I am with Gatherer and Breakthrough in the heart of a poverty stricken inner city. People of every race pepper the neighborhood and the familiar smells of lazily discarded trash and rich food cooking fills the air. The smells hit me with a sense of mournful nostalgia. I immediately feel sad and discouraged by this world of lack.
Me:
“Why is this so hard to change? Why are the vast majority of people in poverty so stubborn and unteachable? I feel like I have thrown more than half of my life at something that will never change.”
Gatherer:
“Here must you heed the words of Prudence, who is called ‘good judgement’ and known to you as Breakthrough, he who dwells with the spirit of wisdom. Those who suffer lack must take note of all that is spoken by Zephkiel, my brother. For obedience to his instruction is the key to every kind of abundance imaginable.”
Breakthrough:
“The desire to be right is the greatest folly that can befall a man. Indeed, it is worse than cancer eating at your flesh. For a fool seeks to win an argument but a wise man desires to improve his situation.
The core of a fool is stubborn self-righteousness. To win arguments at the cost of destiny relationships is the fruit upon the tree of the kings of fools. The need to be of the same rank as everyone around him is the manifestation of self-sabotage of the highest order.
You can do nothing for an unteachable spirit. For the student who thinks himself above even the lowest teacher hides himself within a castle of dishonor. Favor and wisdom do not tread near such foolishness, nor do they readily visit the same fool twice.
If a man desires to rise from poverty, he must become a willing slave to wisdom. Indeed, all who have wisdom must become masters to him.
You with failing relationships must call those with healthy relationships mentors and masters. Sit at their feet, clean their homes, bring them gifts and honor their wisdom with sacrifice.
You with lack and ruin must do the same. Let their anointing rub off on you. Let their habits become your own. Let their wisdom seep into your bones.
But the man who argues with a source of wisdom curses himself with ignorance and falls out of favor with those who have the power to promote him.
For God uses man to promote man and hardens the heart of man against those who despise instruction.
Have you seen how dearly the seven love you son of obedience? And have you felt the love of God within your own breast for them?
It is thus because you love to honor and seek the smallest opportunity to serve and love one another.
Because of this, abundance shall rain down upon every one of you and your children and your children’s children shall be blessed.
But none who do not understand honor will be permitted to have a voice. For they must first be broken upon the rocks of their own hellish pride before your voice shall be permitted to reach their ears.
I, Breakthrough, am called to, and travailed for, by every sentient being. Mankind weeps for a miracle but I am able to serve very few of the multitudes. I desire to bless all of mankind for I am commissioned by the word, who is the son, to bring an abundant life to all who are obedient to His commands.
But fools tie my hands. For they dishonor the very people who heed my instruction.
Hear me now son of obedience:
To win an argument against a man who is to be my conduit of blessing in your life is to shut the conduit.
To be right for the sake of your own ego is to cut your own supply line. To deny the existence of ranks of wisdom is to fool yourself into a position of attrition.
Indeed, those who insist on making themselves equal or of higher rank than the authorities placed by God, literally shut their own supply lines.
It is much better to seek out the wise than to call yourself a wise man in the presence of those who could promote you with the simple wave of their hand.
But fools frustrate their teachers and dishonor every source of wisdom. Thus they curse themselves with chasing their own tails in endless frustration.
What am I to do if my instruction is ignored? I have the map but they are blinded to it because they simply want to be right.
The cost of willful ignorance is high, and the fool gladly pays it.”
Me:
“Holy heck.”
Gatherer:
“Correct.”
I laugh at his curt answer for a while. Actually, to be honest, I have these laughing fits where something that strikes a chord in my sense of humor will keep looping in my mind so that I laugh for a very long time. This was one of those times. Compounded by the fact that this is a very serious matter and I should not be laughing. Compounded further by the fact that the two angels stand patiently waiting for me to finish laughing and all I can do is wipe the tears from my eyes, notice Gatherer eyeing me dispassionately and burst out laughing once again.
I spent most of my school career in a lot of trouble for this quirk and was pleasantly surprised to see my young nephew afflicted with the same condition that my youngest sister affectionately termed ‘laughalitus’.
After a very long time, I finally settle down to snorts and guffaws and manage to focus on what Gatherer has to say.
Not entirely true.
Gatherer starts to speak and I burst out laughing again. This time my stomach muscles are cramping and my lungs object to the abuse by allowing me a ‘laugh wheeze’ from time to time.
Breakthrough:
“You really are a strange choice for the role of Courier son of obedience!”
This sets me off laughing so much that I actually wake up laughing and have to head outside to relieve my bladder.
I continue to profess that the kingdom is all and I am sure that the instructions will continue as I finish typing this and fall asleep again.
Although I am still feeling a bit gigglish.
On a serious note.
Go back and read the incredible instructions from Breakthrough concerning the need to be right. That is some powerful revelation if you let it sink in!
See you in Dream 205 folks!.
The kingdom is all!
