Fresh Bread
      # 4

ARE YOU DIS-CONNECTED?

      Our Father revealed to me this morning more about the word “disconnected.”
      Earlier this week I heard a Christian counselor say that people who have addictions have never felt “connected” to something stable or secure in their lives. This could have even begun before birth by their parents not seeming to want them. Or later, in the way they grew up not feeling a part of the family.
      Perhaps later they felt some connection to their work or position of authority, but after that was gone, again they felt disconnected. And probably even in their work, they didn’t feel TOTALLY connected.
      They carried this on into marriage, hoping their spouse would provide the connection they were looking for to make them complete. But, what if their spouse was also a disconnected person? Then you have two disconnected people who do not know how to connect…unless they are familiar with the Word of God and have their First Connection with Him.
      I wonder about Adam and Eve. I wonder which one disconnected from the other first, and since they were One…they both became disconnected from God and His plan for their lives.
      When one of the couple becomes so frustrated with the other disconnected spouse, that they leave and separate themselves, then they both feel even more disconnected than ever.
      This is a great place for each to go to God and connect with Him for themselves. Then He will show them HOW to re-connect to each other.
      What the Lord was showing me was that GOD is our Heavenly Husband and Divine Connection. But as we are a TRINITY…(Spirit-Soul- Body), He also has an earthly connection for us to help us feel complete.
      That earthly connection is symbolic of the Heavenly Connection…Christ and His Bride. It is the connection between an earthly husband and wife.
      He never meant for them to be dis-connected any more than He means to be disconnected from His Bride. As it is in Heaven, so be it on earth.
      Fathers and mothers often try to substitute this connection by connecting closely with their children. That is a different kind of connection. The children grow up, marry, and are connected to their spouse. Where does that leave the original connection if they are now disconnected?
      When the parents disconnect, it causes the whole family to feel disconnected unless they are individually connected with God and to their spouses. Yet, the original foundation seems scattered. Grown children are made to feel more responsible now for their parents than they should. They may be torn in their allegiance to one parent or the other. Even to feel a need to supply physical or emotional support that was meant to be provided by the original spouses to each other.
      Yes, God had a plan…and He always does. The same person that tore up Adam and Eve’s home and relationship is the same one attacking couples today. Where Satan’s plan always has been to destroy, God’s has always been to Re-store. So, as long as we get up each morning still on this earth,
      God will show us His Plan for restoration. It’s in His Word and it’s in our hearts…if we will just remain connected to God and listen.

      The main understanding that I received is that: Your earthly spouse is God’s plan for your Number One connection on earth. If you are still connected, Praise God everyday for this connection. If your spouse has gone on ahead of you, you know by now, that God supplies all your needs and you can cherish the memories until you see him or her again in Heaven. If your spouse left you and is still alive, you can continue to pray for her/him that God’s will be done on earth as it is in Heaven…and God’s Word will guide you every day. Either the wandering spouse will truly meet God and return home as a new man to a new woman…and the devil will face defeat again. Or God will bring a New Adam or a New Eve into your life and with the FULLNESS of God’s wisdom (which you will draw from) and you will know without a doubt that this too is God’s plan for you. But you must allow your Heavenly Husband to make that choice for you, FULL of PEACE, aside from presumption on your part. Then, you too can feel connected on earth as you are to Heaven.

      Then there are the Brides that our Heavenly Father chose NOT to give away, as an earthly father does at a marriage. But these Brides are just so special to God, that no man on earth is worthy of them. He “delights” in communicating with them daily and being their Total and FULL SOURCE.

      “For He is our Peace, Who hath made both ONE, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us…out of two, He hath made One New Man.” (Ephesians 2:13, 15).