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Prophetic Insight: Trump-Kennedy Tartans

Prophetic Insight: Trump-Kennedy Tartans

On April 6, 2023, the Holy Spirit began showing me something regarding Trump, Scotland, Plaid, Tartan, Tribes of Israel, and the Coat of Many Colors of Joseph.

I shared the notes I took down on my social media pages that evening and talked further about it on my Life in the Faith Lane broadcast on Monday, April 10, 2023.

Watch the video below and then see the notes that follow.

 

 Notes

The Holy Spirit is showing me something regarding Trump, Scotland, Plaid, Tartan, Tribes of Israel, and the Coat of Many Colors of Joseph.

Tartan Day is a North American celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. Wikipedia

Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023

Celebrations: Parades of pipe bands, Highland dancing, and other Scottish-themed events

Today is TARTAN DAY

Tartan Identifies the Clan or Tribe of Scotland – it is rooted to the banner colors over each tribe of Israel

An analysis of the meaning of the Hebrew term “cotonet pasim” and a comparison with garments of tartan-type design worn by Ancient Hebrews indicates that indeed the cloak of Joseph had a tartan design.

But what does it matter?

Why should we care?

What is the type of dress worn by Joseph supposed to tell us one way or other?

If we were to find tartan type designs in archaeological findings in China, Japan, Africa, would it make any difference?

In answer, we would reply, Probably Not!

[In fact, as we will see, tartan designs have been recovered by archaeological excavations in China but here too they may be attributed to an offshoot of the Celts that moved eastward.]

The Ten Tribes of Israel  who were exiled by the Assyrians and lost their identity became entities in Western Europe.

Part of the tribe of Joseph reached Scotland. Other Israelites reached Ireland and other portions of what in Modern Terms is considered ancient Celtic Civilization. The Tartan design became associated with Celtic bodies. From Ireland it passed to Scotland along with the Scots who gave Scotland its name. In Scotland it became a national symbol. Today in popular consciousness the design, especially as seen on the Kilt, it is considered particularly Scottish and the Scottish themselves so relate to it.

We know from other sources that many of the inhabitants of Scotland (and their offshoots in Ulster and North America etc) descend from Joseph especially Manasseh. There is therefore significance that the Scottish alone retain and maintain the same dress that distinguished Joseph from his brothers.

Genesis 37 (New King James Version)

37:3 Now Israel (Jacob) loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.

37:4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

The tartan dress according to this may well have been the same dress that set Joseph apart from all the others. If this is so it has significance. It does not prove anything in itself but seen in the light of Brit-Am Teaching concerning the Scottish and their Israelite Origins it is well worth considering.

The implication is that the cloak of Joseph had a tartan design. This design was similar to that known from the region of  Ancient Canaan (Land of Israel) and may have been maintained by a portion of the Lost Ten Tribes (including the Tribes of Joseph) when they went into Exile. Some of these tribes reached the British Isles. In the past a tartan design was to be found amongst several of them. [Ancient tartan designs have also been reported from Scandinavia.] The Scottish received the design (together with the Scots) from Ireland. Only Scotland kept the design as part of its national self-recognition. From Scotland the design and the concept of a tartan distinctiveness has spread elsewhere and today is rather important in Canada and the USA. Since descendants of Joseph appear to be those who have persistently appreciated the design and elevated it to national levels then this could well reflect an instinctive subconscious identification with Joseph. Alternately the link between descendants of Joseph and the continued use of the tartan design may be attributed to Divine Providence. Either way it has an importance.  

Source: https://www.britam.org/tartan.html#Term 

Trump – Scotland – America

TRUMP (MacLeod) TARTAN


TRUMP (MacLeod) SCOTTISH TARTAN


FITZGERALD (KENNEDY) SCOTTISH TARTAN

“Torah Shleymah” (Hebrew) by Menachem Mendel Kasher, Jerusalem, 5752.

on Genesis 37:3 (p. 1398 note 48) says:

# PASIM. Each and every PAS [i.e. stripe] was an entity on its own like [overlapping in a diamond-type pattern] the ears on a piece [Hebrew: “pisat” from PAS] of grain # Midrash HaChafets Manuscript.[48]

Note 48: # ..The Tunic was made of stripes with one stripe of one color and the next stripe of another like a Miletus garment which is made [plaided] of plaited stripes #

Explanation: A certain type of fine woolen cloth was named after Miletus [Milet in Hebrew]. Here it says that clothing from Miletus was woven in plaited plaids. It was folded in on itself and woven in diagonal lines.

