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• The Poverty of Place

        The angels gathered in Seventh Heaven near the Pool of Bethesda. Everything in Heaven had a Greater Purpose than its Appearance. Bethesda was known as a Place of Ever-Flowing Many Waters. The Pool was a Reservoir of Restoration flowing with Mercy and ripples of Grace. The angels found it to be a personal place of Peace.

   

        The final day of training had arrived and the angels were feeling

  downright triumphant! In two days they would be released from

  Heaven for the Seven Days of Christmas. Wisdom had taught

  them well. Soon they would be on earth as they were in heaven.

   

       Poverty in many forms had been instilled in their minds. The last

  Poverty of Christmas would put the finishing touch of Wisdom on

  their Preparation. Like a mother bird broods over her young,

  Wisdom's presence covered the angels. He began to teach them

  about the Poverty of Place.

       

       "Many people on earth have been constrained by the Poverty of

  Place. The Truth you must carry to All People in

  All Places is this:

  "In Every Place There exists Potential for All Things to Work Together for Good."

   

       After tomorrow's Sabbatical Day of Shabbat, you will visit many

  people in many places during the Seven Days of Christmas. You

  will have the knowledge of what People have Placed in their

  Hearts. You will see Pain-Causers and Pain-Receivers. You will

  see the Unhealed and the Unheard. You will see the Deviants and

  the Victims. You will see the Preconceived Perspectives placed

  upon people."

   

       "You will place all people in higher esteem than yourselves. Point

  out to those in a Hopeless Place that there is Hope for a Better

  Place. Less becomes Fullness in a Heart filled with Hope. The

  Sun always rises and so shall they and find Healing in its Wings.

  Encourage the Unhealed to Search for Truth. Give Sight in the

  Eyes of their Hearts to see the Joy that's Set Before Them. For

  those that seek the More Excellent Way of Love, None Shall

  Perish in the Place of No Hope."

   

       "Point out to those who've placed people in Shame &

  Unworthiness, their lack of valuing others shall pass upon their

  own hearts if they Remain In Place. The Poverty of Place is

  created by humankind by the Hypocrisy of OneUpmanship.

  To gain Ground by causing Grief is creating for oneself a Path to

  Punishment in a Bottomless Pit. The Judas-Kiss gives Treason to

  the Season and builds a Place of Betrayal. Give them one Last

  Chance to turn and travel the Prodigal Path."

   

       "Lastly on this Final Day of Preparation for the Seven Days of

  Christmas, here are Seven Presents you may Place in the Hearts

  of the People whose Presence you Enter."

  THE SEVEN PLACES of CHRISTMAS PRESENCE

  1. Hope In A Hard Place

  2. Resting Place of Comfort

  3. Place of New Birth

  4. Place of Trust

  5. Patient Place

  6. Place of Greater Awareness

  7. Ability to Place Their Feet In The Shoes of Another.

   

       "This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda,

  having five porches (alcoves, colonnades, doorways). In these lay a great number of sick folk– some blind, some crippled, and some paralyzed (shriveled up)– waiting for the bubbling up of the water. For an angel of the Lord went down at appointed seasons into the pool and moved and stirred up the water;

  whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was cured of whatever disease with which he was afflicted."

  John 5:2-4 AMPC

   

  "He comes alongside us

  when we go through hard times,

  and before you know it,

  he brings us alongside someone else

  who is going through hard times

  so that we can be there for that person

  just as God was there for us.

  We have plenty of hard times

  that come from following the Messiah,

  but no more so than the good times of

  his healing comfort--

  we get a full measure of that, too."

  2 Corinthians 1:3-5 MSG

  Coming Next:  Day 10, The Sabbatical Prayer