PRE-SERVICE PRAYER  7/28/07  SIFTED LIKE WHEAT

Before prayer started, it was reported that one of our intercessors had been in travail this last week over seeing the tide be sucked out and people were being carried out to sea.  Pastor had felt it was hopelessness and despair and so we prayed over this.

HEARD:  Dont let go.  Rip tide.  Covenant.

PIX:  I saw bells on the bottom of a robe as pastor walked past me praying.

Ex 39:24-26 NLT

Bells of pure gold were placed between the pomegranates along the hem of the robe, with bells and pomegranates alternating all around the hem. This robe was to be worn when Aaron ministered to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

During my prayers over the hopeless and despairing people I was asking for the Lord’s mercy and also that the Lord to remind them of His goodness.  One of the scriptures I prayed was that Jesus went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Acts 10:37-39 NKJV

...how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Ps 27:13-14 NKJV

I would have lost heart, unless I had believed  that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.  Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

PRECIOUS VISION:  One of our intercessors was taken up and saw a huge pair of hands and a little tiny person walking around on the hands.  Then he saw the person back down walking around on the earth.  He saw that the Lord was watching over every detail of his life and nothing was happening that the Lord was not aware of.  He said that the Lord was emphasizing that He is the God of details.

He shared a story with us that he and his 4 year old daughter were praying over the day.  And then they had a quiet time to listen to the Lord.  After the quiet time, he asked her if the Lord told her anything.  She said, “Yes.  God said, Fear not, I am with you!”  He was amazed.  She had never talked like that before.  He knew it was God. 

PIX:  After he shared this, I saw a pix of a pupil and a little person walking inside the pupil.

CONFIRMATION EYE GLANCE:  When I looked up my eye glanced at a map on the wall.  It had circle rings extending further out from a center point.  The map looked like a giant eye with the center looking like a lake that represented the apple of His eye. 

Zech 2:8-9 NKJV

For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

VISION DURING CHURCH:  We were placing our hands out in front of us and giving all that we were burdened over to the Lord.  I saw a pair of hands cup my hand and pull it all away and shake it as though it was a pair of dice inside the hand.  It was very strange to me, and I rebuked it feeling it might not be the Lord.  I cried out to the Lord that He would be merciful in all that is shaking.  I still had my hand my hands out and I saw the vision repeated again on the other hand.  I was really disturbed by this picture.  When the pair of hands uncupped to reveal what was inside, I saw a dice.  It had the number 8 on it.  I understood that meant a new beginning after the double portion shaking.  But the shaking and the dice bothered me, I did not know if this was a demonic vision or a pure one. 

STRONG CONFIRMATION:  I had no idea what pastor was going to preach on.  He preached on the fact that satan appeared before the throne of God, just like he did Job and requested permission to sift Peter like wheat.  Pastor mentioned the phrase “Dont let go to your faith.”  And that was what I heard in the pre-prayer, Dont let go!

Luke 22:31-32 NKJV

And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat .  But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren."

Job 1:6-12 NKJV

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan  also came among them. 7 And the LORD said to Satan , "From where do you come?" So Satan  answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it."  8 Then the LORD said to Satan , "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"

9 So Satan  answered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!"  12 And the LORD said to Satan , "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person."

So Satan  went out from the presence of the LORD.

OT SIFT:
OT:5130
OT:5130 nuwph (noof); a primitive root; to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.):

KJV - lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.


NT SIFT:
siniazo
NT:4617 siniazo (sin-ee-ad'-zo); from sinion (a sieve); to riddle (figuratively):
KJV - sift.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

UNDERSTANDING:  I was pondering my vision as pastor was preaching.  It was strongly impressed upon my heart that it was a warning.  It came to me that the sooner My people stop gambling with their conscience, the sooner the shaking would be over and a new beginning would be waiting for them.  I was very warned through this and made a commitment to be very scrupulous over obeying all whims of my conscience and walking in the fear of the Lord. 

WORD TO PONDER:  OBEDIENCE WILL QUIET YOUR SHAKING  7/28/07

Beloved one, during the harvest of all that is ripe on the earth, you know all that can be shaken will be shaken.  Sometimes threshing the grain from the chaff is a violent process.  Do not be caught in the rip tide of those who are being drawn from their faith, from their holdings in My Word.  Hold on tight and do not let go of My promises. Walk close to Me and remain obedient to your conscience.  Align yourself with My Word and you will walk in peace. 

My eye is always on you, you are the very center core of My thoughts and heart to keep you. I watch over every detail of your life. Your faith is important to your stability. I have prayed for you that your faith not fail. Do not give reason for the adversary to reproach and always remember that whatever is not of faith ... is sin.

This is a time for men to acknowledge that what they sow, they reap and the results will teach them to fear Me. Repent of gambling with your conscience, of stepping over the boundaries of safety and dabbling with carnality. The sooner you stop gambling in unscriptural choices, the sooner the shakings will stop and a brand new beginning is waiting for you with My loving mercy.

Heb 12:25-29 NLT

See to it that you obey God, the one who is speaking to you. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, how terrible our danger if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven! When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise: "Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also."   This means that the things on earth will be shaken, so that only eternal things will be left.  Since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be destroyed, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. For our God is a consuming fire.