Floodgate of Blessings
From the very beginning of time, people had looked towards others for inspiration in tough times. Filly knew this and had her own family to look at, because in tough times, they had turned to the inspiration of good, by living good lives and listening to the words of Jesus in the bible. Filly fell asleep, thinking about her ancestors, her role models for life.
In her dream there were lots of ladies sitting on bunk beds in a large room. There were hundreds of women and they were all wearing pale blue, pale pink and pale yellow dotted Swiss gowns, and they were using the gowns to hide babies. They were chanting “baby” “baby” “Baby” over and over.
They, like the women of biblical times, were trying to protect the innocent babies from the sword, the same way women tried to protect their babies from the actions of King Herod when he killed all the first born babies in an attempt to kill Jesus. In her understanding, because of the dream and because of Jesus, Filly knew women had not failed to care for and protect the innocent, and that they existed as a force en-masse, Protecting the innocent ones, resisting evil and telling satan to “be gone”.
The pale and almost translucent colors they wore, were about purity and innocence and they were from all nations in a melting pot called the USA. Even the Swiss wore these.
Filly had gone to sleep thinking of how her mom had grown up in a large family and in a rambling big house, reminiscent of the house and the family in the movie “its a wonderful life”. Surrounded by children, hard work a broken stair knob, the wonderful life, depicted was one that was good, and in spite of poverty and the drudgery of hard work, that family like filly’s family, had created a strong and beautiful lineage that her mom could be proud of. Filly perceived that her family, like the family in that movie, were people who the town appreciated.
Their town towns, Goldsboro,N.C. and Brownsville, T.X., were small versions of Bedford falls which was the town where George Bailey lived. But the towns, like the movie town, had not turned into Pottersfield, because Mr. Potter was not the role model that people followed, because under his human greed and direction, the town would have let itself fall into the decay and ruins of evil.
God is the great “potter” of clay, and he made role models like George and his family to avoid having a Pottersfield, because believing they were God was not what people were supposed to think. That seemed to be the underlying premise of “harry potter”, a false belief in human power which was just a dream of an alternate reality which did not actually exist or have any real power. Harry Potter and his “world” seemed to match more with what the town would have been like WITHOUT George Bailey… which was a nightmare and also that which George rejected. Good old George… a man much like her own grandfather Ralph. Thank God for George believing in good, so Pottersfield did not ever take over Bedford Falls.
When people emulated their role models Filly believed it was often “hiding in plain sight” in the movies. Could her mom have been the inspiration for Helen Crump, and her dad the inspiration for Andy Taylor? Mayberry was another small town, committed to doing good, attending church, and avoiding evil.
And the thought processes continued in Filly’s thinking to her mom’s generation of Television, the character played on a tv series called Mrs. G goes to college, was in fact a woman who looked surprisingly like her mom’s mom Sarah. That which inspires greatness has a lineage, that carries through the generations, based on choices to honor God, to be virtuous, and to do good and not evil.
In fact there was a show in Mrs. G. Goes to College, titled “Goodbye Mr. Howell”, and the woman in that episode who came to visit who was rich looked much like Filly’s dad’s Debutante fiancé Mary Lib, before he broke the engagement and decided to marry Filly’s mom. Filly’s Dad, Mr. Howell was indeed an honorable and upright man, who chose a family and children over wealth, and the multi generational breakthrough that Filly became aware of was that none of the good her parents, grandparents or great grandparents had done, or had stood for, had been lost or forgotten
. Their moral code and upright behavior had stood the test of time. The parallel recordings documented such and like the bible promised, she and her siblings and their children and her mom, who were repentant for their sins and who listened to God, would be receiving multi-generational blessings.
In gratitude for the grace that God bestows, Filly and her siblings and her mom and her relatives were always praying and fasting and giving back to God what belonged to God.
Filly picked the bible verse for the day…
You are under a curse- your whole nation- because you are robbing me. Bring the WHOLE tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. “Test me in this”, says the Lord almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it”.
Filly believed that the lord wanted to see a “tithe” that manifested, an obedience to his laws, ALL his laws, without robbing the nation of its babies and youth through abortion or murder. The day of voting was here. Because the obedience to this law was being established, Filly knew that most of the people, who were in fact one nation under God, would hear God’s word and as a result, would see a floodgate of blessings that day. She had no doubt that God could see the heart of his people and would save them.
She turned the radio on to listen to Joel Olsteen. It was titled generational breakthroughs. Thank you Jesus. It might SEEM like “goodbye Mr. Howell” but that is not how God operates…Mr. Howell and the good he embodies still has power and influence, because he listened to God, good. Hello Mr. Howell and your progeny!
