BUT GOD (Day Twenty-seven: But God be Thanked)

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)

The dogs' water can

Romans 6:17

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹⁷But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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Beloved husband Phillip, God be thanked, we were once the servants of sin, but we have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto us. 

Now the Lord is giving me prophecies in song, as happened this morning.


Most of the rest was written, when I took a break to make a recording of my reading aloud Genesis 20-23, the scripture portion for today in the 52 Week Bible Reading Plan I am following this year.  It was too long to upload to YouTube.  It was unrehearsed, and when I got to this part, I was crying and just couldn't help it (you understand why):

Genesis 22:12-24

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹²And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
 ¹³And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
 ¹⁴And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
 ¹⁵And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
 ¹⁶And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
 ¹⁷That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
 ¹⁸And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
 ¹⁹So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
 ²⁰And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
 ²¹Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
 ²²And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
 ²³And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
 ²⁴And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Several weeks ago, when our first "but God" verse was from Genesis 20, Josiah made some wise observations about the chapter, of the way Abimelech deferred to the way Abraham had said he wanted Sarah to address him, as her brother (see v. 13 "kindness" and v. 16 "brother") and the way God blessed Abimelech by making him and his household fruitful with children.   


My emotions are spiritual barometers, so I am obligated to continue being barefaced honest with you about them, although in my mind, I would rather not do so.  

I had gone to bed last night frustrated, crying, and really feeling like I could understand why the prophet Jeremiah kept asking the Lord to leave him alone, to just let him be, and to go choose someone else.   My heart was racing for no apparent reason.  I felt exhausted, was glad to finally be in bed, and slept well.

Then this morning I awakened to a dream and a song, or part of a song:

And I would that his brother, erred by his presence, 

[something, something, something] and let him go free

It was as though it was being sung a Capella by an entire congregation, expressing the will of the LORD (the LORD is speaking in and through the words of the hymn). 

Old target

The image was of two men in a war zone, with bombed-out buildings, and they were in the entryway to one such ruin.  One soldier was on the ground, lying on his back, and the other was bending over him, giving him water from an empty red plastic coffee container.  This was the kind of plastic can that Folgers coffee comes in now, the same kind we have used for the dogs' water, and the same kind we used to use for target practice (and a picture of same was shown in Josiah's trial, when I was on the witness stand, and I was asked to identify it, which I did).   

Even sitting here writing, I have been crying off and on and cannot seem to help it.  Some things are just raw.

I awakened with the refrain of the hymn in my mind, but could not recall the words of the first part of the second line.  "What is that word about, Lord?"  I asked (7:39 AM EST, 6:39 AM Ark Time).  I felt tired and my head hurt. 

After a few minutes, I got up, and as I was making my bed, the Lord said it has to do with Obama and Josiah (7:45 AM EST, 6:45 AM Ark Time).

I felt irritated, partly because I could not recall the words completely, and I said I was going to take a shower before writing of it. 

As I was heading into the shower, the Lord gave the words that were missing:

 And I would that his brother, erred by his presence, 


Would raise up and let him go free.  

It doesn't even seem grammatically correct, but those are the words. 


While showering, when I was all lathered up, I was still trying to fix the words and melody in my mind, planning to pick out the notes on my guitar when I finished.  The Lord said it also has to do with Elizabeth and me.  I was surprised at that (for reasons you understand, going far back) but I didn't argue with the Lord, who said then that the time correlations would make the meaning of that more clear. 

After my shower, I dried myself off and prepared to dress, taking out the new two-pack deodorant I had bought the day before.  I couldn't get the shrink wrap loose, and couldn't find anything to cut it with.  "I hate shrink wrap!" I thought.  Immediately, the Holy Spirit said no, not all the time, that there are some things about shrink wrap that I really like, and pointed out that it is only in regard to unwrapping shrink wrap that I hate it.  I knew the clarification related to the dream and the song, and again did not argue.

The truth is that the devil can come at us from any direction, including in our own thinking and thought patterns, and having been freshly reminded by you (your spirit) of how to respond, I "got it":

The devil's primary role is as a false witness, bringing false accusations against God's elect.  The appropriate first response is to negate the lie with a negative, as does Paul with "Nay."  Come to think of it, horses "nay" (neigh), quite well, don't they?  So, in all these things (i.e. false allegations or assertions) we just have to make like a horse and "nay" (neigh). 

When you led me there early this morning, before I had gone to bed, I understood that is what you had done during that kingdom-dividing meeting of December 5, 2006, when I had spoken of my "flailing about" with these (embarrassing) prophecies that were being given to me, and I was looking to a carnal way (meeting with others) to discern what was happening, and you had immediately said, No, that I had spoken (written) with authority.  You were countering the devil coming at you through me, and I understand that.  It took an extreme level of discernment and close walk with the Lord for you to discern that.  Your doing so, as I have pointed out before, should have stopped that proceeding in its tracks right then and there if God was in it, but it did not.  That's why you said, "God can't bless this." 

