How eatable are we?

No, I haven’t completely lost my mind and turned cannibalistic on people. This is actually what the Scripture tells us to be to this world.

“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither – whatever they do prospers”. Psalm 1:1-3

David was speaking about the Law that God gave Moses on Mount Zion, the ten commandments. However Paul is very clear that in the new Testament we don’t fall under the law anymore…we have been delivered from it by the blood of Jesus.  This can be very confusing for us. We have to behave good, yet it does not matter because grace has us covert. Jesus explains that the main commandments are to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself. In John He actually gives us the new command: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35

“If you love Me, keep My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. (…)” John 14:15-17a

This is an introduction to something God is working in my spirit for a week or two now. Yesterday, after I (and some other members of my church) participated and received a cross of ashes on my head at the Ash Wednesday in the Catholic church, revelations started pouring in. Afterwards I rushed home to soak in it and try to make sense of it all. It all started with Ezekiel 47:1-12. Ezekiel describes the water coming from the Throne Room from heaven. As it is multiplying it increases in strength and power. However, what God pointed me at was that only when it touched the Dead Sea he starts talking about how it is turning it into living & sweet water.

What I love about the Catholic church is that they understand that we are talking and walking with a Holy God. They have eyes for details and don’t take anything of God for granted. They are aware of our sinful nature's and at the same time view it with so much love and compassion. As I was receiving these words filled with Grace and Mercy, I asked God why there is not more power released over to the people hearing it. (By the way, not only in the Catholic church, the entire Body of Christ.) Why do we not see more of it released into the world. The walls were covert with holiness, many angels present and the Throne Room in heaven was completely zoomed in and participating in the whole service.

I felt God saying that what we, as the Body of Christ, are missing is the flow from the Holy Spirit. I see this as the Christian walk with God. It is a process with the Holy Spirit and our relationship with God  that in turn will become more and growing in power. It is when it touches the Dead Sea, where Ezekiel sais that it turns into sweet water that actually brings life into the water. The Dead Sea consists of so much salt, that life is just impossible. This we can view as being the world that has not received Christ yet and is cut off the Life support from Heaven. Or people with terrible wounding or addictions and covert with depression and darkness…a hopeless case. However, I also have to think about the scriptures where Jesus tells us that we are the salt on the earth. We bring flavor to this world. However, the Dead Sea has no life, because there is just too much salt. I personally consider the scribes and Pharisees type of Christians as forming a Dead Sea as well. They adopted such a harsh way of carrying out the gospel, with no Mercy or Grace and no relationship with the Living God, that the option of life is pushed out…too much salt. There is condemnation and too much own insight. Doom and gloom talk that brings fear or hopelessness into the lives…

“But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” John 16:13-15

In the book ‘Keys to the Bible’, David Pawson explains that the whole vision of Ezekiel 47 is a dream that offers people hope, that in the future it will get better. I believe that we are entering into a time where this is actually coming to pass. I believe that we are going to see the Grace and Glory manifested in such a way, this flow will enter into the deathliest of Seas to turn it back to Life.

And yes, there will be swamps and marshes that not become wholesome for animal life; they shall [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt and given over to it. Ezekiel 47:11.

It is my prayer that you and I will taste the fullness of what God has for us, that the fruit of the Spirit receives its nutrition from the Throne room of Heaven so that it can serve as food for those who are hungry but stuck in the Dead Sea. How? Worshipping God, reading the bible and speak it back to God, praying and talking with Him and allow Him to fill us with the Truth and let it transform our character… So that the leaves will never wither and brings healing by the lives that we live, in Love and by being the hands and feet of Jesus. To ask God continually to have His eyes to see, and His ears to hear. Some people only need to see the Love of Jesus in our eyes and receive healing instantly.

So, my question to us is this: How eatable are we? Where do we find ourselves planted at the moment? Are we willing to let go of some salt that will make room for what God wants to give us? Shall we be that part of the Sea that allows God to transform us? And maybe you find yourself in that part of a Sea that is suffocating you with too much salt...would you not become part of a swamp or marshes that has given up on God? I see so many people leaving their Faith due to hurt that the churches have caused, but I am here to ask you not to give up on God. He is about to sent out His revival Spirit and it is coming to find you! Please keep your heart open and ready to receive the water that will bring the Life of God back into your soul and your spirit! He wants to bless us over flowingly!

“And on the banks of the river on both sides, there shall grow all kinds of trees for food their leaf shall not fade nor shall their fruit fail [to meet the demand]. Each tree shall bring forth new fruit every month, [these supernatural qualities being] because their waters came from out of the sanctuary. And their fruit shall be for food and their leaves for healing.” Ezekiel 47:12