning out of the
old that I did not
want to wash anything.
I finished cooking and
putting all of my
Resurrection Day
dinner up for the next
day, but the sink was
full. I looked
at that sink and
growled out loud, the
Lord said to me, wash
those dishes, and pots
do not leave them in
there because you will
only have to wash them
tomorrow, well you
know what, I was so
tired, I said to God I
will deal with that
tomorrow, I am going
to bed, this was the
second time I did not
hearken to Him.
1. He said do
not throw that bowl
away, I did.
2. He said wash
those pot and dishes
tonight so that you
will not have to do it
tomorrow, I did not
and turned out the
lights and went to
bed.
When I woke up the
next morning,
Resurrection Day, the
first thing I heard
from God as I passed
the kitchen sink to go
to the bathroom,
was.........You should
have washed those
dishes last night, how
are you going to make
your coffee the sink
is to full for you to
even to get water to
make your coffee so
now you have to wash
them before you can
make your coffee, I
told you that you
should have washed
them last night!
I said yes Lord your
right, but I did not,
and proceeded to wash
the dishes without
compiling on the
outside, getting angry
with my oldest
daughter inside
feeling that she could
have washed them if I
was making this grand
dinner, but she was in
the bed sleep while I
struggled with the
grease getting on my
hands washing dishes
yuck!
I finally got them all
washed up, but that
bowl kept showing
itself to me in my
spirit, I could not
shake this feeling for
nothing. The day
went well for us and
we rejoiced and
enjoyed Jesus all day,
I ate spiritually, not
so much naturally, had
no desire to eat to
much of anything just
wanted to eat some
spiritual manna.
As the day progressed
into night, the phone
rang, it was another
Minister, Prophetess
Jan Forman, when I
answered the phone,
the Lord said to me,
she thinks that this
talk will be boring
and I had to make her
call you cause she did
not want to, watch
what I do to her to
teach her this lesson,
the lesson of not to
move before Me or
think of what will or
will not be to
herself. You see
this was the first
time that we had
really spoken in
person over the phone,
we have been speaking
over the IM's screen
on AOL but never in
person, because the
IM's screen leave much
out of that person its
a cold type of
speaking one is lead
to believe that it
will be boring and
short. Well, it
was anything but
boring or short on
both sides.
We began to chat when
all of a sudden the
Spirit of the Lord
dropped and I began to
laugh in the Spirit,
the Lord said to me,
Lu
15:4 What
man of you, having an
hundred sheep, if he
lose one of them, doth
not leave the ninety
and nine in the
wilderness, and go
after that which is
lost, until he find
it?
Then
the vision, as we
where talking the Lord
was showing me the
vision of a sheep in a
large mud pool, muck
and mire waste pool,
the sheep's wool was
getting wet, as some
may know, sheep cannot
get wet, there wool
gets so heavy that
they will sink and
die. The Lord
allowed me to see the
sheep sinking head
going under in this
waist and His hand
coming down out of a
cloud to save this one
sheep. The others
where in a safe place
grazing on grass, but
this one sheep was
lost and was in
trouble and He was
there to save it.
Understand that when a
sheep runs from its
Shepherd, that when
the Shepherd finds the
sheep the breaks its
legs and hangs the
sheep around his neck
to teach the sheep not
to stray, in the
latter days the
Shepherd carries this
sheep with him on his
neck and the sheep
learns a valuable
lesson, which is, do
not ever stray again
alone without My
leading you, stay
close to Me.
As Prophetess Forman
and myself we
contained to chat, I
was still laughing and
it was not getting
very hot in the room
the anointing was
Great on me and she
began to laugh as
well, but in the
laughter the Lord
began to speak, He
said to me, "Who
do you think you
are?" Why
did you throw that
bowl away when I told
you not to? I
was still laughing so
was Prophetess Forman,
then the Lord said,
"Have I ever
thrown you or any
other of My Children
away?" I
was laughing so hard,
but I answered Him,
"No Lord,"
He said, well how and
why did you throw that
bowl away? I
said to myself, what
does a bowl have to do
with your kids, He
said its the same
principal, the bowl is
liken unto the 100
sheep and one ran
astray and it was in
danger of loosing its
life never to be used
again by Me if I did
not go after it, the
bowl you throw away
will never be used
again, cause you throw
it away! Then I
told Prophetess Forman
what God had said and
we where still
laughing about it, and
God would not let it
go, He just kept on
pressing on this bowl,
it was not a new bowl,
it was an old white
Cool Whip Bowl, so
what's the big deal
Lord? He said to
me,
'"GO
GET THAT BOWL OUT OF
THAT GARBAGE AND WASH
IT NOW !"
I
though to myself, yeah
right! that bowl
is deep in the garbage
and it stinks by now,
and I said to God Lord
the bowl is in the
garbage and it stinks
and I am not putting
my hands down in that
mess to get that old
bowl, He said to me,
"Didn't I
retrieve you from out
of your mess, from out
of the muck and mire,
didn't I find you in
waste that stunk yet I
pulled you out"?
"Go get that bowl
out of the garbage
now"! I was
still laughing hard,
while God was whipping
my butt, I said to
God, yuck, Lord you
know that I don't like
putting my hands in
grease or dirt so
what's the big deal
about this bowl?
God said you are that
bowl, and you where
and in some ways still
dirty, stinking and
need washing, yet I
never threw you away
did I? I said no
Lord, He said NOW, GO
AND GET THAT BOWL AND
WASH IT, well I told
Prophetess Forman, and
she agreed with me
laughing that God was
not letting this go
until I went and got
this bowl and washed
it to learn this
lesson.
And
so I did, I went to
dig this bowl out, all
I could see in the
spirit was dirt,
filth, maggots stuff
like that, I really
did not want to dig
this bowl out of this
garbage, there where
no maggots, but in my
spiritual eye I could
see them and God said
I dug you out!
So get to digging that
Bowl out now, I found
the bowl and washed it
out, and me and
Minister Forman was
still laughing the
Holy Laugh, when the
Lord said to me, now
tell her that I told
her that this phone
called would not be
boring, that it would
not be short, and that
she thought it would
be but I had to teach
her this lesson as
well, "Do not try
to out think Me"
because I will change
on you........I told
her and she began to
laugh and confessed
that she did have this
thought prior to
calling me, but God
made her call me even
although she did not
want to, He made her
do so.
This was an awesome
Revelation to us both,
how the Lord used a
simple bowl as well as
a miss dialed
telephone number to
teach us both about
waist of
anything. In
showing me He
could used a simple
bowl to show me how we
must sometimes go into
places that we do not
want to in filth,
grease, grime even
stool to get what He
sends us after and
thats the vessels, the
bowl and its true beauty
is after He washes it
and makes it white as
snow.
I pray that God has
blessed you, and the
next time He "Set
You Up",
that you will receive
it as a blessing of
correction and not
just shrug it off as
just a little
something, something.
I will never throw
another bowl, pot,
dish away again, and I
will wash them singing
to Him, as my brother
Dale does.........
"I am washing
dishes for Jesus"
Thats all right!
Written
5/2003
~Yasha~
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