An example of plaits is seen with girls with long hair who sometimes plait a kind of pony-tail with the plaits overlapping each other.

The Midrashic source says that each plaited unit was of a different color.

This is in effect a garment woven in the pattern such as that of the Temple Service tunic:

http://britam.org/tartan3.html 

i.e. in a diamond (tartan) -type pattern but in the case of the Coat of Joseph not only was the tunic woven in such a fashion but also the colors were variegated.

In the story of Tamar, daughter of David  (2-Samuel 13:18) we read:

#Now she had on a robe of many colors [“cotonet passim”], for the king’s virgin daughters wore such apparel. #

The “cotonet passim” given by Jacob to Joseph was also a mark of rank and status.

Daat Mikra: #It would appear that we would not be mistaken in suggesting that Jacob when he made this garment intended that there should be fulfilled in Joseph the prophecy he had just received that “kings shall come from your body”  (Genesis 35: 11)# (DM Genesis 37:4 n.14b).

Gersonides opined that Cotonet Pasim connoted royalty.

Nachmanides (1194-1270, Spain, Jerusalem in Israel)

Nachmanides (like Gersonides) mentions both the signification of royalty and the tartan-type [tashbets] design.

Nachmanides (Exodus 28:2): ## For these clothes are clothes of royalty and like unto them were worn by monarchs in the time of the Torah. And so we find concerning the Cotonet, “he made him a tunic of many colors” (Genesis 37:3), meaning embroidered in the form of lines [Pasim] this being a garment of [tartan-type] Squares [tashbets]##.

THIS CONFIRMS THE WORD GOD GAVE US THAT BOTH DONALD J TRUMP AND JOHN F KENNEDY JUNIOR BOTH KNOW THEIR ROYAL BLOODLINES COME FROM JUDAH AND JOSEPH

THEY HAVE BEEN TELLING US WITH THE TARTANS

THE ANGELS OF AMERICA AND SCOTLAND IN MY VISION IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS “A PAGE HAS BEEN TURNED” WITH SCOTLAND THE BRAVE ON THE BAGPIPES AND THE DRUM AND FIFE AND BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

JUDAH AND JOSEPH

PROPHECY OVER THE JUDAH BLOODLINE: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah” (earthly kings – with the right to rule until the second coming of Christ)

Genesis 49:10-12 Amplified Bible (AMP)“The scepter [of royalty] shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh [the Messiah, the Peaceful One] comes, And to Him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

PROPHECY OVER THE JOSEPH BLOODLINE: “Kings and Nations shall come from you/the crown on the head of him” (sons of Joseph – Ephraim and Manessah became a tribe that will be founders of nations and wear the crown of favor, blessing, fruitfulness and leadership – with the fatherly blessing from Jacob.  Ephraim is America / Manessah is England- Scotland – Ireland)

They shall be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. Genesis 48.

JUDAH WEPT WHEN HE RECOGNIZED HIS BROTHER JOSEPH!  (Coming back together in UNITY!) 

Genesis 37:3.

# Cotonot Pasim. This was a sign that Joseph would be the leader in the house and in the field

as it says,  AND I WILL CLOTHE HIM WITH THY ROBE [Hebrew “cotonetcha”] …

AND I WILL COMMIT THY GOVERNMENT INTO HIS HAND [Isaiah 22:21].

The “cotonet passim” was not just an attractive garment. It was also a mark of rank.

The tartan kilts and designs in Scotland were also used to denote rank.

The Many-colored coat of Joseph was a mark of rank, decorated with striped lines of different colors, arranged in squares and interlocking with each other. It may not have been exactly like the tattern patterns we are familiar with but neither would it have been much different and could well have given rise to them. It was also probably made of linen.  The first tartan cloaks that arrived in Scotland from Ireland were also made of linen.

Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod; Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Anna Nic Leòid [ˈmaːɾʲɪ ˈan̪ˠa ɲiçkʲ ˈʎɔːtʲ]; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish-American domestic worker. She was the wife of real-estate developer Fred Trump, and the mother of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.

Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Mary Trump immigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942.[1] She raised five children with her husband and lived in the New York area.[2]

Born  Mary Anne MacLeod

May 10, 1912

Tong, Lewis, Scotland, United Kingdom

Died  August 7, 2000 (aged 88)

New Hyde Park, New York, U.S.