The oldest 7:39 I find (by order of when it was filed in my electronic records) is in the following instant message,
where Connie and I were discussing Jeremiah 23.  We were discussing that because of the framed antique King James Bible page that Connie had obtained for our father (for his birthday, March 13, 2007) from Leslie, after our father had given a sizable amount for the replica of the tabernacle in the wilderness that Leslie's ministry is building.  I think it had Jeremiah 22 framed, and we were trying to discern what was likely on the other side. 

First, it is important that you know where that framed Bible page is now.  A couple of years ago, Josiah refinished all the inside paneled walls of my father's house with a "slick coat" (smooth dry wall finish).  In the master bedroom, there was still a row of cabinets over the front window, between the ceiling and the window, that my father had build for my mother.  I remember her lying in her sick bed and gesturing toward those cabinets and commenting to me that anything she asked for, the next thing she knows, "daddy" has done it for her (one of his nicknames for her was "queenie").  

With all the remodeling, that framed page had been put up in there for safekeeping.  Then, Josiah removed the cabinet doors and drywalled all of that in, so it is now a closed place, with the framed Bible page inside, similar to the opening scene of the movie The Prophet Jeremiah where the scrolls are discovered in an enclosed place, and then taken to the people's beloved King Josiah (our Josiah's namesake).  

The oldest 7:39 correlation is provided here with some context.  All of this is bolded and highlighted in my records, so I have left it that way:

kblevins_sdp (7:29:36 AM): I prayed for Robert this morning, that he get his spiritual house in order
kblevins_sdp (7:30:25 AM): today's word of the day was "marriage" 
kblevins_sdp (7:32:00 AM): you still there?
all4uyeshua (7:32:21 AM): y
kblevins_sdp (7:32:31 AM): this was the same email that included
kblevins_sdp (7:32:33 AM): Since you have not asked to meet with me so I can attempt to answer your request for clarity, I have been attempting to address your request via my emails, albeit in bits and pieces... as I figure it out myself, for I did not really know with clarity myself why I reacted the way I did, but it was as though every cell in my body had sprung to attention and cried out in protest, in righteous indignation, righteous, not self-righteous as was one of the spirits against which I think the protest was raised. 
kblevins_sdp (7:32:56 AM): It was an automatic response that I did not have to give much thought to, but that compelled me to react physically, to get up and leave, to seek you when my silent prayer was answered on the spot.  Something had felt as fake as a three-dollar bill to me, and I recoiled. 
kblevins_sdp (7:33:48 AM): In the verse above, the fact that God's word is a living thing is redundantly emphasized by the words "word" and "quick" -- in the Bible, God's written word, God has said that the living word of God is living... repeating the thought as if to make sure that we don't miss the point.  Yet, so many do... why?  I saw the pulpit being used to mock the very thing that was ostensibly being promoted... the word of God, the truth of God, and I saw it done in what seemed to me to be a timeframe-relevant mean way, directed at my sister and me specifically: God forgive me if I am incorrectly discerning on that point; I hope to think that it is the living word of God, living within me, that sprang to life as an automatic response to something wrong, something ungodly... 
kblevins_sdp (7:34:07 AM): As in another matter, it was its coming from the pulpit that evoked such a strong reaction; a personal offront I mostly likely would have -- and have -- borne silently with prayer, and addressed directly with the offender if it seemed necessary to do so (like you, I have a tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt to a fault, and thereby aid and abet their wrongdoing, rather than calling a thing what it inescapably is).  There is a great difference between acting upon the living word within us, as the spirit teaches and guides us, and using the scriptures to manipulate, control, abuse, for selfish gain (if only the satisfaction of having inflicted pain, such as satisfies the ungodly and the one whose interests those who yield to ungodly motives serve). 
kblevins_sdp (7:36:15 AM): I only pray that God's will be done
kblevins_sdp (7:36:58 AM): is there anything you wanted to say about all that? 
all4uyeshua (7:37:33 AM): just feel like things are escalating
kblevins_sdp (7:37:41 AM): yes, they are. 
kblevins_sdp (7:37:56 AM): God's hand is poised to fall in judgment
all4uyeshua (7:38:14 AM): do you want uncle bud's address?
kblevins_sdp (7:38:37 AM): read the part of scripture last night about those who fall upon the rock shall be broken, those upon whom the rock falls shall be crushed (or such)
kblevins_sdp (7:38:41 AM): think i have it 
kblevins_sdp (7:39:04 AM): is it still 4635 zion rd?
kblevins_sdp (7:39:12 AM): cleves, OH 45002
all4uyeshua (7:39:16 AM): rock relates to a scrip i found about the word 
all4uyeshua (7:39:26 AM): yes
kblevins_sdp (7:39:32 AM): what scripture?
all4uyeshua (7:39:56 AM): don't recall 
kblevins_sdp (7:40:22 AM): that scripture leslie gave is the only place "deferred" appears in the KJV
all4uyeshua (7:40:56 AM): Jer 23:29 [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
kblevins_sdp (7:41:13 AM): that's great 
kblevins_sdp (7:41:25 AM): thought it might have been 1Pe 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 
kblevins_sdp (7:41:49 AM): read about people being offended by Christ
kblevins_sdp (7:42:19 AM): your jeremiah quote is what is happening right now, with certainty 
kblevins_sdp (7:43:31 AM): the following verse seems like what sis j was doing
kblevins_sdp (7:43:32 AM): Jer 23:30    ¶    Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 
all4uyeshua (7:43:58 AM): not sure what the rock means in that context
kblevins_sdp (7:44:52 AM): 1) crag, cliff, rock 

