The Little Fawn and Pete – Her Loving Friend!

A Prophetic Word to the Body of Christ!

I pray over each of these oracles the Lord gives me that the Spirit of God will move upon the reader and draw them closer to His heart. I know  these oracles are sculptured in heaven and are given to me to scribe so they can reach many who are trying to grow and find their acceptance, affirmation, love, and place in the Lord and in the church setting.

I believe there are many “little fawns” in the Body of Christ who are lonely and feel abandoned by other members of the Body of Christ.  I  heard the Lord speak to me about this last sentence and He said this:  

There are those of

My people who

are pushed aside

and

given no account. 

 They are not honored

like I would have

them to be lifted up

and

encouraged

 for it is the lowly

ones that I come

 to visit

and

 call to refuge in Me. 

These ones of mine are often

considered

unworthy,

 undeserving,

and

not adequate.

But know this,

when I visit the

churches

 and

walk in the aisles,

 I seek out the

less honorable

 and

the ones who lack

 for it is these little

 lambs that I want to

hold

 and

bring to me.

Look around,

they are all around you.

Open your eyes

 and

 see their pain,

 their hurt,

 and

their tears,

for they reach

out but many just ignore

them and say,

“Those people are not

my responsibility

 and

 I do not have time for them. 

Besides,

there is no way

I can meet their needs.”

Oh, if only My church

would awake

 to the ones

I have placed in their

midst to test their love for these

who have been seen

 as not measuring up

 and

who do not possess

what prideful

 others think they

 should possess.

But to you

 and

 others,

 your eyes

 and

hearts

 have been opened to

 the poor,

 the homeless,

the needy,

the neglected,

the lost,

 the backslidden,

and

the destitute

and

I have called

and

appointed

 the humble

in the church

 to take Me to them.

My church

 is only as strong

as its

ministry to the weak

 within

 and

without the church.

  For out of its

ministry to the weak,

 lame, sick,

and

 blind

will it achieve

the strength to overcome

and

 walk with Me.

Thank you Jesus for this word. 

Investing Honor to the Unseemingly, Unimportant, and Lonely Parts of the Body of Christ!

After this word, the Lord put in My heart and mind 1st Corinthians 12:20-26, (AMP).

And now there are [certainly] many limbs and organs,

 but a single body.

And the eye is not able to say to the hand,

I have no need of you,

nor again the head to the feet,

I have no need of you.

But instead,

 there is [absolute] necessity for the

parts of the body that are considered

the more weak.

And those [parts] of the body

which we consider rather ignoble

 are [the very parts]

 which we invest with additional honor,

 and

 our unseemly parts

 and

 those unsuitable for exposure

 are treated with seemliness

 (modesty and decorum),

which our more presentable parts do not require.

But God has so adjusted

 (mingled, harmonized,

and

 subtly proportioned the parts of)

 the whole body,

giving the greater honor

 and

 richer endowment to the inferior parts

 which lack [apparent importance], 

So that there should be no division

 or

discord or lack of adaptation

[of the parts of the body to each other],

but the members all alike

 should have a mutual interest

 in and care for one another.

And if one member suffers,

all the parts [share] the suffering;

if one member is honored,

all the members [share in] the enjoyment of it.

 Where Should My Focus Be as His Disciple!

I have a heart which desires to reach out to people of loneliness, lostness, and not feeling loved by others.  It did not always use to be this way but the more I love the Savior and desire Him more than anything else in my life, the more He calls to move up higher in loving those He brings to me or takes me too. 

In addition, I find that the more I love others with His extravagant love, the more victories I have over the sins and temptations which are part of living in this world. 

I find it very liberating and satisfying when I focus on others rather than focus on myself and this can be hard to do living in a society which promotes self-exaltation, materialism, meism, mammon, self-pleasure, and a “Just Do It” philosophy at the expense of others. 

