D.U.S.T.
Yesterday I did a Facebook video teaching, on two videos, titled “DUST,” using the acronym Distractions Underneath the Surface of The Soul, acting as, or hindering Truth.
(See Facebook links one and two for the videos.)
Recently, [husband] Rich and I dusted in our apartment, me the furniture, and Rich the floors.
Although it was clean, having the dust in the room, still had an effect on us, without our knowledge; we didn’t feel it was totally clean.
It’s the same way with the kingdom of the world in our members. Little by little, things have crept in without our knowledge and have pulled on us, bringing in the unclean, to which we’re clueless.
Dust is something that can hide under furniture or behind things, always present, but never addressed. It’s the same way with the kingdom of the world.
Being alive on earth, if we’re not careful, things that might seem good or godly, can end up being a care of the world, bringing anxiety, thereby pulling us into a place of vulnerability, where we’re not vigilant and allow the enemy a foothold.
All particles emit a frequency, and once we dusted our apartment, we no longer felt the dust; it’s frequency and presence were gone.
It’s no different with the world. We might not see its presence, but it’s there within our members and has an effect.
As I considered my dream from 2021, where my Cross that I had picked up to follow Christ, felt as light as a feather, and immediately it came to my mind, that a feather duster is used to remove dust!
When you understand that Christ’s yoke is light and not heavy, picking up your Cross and following Christ, gets the distractions of this present age, out of your soul!
Praise God!
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good — not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.” Matthew 11:28-30 AMPC.
The November 21, 2021, is copied and pasted here.
“I had a most awesome dream last night, confirming all that The LORD has been speaking to me the last several weeks, about moving forward into the call of Christ and keeping our eyes on Jesus!
He showed me the narrowness of the way and how He is removing the hindrances in our life of others who aren’t safe for us and have areas in their heart that are meant to hurt us.
In the dream last night, I saw Jesus carrying His cross to Calvary. He looked at me and told me the way was narrow and that I had to keep my eyes on Him and where I was going and not others.
He showed me how the enemy had distracted me with different things in my life that were meant to hurt me and make me feel bad through those whose intentions were for evil and not good, and again He walked carrying His cross, as I followed Him to Calvary.
I followed Him carrying my Cross and it was almost as if it weighed like nothing, so I had to check to make sure I was still carrying it, at which I discovered I was. However, the weight of it was like carrying a feather.
The scene then shifts as He warns me again how narrow the way is and then I get to the top of this mountain with my Cross, where there are these steep steps.
There is a handrail going down the middle of these stone steps with people sitting on the left side, which were people coming down; they’d left being crucified with Christ and couldn’t handle it.
On the right side of the handrail, it was so so so narrow, unlike the left side where people had left.
The right side was so narrow that you had to keep your hand on the steep step as you went up the mountain, because on the right side there was no rail, and you would fall off of the mountain.
The LORD warned me that I had to walk in His SAFETY and SAFELY up the steps lest I fall.
He confirmed about getting out of unhealthy relationships with those who meant harm for me because I wouldn’t make it up the mountain otherwise.”
God showed me as in Mark 4:18-19, we can have cares and anxieties of the world in our lives that become distractions.
These distractions then derail us to covetousness and worldliness, without our knowledge. It’s little by little.
“And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word; then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.” Mark 4:18-19 AMPC.
Thorns are a metaphor for the “kingdom of the world.”
They represent the presence of the kingdom of the world in our members, which end up choking out the Word of Truth, where we forget what we read, unable to endure the testing of it, and it’s completely removed from our understanding.
As God woke me up to the distractions that came to weigh me down and wear me out, He showed me how many in The Church started out well in the faith, but the distractions of this present age, which might have looked like a God thing, were instead a burden of the world, the distraction of the present age, bringing cares and anxieties to wear you out, effecting your perceptibility, thereby leading into poor decisions, where you might have allowed covetousness to creep in, or have failed to crucify your flesh in certain areas.
The LORD showed me that as we continue to keep our eyes on Christ Jesus, picking up our cross and following Him, that we are crucified with Him, losing our life on this earth, and no longer have the DUST of the world within our soul!
Praise God!
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to be My disciple, let him deny himself [disregard, lose sight of, and forget himself and his own interests] and take up his cross and follow Me cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying, also]. For whoever is bent on saving his [temporal] life [his comfort and security here] shall lose it [eternal life]; and whoever loses his life [his comfort and security here] for My sake shall find it [life everlasting]. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]? For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory (majesty, splendor) of His Father with His angels, and then He will render account and reward every man in accordance with what he has done.” Matthew 26:24-27 AMPC.
I pray you are crucified with Christ Jesus, and lifted up to the New Life, as you’re resurrected with Christ, picking up your cross and following Him, losing your life on earth, and gaining Eternal Life in Christ!
In Jesus’ Name!
Amen and Amen!
God bless!
A saint crying out to God for fullness of deliverance and the manifestation of salvation.
~ Robin Kirby Gatto
Robin Kirby-Gatto operates in the prophetic, bringing the testimony of Jesus into the earth through the scripture Revelation 19:10 “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Robin walks in God’s Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding and is brought into areas to bring a revelation of God’s Truth, The Word as the Holy Spirit brings forth God’s anointing into her ministry.
Traditional thinking is the biggest enemy to the truth about the cross. Go outside of the box of traditional thinking and church in America and you will find the narrow rode few will travel on. And you will also discover almost all are on this rode. Very few know the true narrow rode as Jesus said it would be. The ones who will stop you are of your own earthly family and your traditional church home in America. Jesus came to his own and they knew him not. Most traditional Christians would cry like baby’s if they woke up and were rejected by all they seek the attention of not knowing that’s what they are doing. Just one thought beyond the norm really try to dare believe that God will save all on find out how fast you die or are crucified in the churches in America even those who claim to love you. Just a thought hang about to be much more.