Burial place  Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, New York City

Citizenship  

British subject

United States (from 1942)

Occupation  Domestic worker

Spouse  Fred Trump

​(m. 1936; died 1999)​

Children  

MaryanneFred Jr.ElizabethDonaldRobert

The Royal Judah Bloodline for Donald J. Trump came through his Mother’s side — MacLeod

The Joseph Tribe of Israel Bloodline (Ephraim-Manessa) connected to the Fitzgerald bloodline of Scotland – Ireland (dark-haired Scots) John Fitzgerald Kennedy also came from the Mother’s side – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Kennedy family matriarch

Born  Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald

July 22, 1890

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died  January 22, 1995 (aged 104)

Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, U.S.

Buried  Holyhood Cemetery

Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.

Spouse(s)  Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

​(m. 1914; died 1969)​

Issue  

Joseph Jr.JohnRosemaryKathleenEunicePatriciaRobertJeanEdward

Parents  John Francis Fitzgerald

Mary Josephine Hannon

Rose Fitzgerald married JOSEPH Kennedy and had a son named Joseph

Mary MacLeod married Fred Trump and has a great-grandson named JOSEPH (via Ivanka)

YEHOVAH NISSI – THE LORD IS MY BANNER

TARTANS ARE ALSO BANNER COLORS OVER CLANS OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

TARTAN DAY – APRIL 6TH

Hebrew Calendar For Thursday, April 6th 2023  – 15 Nissan 5783

Passover – 1st Day (2nd Seder tonight)

Candle Lighting

Light Holiday Candles after nightfall ––:––

Torah Reading

Pesach Day 1: Exodus 12:21-51

Pesach Day 1: Numbers 28:16-25

Pesach Day 1: Joshua 3:5-7; Joshua 5:2 – 6:1; Joshua 6:27

Jewish History

“Covenant Between the Parts” (1743 BCE)
On the 15th of Nissan of the year 2018 from creation (1743 BCE) G-d forged a special covenant with Abraham in which the destiny of the Jewish people was foretold: the Holy Land was bequeathed to them as their eternal heritage, but first they would have to experience galut–exile and persecution. “And He said to Abram: ‘Know surely that your descendants shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved to them, and they will afflict them four hundred years… and afterward they shall come out with great wealth.’ And when the sun went down and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a burning torch which passed between those pieces… On that day G-d made a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To your seed I have given these land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates'” (Genesis 15:13-18).

Links:
The Covenant Between the Parts

Great Wealth

Sparks

Abraham Battles Four Kings (1738 BCE?)
When Lot was taken captive by the four kings who conquered the “five cities of the plain” (Sodom, Gomorra, Admah, Zevoim and Zoar), Abraham, aided only by a small band of loyal servants, went to battle to rescue his nephew; “the night divided for them, for him and his servants, and they defeated them, pursuing them to Hovah, which is to the left of Damascus… And he recovered all the property; also his kinsman, Lot, and his property were recovered, and also the women and the people” (Genesis 14:15-16).

Link: Abraham’s battle

Angels Visit Abraham (1714 BCE)
On the 3rd day following his circumcision at age 99 (see “Today in Jewish History” for Nissan 13) three angels visited Abraham: Rephael healed him, and Michael informed Abraham and Sarah that, in exactly one year, a son will be born to them. (The third angel, Gabriel, proceeded to Sodom to destroy the wicked city).

Link:
More on Angels

Isaac Born (1713 BCE)
“G-d remembered Sarah as He had said; and G-d did to Sarah as He had spoken. And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which G-d had spoken to him… Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him. And Sarah declared: ‘G-d has made laughter for me, so that all that hear will laugh (‘yitzchak’) with me'” (Genesis 21:1-6).

Links:
The Resemblance

Learning to Laugh

Jacob Wrestles with Angel (1556 BCE)
“And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob’s hip became dislocated as he wrestled with him. And he (the angel) said, ‘Let me go, for dawn is breaking,’ but he (Jacob) said, ‘I will not let you go unless you have blessed me.’ So he said to him, ‘What is your name?’ and he said, ‘Jacob.’ And he said, ‘Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for you have contended with G-d and with men, and have prevailed'” (Genesis 32:25-29). It was the eve of Nissan 15.

