Chapter Four

My Dove Story

Carrier Doves are Doves that have eyes to see only " one mission": to do only what they see their Father in Heaven Doing!!

 

First,  the Dove represents to me open heaven, access to the Father's heart.

 

In your first beginnings, He says:

Come Inside the cleft.
In the cleft is where you will find your habitation.
Rest and receive.
                                             Receive from His breast by way of His downy soft white-breasted feathers.
                                 There you will Abide, and be transformed by the power of His Spirit.
Received the fullness of His breast.
In the cleft, you will find your innocence.
You'll find it never left you.
Return to your innocence and drink.
You’ve been found in Him.
Your lover Jesus Messiah is waiting at the lock of the Door,
the Keyhole of the Door is turning in to you.

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You must first become a narrow door of entry-a listening door.

A door that listens only to the WORD- it's there, that the invitation is made, to our lover JESUS.

 He enters only into those that have made themselves - A door.

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An opened heaven has formed over your life.
Look, behold the Door! Look, behold the Hey!!

Cleft Dwellers or Cave Dwellers are those that have allowed Yeshua to heal them and set their wings free.

Gliding on the patterns of the wind.

Cleft Dwellers are those that have found their rest, their nest in Him. Where there is rest there is open heaven waiting to be revealed.

You were there all along.

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The Lord gave a word to me back in September of 2015. I quickly understood and knew, it was a part of a long experience with the Dove of the Holy Spirit - The Person of the Holy Spirit.

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Cleft Dwellers - Cave Dwellers - Presence Dwellers.

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The Story of the Dove and keyhole

Let Your Innocence Return to You

I love the quote in an article I read by Joe Temple. He starts

his lesson out, with an intro to the first bird mentioned in scripture.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark

which he had made. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the

waters were dried up from off the earth. Also, he sent forth a dove from him, to see

if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest

for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were

on the face of the whole earth; then he put forth his hand, took her, and pulled her

in unto him into the ark and he stayed yet other seven days and again he sent forth the

dove out of the ark and the dove came into him in the evening and lo In her mouth

was an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

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Genesis 8:6-11

I love this story. It speaks to me about "letting your innocence return to you."

There was a promise in her mouth of restoration and a new beginning.

The dove was sent out, and when it came back, it had a word in its mouth -

all things NEW, New Creation, New Day, New Wine.

It also speaks of purity. Joe says in his article, "if you’ve seen the dove with the olive

leaf, any number of times as a symbol of peace, and generally that is the accepted

symbol, but more important than the accepted symbol of peace is the symbol

of purity, because that is what the Bible emphasizes - a purity that is emphasized by the dove."

There descended upon the lamb a star but upon the Lord rested a Dove, a pure Dove an undefiled Dove. 

There is no guile or sin in him.

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We are to be Doves that can not be defiled.

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Do you remember the baptismal scene, where Jesus came up from the waters of Jordan, in John 1:3?

I think John is saying that whomever you see abiding in no sin or guile, there will you see open heaven.

It is said, that there is a Jewish tradition that as the world did not know where

Noah’s Dove came from, and Noah himself did not, at last, know where

it went to - it returned not again unto him anymore- so the door would at last -open and the

blowing where it listed 'the Spirit of Messiah' would come forth, and abide upon the head of Messiah.

Certain it is that just as the dove that went forth from Noah’s ark found no rest for the sole of her foot, in all the corpse-filled waters, so the Dove of God, hovering over all humankind, found only one resting - place - the head and the heart of the Lamb. It was not a crown which descended upon the brows of our Lord, but a Dove: all that the Dove is of Love, and gentleness, and purity, the Lamb is.

(article "Internet moments with God's word.)

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My Dove Banner

I found my Dove of God, my cleft, my resting place, my tabernacle.

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The Dove emblem is a sign of purity for a reason. This is a clean bird. The turtle dove or young pigeon is a bird that has no guile, or toxin with it. The Dove has no talons it is defenseless and shy, sensitive. It looks straight ahead.

Behold or Hey,r I am sending you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless guileless, defenseless and gentle as doves.

Notice: "harmless as doves" A better word for harmless is innocent.

I want to add something here that must be said, remember the word innocent as doves: the context describes how his followers will be mistreated and put to death, sacrificing themselves for his sake. The idea would be then that his followers are to keep themselves in the right relationship with God all the while they are on a mission, despite the evil and malicious activity directed against them. They must remain without contamination and thus pure, suitable- sacrifice.

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In leading up to this word, the Lord had me remember years ago that I had asked him for a dove image for my banners. I asked for this at the beginning of 2004. It was then that I began playing around with silk fabrics. I didn't know what I was doing, for the most part, I learned a lot during those years. I kept my hand on the silk every day. You will develop a skill level if you don't give up.

