Post by Edith Ferguson on Oct 26, 2006 12:25:30 GMT -5
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Time To Be Planted
by Simantov Allalouf
Jerusalem, Israel
uziel16@netvision.net.il
www.wordfromyerushalaim.com
About the middle of 1993 one day, I was sitting in my living room (in Toronto at the time), listening to a worship tape, and I suddenly saw a field of sunflowers, with all the flowers in full bloom. And with a majestic beauty they were all facing the sun. Then as if my eyes were like a zoom camera, my sight began to zoom in on one particular flower and even closer to one particular seed. And as I looked I realized the seed had eyes and a mouth, and I immediately understood this seed represented me. As I understood this, the sun began to fade and it seemed it was harvest time. Without seeing anything, I began to understand that the seeds were harvested, and sent off to be processed in a far off oven. And a small amount of these seeds were placed in what appeared to be an old wooden desk drawer, in a room that was rarely used. And there these seeds stayed for a long time. During this time of not seeing but understanding, I began to see again, and I saw the drawer open just a crack. As I looked in I saw the seeds, and realized that one of them had eyes and mouth ;and knew immediately it was me.
Just as I understood this, the drawer began to open and a massive hand reached in, and took a handful of the seeds out and I was one of them. The picture disappeared, and I knew I was about to be planted. That was back in 1993, I now live in the country of my birth Israel, and just beginning to understand, that as I surrender to the planting of the Lord He will ultimately receive some glory from my planting.
Today, October 17/06 it is as if the Lord has given me greater revelation and understanding of the meaning of this vision, now thirteen years old. Today I began to understand that when I came to faith Romans 6:2-3 took place, that when I was baptised into Messiah's death I died to the sin nature. But that was only the beginning of this life in Messiah. Paul said that he "dies daily" (1 Corinthians 15:31), what does he mean he dies daily? Obviously Paul is not talking about dying to "the sin nature" here, but in fact like a seed that falls into the ground and dies(daily to self) he is talking about dying to all of who he was and is, so that then there is much fruit produced. (John 12:24-25). I feel what the Lord is revealing to me today is that He desires that we be planted by His hand into the ground of this world, that we die to this world in which we live so that all of who we aspire to be and aspire to want would die. That when we are in that place of reckoning ourselves dead as a seed planted never to be seen or heard from again. Then the seed which the Lord has in each one of us can begin break forth and sprout life, His life. And out of this new life which is bound up in the person of Yeshua the Messiah we will begin to bear fruit for others to come eat of, for others to come gain life from. I began to understand today that a plant or a tree which bears fruit does not consume its own fruit, but in fact bears it for another. I remember a preacher once saying "that we the body of Messiah are the only organization that exists for the benefit of its none members."
A Planting of the Lord
As I contemplated these things the Lord was showing me today, I was convicted of the reality that I do not live with this truth active in me. I see my sinfulness in wanting to produce fruit for my own consumption. When in fact I am not my own, but have been purchased with a price, and my master has need of my fruit to feed those who are being brought into His kingdom. He has called each one of us to be like His Son Yeshua laying down our lives, so that others may be fed with the bread from heaven which is Yeshua the living bread of life. I see now that unless we surrender our lives and count our life as lost we cannot be as a seed in the ground dead. And "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit" And the Lord is saying to me and to all of you who are reading this article today. Examine yourself and see if you have truly allowed the Lord to make you His planting, (Isaiah 61:1-3). For it is out of this planting that the Lord will be able "to give unto them (the lost) beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
So today the Lord would challenge each one of us by this word of knowledge, and allow Him to make of your life the planting of the LORD in your life. That He may bring others to come and eat of the fruit of His Holy Spirit alive in each of us. For the Holy Spirit was sent to bring Glory to the Son, whom in turn brings Glory to the Father in heaven. May we be the manifest sons of God in this season.
source: www.etpv.org
Time To Be Planted
by Simantov Allalouf
Jerusalem, Israel
uziel16@netvision.net.il
www.wordfromyerushalaim.com
About the middle of 1993 one day, I was sitting in my living room (in Toronto at the time), listening to a worship tape, and I suddenly saw a field of sunflowers, with all the flowers in full bloom. And with a majestic beauty they were all facing the sun. Then as if my eyes were like a zoom camera, my sight began to zoom in on one particular flower and even closer to one particular seed. And as I looked I realized the seed had eyes and a mouth, and I immediately understood this seed represented me. As I understood this, the sun began to fade and it seemed it was harvest time. Without seeing anything, I began to understand that the seeds were harvested, and sent off to be processed in a far off oven. And a small amount of these seeds were placed in what appeared to be an old wooden desk drawer, in a room that was rarely used. And there these seeds stayed for a long time. During this time of not seeing but understanding, I began to see again, and I saw the drawer open just a crack. As I looked in I saw the seeds, and realized that one of them had eyes and mouth ;and knew immediately it was me.
Just as I understood this, the drawer began to open and a massive hand reached in, and took a handful of the seeds out and I was one of them. The picture disappeared, and I knew I was about to be planted. That was back in 1993, I now live in the country of my birth Israel, and just beginning to understand, that as I surrender to the planting of the Lord He will ultimately receive some glory from my planting.
Today, October 17/06 it is as if the Lord has given me greater revelation and understanding of the meaning of this vision, now thirteen years old. Today I began to understand that when I came to faith Romans 6:2-3 took place, that when I was baptised into Messiah's death I died to the sin nature. But that was only the beginning of this life in Messiah. Paul said that he "dies daily" (1 Corinthians 15:31), what does he mean he dies daily? Obviously Paul is not talking about dying to "the sin nature" here, but in fact like a seed that falls into the ground and dies(daily to self) he is talking about dying to all of who he was and is, so that then there is much fruit produced. (John 12:24-25). I feel what the Lord is revealing to me today is that He desires that we be planted by His hand into the ground of this world, that we die to this world in which we live so that all of who we aspire to be and aspire to want would die. That when we are in that place of reckoning ourselves dead as a seed planted never to be seen or heard from again. Then the seed which the Lord has in each one of us can begin break forth and sprout life, His life. And out of this new life which is bound up in the person of Yeshua the Messiah we will begin to bear fruit for others to come eat of, for others to come gain life from. I began to understand today that a plant or a tree which bears fruit does not consume its own fruit, but in fact bears it for another. I remember a preacher once saying "that we the body of Messiah are the only organization that exists for the benefit of its none members."
A Planting of the Lord
As I contemplated these things the Lord was showing me today, I was convicted of the reality that I do not live with this truth active in me. I see my sinfulness in wanting to produce fruit for my own consumption. When in fact I am not my own, but have been purchased with a price, and my master has need of my fruit to feed those who are being brought into His kingdom. He has called each one of us to be like His Son Yeshua laying down our lives, so that others may be fed with the bread from heaven which is Yeshua the living bread of life. I see now that unless we surrender our lives and count our life as lost we cannot be as a seed in the ground dead. And "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit" And the Lord is saying to me and to all of you who are reading this article today. Examine yourself and see if you have truly allowed the Lord to make you His planting, (Isaiah 61:1-3). For it is out of this planting that the Lord will be able "to give unto them (the lost) beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
So today the Lord would challenge each one of us by this word of knowledge, and allow Him to make of your life the planting of the LORD in your life. That He may bring others to come and eat of the fruit of His Holy Spirit alive in each of us. For the Holy Spirit was sent to bring Glory to the Son, whom in turn brings Glory to the Father in heaven. May we be the manifest sons of God in this season.
source: www.etpv.org