Therefore, this oracle provides a very simple illustration for me to ponder on how the Lord would direct me to accept, affirm, approve, and impart value and significance to those who experience loneliness, not feeling loved, and other negative conditions for if God loves them immensely than so should I with His love He has imparted to me.  Sometimes it is not easy to love others very different from me, but with the Lord’s help, I will learn to love them. It is a biblical command.

At the same time, I realize that I need to continue to grow in being more sensitive to individuals who God wants me to encounter for He will test me in how much I want to give His love away for that is the Gospel way as well as His command – “You shall love your neighbor (others) at you love yourself” (Matthew 22:39).

I have come to believe the more I love and express that love for those sitting on the front porch of my life the more my faith increases to move in the supernatural and the more my faith increases the greater my love abounds for the lonely, unlovable, despised, ignored, unfortunate, and the lost.

The Compassion of Christ!

I am reminded that the compassion of Christ is what brought healing to leper in the synagogue (Mark 1:41) and it was the compassion of Christ which brought the supernatural feeding of the 4,000 men plus women and children with the multiplication of 7 loaves and some fish. They collected 7 baskets of leftovers.  Everything was complete and perfect in what Christ spoke and performed for the number 7 in Scripture represents perfection and completeness.

I know this is the way the Savior would have me live for Him.  I must seek the extraordinary love – the mega agape Christ desires to continually impart to me to fulfill His call to share the Word with His confirming acts of power.  How can it be any other way? 

Jesus gives the example, and we should live that example if we expect the Lord Jesus to inner our reality and bring forth with the Word His affirmations. Did He not say to His disciples and to us today….

   I feel compassion for the people…..

(Matthew 15:32; Mark 8:2)

Seeing the people,

He felt compassion for them…..

(Matthew 9:36)

He saw a large crowd,

and

had

compassion 

on them and healed their sick.

 (Matthew 14:14)

When the Lord saw her,

He felt

compassion

for her.

(Luke 7:13)

Moved with

compassion……

he healed the leper.

 (Mark 1:41)

And they went out and preached everywhere,

while the

Lord kept working with them

and

confirming the message 

by the

attesting signs

and 

miracles that closely accompanied [it].

Amen (so be it).

Mark 16:20 (AMP)

Thus, I have found that the Kingdom of God and His love in me reaching out to others presents an alternative to the kingdom of the world which is consuming many by its darkness, coldness, deception, lovelessness, and corruption.

The world and the things in the world can consume a person and steal or rob a person of faith and love for Christ and His Kingdom.  But for those who passionately seek Christ He multiplies His love to be given to others which – and I repeat - activates and energized faith with His basket of leftovers (blessings) to also give these away. Praise the Lord and bless His Holy Name!

If I am to learn and experience at least one aspect of these incidents in the previous paragraph it is this – when I major on possessing His compassion for others and desire to give it away, He fills me up with more compassion (agape) leading to a greater faith to believe for Him to use me in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit to comfort and encourage others as well as being controlled by the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.  If Apostle Paul is right, and he is for he says, and I use the Amplified Bible translation:

“…..but only

faith

activated and energized

(My comment: Love activates, energizes, makes alive and demonstrates moving from an ordinary faith to a mega faith (greater faith) to accompany God’s Word).  The Gifts of the Holy Spirit ride on the wings of mega faith expressed to the Lord and to others).

and

expressed

and

working through love.

(My comment: If love is small there will be small faith.  If love is absent, faith will be absent.  If love is large, there will be large faith.  If love is great love or extraordinary love, there will be great or extraordinary faith to manifest the supernatural Gifts of the Holy Spirt - signs, wonders, and miracle which are severely absent in the modern church,).

(Galatians 5:6)

If I understand correctly what the Apostle is saying it is this –  if I want my faith activated, increased, and applied, then it is the love (divine love – the agape type of love) Christ gives me and I give it away to those He calls me to love. 

Then my faith will arise to bring forth His Will and Word into the lives of others fostering their healings, deliverances, and freedoms in Christ He wants them to experience and possess.

Now with those things said, let us observe this little story I believe the Lord gave me as I continue to travel down this road of demonstrating His love which can generate great faith to move in the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit.

