Come Alive Dry Bones! - Laetitia van Schalkwyk

 

I was grounded by my husband today. While he was busy in his study, like a teenager, I sneaked out of the house into the street in front of our complex, armed with a black refusal bag. I was out on a mission: “Mission Street garbage cleaning.”

I sneaked out because I knew he would not let me clean the street without him helping me.

I sneaked out because he was busy with something urgent, that needed his attention, and I did not want to distract him.

And this is where he found me, half an hour later, in the street, covered in blackjack weeds (knapsekêrel) which took him about another half an hour to remove.

In my defence, I explained:

“In Mossel Bay, where I was privileged to reside for five years, certain things are not tolerated. In other words: There is a certain standard, an energy, and when you move there, and you are not accustomed to it, you lift your standard and energy to come into alliance with, to match the standard and energy of the area. It is not an effort, it happens automatically. When living in Mossel Bay, you experience a lift in your spirit, and you take responsibility and feel proud of your town and your surroundings.

When moving to Klerksdorp, I experienced a completely different standard and energy. Every time we leave Klerksdorp and return; I experience the same…

Before you blame it on the Matlosana Municipality again, please hear me out. Be brave and read till the end.

Paul says in Romans 12:2 in the Passion Translation:

“Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.”

I have a choice. I can imitate the ideals and opinions of the culture around me, which I refuse to do; I can lower my standard and energy and align with a lower standard and energy, or I can do something about it by raising my standard and energy and effect change, because complaining and moaning never gets anything done. Moaning and groaning lowers your energy level and therefore your frequency.

I choose to be effective. I can see and imagine what a beautiful place Klerksdorp can be, though I do not possess the physical capacity to do all that I want to do. BUT!! I CAN make a difference. I can at least do my part and clean the street, pick up papers from the open plots around our complex and our street. While doing it, enjoying the quiet, it is if nature responds by thanking me for cleaning up.

I raise my energy, frequency, standards, and values.

Jesus prayed in Mathew 6 in the Passion Translation:

“Manifest your kingdom realm, and cause your every purpose to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is fulfilled in heaven.”

Here is what I do:

I meditate and engage what is in heaven, draw from heaven, and then release it into the earth, into my natural realm.

By using my pineal gland, my imagination, I see the potential of Klerksdorp as it is in heaven and then I release it onto earth from the spiritual realm into my natural world.

But because I do not have the physical strength to do or to create all that I see, I speak to those responsible, who are currently not doing the job and I quote Ezekiel 37 by saying:

“O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God to these bones:  Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live!”

Come alive dry bones!

“I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord”.  

I speak.

I speak because I know words have power. Words carry an energy, a frequency and by my words I create.

I speak to those dry bones, I tell them to take responsibility, to wake up spiritually and manifest heaven on earth. I speak to those dry bones to come alive, to see what I see with their spiritual eyes, to feel what I feel.

I transport my energy into them to fill them with a desire to create on earth as it is in heaven.”

It is amazing how only half an hour of picking up garbage can raise your energy levels, your moral and create a sense of pride.

Not so long ago a friend started cleaning up a community park in Brooklyn Pretoria. She did it only once, before more people showed up every Saturday morning to help with the process of cleaning it up. It became a community project.

I want to encourage you, to do the same.

“Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones:  I will make breath enter you and you will come to life.”

- Laetitia van Schalkwyk