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DELIGHT OVER HIS FISH HARVEST
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EXPERIENCE: I had noticed that the
children at our local grade school had painted wooden
fish that were wired to the chain link fence around the
school yard. The fence looked like a big fish net and
the parable was really quickened to me about the
harvest. I took a walk today to be able to see the fish
up close and count them, for it was quickened to me that
their number might be important. I prayed that I would
not get distracted in the counting. They were so
precious, colorful and creative. I counted 293 fish,
each painted with their own unique design and colors.
Not one was alike.
Two fish stood out above the rest.
One was a mountain scene with a cross at the top of the
mountain, and a beautiful rainbow. The other one was
painted like a fish, but inside its tummy were a bunch
of tiny baby fish swimming around. It was delightful and
just precious. When I got home, I looked up the number
293 in the Dictionary from the Strong’s Exhaustive
Concordance!
OT:293 HEBREW
'Achiyno`am (akh-ee-no'-am); from
OT:251 and OT:5278; brother of pleasantness; Achinoam,
the name of two Israelitesses:
KJV - Ahinoam.
OT:5278
no` am (no'-am); from OT:5276;
agreeableness, i.e. delight, suitableness, splendor or
grace:
KJV - beauty, pleasant (-ness).
NT:293 GREEK
amphiblestron (am-feeb'-lace-tron);
from a compound of the base of NT:297 and NT:906; a
(fishing) net (as thrown about the fish):
KJV - net.
Matt 4:18-20 KJV
And Jesus, walking by the sea of
Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and
Andrew his brother, casting a net [# 293] into the sea:
for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow
me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they
straightway left their nets, and followed him.
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PRECIOUS PARABLE: I got home
tonight from seeing the fish, Wayne said that the back
of the newspaper had the photographs of the high school
graduating class of 2003. The photos were their baby
pictures!!
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CONFIRMATION: Right after that, I
received the following email:
Good morning Sandy,
I have a fish story for you. I am
walking again :) to get exercise. I walk about 3 miles
to the coffee shop then back. Well, the lady who fixes
my coffee told me an interesting story. She and her
daughter were driving in Florida and all of a sudden a
fish fell out of the sky and hit the car in front of
them. The more I think on it the funnier it gets!
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CONCLUSION
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{Words to Ponder are summaries of
His quickened Words of prophetic revelation, punched
with the word of wisdom and written under inspiration.}
WORD TO PONDER - THE CHILDREN ARE
COMING
The children are coming, the
children are coming! The harvest is ripe for picking,
and even as the salmon have the instinct to turn around
and come home, so have I planted the desire for this new
generation to seek My face and come to Me, their Maker.
I will raise them with delight and they shall grow up in
the splendor of My grace and glory. No good thing will I
withhold from these, My children.
These children have been carried
and birthed in the womb of prayer. Generations have sown
their prayers and sacrifices so their progeny would
inherit what they believed for. These prayers are going
to fall from the sky, completely ripe for picking. It is
time, the lines are drawn, the borders are set. The
great fish harvest is about to take place.
"And Jesus, walking by the sea of
Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and
Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they
were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I
will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left
their nets, and followed him." (Matt 4:18-20 KJV)
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