God wants you fat for a testimony
to His goodness and how to watch out for the Philistines, they're after your
harvest.
I was on a plane and started to
fall asleep. I had a very strange vision!
I saw a hand reaching into my heart and when the hand withdrew it held a
bunch of fat.
Now wait a minute before you get
to thinking I've lost it. The fat was GOOD- it was bright white and in the
middle of the fat was a large key. It took me by surprise so I spent a couple
of hours trying to figure it out. The Holy Spirit gave me some scriptures.
This move of God that is coming
is to demonstrate the goodness of God in the land of the living. Proverbs 11:25 says, "The liberal soul shall be made FAT. He that waters
shall be watered himself." Psalm 92:13-14 says, "Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall
flourish (or get fat) in the courts of our God. They shall bring forth fruit in
old age; they shall be FAT AND FLOURISHING." And Listen to
this- this is the main scripture the Lord gave me. Nehemiah 9:24-25, "The children went in and possessed the land
(more about that below) and they took strong
cities and a FAT land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged,
vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance, so they did eat and
were filled, and became FAT, and delighted themselves in His great
goodness."
God gets glory from your testimony
to His great goodness. So there - you
have to be blessed. You have to live in the goodness of God and delight
yourself in Him and in His wonderful goodness in your life. You are His
demonstration. You are His sign and wonder. You are God's sign -to make people
wonder. Your neighbors should be saying, "What is it with those people,
they are so blessed?" The scripture says, "The
goodness of God....leads to repentance." (Romans 2:4) Not
beating people over the head.
When you are out and about and
people ask you "How are you doing?"
Respond like this, instead of saying, "I'm ok," say, "I
am so blessed I don't know what to do with myself." I assure it will get attention.
There is coming a powerful move
of God, like Niagara Falls. It is called GREAT GRACE. A true revelation of the grace of God and
what that means, will change your life more than any other thing. The church is
so geared to "trying" and "striving." It's yielding, not trying. Trying can be very
trying. God's grace is still on America. Why? Because He loves YOU and guess
what? He listens to you. He has inclined His ear toward you.
God loves YOU and He is moved by
your prayers and petitions. He loves to grant your prayers. America is still
blessed because of the church and the faithfulness of thousands and thousands
of Christians.
Many "words" have come
to bring judgment. Well God is the Judge, not you or I. How would you feel if
you faithfully prayed your heart out, as many Christians have been doing, only
to be met with, "Well it's not enough, God is about to annihilate
America." No, No, you are His
friend. For those who have prayed and interceded, let me tell you God
listened. He heard. He blessed, and
what's more He going to bless some more.
His Goodness has to be seen by
those around you. He shed His love abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost.
"Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ." If people don't have grace
they will not be able to receive truth. The "truth" will beat them up
instead of liberating them.
So many of God's people are due for
a Harvest. You have planted and sown. Given and given and given again. Not just
in finances but in ministry, in love, in compassion. In serving and in
praying. He promised a harvest - your
harvest. But I tell you there are some Philistines waiting to steal your
harvest. The Philistines were great at doing that. They would hang around after the battle and
see if there were any harvest fields to rip off.
So now for the 2nd part: Your
harvest is due.
Defending Your Field and Keeping the
Harvest
GRRRRRRR FRUSTRATION!! Have you
ever felt like that? Things looked promising.
It looked like some good things were happening. All your sowing and
believing were about to bear fruit, when suddenly, boom, it was gone. Disappointment, frustration. You don't have
the energy to start again or to fight anymore. Well one thing; if you can't see
the enemy, you can't fight him.
If you don't discern his tactics
you will not see him coming. When God talked to the Children of Israel about
going into the promised land, God told them there was an enemy there, they had
to be prepared to fight for their inheritance.
Bob Jones said a while ago, "It's time to contend for what He
promised."
Then God said some interesting
things about dealing with these "ites." In Deut 7:2 ".....you shall
utterly destroy them.....make no covenant with them and SHOW NO MERCY TO
THEM." Many Christians treat their
"ites" like pets. The Hittites, (which means "terror" by
the way, TERROR-ITES) caused a lot of fear. We get used to fear don't we? But
the Bible says it is a sin. It's putting
your faith in something negative instead of in the power of God. You have to
declare war on your fear - SHOW NO MERCY to those things which would rob you
and rip you off of your inheritance.
Fear can stop you moving on
because moving on requires changes and leaving your comfort zone. The promise
is to you and your children. The goodness of God is your inheritance. Eternal
life (God's goodness forever and ever) also includes all the blessings of
Deuteronomy 7. Health, fruitfulness and victory, (including finances).
But like the lady at the back of
the crowd, you have to push through and POSSESS THE LAND - not any old land -
YOUR LAND. The land that God has
promised you. In verse 21 it commands us, "Not to be afraid of them (those
"ites"). This little lady at
the back of the crowd had a need, quite a big one apparently. She didn't just
stand there and say, "Well God knows where I live if He wants to bless
me." No, she got a vision of where her help came from and she pushed
through that crowd to possess what she saw.
What has God shown you? What has
He said to you that you haven't yet received? A prophetic word? A vision?
A dream?"
Some of you have sown and sown
and prayed and been faithful. You are due for a harvest in your life, in your
ministry, in your family, in your finances. I want to tell you there is an
enemy who wants to steal your harvest. In 2 Samuel 23:11 it talks about Shamah.
Shamah had just been with Eleazar and had defeated the Philistines in a
battle. The rest of the Israelites fled
from the Philistines. They had enough. But there was a piece of ground, a field
full of lentils and the Philistines decided they wanted that harvest of
Lentils.