The next morning, Jacob confronted Esau in the flesh. Esau, who had come with a band of armed men with the intention to kill his brother, “ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.” Esau invited Jacob to join him in his mountain kingdom of Se’ir, but Jacob replied, “Please, let my lord go on ahead before his servant; and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle that goes before me and the children, until I come to my lord to Se’ir” — a promise yet to be fulfilled (ibid., 33:4-14).

Links:
Wrestling with Angels

Facing Reality

Why Does Esau Hate Jacob?

Moses at Burning Bush (1314 BCE)
On the 15th of Nissan of the year 2447 from creation (1314 BCE) — exactly one year before the Exodus — Moses was shepherding the flocks of his father-in-law, Jethro, at the foot of Mount Sinai, when G-d appeared to him in a “thornbush that burned with fire, but was not consumed” and instructed him to return to Egypt, come before Pharaoh, and demand in the name of G-d: “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.” For seven days and seven nights Moses argued with G-d, pleading that he is the wrong person for the job, before accepting the mission to redeem the people of Israel and bring them to Sinai.

Links:
Moses at the Burning Bush

I Am

The Exodus (1313 BCE)
At the stroke of midnight of Nissan 15 of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), 210 years after Jacob settled in Egypt and 430 years after the “Covenant Between the Parts,” G-d visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. Earlier that evening, the Children of Israel conducted the first “seder” of history, eating the roasted meat of the Passover offering with matzot and bitter herbs, and sprinkling the blood of the sacrifice on their doorposts as a sign that G-d will “pass over” their homes when inflicting the plague upon the Egyptians. Pharaoh’s resistance to free them was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. Several million souls–600,000 adult males, plus the woman and children, and a large “mixed multitude” of non-Hebrews who joined them — left Egypt on that day, and began the 50-day trek to Sinai and their birth as G-d’s chosen people.

Links: 19 Flavors of Freedom; Exploring Passover

Queen Vashti Executed (366 BCE)
On the seventh day of his royal feast (see Jewish history for 9 Nissan), King Achashverosh demanded that the Queen Vashti appear unclothed to display her beauty before all the attending guests. When Vashti refused this obscene request, the king had her executed.

Her ignominious death on Shabbat was divine retribution for her penchant to force Jewish girls to work on Shabbat, and paved the way for Esther to become queen and save the Jewish nation from Haman’s plot.

Links:
The Death Verdict

Mordechai and Esther

Daniel in Lions’ Den (372 BCE)
Daniel was cast into a den of hungry lions by Darius I of Persia for violating a royal edict that no man may pray to any god save the king for 30 days. Miraculously, the lions did not touch him, and he emerged from the den unscathed (Daniel 6:5-29).

Links: Monotheism in Rostov; more on Mesirat Nefesh (self sacrifice)

Source: https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=4/06/2023 

Prophetic Insight: President Trump’s Quantum Leap Plan – It’s Brilliant! Holy Spirit Revelation For Investing!

Prophetic Insight: President Trump’s Quantum Leap Plan – It’s Brilliant! Holy Spirit Revelation For Investing!

Sunday night, March 5, 2023, the Lord began giving me some prophetic insight as to what is coming and what President Trump has been talking about in recent speeches about the future of America. 

I started discussing it with my team in our ministry team chat, and as we talked and researched, the Lord began showing us more. He even showed how it confirmed a previous prophetic word he had given me in January of 2022 about President Trump and Roger Penske!

I spoke about this on my Life in the Faith Lane broadcast on Monday, March 6, 2023. Watch this amazing episode, and then see the notes from our research and the previous prophetic word with a short transcription of an excerpt below. 

 

Research: Links To The Articles and Videos Mentioned In The Above Broadcast

President Donald Trump at Boeing South Carolina

Agenda47: A New Quantum Leap to Revolutionize the American Standard of Living 

Video: Take a look at the future with these advanced vehicles! 

Stratasys Push 3D Manufacturing of Composite Materials – Israeli Electronic News  

SSYS Stock Price – Stratasys Ltd Stock Quote (U.S.: Nasdaq) – MarketWatch

Prophetic Word: Trump’s Pen And Moses’ Staff  – January 26, 2022

Transcription of an excerpt of the word that the Holy Spirit gave to Annamarie Strawhand, which she delivered during her broadcast of Life in the Faith Lane on January 26, 2022.

Watch the video, and then read the transcript below: [Timestamps: Beginning – 8:38]

 

ANNAMARIE: The Holy Spirit is saying that the pen is the key. LOOK TO THE PEN of President Donald J. Trump! His signature shall speak. Documents in which he has signed shall speak in such a way nothing will be able to come against it. 

