Month of Elul explanation

Well in doing this covenant - we have been keeping close watch with the Hebrew calendar. As one of the girls and I were talking the other day - she made mention that the Hebrew calendar was all very new to her and that she had never studied it before. So that got me to thinking - it's new to us all really - so I felt led to read over it and break it down as best as I could with my understanding. IF I miss something ladies - please chime in and add to this!

Today actually begins the month of Elul. This is a month to Redeem.

Webster's defines the word Redeem as this:
1. to buy back
2. to get or win back
3. to free from distresses or harms
4. repair, restore
5. to atone for
6. to offset the bad effect of
7. to change for the better
8. to make worthwhile
9. to free from the consequences of sin

REDEEM - now is the time to make right what's been wrong.
This is the month of "Gad" - the name Gad means - 'good fortune'. We are to EXPECT "good fortune" to mount up....rewards begin to manifest over what we have done. It's VERY IMPORTANT for us to expect REWARD instead of "we will reap what we sow". We MUST think REWARD! Think there is a time of REWARD! Think I need reward - I need REWARD!!! When we walk through seasons and times here on earth doing what is right and giving things over to God and we see no reward - it wipes us out emotionally and ruins us. Think about the things and burdens you have carried this year - now is the time to EXPECT to see REWARD! Now is the season to go back and take MERCY! Don't think it through - just lay claim to HIS mercy. Begin to see God as your Beloved and begin to see yourself as HIS beloved.

This is the month to realize that being strong all of the time is not what God requires of us. This is the month of the tower of might - meaning that we need to realize that we can be weak if we know where to run - we run into the arms of someone greater than we are - into the arms of JESUS! Standing doesn't always mean being strong. In deep prayer - we take our stand in the burden - we are letting go of everything in us - pouring it out into prayer - so that God may then pour new things HE has back into us.

This is a month to FIND time to regroup and come back to a place of peace - I believe that over the last 3 weeks we have all done that - we are entering the month that this is greatly desired of us - I believe we are prepared to continue on in setting aside time to calm, release, and find God's peace that surpasses all of our understanding. This is the month that God wants us to regroup to simply enjoy life - not just merely exist in it.

This is a month to look back and gain understanding of our beginning so that we may reach the end. Example of this: Understanding the very moment that lead us to make the choice to get into the mess we are in..... I we understand and know that moment and what led us to that moment - we can then know and understand how to reach the end. Putting a plan in place - asking God the best route out - making amends - REDEEMING the situations!!!! Making right what has been wrong!!! God appointed this month to get us out of these messes!!!!!

This is the month to fix what has been broken. If it is meant to be fixed - God WILL tell us. If HE doesn't tell us it's fixable - it's time to let go and let the thing die and disintegrate. IF it's fixable - God will tell us and then HE will give us the plan to fix it!! - this could be a marriage, a friendship, finances, a job, a project, a family relationship....

God will also give us the sudden ways to make complicated things in our life - "SIMPLE" just like that!

This is the month to understand and know who's care you are under and who has been put under your "watch-care".

This is the month in the old testament that Rebekah gave birth to Jacob and Esau. BC of that this is the month for us to begin to see - do we birth blessings or do we give birth to something God is going to hate? What are our attitude and our characteristics leaning toward - good inclination (Jacob) or bad inclination (Esau)? It's a month to see who is contending after you in the spirit?

This month we want to make CERTAIN that our emotions are on good acting ability and stay on good acting ability OR ELSE we will be a basket-case for 3/4 of the time. It will either be one way or the other this month.

We MUST become the enemy's strongest warring enemy for redeeming our family. The anointing is limited only by our lack of knowledge. We must become a people of God's word and God's spirit. It is the truth "we know" that will set us free. We must strive for excellence to know the truth of God's word.

God's mindset is based on Hebrew Covenant. As learn and grow in knowledge and truth we must activate the good portion in us from each of the twelve tribes. As we receive and learn from the truths God's revealing we will move into the fullness that He has for us and the wholeness that He desires for us to walk in. We see from the tribe of Gad that God is calling us to REDEEM, increase JUSTICE, increase INTEGRITY, and increase FAITHFULNESS in following through with the promises we make to fulfill a purpose.

Gad was a man that became one of the 12 tribes. It was known as the Tribe of Gad - Gad was a warring - raiding type for tribe. We must REDEEM this characteristic and learn to plunder (raid) the enemy's camp or we will be the one who is plundered (raided). This is a VERY IMPORTANT concept for deliverance. We must set our bloodline straight - this forms the identity for the future generations in our bloodline. The tribe of Gad was like a fierce lion, defending it's own territory and that of the neighboring tribes. God grants gifts in proper proportion with the responsibility that He puts us in. BC the Gadites undertook to defend the territories of their fellow tribes. they were blessed with extraordinary strength to carry out the task. Had they thought only of themselves - they may well have lacked the sufficient might for that great responsibility. The Gadites were among the first to march out in battle to defend that land of his brothers.

As we grow and begin to understand the prophetic meaning each tribe contains - it defines who we are, and WHOSE we are. We must to maintain a Hebrew mindset in understanding and REDEEMING all that our God has for us. Understanding the Hebrew calendar and the prophetic meaning for each "month" is a step in that direction.

We are all intercessors - contending and going to war for each of our "sisters land". This covenant that we have formed with our Beloved - has shown me that we are the WATCHMEN. It is time to awaken the watchmen. There is a stirring coming right now in our midst. Be ready ladies - REWARD is coming - God is about to release a new and mighty thing over us!