by Patricia Bellchambers
I saw a picture of an indigenous Australian woman standing alone barefoot in the red dust and dirt.
What drew my attention was that she was standing tall and looking me straight in the eye -maintaining eye contact.
She was dressed in an old ragged ill fitting European dress and cardigan which were worn and torn and stained from many years of use.
She had a look of confident determination and I sensed that she knew her own strength and ability, however, she also knew her “place”.
The Lord started to speak to me of dominion.
Throughout many decades of culture, tradition, generational curses and iniquity the Indigenous women of Australia have been forced to tolerate and bow to the dominion of man.
Their life has never been their own and they have endured many forms of horrendous abuse at the hands of many- both family and strangers.
The Indigenous women of Australia have been silenced, abused, disrespected, devalued and in many ways completely disregarded.
The Sovereign Lord declares “NO LONGER!”
“I will raise up these mighty warrior women and they will bow to neither man, culture, circumstance or ungodly authority,” says the Lord .
“They will bow low under MY hand and MY authority out of a true desire to give their all in order to gain true life.
From the dust and from amongst the trampled down and broken I will raise up Princesses, Warriors, Daughters, Heiresses -who will speak MY words to many women of many nations.
They will NOT be silenced and they WILL be raised up before (in the sight of) men. Their hardships will serve them well and they will war from a position of true peace such as they have never known before.
They will be robed with humility and clothed in MY love.”
I saw Indigenous women sitting despondently in the dust, bone weary and resigned to a future of little hope and no fulfilment. I saw dreams that God had long ago birthed in their hearts once burning bright now barely embers and almost all but completely extinguished.
These women were totally resigned to a future that mirrored their past.
Then the scene changed.
I saw life coming into dry bones just as in Ezekiel 37 and I heard these words resounding in the Spirit .
Ezekiel 37:5-6 “surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord “. (v9)”…..Thus says the Lord God: “come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live .”
And just as in verse 10 , I saw breath come in to these women who have been previously dead to the call of God on their lives- ” and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.”
Thank You Father for these incredibly precious women and the future that You have prepared for them, I speak FAITH, FAITH, FAITH into their hearts and spirits and I stand with them in the spirit to see Your word made manifest in their lives. In Jesus’ Name I pray, amen.
(Prophetic word given on 17 April 2011)