You know, President Trump gave Roger Penske, and I know Roger Penske because Roger Penske owns several racing teams, and he’s a good man. He’s a, he’s a good man. He’s a, he’s, he’s a good and righteous man, and he’s a good man to work for. And I know a lot of people that work for Roger Penske with his NASCAR teams and his INDYCAR teams, and, uh, he is a very brilliant businessman, very brilliant businessman. And, um, they won the Indy 500. They won the Daytona 500. That, he’s a man that understands victory, and, um, President Trump gave Roger Penske the Medal of, uh, Medal of Honor, Medal, Medal of Freedom in the Oval Office of the White House. 

And when he did that, the Lord gave me a word about that, that the pen is the key. The pen is the key, and the double gates of righteousness were opening. Um, and, you know, then he gave me the number of the 22 22. So go back to that word with Penske and the 22 22. And the Holy Spirit just spoke to me right now and gave me more revelation on that.

The pen is the key—Trump’s signature on something. Watch. All right, the Holy Spirit’s coming on me strong. Oh, my gosh. Whoa! Okay, you just never know when he’s going to come and say something like this. Hang on. Okay, so the Lord is speaking. [Sigh] Thank you, Lord. The Holy Spirit is saying that the pen is the key. 

“Look to the pen of President Donald J. Trump. His signature shall speak! Documents in which he has signed shall speak in such a way nothing will be able to come against it. Do you not see I was speaking with ‘pen is the key.’ The pen of your president, my president,” says the Spirit of God, “Donald J. Trump, the one who I, I have appointed. for it is my hand,” the Spirit of the Lord is saying, “that has signed these documents that are keys to restoring this nation and bringing complete and total restitution! Look to the signatures of President Donald J. Trump. His pen was a key I put in his hand.”

Lord, are these executive orders? [5:00] These are more than executive orders. These are, these are things that, that President Trump signed that are in effect and are operating right now. Some of them we don’t even know about. And the Lord was speaking, and President Trump was showing us something when he gave Roger Penske the Medal of … Is it Freedom? The pen is a key to freedom. The pen is a key to freedom. Pen is a key to freedom. Penske. Penske. The pen is a key to freedom. The pen is a key to freedom. The signature of our president, Donald J. Trump, released a key to our freedom—released us from bondage—that is going to speak, and he was showing us a sign.

Now, I’m not saying Roger Penske wasn’t in … deserving of the Medal of Freedom, but it was, something was being shown to us at that moment. Maybe we can go back and see if there was any executive orders that President Trump signed around the time that he gave Roger Penske that medal. There’s a key there. The anointing is very strong on this, very, very strong. 

We’re going to have, just have to look for prophetic confirmations on this. I’m going to have my team look, look it up. There’s something that President Trump signed around that time where he gave that medal to Roger Penske because the Lord is saying President Trump’s pen—his signature—is a key, was a key to our freedom. Something that he signed, maybe publicly or not so publicly, is still activated. It’s still being established, and it was a key. The pen is a key, and God gave President Trump all authority, and he’s not allowing, the Lord himself is not allowing anything to come against what President Trump has signed because his hand, the Lord’s hand was working through …

He’s showing me Moses holding up the staff and parting the Red Sea, and then he’s showing me President Trump holding up his pen. Oh, my goodness, he’s saying, like he gave Moses that authority in that staff, he gave President Trump that authority in his pen. [8:38]

Prophetic Insight: Is God Showing You A Dragonfly? What Does It Mean?

Prophetic Insight: Is God Showing You A Dragonfly? What Does It Mean?

This is a transcription of an excerpt of the broadcast of Life in the Faith Lane on February 21, 2022.

Watch the video, and then read the transcript and poem below and see the links for resources on dreams that follow.

 

ANNAMARIE: Do y’all know the story of the dragonfly? It’s very prophetic. When we look at animals, and I have li, I have little bluebirds on too, my little bluebird earrings. My daughter gave me those. 

But the dragonfly, when you, when you see cr, animals in nature, you see nature, and you think, “Wow, I keep seeing dragonflies,” or, “I keep seeing butterflies. Is that the Holy Spirit speaking to me? Is that God telling me something?” Yes, it is! The Holy Spirit will speak to you through nature. He will speak to you through His creation. All right? 

