God wants to use you. He wants to flow through you, provide for you. He wants to
carry you on his wings. He wants to enable you to be led by the Spirit of
God in the last days. Hi my name is Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring
Word and I've got what I think is going to be the beginning of a new series here
on Restoring Word. Thank you for liking and subscribing and sharing. Your
comments and your shares help us grow the channel and reach more people for
the gospel and that's why we're doing it. Are you stuck in a rut? Are you really
looking for something new in your life? Well, definitely. I had this prophetic
word spoken over me when I was a young baby Christian in Davenport, Iowa and the
word was, don't grow weary in well-doing for in due season you will reap if you
faint not. And I really think I am in that season of reaping. I'm coming to the
end of a five-year transition that I've been in and God has supernaturally done
some amazing things in my life. And so I thought, well God what do I want to do in
this next season? And I didn't want to just do anything. I wanted to do
something where God would be glorified and I prayed about it and I said, Lord I
really want to do something new. My brother and I, we spend our summers at a
cottage up in Canada and I, you know, I love to fish, okay, and my family loves to
water ski, okay. It's not really me. In this season I want to sit on the lake. I
want to enjoy life. And so my husband and I purchased a 1987 Catalina 25 sailboat
and we're starting to restore it. It's going to be wonderful for us and for our
small little grandkids and I really believe that this season is going to be
part of our reward going forward. So I began to seek the Lord and God is this
okay with you and how can you be glorified in it? And I really, honestly, I'm
trying to use it as a way to share the gospel. And why? Because God is a
restoring God. Now mind you, this boat is a 1987 so it's gonna need some work. But
you know what? Just because something is older doesn't mean that God's done with
it, right? God will take things that have maybe been newer in their younger days
but he wants to do something new and this boat is, is really beautiful. It's
really set up for a family. So I said, Lord, how can you be a part of this? And
and the beginning process for me was just what do you want to name the boat?
The name, the name, it didn't have a bad name, okay. The name of the boat was
Dreamweaver and that's okay. But you know what? That's kind of an old song
from the 80s and it's definitely an 87, right? And there's nothing necessarily
wrong with Dreamweaver other than it was originally, I think, a song put together
by John Lennon and it's kind of New Agey. I really wanted to give this boat a name
that would reflect our love for God without being religious and weird, you
know, like, you know, Grace or something that there's a million names of. I wanted
it to be personal and I really wanted it to reflect our love for what we love
most in ministry, which is flowing praise and worship, flowing in the gifts of the
Spirit, being filled to the point where the Holy Ghost comes on you and empowers
you to speak life into other people that are broken and hurting. And so I began to
seek the Lord and then really thinking about naming. You know, when
someone names their child at baptism and they hand the baby over to the minister
and the minister says, what are you naming the child? That's that moment
where the parents are decreeing their hopes and their dreams for the future of
this baby. And so naming is important. And this actually comes from
Revelation 17. And when you think about the importance of naming, God is going to
give us a name, a name for those that are the overcomers in the last days. Yes, it's
going to get crazy. It is getting crazy already. But there is a reward for those
that overcome and it comes from Revelations 2.17.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who
overcomes, I will give hidden manna to eat, or spiritual food. I will give him a
white stone, we've already talked about the white stone, and on the stone a new
name written which no one knows except him who receives it. You're going to be
given a name for your obedience to him. Naming is important. Isaiah 56 5, even to
them I will give in my house and within its walls a place and a name better than
that of the sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall
not be cut off. Now I think here scripturally he's talking about naming
Israel and naming Jerusalem and the importance and the holiness of Jerusalem
but God wanted a specific name for that for that capital. It's a holy city. Isaiah
62 1 and 2, for Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, for Jerusalem's sake I
will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her
salvation as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles shall see your righteousness
and all kings your glory and you will be called by a new name which the mouth of
the Lord will name. So there is something holy about God-given names, right? So even
when I put together the blog and even when I began to think about our ministry
name, why Restoring Word? Well my husband's an auto body guy and he
rebuilds things that have been crushed and bruised and broken and he makes them
new again and that's kind of what we're going to do with the sailboat. So
Restoring Word really fits us but I had to come up with something, a logo
that would depict that and I've never really explained the ministry's logo. If
you see it, it's on all of our videos. You have W, the Word of God, which is first
and foremost. The Word of God is alive and it comes up and it breathes life and
what happens? You're restored. And when you're restored, what happens? Oh you want
more of the Word. And then the Word again is life, it's living, it'll take your
hurts, your bruises, your wounds, your defeat, your hurt, your
disappointment, and what happens? He restores it. He restores it and then what
happens? You're so thankful for your restoration, you want what? You want more
of the Word. Well the graphic artist came up with the perfect logo for the blog,
for the ministry, and it's this circular feature that comes. I love it. It's
perfect. It's perfect for us and it's really representational of what we want
to talk about and that is God is a restorer. He's a restorer of your trust.
So I said, now Lord, how can I use this logo on this boat? Like I just, the R
words were hard to choose and the W words and the only thing that I got
close to was ride the wind and I thought, eh. But one night in my sleep, the Holy
Spirit dropped in me to go and look at my devotional. I love Rick Renner's Gems
from the Greek and I opened up Gems from the Greek too, went to the back, looked at
the concordance and looked at the R word and the R word that just jumped off
the page was Rao and it's Greek and it comes from John 7 38 and 39. He who
believes in me, as Scripture has said, out of his heart or out of his belly shall
flow, Rao, rivers of living water. Ooh, it's a flowing that's associated with water.
