The Honey Recipe for Defeating the Negative
I’m not making a dessert nor recommending that anyone eat honey. As a matter of fact, as someone who has reversed Type 2 diabetes, I do not consume honey as it raises blood glucose! Are you curious? Read on!
A few weeks ago, I was at church lifting prayer requests to the Lord quietly in my seat as the service unfolded. I wasn’t actively thinking of specific people or situations; their faces simply entered my mind as if the Lord was showing me that they were in the forefront of His mind, and I was partnering in agreement. At church my focus is usually on the soundboard, adjusting sliders and knobs to keep the mix intact. But in between the sound tasks, the faces flitted in my mind.
Suddenly, in that holy moment, a memory of long ago surfaced. An unpleasant one at that! The prayer and faces faded abruptly, replaced by the harsh, accusing voice of the enemy, magnified and piercing as if on a megaphone. And a second later, not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, He dawned a truth I had never heard explained before.
“Samson killed a lion and from the carcass came honey. (Judges 14: 8-9). What usually comes from a carcass? Is it not worms and stench and decay and rot? That situation that you have recalled no longer has an ability to bring pain or regret because from it you will scoop up honey.”
I felt my spirit buzz, as if electricity was powering my mind, soul and body.
No more will the past enslave me to regret. No more will that memory condemn me.
Silently I expelled the negative and pronounced victory with phrases like “Honey in the ________. Honey for _____________” filling in the blanks with an event or person’s name.
I continued to ponder on honey every day, all week, into the new month. Now, while I don’t eat honey, I use it for beautification, making facial masks by adding turmeric to it, a recipe my niece taught me years ago.
Honey is coveted. They are many types and flavours of honey. It is eaten in palaces and sold in the local grocery store. Honey has healing properties and is used in many medicines.
Samson ate literal honey from a source that was dead. It was unexpected and frowned upon to eat from a dead animal. Samson shared the delicious honey with his parents, and they enjoyed it too. I ascribe the symbolism of honey rather than the literal, finding wisdom, contentment, peace and victory in what is dead and done.
Can I encourage you to dig into the trauma and guilt of the past, the shame and pain of the present and scoop out honey? Speak what God says of you – that you are forgiven and redeemed, you are the apple of His eye, you are His beloved and He delights in you, He remembers that you are dust and waits for you to turn back to Him when you make a mistake.
Speak the Word of God over your children and loved ones. Speak honey over those who wish you ill and watch them turn to Christ through your gentle and gracious nature.
And like the cleansing blood of Jesus, honey has no expiry date. Apply it whenever you wish, as many times as needed and watch yourself bloom.
(Read more on honey by the Mayo Clinic here on the benefits of honey.)
JUDGES 14:5-9 (NLT)
5As Samson and his parents were going down to Timnah, a young lion suddenly attacked Samson near the vineyards of Timnah. 6 At that moment the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he ripped the lion’s jaws apart with his bare hands. He did it as easily as if it were a young goat. But he didn’t tell his father or mother about it. 7 When Samson arrived in Timnah, he talked with the woman and was very pleased with her.
8 Later, when he returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to look at the carcass of the lion. And he found that a swarm of bees had made some honey in the carcass.9 He scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate it along the way. He also gave some to his father and mother, and they ate it. But he didn’t tell them he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.