We first ran into the Sabbath principle in 2013 when we were trying to sell our prior home in Alberta. We had disobeyed God’s instruction to sell immediately in a collapsing market, thinking if we just waited a little longer, the market would recover. It didn’t result in being stuck carrying 2 mortgages during the economic and housing market crash of 2008. It was a cursed home on so many fronts, some due to our own sin, and some due to regional strongholds. The LORD gave me instruction that we were forbidden to show the house for sale on the Sabbath and to tithe on the sale of the house to missionaries. At the time, we were still blinded by a spirit of religion and thought Sabbath was Sunday. With quaking knees, we stepped forward in obedience to the best of our understanding at the time to tell our realtor she was forbidden from working for us on Sabbath, which she too thought was Sunday. She freaked out because Sunday was the most common open house day and would drastically reduce our customer viewing. We held out ground telling her that we must obey God if we’re going to get God’s results. The owner that needs to buy that house will show up to view the house on a day other than Sunday. During that time window, CRA called us with a vicious threat I now recognize as a Jezebel witchcraft attack accusing us of tax evasion / fraud and informing us we would be hauled off to jail with a fine of $80,000. We weren’t even going to clear the mortgage in this collapsed housing market and now are our children going to be parentless??? How would we pay the fine if we were in jail??? Yet God kept challenging us – would we trust and obey Him with tithing on the sale of the house, or would we cower to the fear of man? Sure enough, new owners saw it on a Tuesday and needed to move in ASAP on Nov 1, 2013, meaning we didn’t have to carry the mortgage for an additional 90 day closing.
The tithe was brought to a local church where we asked how to give it to the missionaries. The elders’ eyeballs were spinning green as they saw the amount, demanding THEY got to decide what to do with the funds. We discovered they had already eliminated their missionary budget so the church staff could have a raise. Now we know WHY God wanted the funds to go to missionaries! God had given us clear instruction of HOW to give the funds, so we went to the senior pastor directly. He blew up in anger when we refused to budge from God’s requirements and told us if we were going to be so irrational and controlling, go give the money DIRECTLY to the missionaries, outside of the churches charitable status that would have given us our government charitable tax receipt (*max 30%). Done! At the time, this seemed like another financial blow as our Pharaoh punished us further, but it was setting us up to receive GOD’S rewards that don’t have the 30% limitation! What LOOKED like a financial devouring initially was actually a set-up for provision in the future!
Our mortgage was upside down after the sale and tithe, so we had to flip the remaining balance owing into a line of credit at a higher interest rate but at least we had the freedom to pay it off as fast as we were able. The threat still hung in the air of being sent to jail, but we clung to the belief that if we obeyed God’s instructions to the letter, somehow, He would give us the victory. Sure enough, come tax time we received an apology letter from CRA informing us there had been a misunderstanding. Not only did we NOT owe $80,000, but THEY owed US $16,000! We were 100% debt free by April 2014!
There was another significant timer in this story that I believe had a lot to do with the sale being successful. The day before on Oct 31st, 2013, we had attended a Be in Health Deliverance meeting, where we were lead through self-deliverance of 9 demons for me, and an unknown number for my husband as we cut off personal sin and generational iniquities such as Rebellion, Witchcraft (Freemasonry!), Death, Unloving, Abandonment (of God’s laws & physical abandonment), Rejection, Fear, Anger, and Bitterness. We walked with a visibly autistic daughter and walked out with a completely whole, independently walking, talking daughter. All our family members manifested less obvious healings that day, also. By November 1st, we were mortgage free, our daughter’s severe allergies were proven healed, and we could finally BREATHE again!
Although we had gained a rudimentary head knowledge of Sabbath, we still didn’t UNDERSTAND nor apply it with WISDOM, resulting in an open door for devouring. The devouring was “normal” not only to us but everyone else we knew so it didn’t attract any attention. Cars breaking down all the time, annoying house repairs, dryers breaking after only a year of use, health issues that required time off work, missing sales on needed items, ignorance of access to resources. Normal, right? Normal, until you realize that life doesn’t HAVE to be like that!
The next layer of obedience came in 2016 when God dealt with me about honoring Sabbath as a casual shift nurse. By that point of only working evenings and weekends, it would have meant cutting my income in half. It was a struggle due to the generational stronghold of the Fear of Lack and Striving. We felt like we were still going backwards financially despite being debt free as we were trying to keep our heads above water and being hit on every side. As fear robbed our sound minds, God asking us to STOP WORKING on the Sabbath seemed so silly in our carnal thinking…it was the opposite of what our pastors, families, and society taught! Aren’t we supposed to be responsible to pay our stupid tax and working as hard as possible (*Striving!)??? (*reference to Dave Ramsey’s “Stupid Tax” principle)
Obedience is better than sacrifice as we soon learned! We finally obeyed to notify work of my new schedule restrictions. Within a very short period, my husband received favor increasing our monthly income once again to compensate for the loss of provision on my end. How often does our lack of understanding put a padlock on OUR side of God’s window of blessings?