In 2007 I began raised praise. The first image I received was an image I found from a book I checked out from the library.  I knew it didn’t look like most doves you see on the Internet, but I liked its purity and simplicity.

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It would be another few years before I caught a glimpse of the Dove of the Holy Spirit.  

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Vision

Let me explain the open vision I had. I was working on a few orders that day. I had been asking the Lord, with great enthusiasm, to show me MY DOVE, My Fair One. Then suddenly I saw a vision of a man draped in a white robe, (he looked like a monk) His arms were lifted slightly. The top of his head and arms were covered in this white robe.

I believe, I heard the Lord say: "Draw the outline of a banana, then after that draw wings on each side." 

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Traveling as Doves of Fire

I was asked to hold a workshop in Cocoa, beach Florida in the month of August 2015. As I settled in my seat, I began to have an open vision. 

I saw a gigantic volcano erupt over the city of Jackson, MS. I then remembered my daughter telling me that Jackson, MS sets on top of an in-active ancient volcano just under the dome in Jackson. At first, I was amazed and didn’t understand the vision.

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After I arrived at my destination, got to my hotel, and began to put things away, I decided to rest in a warm bath, and listen to my pod music.

It was funny because as I was there resting in this warm tub of water, reading an article on volcanoes and hurricanes, I began to hear the song: "Firework" play on my pod music.  

Here are the lyrics:

You don't have to feel like wasted space. You're original, cannot be replaced.
If you only knew what the future holds. After a hurricane comes a rainbow.

Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed. So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow. And when it's time you'll know.

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine. Just own the night like the 4th of July.

'Cause, baby, you're a firework. Come on, show 'em what you're worth.
Make 'em go, "oh, oh, oh". As you shoot across the sky.

Baby, you're a firework. Come on, let your colors burst.
Make 'em go, "oh, oh, oh". You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe.

Boom, boom, boom. Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon.
It's always been inside of you, you, you. And now it's time to let it through!!!

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I heard the Lord speak right there that he is going to send those that are in his perfect alignment (convergence), bring them out from their hidden places to other hidden places in the Spirit. In other words: God is going to make you a CARRIER DOVE for His Glory!

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He is asking you to put it on a stand. Are you willing to be placed on a stage or stand where he can use you, and shoot you out like a firework?

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God is going to begin to send out fireworks from one state to another state to ignite flaming hearts. Hungry people want to be a flame for Yeshua.

Be willing to be hurled out of God’s Holy Fiery Mountain, burning with smoke and shooting flames.

He wants to send you out of state into other states like a firework, like a shooting flame.

Be a volcanic flame of burning hot passion flowing and running over for Yeshiva.

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You’re a Fire Work!!

 

I spoke at Living Bread Church in Cocoa Beach that Sunday.

My friend Yadira told me that the word I had given that day really ministered to her. I felt the word was about "let your innocent return."

As I had traveled around Florida that week, my running theme had become "let your innocence return to you." Much like what happened to Noah, when the Dove returned with the Olive Branch, I began to see my innocence returning to me- I began to see I was a Carrier Dove.

 

I had this theme, run, throughout the 10 days I was in Florida. At first, I didn’t think much about it.  The Lord had told me years ago he had protected my innocence supernaturally. He told me He had given me a shield around my eyes to keep me from seeing things, words, attitudes, and people speaking against me or towards me because of the dance in church or banners.  He gave me Dove's eyes.

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 If you’ve been jaded by the ministry and can’t minister with innocence, ask God to return your Dove to you and fill you. He wants to return your innocence back to you. He is ready to use you and will stop at nothing to get you ready. Your innocence is very vital for you to be used in this End Time Revival. Protect your innocence. I felt the Lord say that many have been jaded by the ministry and are ministering out of hurt, not innocence.

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One of the members of that church, that Sunday, came up to me at the altar after the service was over. He told me that he saw something like a glowing light following me throughout the service. He said, "as you were speaking, I began to see a light glowing all around you. Then Jesus stood over you and poured oil on you and laid his hand on your head".

Wow! I later told him that the Lord gave me a word just the night before that I was a firework! I guess I was glowing!

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NO Guile

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On that next Wednesday, after I  arrived home, I was taking a walk in my neighborhood. As I was just about home I saw a morning dove land right in front of me. It was just a few steps away from me. I was surprised because doves usually land, and then fly away fast, but this one didn’t. It did end up flying away but when she lifted up, she flicked something, back behind her. I walked over to where she’d been and to my surprise, I saw that it was a feather. I took it home and knowing it was a sign of some sort, I looked up the meaning of feather. I didn’t connect it right away but when I did I knew God was speaking innocence once again.

One meaning of the Dove is...Innocence!! He is sending us out in His innocence- purity, without bitterness, no contamination!

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God wants to send you out like a firebrand, a fiery hot- firework- but as a  living firework (like it would be said of a volcano) they say that volcanoes are nature's fireworks.