Ooh, that's a cool name for a boat, don't you think? Rao. Now there's also a
wonderful scripture in Isaiah 44 3, for I will pour water on him who is thirsty
and floods on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your descendants and my
blessing on your offspring. I wrestled with what to name this boat because
really we're just so thankful that generational curses have been broken and
that our family, because of Jesus's love for us, is gonna walk in freedom and so I
really wanted something that would reflect that inner work that is
happening in the lives of our family. I thought about Sons of Liberty, I thought
about Legacy, and I kept going back to the R and the W and and and it just I
had to stick with something that would reflect who we are and what we're about.
So let me break down these two words because they really relate to what God
wants to do in your life. Rao, it's a it's a spoken H before the R. Rao.
open O. I studied phonetic languages in college, so I could sing in about six
different languages, and it's always been a fun thing for me to look at and to
study. But re-o, it really, its root word kind of is different, but in
stated terms, really it's that empowering word that comes out of your mouth that
speaks life. It's spirit-inspired. It's spirit-led. It's sitting down and leading
praise and worship under the unction and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and
you're ministering to the Lord, singing to him what he wants to hear, not what
you want to hear, but what does he want to hear. And in that flow, he is ministered
to, he is worshiped, and he is glorified, which is what we're supposed to do as
worship leaders, right? A shout out to Ronnie and Haley Ostrander, two young
people, family members, who really can flow in worship. That's what we're
supposed to do as musicians, as musicians that are set aside for the kingdom. Our
worship is supposed to glorify him. It's supposed to be all about him. It's not
about promoting us, right? Okay. There's also another unusual place where this
retos, it's a form of re-o, but it's retos, and the word is 4-4-90 in the
study, and it's referred to in 1st Timothy 4-1, expressly in the last days
many will depart from the faith, or expressly, expressing, verbal, expressly,
what is the Holy Spirit saying? The Holy Spirit is speaking to all of us in 1st
Timothy 4, that in the last days many are going to depart from the faith. Well,
that's kind of really a cool word. You know why I'm doing this whole blog thing?
I'm really, my heart is to reach people I've had in class before, I've known
before, and to reach them for the kingdom, and to reassure them that, guess what, you
can trust God. You can. He's good. He's faithful. Well, the next part of that was,
what's the W word going to be? Obviously, the word, I didn't want to call it re-o
word, I really wanted to tie that into the use of the sailboat. Well, sailboats
have two wings, obviously. The sailboat is going to have two sails up above, plural,
and that's really wonderful, but the thing about this boat that is just such a blessing
is that it's a very valuable boat because of what you can't see. Now, I'm already planning
all of these other episodes in the future, so there's one coming on this keel, get ready,
but this keel has a winged keel. It was designed based on the sailboat that won
the race back in 86 or 87, came from Australia. It's a winged keel. Aerodynamically, this boat
is going to fly on the water. The keel is very heavy, and it stabilizes the boat,
and you've got to have a specific type of trailer to move this boat, which the Lord
graciously gave. So, there's amazing wings that are affiliated with this boat, but this morning,
I just started thinking about Lord Wings. I mean, Re O Wings. I mean, how does that really work? Well,
let me tell you about the wings of the Lord, okay, and again, this is probably going to be a more
in-depth study later on, but God spreads his wings over you, Ezekiel 16, 8. Under whose wings
thou art come to rest, and that's in Ruth 2, 12. Wings are kind of referred to as sort of a skirt.
Wings are associated with support and strength. I will bear you up on eagles' wings. That means
the Lord's going to carry you, Exodus 19 and Deuteronomy 32. Wings are associated with safe
keeping. He will hide me under the shadow of his wings, Psalm 17, 8. How precious and how beautiful
are the men and the women and children who put their trust under the shadow of his wings,
Psalms 36, 37. We are covered by him. He casts shade over us. We are watched over. You are watched
over by him. You can trust him. He will be your protection. He will be your refuge. In the shadow
of his wings, will you take refuge? Will I take my refuge, Psalms 57, 1. Wings are your shelter,
and it's your cover. I will trust in the cover of thy wings, 61, 4. And it's also relating to
the angel wings that was covering the Ark of the Covenant.
inside the tabernacle. Isn't that fun? Okay, Psalm 63 7, the wings are
associated with comfort. Because thou has given me my help, therefore in the shadow
of his wings I will rejoice. Being in his presence, being under his covering, I can
trust him. I know that I am in his presence and he's caring for me. Isn't
that beautiful? He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings you
shall trust, Psalms 91 4. We know that one. In Job 37 and Isaiah 24, there is
talking about the extensive in the spread of his wings. So, and the last but
not least, it talks about there's healing in his wings. You know, wings are, it's an
incredible study. I mean, a lot of people just automatically think angels' wings.
They don't think about how it's symbolically talking about his love for
us, his protection, how he wants to carry us, how he wants to strengthen and
support us, how he wants to protect us in this hour. He really does want to be a
part of your life. He even wants to be a part in the fun stuff. And the fun stuff
for me is going to be sitting on a sailboat with my family. He's just that
good. In addition to that, my husband raises songbirds. And, you know, when he
was very young, he had a very difficult childhood. He had an alcoholic abusive
home and he would run out into the bird cages with his pigeons because it was
peaceful and it was quiet and it was safe. And it became a place of, kind of a
place of contact where he would talk to the Lord as a small boy. God wants to be
the place in your life that you run to when things are stressful, difficult,
anxiety-ridden. He wants to be the place that you run to that you can find your
peace. God is your refuge. He will restore you and he will carry you with
his wings. Thank you for listening today and I hope you enjoy this next season
where we're going to talk about restoration and we're going to use these
short little devotionals to help people grow in their faith, in their trust, in
their belief in the Word of God. Thank you for listening. Please like and share
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