And you have to be very careful. Do not look up on Google, you know, “Oh, what does the dragon, what is the spiritual meaning of a dragonfly?” Be very careful because it will lead you into, uh, the, the occultNew Age meanings which are not of God. They’re not of God, right? There’s, there’s no such thing as a spirit animal. No. No. There is not. There’s only one spirit. That’s the Holy Spirit. He created it all, and He created everything with meaning to teach us, to, to use to teach us and to lead us. 

So when you see an animal, and you keep seeing it over and over and over again, just go to the Holy Spirit and say, “What are you trying to speak to me, Holy Spirit? What are you trying to tell me?” And He will lead you to why He created that creature, how He created that creature, what’s the nature of that creature, okay? 

So with the dragonfly, it’s so beautiful. The dragonfly is like the little mudbug for like the longest time. She has like this really hard shell, and she lives under the murky waters, you know, and, um, she usually is like along the bottom, like, you know, in the swampy area. 

But when it, it’s, it’s, it’s time for her to grow, when it’s time for her to transform, it’s time for her to pull herself up out of those, the muddy bottom, right, pull herself up out of the mud and look for a stalk or a, a, a reed or a, a plant or usually a strong stalk of grass in the water. 

And she will begin to grab ahold of that stalk of grass and begin to climb up, and as she climbs up out of that mud and out of that mire, right, she climbs up just above the water line. She gets herself above the waters and grabs ahold of that piece of grass, and she allows the sun to gently warm her and dry out that crusty shell. And the warm winds and, right, the warm spring winds and the warms, the warming of the sun begins to dry out that crusty shell on the dragonfly, right? 

And then soon, that shell cracks open. It cracks open, and her wings begin to emerge out of that crusty shell, and these beautiful, sparkly, bejeweled wings, and, and her eyes begin to sparkle. And her wings begin to sparkle, and she begins to stretch out of that shell, and the sun warms her and glistens on her wings. 

And she looks like a beautiful jewel. She’s come out of the mud. She’s come out of them mire. She’s climbed to the higher place. She’s climbed into the light, and the, the beautiful soft, warming winds, right, like the breath of life, the breath of the Holy Spirit begins to blow on her. 

The warming light of the beams of Jesus Christ begin to shine on her, and she begins to sparkle and shine and grow and stretch. And she’s like, “I’m going to climb a little higher, and I’m going to leave that crusty shell behind me, and I’m going to shine for Jesus.” 

So she climbs out of that shell, and she gets to the very, very tippy top of that grass, right. She gets to the very, very tippy top of that grass, and she’s, she’s glistening in the sunlight. She’s glistening in the sunlight. Then all of a sudden, she waits for the perfect breath of wind, the perfect breath of wind like that perfect breath of the Holy Spirit to just get up underneath her wings so she can start to move her wings and start to flutter and soar and then that beautiful breath of the Holy Spirit comes upon her, that beautiful perfect wind as she glistens in the sunshine, and she launches her feet off that piece of grass. And she takes that leap of faith, and the winds are beautifully on her wings and the sun glistening as she shines and sparkles in the sunlight as, as the winds and the breath of life propel her and she soars across the glistening waters. Hallelujah! 

And do you know what the dragonfly eats for lunch? Mosquitoes! Mosquitoes. Those pesky blood suckers! Mosquitoes that cause disease and cause problems, the dragonfly is a great example of who we are, who we are, how we grow, how we transform. 

And it, it’s so connected to scripture. It is God that plucks our feet out of the mirey mud. Maybe Beth can find that scripture in Psalms, right. You pull my feet, O Lord, O God, out of the mirey clay, out of the mirey mud, right. And then even in Isaiah where it says, those who wait upon the Lord, right, those who wait upon the Lord will neither stumble, right, they will, they will be lifted up and, like up, up on like eagle’s wings, right, like the dragonfly, she’s lifted up. It’s, it’s, we, she, she just wa, she just waits just for that perfect moment with the Holy Spirit, that breath of life. And she’s lifted up like eagle’s wings. The Lord will always lift you up.

And we’ve got to crack out of our shell, right. We’ve got to come out of, of, um, you know, we got to know that we can be confident to sparkle in the light of Jesus, that He is with us. He wants us to crack out of these shells, crack out of these worldly ways and sparkle and shine for him and spread our wings. 

