Accept the Sovereign Stage Set – Episode #781

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Accept the Sovereign Stage Set
Episode #781
11/21/2021

With Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow
We have to accept the sovereign stage set in our lives to accept His presence in our lives.

John:
Martha, you just did a message about the Father, the real Father, the true Father, our loving Father. And I was impacted by it and going to work it together to be a Message of the Month because it’s really good. It will take a little bit of editing to get rid of some stuff in there but the essential message of calling us back to the Father and to look to the Father. And while you were saying it, I was kind of amazed because I was seeing that our absence of an earthly father sets the stage to have a true Father reveal Himself. And that we have to accept the absence to accept the Presence. Within our void there are many lessons and revealings.

And I realize that we are all human and so we all have varying degrees of absence of fathers. Some have never seen their father, spoken to him. Some had neglect of a father. Some had abuse of a father…. The degrees are just varying. But the single unifying force of it all is the fact that the true Father wants to reveal Himself through the stage He sets. And so, if you fight the stage that’s set, you’re going to avoid the actual meeting of…

Martha:
And the healing.

John:
…and the healing of your true Father. If you’re in resistance, you are resisting Him. And it goes into the sovereignty thing. I’m absolutely loving, I’m reading with a great friend of mine and brother, Pauleau, from Texas. I’m reading, literally reading Sovereign Touch with him.  We’re kind of going through it. Literally he will read and chapter, I’ll read a chapter and we’re going through it.

Martha:
He asked you to do that?

John:
Yes, he asked me to do it.

Martha:
And you agreed?

John:
I did. He said, “I want to read it with the author.” I said, “Ok.” He’s already read it but now he wants to read it with the author. So, I’m like, “Ok.”

The cool thing is as I am reading it, I’m getting better at reading it. At the beginning it was a little rough but I’m getting actually better at actually reading it but I’m being deeply impacted by going through it with him. And so, we’re going through the beginning. We’ve gone through the trials of childhood and the stage being set.

And I’m just seeing it so clearly the sovereign touch and how He desires to sovereignly touch us through what we didn’t have which is shocking because we want to accuse Him for what He withheld rather than seek Him for why He withheld it and what He wants to reveal in it. I think that that’s deeply powerful. I think that that’s been part of the main healing in my life is the fact that I laid down my resistance to and entered into the story to say, “What did You want to do.” And then, God was given, when I did that, God was given an opportunity to show me the treasure even in my abuse; show me what He was developing in me and my character through it.

Because, see, you had a scenario and you talk about this in the message you just did, you had a scenario that your father abandoned you because of his own grief of loss of a wife and he abandoned you and put you in a vulnerable place to the world because he wasn’t there. And he chastised you and he corrected you and he pushed you away in your need as a fourteen-year-old girl which is cruel because you didn’t have the ability to go through that; you didn’t have the ability basically be able to weather that storm but you had to.

Martha:
And there was nobody….

John:
No, there was nobody there and people watch you and they didn’t know how to do you and handle you and you were a mess because you would be a mess. You a fourteen-year-old little girl that was sheltered and all of a sudden now you are thrown into the middle of a wolves’ den. But you as you have accepted that story God has made you who you are. God has developed you and your character by those exact things.

Martha:
John, many, many people have been healed because I got healed.

John:
Exactly. You were able and willing to go through it and to seek Him in it. And I know it was painful. I know it was awful. The scenario was gruesome. But, yes, there was something developed in your character that was absolutely stellar through that pain. You are who you are today because of that happening. And if you had resisted and stayed in the consistent resistance to the story, gone into bitterness, gone into hatred, gone into trying to extract that from other people, trying to get that father, “Dammit, you are going to father me!,” you wouldn’t be who you are. But because you submitted and surrendered to the story you are brilliant.

And now it’s the saving of many because of what you invested in what He invested in you. You reaped the harvest from having the ground of your heart and life dug through and sown.

So, I did the same thing. I had situations in my life, painful situations and I faced them. And I went through those two years of solitude and I faced those times. I said, “Why the hell did You do this to me? Why did You leave me there? Why did You do this? It has wrecked me my entire life. I walk as a cripple. Why did You do this to me?”

And because I brought my heart and I was wanting to hear it then He was able to open it up, open the scenario up and say, “Let me show you what I did.” And now I see what an amazing gift it was because I am who I am today because of that happening; those happenings in my life; those first sixteen years of my life I am who I am today because of that. And He was willing to take me through it, He was willing to hurt me, He was willing to wound me.

Martha:
And that was sovereign.

John:
It was sovereign and so if I had resisted it, I would have lost.

Martha:
Yourself.

John:
I would have lost myself, I would have lost my destiny, and I would have lost the knowing of Him. What I have come to is I know myself better and I know Him better because I have accepted it and because I received the story.

And so, the absence of our earthly Father sets the stage to have the true Father reveal Himself. We have to accept the absence to accept the Presence being His presence. Within our void there are major lessons and revealings and I wouldn’t want to lose this just because I would not submit and surrender. I don’t want anyone to be abused. I don’t want anyone to be mistreated. And I’m not saying, “Suck it up, God’s got it.” No, it’s not even about that. And He is just so gracious, so amazing to set a stage to launch your entire life off of and it may be painful, yes. I can’t think of one particular scenario that wasn’t painful but I do know many people that never launch. They sit…

Martha:
In Bitterness.

John:
…in bitterness on the pad that was made and never launch. But you were given the opportunity to launch and if you launch, you launch into the heavens.

And so, that’s what I got out of what you were saying because I was pretty touched because I realized I have the opportunity to lose what I’ve been given and I don’t want to do that.

So, I’m getting to know my God and I’m getting to know that little boy and I’ve been doing a lot of work with that little boy and finding out who he is and what he endured and what he went through and how he survived and realize what a gem he really is; really, I was a gem.

Martha:
Oh, oh.

John:
I was a gem.

Martha:
The pictures tell it. Your childhood pictures reveal it.

Accept the Sovereign Stage Set – Episode #781 – Shulamite Podcast

The absence of our earthly Father sets the stage for the true Father reveal Himself. To accept the sovereign stage set in our lives is life.