Brokeness = Breakthrough + Breakfree

How can brokenness, a name which is broken and useless be equal to any break through?

Any appliance, ornament or object when it is broken you throw it away OR do you do what my 73 year old grandfather does?

Keep it to dismantle it try and fix it. If he wins we have a use for it but if he fails then my mum and I better find a way of throwing it away (Serious face).

How can any object or situation be beneficial if any component is broken?

Watch this space.

A seed is planted in the rich loam fertile soil. A seed is watered and exposed to sunlight. After days of nurturing a seed you see sprouts appear from the ground. Over joyed from your sprout knowing it will grow to produce.

BUT

What you fail to realise is ……..

The seed needed to be broken before it produced. The seed was dropped in a hole like Joseph’s brother throwing him in a pit. (Genesis 37). The seed was pushed into the soil like you being shoved into a position that does not have a mould for you to fit in. We fail to acknowledge a seed breaks before its roots stretch towards d soil. It is painful when we are stretched in all directions. The stem stretches towards the sun (pun intended-SON of GOD) and trusts me it is not an enjoyable process.

A pregnant woman waits for her water pipe to break before giving birth to child/children. Pass you due date and you water pipe did not break?

It is urgent for you to go to the doctor as soon as possible. Your child needs to break free.

Her birth canal is stretched as she pushes through.

How bad do you want break through?

Push through

Birth forth Newness

An egg shell needs to be broken for a chick or reptile to emerge out of the shell there has to be a stretching of body parts because a chick/Reptile is not laid in an egg with the necessary tools (Chisel, hammer) to break out.

Can u imagine a Reptile chiselling his way through?

It’s not easy and some Mothers help their children only if they make an effort to break the shell a little.

Remind me of Abba, God will help you but you have to show him you have the willingness and sometimes the willingness is faith and believing God is able even in a dark shell.

Grapes are crushed and its skin breaks, the grapes is smashed and wine is produces. A Gethsemane position

A coconut is cracked open to eat the coconut and drink coconut water.

Dross needs to be broken

Horns are removed and scraped

Let me explain to you how hot springs are formed. I was fascinated by it when I learnt about it myself before teaching it to my wonderful grade five learners (Natural Science) during Teaching Practice. The Earth has three layers like an Astro or a Fererro chocolate. The first layer is the crust, then the chocolate layer is the mantle and the biscuit centre or the nutty centre represents the centre of the Earth our Core which has a Temperature of 6000 degree Celsius.

The top layer, the crust is like 680 km thick, there is a crack from deep within and the water is hot because of the heat from the core. The water pushes through the crack and the through the top layer of the surface of the Earth BUT we will only get a hot spring if the earth’s crust is thin. In weakness, spring up like a hot spring. We can boast in weakness al because God can even come through to us in that spilt second when we need him the most.

Parts of this post like most posts where typed during great trials and brokenness, giving up is no option. Pushing through is what you have to do because we were not designed to be weak and fragile but strong and victorious. Even weakness you can go through the throne rooms of God and worship, at times I fought with him because situations tried to drain me and make me feel overcome with sickness. I refused to stay to long in a situation. I do not mind being tested but I refuse to be tormented. I will hunt down the enemy and drop the word of God on his head.

As I felt weak and broken I decided not to sit and mope but spend some time in the sweet presence of Yahweh. I said to God when I reached his Throne room “I don’t want to feel” before I could complete a sentence to God. He came to embrace me and it ushered in a strong presence of God. It is true Psalms 34 v 18 “YAHWEH is CLOSE to the BROKEN hearted and SAVES those who have CRUSHED spirit”.

Was Jesus Messiah not crushed and broken, tempted by the enemy?

A broken man on tree?

 He is no longer a baby in a manger, a broken man on the cross, he’s alive, and he’s coming, prepare the way. Lyrics taken from Misty Edwards, Lion of Judah.

The demand for Ransom

7^th May 2012

I am not going to explain who Donovan Munsamy also known as Brandon is to me. After being mentioned in two blog posts you should know him to be my Mentor/Spiritual brother by now. We chatted on Sunday and he inspired me to write a post on the demand and then about ransom so that brings me to my title THE DEMAND FOR RANSOM. I was still working on this post and Pragasen Pillay lead worship in Chatsworth on Sunday 13 May 2012 (Mother’s Day) and mentioned DEMAND. That is not all my Spiritual Daddy Pastor Trevor Dolan ministered and confirmed this blog and two others. God is amazing!

What is a demand?

It is related to a command. It is a statement. It has authority and dominion. You are not asking but telling. There no MANNER VOCABULARY involved in this demanding sentence because it has exclamation marks!

Scenario One:

At a restaurant you get poor service from your clumsy, forgetful, young waitress. Let’s give her a name. What shall we call her? (Put on my or our thinking cap {LOL}). How about Sarah. Sarah makes you wait awhile before she brings your order to you. As you wait your tummy begins singing Opera converting into a hungry beast. The smells of food travel from the kitchen into your nasal cavity and affect the Opera singers and starving beasts trapped in pit of your stomach. The other waitresses and waiters are on the roll. When they pass you the smell hits you and you get more upset, the steam also hits your face and you feel hot headed. A plan of action is needed but your brain requires energy, energy comes from food and this waitress has not brought it to you. The little energy you have you try and use to devise a master plan BUT distractions from fast waiters/waitresses comes and those opera singers and starving beast start acting up once again. Reminds me off Jacob and Esau in the Bible and that Bowl of Soup. History will not repeat itself; there are sauces on the Table.

