RHEMA 10/18/13  THE MYSTERY OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND 

HEARD:  Fellowship rhema.  Baby steps.  There is a tiny part of me that wants to know things.  I don’t know what I will find.  I do have curiosity.

PIX:  I saw a banner that said Search options.

HEARD:  So what are the ways? Ways God speaks.

HEARD:  Rhema.  He makes the secrets revealed. I am waiting for You to reveal truth with me.  I AM waiting for you to walk with Me, says the Lord.

PARABLE:  A popup turned on my computer that said, “A script is causing Adobe flash player to run slowly.” 

COMMENTS:  All month long the Lord has been talking to me about evaluating people’s level of appetite – their hunger for God.  Our level of need for drawing from His breast directly affects the volume of heavenly milk that is sent.

Every breastfeeding Mom knows that their milk production totally depends upon the appetite of the baby.  When the baby slows down, the milk production slows, and when the baby increases its demand, the milk supply increases.  For a mom, there is nothing worse than having too much milk and a baby who wont sup.  It is called engorgement, misery, fever and infection for the mother.  And when the baby weans, the mother’s milk dries up.  This is true in the animal world also. 

Scripture tells us to love God with all of our hearts, put Him first and seek Him first, so that He is our first love.  In the last days it says the love of many shall wax cold.  (Matt 22:37; Matt 6:33; Matt 24:12)  This is all connected with the level of our spiritual appetite for Him, His kingdom and the things of God.

EXCERPT APPETITE INSERTS

RHEMA 10/01/13  BREAK FREE TO UNDERSTAND

I saw something go down a children’s slide and was reminded of the ladders in heaven and things coming down to us. Baby.  Not understanding the language of God.  Break free. 

RHEMA 10/14/13  ILLITERATE

Not able to stand up on your own.  At the dinner table.  Isnt that better to know?  Illiterate.  Blind. 

RHEMA 10/15/13  SLOW APPETITE FOR GOD

Appetite.  It starts somewhere right about where they left off. 

I saw W A and was waiting for the letters I T to finish writing.  The vision was in SLOW motion. 

RHEMA 10/17/13  SLOW APPETITE

Appetite, a very real concern.  Do not be afraid. Courageous.  

CONFIRMATION UPDATE 10/25/13:   I attended an out of town healing meeting into an area where he mentioned the meeting was to test the level of hunger (appetite) and desperation for healing and miracles in the USA and west coast. 

There is a divine tension between the flow of the anointing within ministers and the need and faith of the people.  There are some audiences that are so hungry, the minister can be totally dry, but by the people’s faith and need alone, it draws the seeds out of the minister and the anointing flows.  There are other times when the minister is so full and overflowing that even those with little faith receive a bounty.  Finally there are Sovereign moves of God, where He alone carries a meeting and the heavens are rent and He comes down.

Before a tsunami wave hits, the waters along the shoreline pull back.  That is what has been happening in the Spirit, where He has pulled back and asked … are you hungry?  Are you thirsty?  Do you want more?  Do you have enough?  Where are your boundaries?  Do you want Me to break through?

PROMISES FOR THE THIRSTY

Those who are thirsty and longing for God have His assurance they will be filled.

Psalms 63:1-2 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.

Psalms 143:5-8 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I ponder on the work of your hands. 6 I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah. 7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto you.

Proverbs 25:25 As cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing upon your offspring:

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

GETTING IN SYNCH

The law of supply and demand does have difficulties getting in synch.  Heaven wants to pour out everything and yet our capacity to receive is too small.  He has been stretching and enlarging the hearts of the people to grow hungry and receive more of Him.

Isaiah 64:1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence.

Psalms 119:32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.

HINDRANCES AGAINST HEARING GOD

Carnality – Some are lovers of unrighteousness and yet want to be friends with God.  Friendship with the world causes people’s love to wax cold for God.

Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold.

Hopelessness – Some have hearts that have grown sick with delay and have lost hope in the desiring process. 

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Independence –  Some are no longer clinging to God for their financial, emotional, mental and spiritual needs.

Revelation 3:15-19 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white clothing, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Pride – Some walk proudly arrogant and God resists them.

Amos 8:7; 11-13  The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works…  …Behold, the days come, says the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

Rebellion – Some walk in bitter disobedience and they have come under the judgment of God, where they are given over to calloused hearts so they do not see or hear.

Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 13:14-15 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, who said, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Misaligned Mouth and Heart – Some draw near to Him with their mouth, but their hearts are not close to Him at all.  Therefore they are given over to a spirit of slumber.

Isaiah 29:8-13 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. 9 Stop, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered. 11 And the vision of all has become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned. 13 Therefore the Lord said, Since this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

Faith – Some have been strongly tested in their faith.  He has been seeking for those whose hearts are for Him and who have believed even though they have not seen.  He says, when I come will I find faith?

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars.

John 20:29 Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

PRAYER:  Father we ask that You will forgive us for our calloused hearts where we have rebelliously resisted Your Word.  Forgive us for having an appetite for the world more than You.  Forgive us for being independent and prideful and being apathetic towards Your bountiful blessings.  Thank You for drawing us, wooing, calling us closer to You. Thank You for increasing our level of hunger and desperation and thank You for the promise that You will fill those who are hungry for You.  Your Word proclaims the righteous are not hungry nor do they beg for bread. Let Your Word come forth and pour out upon us oh Lord!

Psalms 107:9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.