Rivers of Living Water...

I like to start at the beginning of things though I won’t recount the details of our creation. Only to say that when we were created with the man remaining in him until G-d pulled us out we were simply on hold until order was established. I love that G-d never does anything until it is time for it to happen. I think that the principle of us remaining on hold until Adam was placed in the garden and given some work to do is something that we overlook when we read the history to that text. Here Adam thought he was alone all that time, yet we were in him. What he wanted, needed, desired was there all the time. He simply had to be processed. When he took that rib from Adam and fashioned our body, Adam was able to see in the flesh what he had wanted all along. People often like to argue this point by saying how do we know that Adam asked for her since the text doesn’t state that--I have only to say that G-d never imposes on us what we don’t seek him for. We get what we expect from him.

So what are we anointed for? Beyond being Adam’s helpmeet, (which I will discus I greater detail in part 2) We are help for G-d as well. Genesis 3:15 tells us that G-d has put enmity between us and satan. Enmity is an unusual hatred. It’s not something that we have to develop, it’s in us because G-d placed it there after the fall through sin. Though we were the ones deceived, it’s clear that we were able to recognize who the real problem was when we failed to do as we had been instructed. Adam blamed us and we knew that it was the serpent.
Once the word of G-d is spoken into our lives that hatred is stirred up against the enemy. We become “born again” I.e. “saved” which is simply a reawakening of what was already created before. It’s during that process that what was created before begins to take back it’s supremacy. How we think, what we see, what we feel and how we process information. Our spirit begins to dominate, if we yield to it and not to the flesh. The real us that is on the inside that was already there begins to make it’s appearance. I say the “real us” because what shows up minus trials and tribulations is not really us. For the most part it is the flesh “us” we are trained to be. You know the teacher you trained to be or the nurse you went to school to be--the wife, mother, friend that parents, environment and society tells us we should be or are.

Within every one of us are skills and abilities that the earth needs because we were all created for a specific purpose and to complete tasks that no on can do but us. G-d is constantly teaching us who we are--not who we need to become but who we really are minus all our issues and hang-ups. Those things are in us that we have yet to discover. We are anointed to change the things that irritate, vex or annoy us. If it doesn’t make you angry, you can’t change it. Anger propels us into truth and an acknowledgment of that will lead to change.

I have to say that the enemy’s agenda with us is always sneaky--for instance, when Pharaoh was worried about Israel getting a deliverer, he simply told everyone that he was going to kill all the male children--he was in effect open with his agenda. Same scenario when Jesus was born. What we don’t realize is that when G-d was telling us that he would multiply our sorrow we failed to understand what all that would entail. We simply think that it had to do with childbirth. But the latter part of the verse says that our desire would be to our husband and that he would rule over us. Well, if you think about it, he didn’t have that dominion over us prior to sin. The scripture says that male and female he created us and gave us dominion over all. There was initially an equality that after sin we lost because we are susceptible to deception. That’s his #1 weapon against us.

To be continued...on Tuesday.