The Little Lamb and Pete Her Loving Friend!

 This oracle about Pete and the little fawn demonstrates how two very different animals can adopt and look out for each other, which I believe the Lord wanted me to pen and learn from. Allow me to say that it does not benefit me to write what the Lord gives me if I do not attempt to live by it or practice it.

God does not always put me in the presence of people like me but brings people to my front porch who are quite different and very challenging to love and lead them to Christ.  It seems Pete – the loving dog - did not have this issue with the little fawn. He embraced the fawn, and it became part of Pete’s life.

          Sometimes we feel like this little fawn – on the outside, in the cold, lonely, isolated, thinking nobody cares for me, and trying to find a place of warmth and acceptance.

We can often reflect about our purpose in the grand scheme of things and think –

Where am I going?

What does the Lord want to do with me?

How do I draw closer to Him?

How do I just find His love in greater measure?

Where do I find those who will love me?

How do I just curl up to my heavenly “Daddy”

 and say,

“Daddy,

 take me into Your house and comfort me?”

Or sometimes we feel that we have lost the presence of the Shepherd, or we cannot find Him, or maybe He has gone off and left us all alone.

      I am sure this little fawn in the above picture is wondering, “Where is my mommy?  Has she forgotten me?  I am so alone and hungry. I do not know where to go.  I will just curl up here on this step and hope that somebody finds me and cares for me. Somebody has to take me in.”  Oh, I hope somebody notices me!”

           The little fawn continues, “I hope that these people are not so busy with their lives that they just overlook me and send me back into the woods. 

I pray the people who live here will find me and give me the love and attention I need.  What else can I do but just to lay here on the porch step!”

“I will just wait here and hope they open the door and let me come in.”  I am so cold out here that I cannot get warm no matter what I do.  Will somebody please help me!  There must be somebody who cares for me and hears my cry for help!

       Like this fawn, there comes times when we cry out to the Shepherd and say,

Turn to me and be gracious to me,

for I am lonely and afflicted.

(Psalm 25:1)

Then the Psalmist words reassure us:

Then he will pray to God,

and

 He will accept him,

that he may see

His face with joy…

(Job 33:26)

Then Jesus adds:

I will seek the lost,

bring back the

scattered,

bind up the broken

 and

strengthen the sick…..

(Matthew 10:6)

Dear friend, Christ the Great Shepherd has not forgotten you or me.

Although at times we can all come to the place of saying, “Daddy Father in heaven, where are you?  I have been seeking and looking for You and it seems that you are nowhere to be found.”  And, like the Psalmist, I cry,

Do not hide Your face from me,

Do not turn Your servant away in anger;

You have been my help;

Do not abandon me nor forsake me,

O God of my salvation!

(Psalm 27:9)

And then He whispers His divine and supportive words into my spirit and soul:

Call upon me in the day of trouble;

I shall rescue you,

and

 you will honor me.

 (Psalm 50:15)

          His prophetic word is a call to the “Refuge God,” to dwell in the shelter of the Most High, to abide in the shadow of the Almighty and decree, “I will say to the Lord, My refuge, and my fortress, My God, in whom trust (Psalm 91:1-2).

          While writing this oracle, I heard the Lord say to me and the ones reading this oracle,

Come, My son, My daughter,

enter in and enjoy My Presence,

enjoy My food

 I have to feed you with,

My comfort,

 My affirmation,

and

My love for you. 

If you only knew the depth

 and

expanse of My love for you,

 you would not be able to stand.

For I have loved you

 from the very beginning

 and

have imparted to you

 My glory,

 My power,

 and

 My presence.

  You need not doubt or think

 I have left you.

 I am always with you

and

 preparing you for

 deeper things

 which I will be showing you.

You are my little lamb

and

 My hand is always upon you.

  Lose yourself in Me,

come to me,

get away from yourself

and

enjoy My Son

and

what He has done for you

 and

will be doing in you.

 Prepare yourself,

His return is coming in a

season you know not.

