On the 2nd Day of Christmas

Darcy Downing
Dec 2, 2020
4 min read

On the 2nd Day of Christmas, the Father said to me,

"Let the countdown begin! Your launching date has been moved up, Beloved. You are coming into your season of seed fruit harvest now. My timing in your life is perfect. Continue to respond to Me. Everything you know to do will lead you toward your highest heart's desire. These words are not cliches, but they are words from a song I sing over you daily. Receive My words and My many songs. Receive them as you receive Me, says the Father. My prophets are open vessels pouring out My promises - receive your words, even your own words, prophets, to partake of the drink offering, the direction, and the nourishment from My voice. I love you.

"In the Glory Realm, you are seeing yourself more like Me every day. As you pray, our voice is becoming a singular sound! Rejoice! The bells of heaven are ringing, "Our Father which art in heaven...."Listen. I am taking you above the sound and city lights to stroll with you into an even deeper and intimate place in My heart. Take your time Beloved. Take all the time you need to know Me all the more and you will hear and see and recognize as My Bride arises. You are a member of the company that makes up My Bride. Rise from the frozen places of fear and sing again. As you respond one to another, you respond to Me. Respond to those small sounds of my bells of worship ringing throughout the land. You won't be able to stop yourself, so great is the Love we share...even unto those who behave like your enemy. Our authority knows no bounds, Beloved, because LOVE knows no bounds," declares the Father.

Originally posted 12.2.2019

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You can be saved, know the Author of Love by name but go through life not knowing that love. I had a dream last night and woke up with a stark image of a placard sitting on my desk that read, RESERVED. This is the place where I write, where I now counsel many people over the internet. But today, that image completely blessed me. My Father loves me, He has reserved a place just for me.

Before the diagnosis, (I don't even like mentioning its name because it is like a foreign object that got caught in my eye, a dust particle.) I experienced a wide variety of abuse ranging from physical and sexual abuse to emotional and mental and a dark experience with spiritual abuse. That word abuse seems to get used quite a lot, What exactly is it?

Definition of abuse

1: a corrupt practice or custom: the buying of votes and other election abuses 2: improper or excessive use or treatment: MISUSE drug abuse 3: language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily: verbal abuse, a term of abuse 4: physical maltreatment: child abuse, sexual abuse 5: obsolete : a deceitful act : DECEPTION

The abuse I experienced included all of those descriptions. A lifetime of that type of corruption in a person's body and emotions takes time to undo and it takes its toll on the body. Jesus is gentle, he is so very patient and leads us to the revelation that our Father is kind, He is patient, He is the embodiment of Love.

...God is love. 1 John 4:8

Knowing LOVE

I went through years of therapy before I went on to become a counselor. Committing to counseling takes a lot of bravery and when you do begin the process you have to learn how to trust that process. I'm not going to give you a play-by-play of my early days in therapy, but it wasn't until after I was diagnosed with MS, 25 years later when I began to contemplate what I believed about God's word. I believed I had been abused. I believed I was working through the memories. I believed I was healing emotionally. When I was 24, I decided to believe in Jesus. I learned to believe in myself and not hate myself. I believed I could trust my husband and that he was nothing like my abusers. I believed that I was a loving mother who didn't abuse her children. The question I came face to face with twenty-some years later was this:

Who do you believe I am, God the Father, the Highest God, a good Father who loves you, never abuses and wants you beside Me, or a different god who accuses?

As a counselor, I sometimes use Dr. Gary Chapmin's book, The 5 Love Languages to help couples and family members realize their communication styles and how they give and receive love. Did you know that our Father has a Love Language?

He does! It is Belief!

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11:25-26 NIV

My first response to the Father's question was raw and emotional. I had so much anger toward everyone who had abused me. I wasn't ready to forgive. The only response I could authentically give was, "I want to want to."

And the Father's answer, That's all I need.

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