Hebrew Month of Av--Tribe--Colors

Hebrew Month: Av (July--August) 

Av means "Father"

Tribe:  Simeon means to hear; be concerned

Simeon was Jacob and Leah's second son.
Simeon and his brother Levi rose up and killed his sister's rapist Dinah. 
Moses did not bless the tribe of Simeon due to their violence. But they still received an inheritance of land within Judah's land.   
There is always a way of redemption even when we mess up.

Color: Green
Gem:  Emerald

 Av is the 5th month on the Jewish Calendar. (July-August) 

 This is the month for you to change or for you to disintegrate.
Amos 3:8  The Lion Roars
The month where God destroys so He can build back up. 
Listen carefully this month you will hear key impressions that will shift you life if you allow it to. 
You have a choice to  hear and decide how to develop a new level of discernment or not listen to counsel and advice. 
The 9th of Av was the month the Israelite's choose to receive a bad report about the promise land instead of entering the land promised to them by God. They choose to listen to the voice of unbelief, which opened a door of defeat in their lives.
The Jews are caught in a cycle of destruction, during the 9th of Av a window of destruction opens over them. 
Some examples are as follows:
587 BC Armies of Babylon destroyed Solomon's Temple
AD 70  Romans destroyed the 2nd Temple
AD 135 Final Defeat of Jews by Rome
AD 1492 Jews are expelled from Spain
AD 1492 Jews were deported from Warsaw ghetto to the death camps
AD 2005 Expulsion of the Jews from Gaza

The month of Av was supposed to be the month the Jews entered into the promised land. 
Av is a month to celebrate God's goodness. 
Due to unbelief the month of Av became instead a month of mourning and destruction. 
Av is the month of choices for each of us.
We can choose to enter into a curse with unbelief or break a curse by believing in faith the promises the Lord has for you. 
Hebrews 4:1-2

Repentance is when you know that the sin is not being repeated in your life. 

Israel's sin was repeated when Jesus came, they tasted the fruits of the age to come and turned back once again in unbelief. The Bible assures us that at some point they will believe and enter into their promise land and the curse of Av will be broken. 

Ave presents us with a choice. We can choose our own way or we can listen to and take wise council. 
Be very aware of our partnerships during this month.  
Watch who you align with. 

Through the blood of Jesus all things are reconciled. 
Any time we agree with the enemy a root is formed within us. We must also deal with roots in our generational blood line. 
All through the year God will give you opportunities to be delivered and set free but you have to choose life. 

The Hebrews associate the month of Av with a new level of discernment.
Psalm 23 says He takes hold of the reigns of your life and guides your life with His eye. 
Allow the Lord to guide and hone your discernment for those critical days ahead. 

 I will be putting up Jewelry in the coming days for the month of Av.
I am going to try to make a couple of glory hoops for this month too. 
Shalom and Abundant Blessings to you. Vickie

"Just A Thought" It is a new day, a new time and another journey.

I have not written for a season. I have been learning about myself and about life. I tend to focus on others and not to focus on myself. When the focus is in the wrong place nothing happens. The first thing that needs to happen is for me to understand who I am and where I'm going, and how I'm going to get there. This began an amazing journey in my life. It took me to a new place, a new phase to walk out and learn from. I came to a point in my life that I realized I needed something more that just the normal. That has just never been enough for me. There is something in me that was created to do and want great things. I was created to walk in greatness. I was just not willing to do what it took to get there. I have been on a journey to find that thing, that place, to find something that would satisfy that inner yearning in me. So what does that look like? I am looking and looking again to see what is really out there for me and what my next step in life is. Seeing things in a new light, or maybe just seeing them in the right light for the first time. I have always been a hard worker and loved doing things with my hands, I love to create. I love taking old things and recreating them. I thought certain things would just naturally happen. I realized that was a wrong thought pattern. My thoughts were drawing things into my life I did not want in my life. I also realized what I focused on expanded and became larger than life. I had to come to a point that I began (I am still working this out in my life) to learn that life happened to me because I did not understand I had the control over my life. Focus is so key for me to live a life filled with all the great things life has to offer. So what is my focus now looking like? It is inward for a season. Looking at who I have become and where I want to go in this next season of my life. Do I have it all figured out? No not yet but I'm working on it. I have decided that I am going to happen to life, it is not going to happen to me any longer. I will be present in all things I'm involved in and get an understanding of those around me. I will challenge myself to do and be more. To move into areas I have not wanted to. I will become more informed so I can add to what I am doing. I will become a person of worth and value to those I am connected with. Life is a journey and I will enjoy it. I am going to grab my life with both hands and wring all I can get out of it. I am going to live my life out loud, in such a way that those who are close friends will be excited about life too. I am going to focus on the right things that brings life to me and those around me. I am going to laugh and laugh again. I will dance and play and have a great time. I will be focused on where I am going. Life is such a wonderful experience, I won't miss any of it because I am focused on the wrong thing. I've learned pain is not always your enemy and that it has taught me things I would not have learned any other way. Was if fun? No not so much but it was needed, and it brought me to a new place in my life. The same goes for joy, you learn amazing things when your joyful. Each circumstance I have lived through I glean something I needed for my life, if I have focused correctly. Did the pain I experienced take me to another place and time, or create in me the very thing I had to have to move forward? Yes it did, but if I focused on the right thing I received exactly what I needed for the time in my life. So I guess the bottom line is. What do I from my life? Do I want to stay stuck in an area and miss the greatness that is all around me? Or do I want to take the time to extract from life all it has to offer? Life is a journey and I am going to be present and involved. That journey is what prepares you to be all you can be and help others when the timing it right. I will create good things for me. I will love, laugh, cry,and rest. I will see, hear, sing, and dance. I will do all that I am created to do and be. When it is my time to go home I will hear "Well done my good and faithful servant." Have a new thought, let it take you to a new place. Be flexible and willing to change. You might just love the new place. Vickie