 But know this,

“I Am”

 will keep you and shelter you –

only follow me

 and

declare

My word into your life.”

As I thank the Lord for this word, He lets you and I know that He only is our refuge and not the material world, our jobs, the money we make, the education we possess, our friends, and many of the things in the material world. 

The Lord also heard the prayer of the little fawn.  The people of the house opened their door as Christ opens the door for you and me to come in and He puts His arms around us and says, “I love you and you have nothing to worry about!”

  They found the little fawn and took the little creature inside the warm and welcoming home as Christ carries us into His house in the heavens and warms us in His embrace and comforting words.

 And guess who the little fawn’s best friend became – you guessed it – “Pete the Hound.”

          Isn’t that just like the Daddy in heaven, He gives us to each other to nurture and take care of and sometimes He links us with others we would not really choose.  The little fawn says, “Thank you Lord for giving me “Pete.”

 The little fawn continues, “I never realized that this dog could be my best and loving friend. Lord, you are so good.  I will just love “Pete” and know that you gave him to me to watch over me.  Lord, it is so good to come in from the cold outside and know that somebody loves me and will take care of me.”  

 I can just hear “Pete” say, Oh, my, Lord, this is very strange – a dog and a fawn.  Well, I guess you do work in mysterious ways. 

Pete continues: “But I know that you hooked us up for some divine reason and I just want to take care of this little fawn because I know that is honoring to you and what you called me to do.”

“So, Lord, I may need your help from time to time to know how to show my “doggie” love, affection, acceptance and just good “hound sense” to this little fawn.” 

“Oh, by the way Lord, if it is alright with you, I would like to name my new friend, Esther (Esther means “Star”), because this little fawn to me is like a little star that has come into my life.  Is that Ok with you?”

My friend, as we refuge in our God, know that He will bring to you those He wants you to love, pray and weep over, help, meet their need, pray for them, pray for their healing, visit them, and just be a good friend like Pete wanted to be to Esther, the little fawn.

 Yes, it may not be someone you would select, but God knows who you need in your life to give to and for them to give back to you.

          From our refuge with the great “I Am” comes our love and care for others.  And that my friend is what true ministry in the Spirit is all about – to go and care for others as Christ modeled for us.  The Good Shepherd says,

 God’s Spirit is on me;

He’s chosen me to preach the Message

of good news to the poor,

 sent me to announce pardon to

 prisoners and recovery of sight

to the blind,

to set the burdened and battered free.

(Luke 4:18, Message Bible)

          So, my friend, I encourage you to look on the porch of your life and see if there any little fawns waiting to be afforded the love of Christ, He has imparted to you.

 Reach out like “Pete” and say,

“I am glad you are here; I want to be your friend and help in any way I can. Just let me know what I can do.”  Pete’s final words ring in my ears and prick my heart - "I love you Esther and will take care of you.  You are safe now and need not to worry!”

  My gracious may we say the same to those God brings to us to care and affirm them that they have not been forgotten, pushed aside, neglected, passed by, ignored, or looked down on.  Help us to live what Apostle Paul wrote:

Let each of you esteem

 and

look upon

and 

be concerned for not

 [merely]

 his own interests,

but also

each for the interests of others.

 Let this same attitude

 and

purpose

 and

[humble] mind be in you

which was in Christ Jesus:

[Let Him be your example in humility:]

Philippians 2:4–5 (AMP)

          Father in heaven, thank You for your love for us and how You want us to gain strength and love from refuging in You so that we can take care of the little fawns that you send to us.

 Thank You for taking us in as Your little fawns and giving us the “Pete’s” to love and care about us. We want to grow in You, and we know that as we grow in You we also will become the “Pete’s” for others by opening the doors of our hearts to care for those sitting on our front porches You bring to us who need our imparted and divine love you shower us with to give away. In Your Son’s Name, Amen.

 Rich Arnold

Servant of the Lord

311 Adelaide Ave SW

Hartville, Ohio 44632

330-704-9306

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