Last week I was riding out of town with a friend of mine. We were talking about the things we have walked through in the past few years. These have not been easy years, to say the least. As we talked, something came up in my spirit and I began to share with her what I was sensing.
I said ‘I believe we are the seed. And the Bible says unless a seed falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it will produce much fruit.’ I went on to say ‘I believe we are the seed and we had to die to many things before any fruit could be produced in our life, I believe that is what that season was about. Now, we live in Christ, He in us and now we can produce fruit that only comes from a seed that has fallen to the ground and died.’
It was just a short conversation however, as I have shared with you, this seems to be a season of God confirming His word over and over again. I was pleasantly surprised the following day when I read a word from Jo Ellen Stevens that I received from SpiritFuel.me. I want to share it with you:
I hear the Lord say that this is to be sent forth! He said that “the seed that you had sown in the past is being called forth in this season of your crossing over.” You have been through some things that you thought would kill you and you thought you might not recover from, but God said that “I am going to restore the years that the locust has eaten, for My word does not come back void, but accomplishes what it is sent there to do and what you sowed in your earlier days is now going to come into fruition. Many have been in a pruning season so that now in this hour you will bring forth the “much fruit!” The correction that I brought into your life was not to kill you, but to heal you!! So therefore now I will bring forth the seed of the past that was sown in love and I will multiply your seed sown in this new season and it shall begin to spring forth together!
Get ready the reason for the last season is about to be made manifest to you and why you had to even become a seed sown into the ground will be understood, and a great death came in the spirit and you mourned a great mourning, but I tell you unless a seed falls to the ground and dies it abides alone, but if it dies it will bring forth much fruit!! You have allowed this process and yet have still went after me with all of your heart and now the time of the great harvest is upon you!! I say to you the reaper will overtake the sower in this hour!! For this is the time of the rain, the former rain and the latter rain in one month. This is the time of the harvest of harvesters! This is your time for multiplication! This is the time when a small one will become a hundred and a hundred will become a thousand. For my math is not your math! My multiplication is not limited! I give you the heathen for your inheritance so enlarge the place of your tent for you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles in this day! Get ready you are about to multiply with the multiplication of heaven. Know this and receive it for your God will accomplish it in your time!! This is the set time to favor Zion!! Sing Oh Barren you that did not bear! Isaiah 54:1-5 (Jo Ellen Stevens, SpiritFuel.me)
During the last ten years of challenge, I have often felt I would not make it through to the other side, the loss was so great and the pain so heavy. But I am still here, still serving God, still loving God, still trusting God. My faith is greater than it has ever been. What meant to destroy me, only made me stronger in God.
I still don’t understand many of the things I had to walk through, and I may never understand. I do know that my God is faithful and He will take what was meant for harm and turn it for good. I do know that God told me in the beginning that ‘I would not go under but would come out with plunder.’ I believe God. Therefore when it felt I had indeed, gone under, I declared ‘God you said I would not go under, but would come out with plunder!’ This is our time of plunder. I believe that with my whole being.
I don’t know what loss you have suffered. I don’t know what you have gone through. But this I do know, if you are still seeking God, still trusting God…you did not go under…it’s time for you to come out with plunder. Mourning only lasts for a night…joy comes in the morning. GOOD MORNING FRIENDS, it is time for joy and plunder. May God be glorified in your life this month!