My Trip to Israel in 2012

I have never had a desire to go to Israel until about a year ago and it become almost like a small flame on the inside of me. I began to sow into other peoples trips. I so enjoyed hearing what the Lord had done with some of the people and others shared nothing with me about their trip. I woke up one morning and something on the inside of me knew that I would soon be going to Israel. I was so blessed to be able to go to Israel this year 2012.
How do you explain the chosen place where God chose to dwell with His chosen people? Its a land of many contrasts. So much is happening in such a small country. There are such power struggles going on over there. Such beauty and such stark ungliness all wrapped up on one very amaizng country called Israel. I would for my words to be able to take you there in the spirit but I truly belive that every person needs at some time to go to Israel. To connect there with the God of Israel, with their God, with your God in a new and amazing way. It will forever change the way you see and hear things. The country is so small but has so many things happening in it. Such amazing businesses. great people with such great hearts. They are so willing to share who they are and what they do with others. They are a people who truly live and do what the Bible says.
While we were there we went to many places. To several places of worship that was just over the top. Worshiping in Israel takes you to a whole new level of worship. You can just get lost in the worship there. There are seveal places in Jerusalem that are so amazing. We went to the City of David. We saw many museums that recorded the history of Jesus and what He did while walking in the earth. We swam in the Dea Sea was baptized in the Jordon River and worshiped on a boat on the Sea of Galilee. We worshiped at Mount Carmel and it was so very amazing. We could hear the angels singing with us while we worshiped. We went to the Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Church of All Nations, Bethlehem, and Yad Vashem. We went to the Jerusalem Time Elevator and it was so neat the seats moved like you were really traveling back through time. It would of been great to get a print out of the actual time line that we traveled through.
We went to the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter and Roman Cardo on to Mt.Zion, Shiloh, to Hebron, Mt Moriah and the Teomple Mount, walked on the Bia Dolorosa and we planted an olive tree in the Neot Kedimim.
The Hotels there are so beautiful. They had very nice rooms with great food. We were fed in the mornings and in the evenings. It was so interesting to eat their foods and see what they ate. I truly enjoyed some of the different types of food.
There was an amazing mixture of people who went on the tour. It was called V. I. P. Ministry Leaders Israel Tour 2012. I met some amaizng people while I was there and so enjoyed visiting with each and every one of them. Some had been there many times and others like myself it was their first time in Israel. Its such a beautiful country with amazing people. I just feel in love with it all and my heart did not want to come home. I felt like I was home while I was there.
The experiances that happened with each of us was so unique and such a blessing. Each person on the trip had some type of an encounter with the Lord in one way or another. It was interesting to set back and watch as the Lord moved in and out of our midst and touched each person life in such beautiful ways.
There are so many things to tell you but it is hard also. Its hard to pull back the memories of all that happened in a 14 day trip that was so chocked full of amazing people, places and things to see and do. Another place we visited was the Holocost Museum. It sure did open my eyes to some things I did not realize as I walked through and saw the pictures of the people who were being led to be slaughtered. First you just can not imangine anyone doing that but it was right there in front of us. At times I cried seeing the children and their broken hearts. How so many Nations could turn away from the Jews is just heart breaking to me.
In Shiloh we were introduced to a Rabbi David Rubin. He talked to us about the school there that had 800 children who where tramuatized and they were helping each of them come through into freedom. They have a petting zoo or area for the children to learn to love again. So much is happening in Shiloh, if you pray please keep them in your prayers daily they so need it.
The final day came and we had a full day of going to several sights and then a farwale dinner in Jaffa. It was sad parting with people you were beginning to become friends with but it was also good to be coming home to my family here in the States.
I would encourage each and everyone of you to at some point in your life time to consider to travel to Israel. Its am amaizng country with so much to offer each and every person.
Pray for the peace of Israel and for protection for the people there. May God bless Israel, His chosen land and His chosen peoples.
Much love n blesings to you all. Vickie