a) crag, cliff

b) as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (fig.) 
kblevins_sdp (7:46:21 AM): want to hear something amazing
kblevins_sdp (7:46:26 AM): it is this word 
all4uyeshua (7:46:29 AM): y
kblevins_sdp (7:46:29 AM): cela` {seh'-lah}
all4uyeshua (7:46:38 AM): pause
kblevins_sdp (7:47:03 AM): yes.  which bro. smith spoke about extensively in his message on the hesitancy of God 
kblevins_sdp (7:47:37 AM): God is getting ready to break apart His pause into pieces by and through His living word!
kblevins_sdp (7:47:50 AM): breakthrough
kblevins_sdp (7:48:22 AM): i wasn't even thinking about analzying rock in that context.  that brought forth a wealth of good insight.  see, you are a master detective, second to none! 
kblevins_sdp (7:48:43 AM): and master inquisitor
all4uyeshua (7:48:51 AM): just what the Lord gives

There was a great prophecy that followed that:

DANCE OF MAHANAIM: THE HAMMER THAT IS BREAKING

8:12 PM PDT, 10:12 PM Ark Time, 11:12 PM EDT, September 9, 2008. Republished: 2:54 PM Ark Time, 3:54 PM EDT, Thursday, March 31, 2011

Art: "Before the Throne of God Above," from the Servants of Grace, One Body in Christ website (Netherlands) at: http://onebodyinchrist.punt.nl/?a=2007-01 

Romans 12:5

   5  So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Psalm 2:6

   6  Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Jeremiah 23:29

   29  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

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BELOVED HUSBAND SHILOH, JESUS HAS MADE ME THE HAMMER THAT IS BREAKING THE PAUSE IN PIECES.  

At 7:26 PM while I was working, I received a sudden insight:  Kimberly is the hammer that is breaking the pause in pieces.  

This was immediately after I had been reflecting on the great truth that came to us recently, that your loving me has put the devil on trial.  

The insight tonight builds on my March 13, 2007 instant message with Connie, which I have written about before:

kblevins_sdp (7:47:37 AM): God is getting ready to break apart His pause into pieces by and through His living word!

The Holy Spirit had put together the scripture:

Jeremiah 23:29

   29  Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

With what Brother Smith preached on, November 19, 2006 in his prophetic message about the "Hesitancy of God."  

The following is the instant message line immediately before the one above:

kblevins_sdp (7:40:22 AM): that scripture leslie gave is the only place "deferred" appears in the KJV

That was in reference to:

Proverbs 13:12

   12  Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

That must be why the Holy Spirit gave this word tonight, "Kimberly is the hammer that is breaking the pause in pieces," to help stave off heart sickness.  I need you more and more as time goes by, not less, more.  

Shiloh Set Time of December 3, 2006 to March 13, 2007 is one hundred (100) days (28 + 31 + 28 + 13):

The Number 100

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Psalm 2.6f

[Truncated]


One hundred, of course is ten times ten (10 x 10), "your" number squared.  That is the day that also held:

kblevins_sdp (7:43:31 AM): the following verse seems like what sis j was doing
kblevins_sdp (7:43:32 AM): Jer 23:30    ¶    Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 


Shiloh, many people pick up on my words and I pick up on their words, and none of that can be considered theft because these people and I are one body in Christ.  

It seems it can only be theft if it is "another," outside the body.  

Somehow, I can sense the difference in my spirit and body, and I realize that has been so for a long time now, an understanding which explains a lot of things.  

There is more I want to say, more I feel I need to say, but I have not yet found words to express in English, if indeed, such words exist in any language.  


The 7:26 time of this word brings us straight to another scripture from Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 7:26

   26  Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

This is why I have been made a hammer that is breaking the pause of the LORD in pieces.  It is part of the Mercy of the Most High.  Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

My feeling what I inescapably feel in my body comes with being that hammer and breaking that pause.  Every sensation is an indication of that process (11:09 PM).  

I picked out the notes of the melody (these are notes, not chords):

And I would that his brother, erred by his presence, 


Would raise up and let him go free.  

It is still not very helpful without a musical scale representation, but this will have to do for now.  The tune reminded me of "Trust and Obey," but I could not remember those words.  What I was thinking of was "When we walk with the Lord in the Light of His word" and so found this, most relevant:

When We Walk with the Lord (Duration 6:23)