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 Doves have no gallbladder... Carries no toxic buildup..."

Flee fornication...know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost?

1 Cor 6:18-19

Who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in his mouth.

1 Peter 2:22

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I found this article:

The first to speak of the dove was, as is only natural, the Egyptians, as early as the most ancient Hieroglyphic of Horapollon, and above its many other qualities, this animal was considered extremely pure, so much so that if there was a pestilence poisoning humans and things, the only ones immune were those who ate nothing but doves. Which out to have been obvious, seeing that the animal is the only one lacking a gall. Namely, the poison that all other animals carry, attached to the liver.

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Cave dwellers, Cleft dwellers

The Lord was showing me these things for a reason. The Dove image speaks a message and communicates a story to us as believers.

I knew the Lord was speaking to me about being IN him, understanding that he wanted me to tabernacle with him, in Him. Praying In, under liken to a shawl or tallit, or His Wing, getting in underneath his rest, His breast, abiding in Him, receiving my rest In Him.

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He was speaking to me to get IN his presence and dwell. Ephesians 6:18 "Praying all times IN the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints." Jude 20 says: "But you, dear friends, build yourselves up IN your most holy faith and pray IN the Holy Spirit." So what exactly does it mean to pray IN the Spirit? Remember the word I spoke about Noah?

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Noah sent forth FROM him the Dove, and then the Dove came into the ARK. Noah is like an image of the Father. Noah sent forth the dove. God sent forth his precious, pure SON.

The dove went from Noah. THE Dove, Jesus went forth from God. The dove was searching for his rest. Jesus is searching for his rest. He is seeking us, to rest in us.

Revelations 3:20 

 (paraphrased- hey or Behold or Here I am, Jesus is standing at the door and he is knocking. If anyone hears my voice or in other words -listens to me (my word) recognizing my voice, the voice of the  Shepherd, He then can and will come in you and abide. 

Our Pure Dove

He is Jesus!

Luke 4:1

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying and lo a voice from heaven said, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Luke 3:21

But unto you, that fear my name shall the SUN of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Malachi 4:2

And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.

Matthew 3:16

It's interesting that when Jesus came out of the Water he saw the heavens open to him. When Jesus went under the water to be baptized (a symbol of humility) the heavens opened. When Jesus went IN under then the heavens opened. When we get in under the water, the lamb, the tent, prayer, rest, when we abide in under, are covered by him, we receive, an opened heaven. We receive an opened heaven just as Jesus was given an opened heaven but only if we get IN under him.

God wants to abide with us. He wants us to rest with him. He wants to show us something in the secret place of intimacy. When we are in him abiding in him there is no guile in us, it has been removed. He makes us clean when we get in underneath him. We are in open heaven when we are IN him, resting IN him and the heavens are accessible to us.

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Little Tent

The tallit (prayer shawl) is now a prayer shawl or little tent because it can be worn over you like a little tent. Only men were obligated to wear them. Women could wear them if they wanted to. Psalms 61:4 "Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge. Under the shelter of your wings!"

It’s a closet of prayer! The Greek word for the closet is (Cameron) which means "an inner chamber, or secret room or bed chamber". The closeting of oneself in the covering of the Tallit prayer shawl was a symbolic separation from the world around the Jewish man. Consider number one "Behold, O Israel, the Lord our God is ONE". Behold also means I am or hey or I am the hand or behold the hand.

In Revelations 3:20 it says: Behold, or I am standing at the door or Hey, I am standing at the door...

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I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunken y wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. I sleep, but my heart waketh; it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew and my locks with the drops of the night. I have put off my coat: how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? My beloved put in his hand by the Hole (keyhole) of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the (Keyhole) lock.

Song of Solomon 5:1-5

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Here's a great story about the Keyhole -

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Keyhole, Door, Cave, Vault, Bow - speaks of anything curved or bent

Arc, keystone or cornerstone, access point, rainbow, maybe "wings"

I was looking up an article relating to keyholes. I found this one that blessed me. I read it late last night about 11:30 before going to bed. Just before falling to asleep, I prayed.

The secrets of the Lord are with those who fear HIM. And He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14

I feel like God showed me something very powerful about my destiny and yours.

I was praying in bed in regard to this scripture and fell asleep praying. As soon as I fell asleep I had a dream.

