The Time of Threshing

As I prayed for this blog entry over the week I saw the following:

I saw a very fruitful field and the harvesters were taking the wheat into the community Harvest House.  They are excited and happy that there has been a huge harvest and that God has blessed them with the fruit of their labors over the season.  As they are threshing the wheat and singing songs to keep rhythm, a horseman comes up to them with a message.  I could not hear the message, but it filled the room with a darkness and dread.  As this was happening, I was brought to a higher elevation and I saw many Harvest Houses in a panorama landscape.  I could see messengers going to each house and telling people of the same message.  I then saw people leaving the harvest houses and homes to go into a monolithic and dark city, which looked like Saruman's evil tower and workplace.  It had evil spirits in and throughout the city.  In fact, the messengers were herding the fearful people back to the city.  They were whipping them with hopeless words and taunts not with physical whips.  The messengers were from the city.

I then was brought back to the original Harvest House and saw the following scene like a movie:  the majority of the people left af ter hearing these words and starting running to get their families to go to the city. The rest of the people left in the harvesting room went to their knees and prayed to gather and to garner strength and grace from the Holy Spirit to carry on with the task at hand and not be discouraged by this message.  They then rose up and continued to work threshing the harvest to get the fruit out, encouraging each other and even laying hands on each other to keep pressing on.  With my spiritual eyes, I then saw angelic hosts coming alongside of them to finish the task.  I saw families coming from some homes going to the harvest houses to work with their fathers and sons.

I asked the Lord what this vision meant and so far this is what I have received:

1.  In these days of dread, the enemy has dispatched messengers of dread and hopelessness to the world and the Church.  The time of the Harvest is now and the enemy is threatened.  In fact, the harvest is so plentiful that we cannot do it ourselves but need others to help, both spiritually and in this world.  The safest place in the world is in His Will and placement.  Do not ever surrender and give in!  Press onward and upward!

2.  God is using these times and messages of hopelessness & dread to thresh those in the Church who will keep at the threshing floor, keep pressing into the Lord and finishing the task He has given us all. 

3.  It is those that first pray and seek God's Wisdom and Grace that will keep pressing through.

4.  We need to encourage each other and come alongside each other to help one another when called to the same field.  Bring your family into the harvest with you!  Train them and give them a vision of the field God has called you and see Him bring them into the harvest house.

5.  The time when the messages come is not on our timetable but we need to be prepared both spiritually and physically.  Be prepared at all times!

6.  It is not how we act everyday that really matters, but how we react to events and messages.  This shows how God has prepared us; how we have died to the world's messages; how we stand in His Truth and Word; how in our character we have given God space to work in and through situations to shape us into His image; how we have positioned ourselves in Jesus; and how we have managed our affairs according to the Word rather than conventional world wisdom.  Will we arise in the fear and admonition of the Lord?  Are we more than conquerors in Christ Jesus?

7.  Most importantly, have we died to iniquity positions? (Isaiah 14:13-14): being God for others - being the source to others around us; have we wanted to be worshipped by others rather than pointing them to worship the one and true God; and escaping reality by doing things that He has not called us to but what our flesh wants and desires.

God is using these times to clean us of sin and iniquity in our lives.  Make room for the Lord to work during this time.  Let Him by His Holy Spirit show you areas in your life where positions need to die - He should be the only one in authority.

Trust in God!

In traveling around the world (which I have circumnavigated the world twice in three weeks in the last month) and met with people, I have consistently found that those that have been impacted the least emotionally and spiritually are those that spend the most time with God.  I don't mean to sound hyper-spiritual, but it is those that spend time in the Word of God, time in prayer and also those that invite Jesus into their every day lives.  Bottom line, immersing themselves in the world but NOT of the world.  Sound familiar?  They are not impacted by what is going on around them, but they continue to stand on what God has told them to do and live.  I have known many of these people for many years, some over a decade, and their position in Christ is the same - consistently in Him.  Interesting, huh?  I am sure you know some of these saints that live a daily walk in Him.  It may be you!

What I have learned from them is that they trust God no matter what messages are bombarding them with, especially those from the media.  When people come to them for advice because they are islands of hope and light, it is inevitable that the conversations go back to getting back into God's will and plans.  To hold every thought captive in Christ!  To cast all fear and anxiety onto Him who has already borne the sins and iniquity of the world on the Cross.  To allow the Holy Spirit to fill you with His Wisdom and grace to submit your will to His completely.

Let's all turn to the Lord!  Allow the Holy Spirit to call out sin in our lives that need to be nailed to the Cross!  Let Him show you where you need to die.  "Die fast and die well," a friend said to me some years ago when I was confronted with a decision for Him or for myself. 

I will end with the following word - Jesus said: "Let not your hearts be troubled! Believe in God; believe also in me."  John 14:1

Kay Hiramine