So I love the dragonfly, and I’ve got these hairpins, they’re these little hairpins. I got them for my wedding, and I wore them for my rehearsal dinner for my wedding 22 years ago.

Michael Lee Strawhand and I will be married 22 years April 22. We’re both born on March 22. We have the same birthday, me and my husband. We have the same birthday, March 22. 

And when we got married in North Carolina, we, we, well, I was working in NASCAR, so I had to make sure … I had a lot of friends that were going to come to the wedding from NACAR, and I had to have it on a weekend that there was no races. And so I had to have it on Easter weekend because they don’t race on Easter, and so, uh, April 22 of, uh, the year 2000 is when Mike and I got married in North Carolina, and it was Easter weekend. It was so awesome. And so 22 is me and Mike’s number. And I didn’t even know back then that it meant key. Now I know. Oh, look at God. Look at God. 

So I hope you enjoyed that story of the dragonfly, and what I’ll do is I’ll have our wonderful tech director, David Piccirillo, make a video about the dragonfly for you all and that story.

And I wrote a poem. I wrote a poem. Uh, I wrote a poem about the dragonfly for my daughter, Landry, for her, her 19th birthday, and I gave it to her. 

And, uh, that dragonfly story was given to me by the Holy Spirit because I kept seeing them, and I kept asking the Holy Spirit, “What are  you saying to me?” And, um, He told me, “Annamarie, you’re going through a time of transformation, and you’re about to shine. You’re about to soar, and you’re about to shine.” And it was a time where I was not soaring or shining, and I had to really believe Him, and I had to really stretch myself up higher and reach for Him. 

And, um, when you grab ahold of Him and you reach for Jesus and you, you pull yourself to His light, He will meet you there, my friend. So if you’re not feeling very sparkly right now, you’re not feeling very shiny, um, and you feel like you’re about to go through a transformation, look to this little story of the dragonfly and know that He is pulling you up out of the mud and out of the mire and out of the darkness, and He wants you to grab ahold of Him and, and be faithful and climb higher and climb towards His light, and let the Holy Spirit breathe on you and break open out of that shell and then watch what He does with you. Isn’t that beautiful? 

All because He showed me a dragonfly. You know, the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you that way. He, He wants to show you these things in nature to encourage you. That’s what the prophetic is, right? The prophetic is to encourage you, to lead you, to give you the step-by-steps to move you forward so you can bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit in your life and fulfill what Jesus Christ has called you to do. Amen? Oh, I hope that story blessed you, of the dragonfly. 

Gabriela Parrot says, “Praise God, I’m grabbing on to Him.”

Barbara Wade says, “Believe even when you can’t see Him. Thank You, Jesus.”

Beth Shibley bringing scripture: Psalm 13:3 – “Turn and answer me, O Lord my God. Restore the sparkle to my eyes…”

I just said that about the dragonflies also becoming sparkly. That’s beautiful scripture, Beth. I love it.

What are y’all saying here? Is this blessing you, my friends? I hope so. I hope so. Little dragonfly. 

Hope Dickinson: “Amen, God is so faithful.”

Duncan Dee says, “We have lots of dragonflies all the time.”

You know, many of you … I’ve told that story, uh, uh, prophetic story about the dragonfly many times, but what we’ll do is we’ll create a page on my website with the poem, and we’ll take this little story that I just did on video, and we’ll put that on there for you so you all can always have it to encourage you. And ask the Holy Spirit to show you a dragonfly today just out of faithfulness. He will. He might show it to you in a picture. He  might show it to you on a design of something. He wants to talk with you and walk with you. Amen?

Following is the poem I wrote for my daughter:

The Damsel Dragonfly
By Annamarie Strawhand
Dedicated to Landry Leigh Strawhand – 5/1/21

Damsel was ready to climb up from the muddy, deep waters
She was young but knew she was made to soar to great heights
Ready to feel the wind in her wings and the sun on her face
Her hard shell was heavy, but she was ready to break out
A sturdy reed to climb upon was before her
She pulled herself up, climbing out up of the murky water into the sunlight
The warm breeze blew on her shell as the sun gently warmed her
Damsel’s shell cracked open, and her wings began to emerge
She took a step, and her shell fell off as the light was fully upon her
She stretched her wings, glistening in the sun
She climbed to the top of the reed on her tiptoe
Bravely, she let go
The breeze came under her wings and lifted her above the waters
Clean, new, light, and dry, sparkling in the sun
Damsel SOARED! 

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