Bobbie shared on her journey over the past 12 months, and had been thinking if there were only a few things she could teach us, what would they be?
Bobbie's mandate, along with the Colour Sisterhood, has been to;
1) Keep rallying the troops
2) Make sure we remain on the path, or if there's danger, prepare us so that we don't fall from it. We are 'alive for such a time as this'
3) Gather everyone she is commissioned to (this refers to the harvest)
Gather, Equip and Mobilse. Ps 68:11 is a messianic psalm and is foundational to Sisterhood. It is Gods heart for us, as individuals and as His church.
(Colossians 2:2-4 MSG) I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we’ve been shown the mystery! I’m telling you this because I don’t want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or “the Secret.”
Mandate: Stay the path. Show the way home.
(Isaiah 40:1-9 NIV) Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God!”
(Matthew 5:11-12 MSG) “Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens—give a cheer, even!—for though they don’t like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble.
(Matthew 5:13-16 MSG) “Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage. “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.
Her heart for the Colour Sisterhood, as it's always been when God planted the seed in her heart nearly 20 years ago, is for the 'God colours and flavour's' to come to the earth, and when it does it comes with territory. Taking back territory that has been lost.
Be endlessly found in His words, shadow and footsteps. Walking with Him always. Leaning and relying on Him always. Walk in His ways.
How engrafted into our personal being is His word? Imbedded into our being?
Like a garden, His word requires it to be planted (by faith, a gift from God, and by reading), and watered (by walking in the Holy Spirit) and seeded (in order to carry the word to give to others).
(Matthew 13:18-22 MSG) “Study this story of the farmer planting seed. When anyone hears news of the kingdom and doesn’t take it in, it just remains on the surface, and so the Evil One comes along and plucks it right out of that person’s heart. This is the seed the farmer scatters on the road.
“The seed cast in the gravel—this is the person who hears and instantly responds with enthusiasm. But there is no soil of character, and so when the emotions wear off and some difficulty arrives, there is nothing to show for it.
“The seed cast in the weeds is the person who hears the kingdom news, but weeds of worry and illusions about getting more and wanting everything under the sun strangle what was heard, and nothing comes of it.
1) Walk in His footsteps. 2) Love is on the way.
1) Peter walked with Jesus every day, he knew Him intimately. Peter never thought he would walk into a trap. Never would he have thought that he could doubt his Lord. Could we follow Him? Is it possible to get lost along the way?
Gods shadow bears no darkness. No angst, no fear. It is beautiful. Does not obscure the light, it IS the light. Psalm 91. Dwell in the secret place in the shadow of the Almighty.
2) Love is on the way. At the beginning of 2014 Bobbie preached a message about 'numbering our days' and God asked her "Do you not know that I wait for you in your future?"
2014 was the most favoured, blessed and expansive year as a Couple, as the Church, and their Ministry. It was fraught with challenge and opposition, and it had a combative landscape.
No vessel of honour can avoid the fire. She prayed that God would 'fire' us and 'strengthen' us for the next chapter.
Daniel 3. Three Hebrew boys who felt the heat. They refused to bow down and worship the king and renounce God. While in the fire, the king could see a forth person within, who was 'like a son of the gods' (perhaps this was Jesus).
Ultimately king Nebuchadnessar realised that "there is no other God who can deliver in this way!". And this is OUR promise, as we walk with Jesus.
