"Dance with Me!"

Dance with Me!

I could never write poetry.  Never learned to write poetry and was never interested in writing poetry until one day the Lord tapped me to begin to write poetry for Him. 

It was His gift to me to give to others to enjoy and to draw close to Him. When I began to write, the poetic expressions burst forth as you will read one of the prophetic poems below. This is what was downloaded to me while I was listening to a piece of music called, “Tenderly.”  Jesus said to me….. 

“Come,

dance with me,”

 says 

the Lord.

Take my hand

and

listen to the 

angel’s band.

Call the singers,

and 

other

minstrels as well.

 The

heavenly melody

 is

 harmonious and sweet,

and

they play to treat.

Come,

my child,

 and 

dance

to be free,

 away from

 yourself,

 and

 partake of me.

Come angels

and

rest of heaven’s host,

 and

let us

make a toast.

Come, I say,

and

dance with me.

 Kick

off your shoes,

and

dance to the joy

of

 knowing me.

If

you only knew,

how I much

 I really care

 for you.

There

is

special music

 just written

 for you.

  So come,

partner with me,

 and

 let us listen,

 sing, and

dance

 to

 My melody.

Leave

your cares

 and

worries

 behind,

and

enter

 the music

I  designed

 for you.

Yes,

 I say

 lose yourself

in the

 heavenly melody

I have

 prepared for you.

Don’t you

know that all eternity

sings and dances

 to the

 Melody, Harmony,

and

 Rhythm

of the

 Trinity.

 Open

your ears to hear,

I say

 open your ears

to hear the sweetness

 of

 heaven’s music.

Yes,

 enter your battles

with

 dancing

and

 singing unto

 Me.

The way

is

 prepared,

the path established,

 and

 the road planned.

Now

 dance with me

 and

 you will see

and

 be given glimpses

of eternity.

I call you

to

dance with me

and

take my hand.

Step to the music,

listen to

My melody.

Oh,

my son,

My melody

is so

 sweet to hear –

a melody

 birthed

 just for you.

So,

I call all of heaven

to

celebrate with dancing

 and

singing

and

rejoicing

 for all who

are summoned 

to come.

Oh,

 hear the music

 of the heavens,

 look and see,

for all the

host of heaven’s scene

delight and rejoice

in

soul’s entering

into eternity.

All who come,

become

 free when

 they dance 

with me.

The flow ended here.

David was a dancer before the Lord for it brought Him release and freedom from the hardships of life and his difficulties of leading God’s people. When he threw off his mourning then the Lord girded Him with gladness and joy and he responded with dancing before the Lord. And the Lord approved.

He would say to the Lord: 

You have turned

my mourning

into dancing for me;

You have put off my sackcloth

and

girded me with gladness,

Psalm 30:11 (AMP)

On another occasion, David danced before the Ark of the Lord in the presence of Israel and Michal, David’s wife who disapproved of David’s leaping and dancing before the Lord. His actions of dancing moved her to despise him her heart.  Sanuel records:

And

(David)

danced before the Lord with all his might,

clad in a linen ephod

 [a priest’s upper garment].

 So

 David

 and

all the house of Israel

 brought up the ark of the Lord

 with shouting

 and

with the sound of the trumpet.

As the ark of the Lord

came into the

City of David,

Michal, Saul’s daughter

 [David’s wife],

looked out of the window

and

saw

King David leaping

 and

dancing before the Lord,

and

she despised him in her heart.

 2 Samuel 6:14–22 (AMP)

 David said to Michal,

 it was before the Lord,

Who chose me above your father

 and

 all his house to appoint

 me as prince over Israel,

 the people of the Lord.

Therefore will I make merry

 [in pure enjoyment]

 before the Lord.

I believe the Lord enjoyed David dancing and making merry for the Ark of the Lord was brought into the City of David where it needed to be for the people to see the Lord’s presence represented by the Ark in their midst.

It did not turn out well for Micah’s bitter and hard-hearted actions toward David’s dancing and making merry before the Ark of the Lord.  We learn in 2nd Samuel 6:23 (NLT) that she was barren of child or “childless throughout her entire life.”

Perhaps a just punishment from the Lord for her attack on God’s anointed authority.  If God approved of David dancing and even today when God’s people dance before Him in the Spirit and are Spirit led, we need to be careful of judging from what we have learned here about Micah’s actions. 

Rich Arnold

Servant of the Lord

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