Sarah smiles and gives you your order; all your plots and plans fade away as the steam evaporates. The little energy you have left is used to reach towards utensils and a platter. Smiling at Sarah you smile and look at your meal about to devour it as she stands beside you to ensure all is well. You look properly at your meal, and you are not surprised, you where brought a wrong order.

This is it, you release hungry beasts and opera singers and your appetite is now lost. Never again will you eat at this restaurant. You Demand to see the manager because you know you are right, in fact you have a right to a good service on time no matter what circumstances. When you see the manager, Sarah is scared because her manager is a higher ranking than her; she may lose her job or get a warning.

Now you understand the term DEMAND. Let’s look at Ransom.

Any action movie has a scene where someone is kidnapped and held hostage by obviously bad guys, if they were good they will not take a person and keep them safe or let alone kidnap. Imagine a few people take you somewhere and treat you like gold and after they are done leave you back in your home, safe and sound, how we wish. Just a few random thoughts thrown at you from my imaginative mind.

As I was saying to you. In most cases people who are kidnapped are either people in power, rich family or friends.  The bad guys are certain they will get a big amount of cash in small period of time if they get somebody kidnaped from a rich family. They will not kidnap a beggar from a street corner or a middle class individual; they rather join these individuals in their jobs or daily routines. Not worthy kidnapping a middle class/ Poor person all because these people have no big cash on hand.  The enemy calls the victim’s family with their voice exposed or a special device changing their voices into a voice from scary movie. (Chuckling away). They tell the family what we see happen in any movie this scene occurs in, “BRING THE _______ (RANSOM) MONEY TO ______LOCATION AT _____ TIME ON THE DOT, COME ALONE AND DO NOT TELL THE COPS OR WE WILL HURT _________”. The bad guy takes the victim near the mobile  for them to scream through a dirty looking piece of dusting furniture or washing car cloth tied around their mouth, EEEEWWW!!!!. The victim will try and have a lengthy conversation with their family member as if the bad guys are lending free minutes. The victim might say do not come it is a trap and the bad guys cut the call.  The victim’s family get police involved and bad guys find out, if bad guys do not find out, WHERES THE MOVIE? WHERE IS THE ACTION?

It is predictable because in a scary movie I know somebody is going to slip and twist their ankle and throughout the whole movie they will be limping and running away from their killer with help from someone else who will try to help them balance and be their eyes and not forgetting saying “HE IS COMING, FASTER”. The individual limping will say “LEAVE ME”. The helper will say I am not leaving you.  At the end the one limping survives. They need to change it around now.

Really, (Shaking head from side to side).

What did I tell you??????? PREDICTABLE!!!!!!!

Scenario Two:

(Inspired to use the name when I entered and boring Lecture in Lecture 7 UKZN Edgewood for language and Literacy 320 and found this on the smart bored, I smiled to myself to know God wanted me to use this in this post)

There is a man called SINBAD (Not his name SIN_BAD) also known as Satan and he Kidnaps you because he hears you have big inheritance from ABRAHAM. Sinbad did his homework and found out you are a prince and princess and your father is the King of the world. Sinbad knew a smart move is to kidnap you. Sinbad calls your Father. Abba Father

also known as God answers and (Such a Glory as I type this part to you) send Ransom as promised.

ABBA Father sends JESUS and TWO STICKS. Jesus nailed to the cross is what Father sends to Sinbad. As sung by Chris Tomlin, JESUS MESSIAH; a part of the Lyrics there is a line that goes “THE RANSOME FROM HEAVEN”. Whom the son sets free is free indeed.

you are now free

You can demand wisdom, demand the anointing. Demand for it with authority because you have the right to demand for it. Ask like it is yours, have faith and call what is not as if it is.

Part 3 :Bridges

Physically:

 There are bridges we drive on and bridges we cross to get from one area to another. Bridges remind me of how scary it was crossing a bridge at Croc world where hungry man eating crocodiles lingered below. I went in high School (Welbedene Secondary School) must have been in grade ten. My colleagues so excited to cross a bridge they all rushed at once and we exceeded the maximum number of people on the bridge. The fear that gripped me when I am afraid of heights and to look down to see these Crocodiles circling beneath you waiting for you to be their extra meal for the day.

Spiritually:

In life we are sometimes fooled by crossing a bridge and expecting better but we receive less. In life we need to know which bridges to burn and which bridges to cross.

 I Remember holding on so tightly to the ropes on one side. I felt if I hold on tightly it would be safer for me if the bridge snapped.


 Thankfully we had no problems with the wooden bridge snapping and a Man (White-Not being racist or bias to any social groups {giggling}) came in and helped us get to safe ground.

 How many times in your life has the burdens of life came in and put pressure on your bridge?

How many times have you felt your whole life collapsing down?

How many times have you felt Scavengers waiting for you to die or slip up so they can devour you and rip you apart?

How many times have you held on so tightly, expecting the worst to occur any moment now?

BUT

HOW MANY TIMES DID JESUS COME THROUGH FOR YOU?

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HELD ON SO TIGHTLY TO THE ROPE BUT THEN REALIZED IT WAS THE SAVIOURS NAIL SCARED HANDS?