The Philistines had a habit of
reaping other people's harvest. Shamah didn't run away though, it says that he
stood in the middle of the field and defended the field of Lentils. With a
great army? No, by himself! God gave him
great victory. Well you and I both know that there is no way that one man can
ward off a troop of Philistines.
When Shamah made a stand and said
"NO" to those thieves - God showed up and defeated them. At another
time, Eleazor (one of David's 3 mighty men) defended a field of Barley. The
others had fled, but Eleazar said, "NO," when the Philistines came
after the harvest. It says that the,
"Lord saved them (the 3 mighty's) by a great deliverance." So, what are you going to do about your
harvest? Are you going to allow some Philistines to rip you off? Or are you going to make a stand and defend
your harvest? It's harvest time - its harvest time.
Two Women
I have some good friends in
Florida. The older woman, Anita got radically saved and filled with the spirit.
Her daughter, Jill, was also radically saved. Anita was on fire for God and her
husband didn't like it at all. He didn't like her to talk about Jesus, he
didn't like her to give. He didn't like Jesus at all, nor His people. The
husband did have money but he didn't like Anita giving it to Christians. So, he
took all the money out of their accounts and then divorced Anita, leaving her
with nothing.
The lawyer said, "There's
nothing we can do because the judge said she was to sign an agreement and sell
the house at about $200,000.00 less than its value, and her husband would have
all the money and she would have nothing.
Jill yelled at the devil and
said, "NO " we are not doing this. Everyone was against Anita. The
judge, her husband's lawyer, the realtor and her own lawyer wanted to give up.
Anita wanted to give up too, but Jill yelled at the devil and said,
"'NO." Well of course, a lot
more things happened that were far worse than this, but Anita got another
lawyer who was at least willing to fight. But still nothing changed, no one
would budge. The Judge stuck by his ruling that she would lose the house and
have nothing at all. The lawyer forced her to sign the papers to sell the
house, even though she was crying and saying she would not.
The lawyer told her the sheriff
would come and lock the door and she would be out on the street with no
furniture or anything. The lawyer told her she would be held in contempt of
court and be put in jail. They made Anita afraid. And Jill who was there also,
eight months pregnant, went into labor and was rushed to the hospital. The baby
was delivered by C-Section and put on life support and had to have a
brace. Anita went to the hospital later
to see the baby, she said it was the worst day of her life. She wanted to give
up, but Jill yelled from the hospital bed and said, "NO, We will not give
in, we will stay focused," and she prayed for Anita.
There were many more challenges
until the final court day. When the final court day came, everyone was against
Anita. Jill was outside in the street, praying in tongues. They had found
speaking in tongues and praying over the seats in the court room. So they put
her out. She was walking up and down the street yelling at the devil and
saying, "NO" at the top of her voice.
Suddenly Jill began to weep,
although she didn't feel like weeping. Inside the court room Anita's husband's
lawyer was going through the checks and demanding to know why Anita she had
given money to various ministries. But every time she tried to answer, the
lawyer cut her off. Suddenly Anita began to weep. She didn't feel like weeping,
She was getting mad and frustrated with the lawyer who was hassling her. But
suddenly tears came as Jill was praying outside in the street. They just began
to fall down her cheeks.
Then judge held up his hand and
told everyone to be quiet. He said no one was to speak or interrupt Anita. He
said to Anita " Say whatever it is you want to say,"
So for about 40 minutes Anita got
to give her testimony. Uninterrupted. She told of how she was saved, how she
was baptized in the Holy Spirit. How she and Jill came with me to Ireland with
me and saw angels. She said the Angels would tell them what to do and show them
what was happening in the Spirit. She told why she gave money, she told of how
even from the money they borrowed to pay the lawyer, they took the first part
of the loan to pay for a well to be dug in Africa.
Anita said she didn't stop to
think what she was saying- the Holy Spirit took over and words just rolled out
of her mouth. Conclusion: The judge overruled his own ruling and gave the house
and all the furniture and the Mercedes to Anita, with all kinds of other
blessings. Anita's lawyer said. "Well I guess your Angels came through for
you, I've never known this to happen."
Do you know what else the Judge
said in the courtroom? "Does anyone want to say anything?" Anita's lawyer walked over to the husband's lawyer
(both Jewish men), and said, "You had better be careful because Jesus
might be the Messiah."
Anita and Jill stood against the
Philistine spirit and defended Anita's field against all odds.
God got glory even among the
opposition. Everyone saw God move. Anita's ex-husband called and said he had
bought a Bible and was going to church. God's great goodness is your
inheritance. It is not anything you can earn.
Jesus pre-qualified you on that
cross. You can't un-qualify from something you never qualified for, can you?
The enemy of your soul will have you believe a lie.
Ask the Holy Spirit to show you
what Jesus has really accomplished for you on that cross. Ask the Holy Spirit
to reveal to you what is yours because of the resurrection. The people outside
the church most often aren't interested in the church because they have a
negative view of Christians and their God. The word the Lord gave me this last
weekend was, "Keep declaring the
goodness of God, it is the key to unlock more of this move of God."
Sometimes God's people come out
of church looking like they ate lemons. I would rather see them laughing. I
think God would too. He looks at His enemies and laughs in the heavenlies you
know. Some people think they are "too mature" now to simply enjoy the
Lord. What a shame. He doesn't think like that. He loves you to love Him and
enjoy His presence. Your first calling. Your ministry must come out of that.
Balek took Baalam, the prophet,
to curse the children of Israel. Baalam turned to Balek and said, "I have received commandment to bless, for He has
blessed and I cannot reverse it." (Numbers
23:20) You cannot reverse the
blessing, it is already decreed by Calvary.
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