Willows By Water Courses
PROPHETIC WORD dream vision of a window frame with a lightning strike and word from the Lord
Isaiah 44 Mississippi was given to me on November 16, 2015.
Teaching: Psalm 137 and Isaiah 44:4 speak of the willow tree.
As long as the willows keep their courses by the streams they live! God used this idea of his lush willow and the green grasses by water courses- to reveal to us His will.
If we stay by His living springs we will not perish even keeping generations alive!
It was said that the basket Jochebed, Moses's Mother made for him was fashioned of tender branches of the willows.
She wove a basket that carried Moses through the Nile.
Why did they hang their harps upon the willows?
I believe the willow tree was a type of Jesus and David, Queen Esther, and Mary.
From Queen Esther’s sacrifice to save a nation to little Mary that washed the feet of Jesus they all bore a harp - a sacrifice of worship!
David was a small lad even spoken of as Valiant, Prudent, and Comely.
Mighty he was!
And His secret weapon was worship.
Esther’s beauty gave her an advantage no other possessed.
Her beauty was not of outward appearance but that of the tenderness, and gentleness of the heart, soul, and Spirit!
Those tender, and gentle in Spirit yield!
They bear no fear of man!
Mary’s hair was her heavenly covering!
Her hair was full of the scent of her Alabaster Jar.
I can only imagine that as Mary anointed Jesus' head her hair fell around his head and feet.
Her hair was filled with the fragrance of the “oil of worship”!
Matthew 26-
While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.
This was her secret weapon! No one in the room could oppose her!
John 12
I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
Her perfume didn’t just fill the room it filled Jesus’ nostrils!
Her perfumed strands reminded Jesus of Rehab’s scented scarlet cord of faith!
Her bravery saved a nation!
Even today Her worship bears the “chords” ( the song notes of the Lord!) melodies we hear still today! And simple Mary: She bore the heart of worship- because " it’s not about us!" It's about JESUS!
1 Peter 3:3
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves.
The point of the willow is that, it's a simple tree. David was a simple king! Esther was a simple girl! Moses" mother was a simple momma.
And they all BORE a "HARP" of worship! And God is asking us to have simple faith!
Nothing extravagant, or flamboyant … just simple like the willow!
As the branches of the Willows bend and flow by the wind, the breath of God breathes out a heart song!
Songs of deliverance are heard in the wind! Lord, Flow in us! Blow through the cords of our hearts HARP!
And I’m sure that baby Moses, when in the river Nile among the reeds when pharaoh's daughter found him crying, slew the giant of death as he cried His “song of deliverance” through those braided Willow branches.
Oh Lord, We will not forget to "bear the sound of the harp"!
Breathe your breath throughout our nations and revive us again!
We will not hang our heart songs (harps) on the willows, but instead, we will allow you to blow through the branches of our willow tree bending them freely and moving them by the wind of your SPIRIT.
You’re showing us as brides to be tender, to be flexible.
When You breathe your breath inside of us, it makes us tender!
You're forming a HARP in me!…unless you breathe your breath inside of our tree, inside of our heart, inside of our soil (or scroll), we will not live.
Oh Lord, Take your Holy snippers and clip off the deadness, and dryness!
You're looking for living branches in our hearts / a living harp, a living tree!
Living tree... live in ME! To be “brickle” is to resist the breath of his blowing, flowing Spirit!
Author: Charlotte Jean Todd Leonard