The next obedience step came very shortly afterward when I was pregnant with #4. God warned me to “sail out of port” and “burn my bridges.” Give up my nursing license for where He was going to take me would hurt so much, I’d go running back to “the easy life.” Not exactly the most exciting prophetic word to receive, but on reflection I can see the wisdom in His instruction of giving up the little in order to receive the abundance! For someone whose paycheck and career had truly become an identity idol in my life, that was a huge sacrifice to lay on the altar.
An external timer confirmation came as my midwives warned I needed to stop working because I was showing signs of pregnancy complications, but I was too stubborn to “take the easy road out.” A curse landed on my rebellion, and I was left unable to walk without assistance. I humbly repented, obeyed my midwives (and God) and submitted to the sick leave since I really had no choice at that point. The day I handed in my medical papers, I was notified my workplace had been just slapped with a lawsuit that very day, impacting everyone who worked there. However, because my sick leave papers had been dated BEFORE the lawsuit, the lawsuit couldn’t touch me.
This is the power and preservation of honoring the Sabbath and obeying the LORD’s voice, even if my outward obedience was with an un-submissive heart that lacked understanding! God will meet us where we’re at and walk us into maturity as fast or slow as we’ll let Him. I could have gotten bitter at my spanking that resulted in me being FORCED into sick leave, or I could have rejoiced that God in His love was giving me a kick in the butt to get across the finished line before devouring could land. I think you can tell which of those options my immaturity at the time chosen.
I continued to receive sick pay, and maternity pay with top-up benefits while others were being devoured. When I obeyed by submitting my resignation after mat leave and cancelling my nursing license, my husband suddenly got a 14% raise! We began receiving baby bonus that we never qualified for in the past as we now had 5 dependents, dropping my husband’s net income to finally qualify. We received favor with our utility bills as my husband received instructions to boldly ask for the new customer promotions or threaten to leave to take the competition’s bonuses. His obedience unlocked an even LOWER rate than what new customers were given! Our money stretched everywhere else, and food multiplied on our table. Our overflow at the end of the month went UP despite quitting my nursing job of $54/hr. I’m embarrassed how long it took for me to wake up to the fact that God’s ways are not man’s ways!
During COVID when many churches were locked down anyway, the LORD gave us instructions to turn our basement into “David’s Cave”, first through zoom until my micro preemie turned one and we no longer had medical staff coming to our home to check on her instead of exposing her to the hospital, then in our home on the Sabbath. When the lockdowns were over and people could return to the church system, we were instructed NOT to return but to carry on with our small group of believers. We were now in the Decade of Difference and would need to remain walking in God’s commandments if we were going to make it through to the end.
An interesting observation was that for those that continued to honor the Sabbath WITH understanding, they received favor to keep their jobs despite remaining un-vaxxed while others were losing their jobs or businesses regardless of their vax status. We had overflows financially to help families that were drowning financially as their finances had no covenantal covering of protection on them. Some listened to shift into obedience. Some didn’t, choosing instead to obey their pastors and family traditions instead of God’s word. The financial blessings or consequences between the two groups was obvious to those who knew what to look for.
Moving forward, we must decide that YOU are going to possess God’s Promise Land for your life and TRUST you will get victory when you battle HIS way. The previous post about First Fruits shows the devastating consequences when Achan thought he could hide his rebellion from The God Who Sees. For Canada specifically to possess her Promised Land, it will require honoring God’s commandments to step into the prophecy that Canada’s next PM [after Trudeau] would be a righteous man that would bless Israel and shift Canada’s economy back into receiving God’s blessings. Obeying God’s commandments will be required for Canada to release the healing leaves (*Torah / God’s commandments) to the nations that never wither or fade because they’re tapped into the Living Streams of Holy Spirit, and become a breadbasket nation during a season of world famine (*Spiritual famine? Literal famine? I do not know.) Canada is to first become the Crown of Glory, then America the head, then Mexico the beard, which requires Canada as a nation to fear the LORD evidenced by obeying His commandments. There are many other prophetic words over Canada that I don’t recall in detail but upon hearing them, I noticed they continued with the same theme of the Fear of the LORD. The FRINGE of Canada must become mainstream and the mainstream become fringe. Biblically, that fringe represented the Law that we were to look upon so we don’t go a whoring after other gods – one of them being Mammon.
Numbers 15:16, 38-41 KJV – 16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you…. 38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders (*kanaph) of their garments (*of righteousness) throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them ; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. 41 I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.
Isaiah 62:2-4 KJV– 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. 3 Thou shalt also be a CROWN OF GLORY in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married (*in covenant with Jehovah).
Malachi 3:16-18 KJV – 16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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