Wings To Fly
Tiffany Ann Lewis 3/2006

March’s Monthly Manna comes directly from a spontaneous song that I sang in the prayer room.  When I came home I studied what the Lord was saying through song and found a depth of Truth I did not know existed.  Take a walk with me in the Spirit through this prophetic revelation and allow the Lord to bring life once again, to His Song.

In the Spirit, I saw the beautiful dove from Psalm 68:13 and the light quenching basket from Matt. 5:14-15.  It felt as though the bushel basket was a basket of judgment, a basket of criticism, a basket of doubt and a basket of misunderstanding.  The dove had once believed that she had been uniquely created to soar, uniquely created to be the light of the world reflecting the colors of God into the world.  But because of the basket’s critical words spoken, the disillusioned dove was ready to quit.  With broken wings, or more accurately a broken spirit, she was going to just sit on the sidelines and become content being a spectator while others let their light shine.    

Psalm 68:13 reads; “Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.”  NKJV

A sheepfold or stall is a place where the sheep hang out, a place where they do their business.  The sheepfold is not a clean place if you know what I mean! 

Other definitions of sheepfold are:

- pegs or hooks for flaying animals

- meaning doubtful (Strongs # 8240, TWOT #2450)

Do you feel like you too are a dove laying down in the critical words some bushel has spoken over you?  Or perhaps some bushel has doubted the *light* that’s within you.  Perhaps you looked at your wings once and saw they had silver on them but now when you look they have sheep dung on them, doubting if there ever was any silver on your wings at all.   You begin to wonder if maybe you were just created for the sheep pen.

In the vision, the dove was simply worshiping and serving the King with all her heart, all her soul and all her strength in the way GOD had uniquely created her to do.  The basket had a different idea of what worshiping and serving the King should look like.  The basket was also created uniquely to shine, but because the dove was doing it differently the basket doubted her light.  Instead of allowing the dove to fly/shine as she was created to, the basket wanted to conform her to its image, the image of the basket. 

In Luke 10:38-42, we see Martha doing the same thing to Mary.  They both were worshiping and serving Jesus, Martha in one fashion Mary in another.  Martha didn’t appreciate the way Mary was serving, but Jesus did!   Martha did not complain about the way SHE was uniquely created to serve, she only criticized the way Mary was serving. 

Ps. 139:14 says that we are wonderfully made, distinct and unique, marked out and separate. Eph. 2:10 calls us a MASTERPIECE.  We are God’s poem, God’s work of art, hand crafted by God to reflect Him and His Radiant Light for all the world to see.  A masterpiece cannot be duplicated.  Mary was confident doing something different than Martha was doing.  She didn’t have to be just like Martha to feel accepted.  She knew what she was to do and no critical words of man or Martha were going to keep her from flying high.

Man can’t keep us earth bound unless we let him.  We let him by believing the lies he throws at us that we are worthless and serve no purpose in God.

In Hebrew, the root of “sheepfold” means:

- to locate, hang on, ordain, establish

- to set, place, put  (Strongs # 8239, TWOT #2441a)

There is nothing that can separate us from the Love of God.  Even in the dung of the sheepfold, the Lord will locate us.  He will hang on to us and never let us go because He believes in us.  He knows how we were created; He sees the finished product even now in the sheepfold.  The Lord Himself has ordained each and every one of us to be what He wants us to be.  God Himself has set into place what He wants within us.  He has established us uniquely as His masterpiece to display His light in the way He has specifically ordained.   Proverbs 23:7 declares, “as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.”  So whom do you believe?

God has given us wings to fly out of the circumstances that would hold us down.  We don’t need to look at our wings and wonder if there is any silver there, we need to believe that there is.  The Lord is singing, ‘Have faith O’ My dove; spread your wings wide and soar!  Shake off the words of man, you have been created to shine’.

This little light of mine…I’m gonna’ let it shine!!!

Materials referenced:
The Theological Word Book of the Old Testament (TWOT). The Strong’s concordance. The Amplified, Message, NKJV, New Living Translation, and NAS bibles.