In the dream, I was in a very large beautiful home. I was there cleaning. There was a man there, a very powerful man. When I looked at him I knew who he was. This man was Russian President Vladimir Putin dressed in pajamas and a robe. We were both standing at the entrance of his bedroom. Then he said to me I have something to show you. I said to him, oh okay! Then he walked into his bedroom near his bed. Then he took off his robe and put it on the side of the bed. Then he said, sit down. Then he got in the bed and covered himself up with the heavy blanket to his chin. Then I stood over his feet because I didn't want to sit down on his bed. Then he said oh no! Then he rose up in the bed and reached his arm out to grab my hand and I jumped out of his way. He got out of bed and tried to pull the door closed because he hadn't closed it. I ran over to the door and slung it open! I ran out of his room. I said to him "I have something to give you." He followed me to the hallway not touching me, but following behind me. Without warning, I threw him on the floor on his back. I sat on top of him like one would do when you give CPR to someone. Then I said, "If you let me, I have something to give you". Then he looked at me with shock and with wide-opened eyes just staring at me very strongly. I said to him "If you would, I would like to pray for your heart because I know God has something he wants to give you and it will change you and transform you and you will never be the same man again. Can I lay my hands on you and pray for your heart? Then I saw my hand, my right hand touch his heart. He was absolutely still while I was talking to him and speaking to him about God. He receives what I was saying as I laid my hand over his heart. I could feel the power of God's Spirit go into him. It was like a key went into his heart, the chamber of his heart, and unlocked it.

 

The most interesting thing about this whole encounter was that just before going to

bed, I had read an article, "The Gospel through the Keyhole

by Echoes of Grace. In all, I had been asleep less than 30 minutes before I had this dream and woke up and wrote it down.

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The Gospel through the Keyhole

From: Echoes of Grace, From Born Again

Lock Heng, a young native of Malaya, was a member of the Penang Flying Club. When war came to the Malay Peninsula, he and other members of the Club were mobilized in an Auxiliary Flying Corps which operated against the Japanese. When Singapore fell to the Japs, these native airmen were sent back to their homes. But the Japanese intelligence department eventually led to their arrest and solitary imprisonment. Once in prison, it was not long before Lock Heng found that the man in the next cell was one of his old comrades. This neighbor soon devised a simple but highly efficient system of communication between the two. It consisted of tapping messages at the keyhole of the door separating the two cells—using Morse code. Arrangements were made to hold daily chats when no sentry was near.

One day Lock Heng's friend signaled to the effect that he was feeling depressed and did not want to talk. Now, it should be told, that although Lock Heng was a man of up-to-date interests, he was also a true Christian, so his coded reply to his "depressed" friend was: "If depressed pray to God."

Answer: "I don't know what you mean. How can I pray in this place to whom shall I pray?"

Lock Heng's Answer: "Pray to the God of heaven in the name of Jesus Christ. Just tell Him what you feel. He will understand."

Reply: "I do not know how. Please teach me to pray."

So the young Christian taught his friend a simple prayer. Then little by little, he tapped out with his fingers the key whole God's way of salvation. God did not shake the prison as He did in the days of Paul and Silas Acts, 16:26 "And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.", but by the same mighty power, he caused the light of the gospel to enter that poor prisoner's conscience and heart. And the day came when within those terrible prison walls he accepted Christ as his Savior. He had found Him through the keyhole!

In answer to many prayers, after some months, the release came. The day before their liberation a native preacher addressing his congregation used as his text the following verse: Joshua 3:5 "And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you." The keyhole speaks of (a narrow place of entry.)

We can pray through the keyhole, the small opening God makes for us, we all can work the works of Christ through that small opening. The translation in Latin of the keyhole is A small passage or opening in a cave, which is round above and narrow below. To sum it all up: Be willing to go through a narrow place of entry to get the message of Christ to those in need. We all must go through the narrow place of fire  (being rescued from sin to a place of deliverance (our deliverer our savior, our salvation- Jesus. ( We must make sure we go through the small opening (the narrow passage) ourselves so that we are not seen but he is.

Hidden here revealed there.  more on salvation:  https://www.raisedpraisebanners.com/color-meaning

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God is divinely leading us into his habitation. He wants to speak to us in the Secret Place of the stairs.

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance. Let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

Song of Solomon 2:14

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My prayer

In his habitation, there is an open heaven, a door set before us. His Billows roll over me, they escape me no more. I turn and He's there. I press my face against my pillow and He's there. His billows have found me. His waves of love crash over me. I ascend. My feet grip the ripples of his billows. They are like steps ascending upwards. I have no more strength in me to move, His love carries me now. His love takes my breath away. A place of rest and security if we will dwell there.

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In the secret place, God calls us up to be revealed there among the stars. We are invited to the courtrooms of heaven. We have gained access to the realms of his presence. When we are completely aligned and convergence has taken place we are aligned in his Spirit to go up and experience

the secrets of the Lord, the seven Spirits of God are revealed in all their glory. We know who we are and know what it is that we are destined to do on earth. We understand that the Spirit rests on us just like the Spirit rested on Jesus at the beginning of his early ministry. We see Jesus Immediately coming up out of the water; he saw the heavens opening and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him.

The Dove represents to me open heaven, access to the Father.