PRAYER JOURNAL - SUBMIT TO GOD'S PRUNING SHEARS

HOLY SPIRIT SHOWED ME AN INSTAGRAM POST EARLIER TODAY AND I HAD AN UNCTION TO SHARE IT. IN IT, THIS GARDNER IS EXPLAINING THROUGH GARDENING THE PAINFUL PROCESS OF CHOPPING AWAY AT THE ROOTS OF A PLANT SO THAT IT PRODUCES GOOD FRUIT ONCE PLANTED IN GOOD SOIL. IT MAY BE PAINFUL, BUT IS NECESSARY. OUR GOD IS A GARDNER AND HE IS TILLING THE SOIL OF OUR HEARTS AND PRUNING AWAY ✨✂️ ALL THAT IS DEAD 🥀.

LATER IN THE DAY AS I SAT IN MY OFFICE SIPPING MY COFFEE ☕️ AND PREPPING  FOR BLOG POSTS .. HOLY SPIRIT AWAKENED MY SLEEPING COMPUTER TO SHOW ME PROPHETIC NUMBERS THAT WERE RELATED TO THAT EARLIER INSTAGRAM POST. 

HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED THE TIME 8:02 (82) .. THE MIRROR IS 28 AND I WAS LED TO ISAIAH 28 👉🏻 JUDGMENT AGAINST SAMARIA (Sebastia is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the West Bank. In the 9th century BCE, it was known as Samaria, and served as the capital city of the northern Kingdom of Israel until it was destroyed by the Neo-Assyrian Empire around 720 BCE).  

I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THERE IS NEWS IN THIS AREA OF THE WORLD TODAY .. PALESTINIANS AND PALESTINIAN SYMPATHIZERS COMPLAINING OF ISRAELI INCURSION INTO THIS AREA THAT HOLDS MANY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AT LEAST 5,000 YEARS OLD. 

ISAIAH 28 AMPC WOE TO [Samaria] the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim [the ten tribes], and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome and smitten down with wine! Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty one [the Assyrian]; like a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty overflowing waters, he will cast it down to the earth with violent hand. With [alien] feet [Samaria] the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden down. And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like the early fig before the fruit harvest, which, when anyone sees it, he snatches and eats it up greedily at once. [So in an amazingly short time will the Assyrians devour Samaria, Israel's capital.] [But] in that [future Messianic] day the Lord of hosts shall become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the [converted] remnant of His people, And a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment and administers the law, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. But even these reel from wine and stagger from strong drink: the priest and the prophet reel from strong drink; they are confused from wine, they stagger and are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble when pronouncing judgment. For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no place that is clean. To whom will He teach knowledge? [Ask the drunkards.] And whom will He make to understand the message? Those who are babies, just weaned from the milk and taken from the breasts? [Is that what He thinks we are?] For it is [His prophets repeating over and over]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little. No, but [the Lord will teach the rebels in a more humiliating way] by men with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people [says Isaiah, and teach them His lessons]. To these [complaining Jews the Lord] had said, This is the true rest [the way to true comfort and happiness] that you shall give to the weary, and, This is the [true] refreshing–yet they would not listen [to His teaching]. Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them [merely monotonous repeatings of]: precept upon precept, precept upon precept, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; here a little, there a little–that they may go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken. Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem! Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have an agreement–when the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter. Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a Stone, a tested Stone, a precious Cornerstone of sure foundation; he who believes (trusts in, relies on, and adheres to that Stone) will not be ashamed or give way or hasten away [in sudden panic]. [Ps. 118:22; Matt. 21:42; Acts 4:11; Rom. 9:33; Eph. 2:20; I Pet. 2:4-6.] I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the hiding place (the shelter). And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol (the place of the dead) shall not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you will be trodden down by it. As often as it passes through, it [the enemy's scourge] will take you; for morning by morning will it pass through, by day and by night. And it will be utter terror merely to hear and comprehend the report and the message of it [but only hard treatment and dispersion will make you understand God's instruction]. For [they will find that] the bed is too short for a man to stretch himself on and the covering too narrow for him to wrap himself in. [All their sources of confidence will fail them.] For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim, He will be wrathful as in the Valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work, and bring to pass His act, His strange act. [II Sam. 5:20; I Chron. 14:16.] Now therefore do not be scoffers, lest the bands which bind you be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land and the whole earth. Give ear and hear my [Isaiah's] voice; listen and hear my words. Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continue to plow and harrow the ground after it is smooth? When he has leveled its surface, does he not cast abroad [the seed of] dill or fennel and scatter cummin [a seasoning], and put the wheat in rows, and barley in its intended place, and spelt [an inferior kind of wheat] as the border? [And he trains each of them correctly] for his God instructs him correctly and teaches him. For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten off with a staff, and cummin with a rod [by hand]. Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it continuously. But when he has driven his cartwheel and his horses over it, he scatters it [tossing it up to the wind] without having crushed it. This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel [and] excellent in wisdom and effectual working.”

PROPHETICALLY SPEAKING, THINGS TEND TO HAPPEN IN THE NATURAL (Sebastia) WHEN THERE ARE THINGS GOING ON IN THE SPIRIT. 

AS I RESEARCHED WHAT HOLY SPIRIT IS SAYING THROUGH ISAIAH 28 TODAY, I WAS LED TO THIS TEACHING BY STEVE THOMASON 👇🏻 IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE AT THE TIME HOLY SPIRIT AWAKENED MY SLEEPING COMPUTER TO REVEAL ALL THIS TO ME I WAS LISTENING TO A PROPHETIC WORD WHERE THE LORD WAS WARNING PEOPLE WHO ARE IN ERROR TO REPENT .. SPECIFICALLY THOSE WHO ARE PROPHESYING FROM THE FLESH & THOSE WHO ARE SLANDERING GOD’S MESSENGERS FOR MONETIZATION OR CLICK BAIT. 👀👀

“The reason the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were corrupt was because the king, the prophets, and the priests allowed themselves to be enticed by the popular thought processes and value systems of the world around them.  Instead of being the bright light on the hill to bring the hope and truth of God to the world around them, the people of God capitulated to the military strategies and pagan value system of their neighbors.  The priests and prophets were profiting from their position.  The wealthy were getting wealthier while the poor were suffering.  The social and religious elite were getting drunk and reveling in their privileged positions while the needs of the people were being ignored. 

Isaiah was bold enough to speak up against such injustice.  He took the harsh, yet gracious, truth to the people and boldly proclaimed the Word of God to them.  

And much like Jesus preached using common farming parables and analogies, so here Isaiah, a wonderful preacher, uses the analogy of a farmer to explain what God is doing.  The teachers who were mocking Isaiah’s message could not understand how Isaiah could believe that God would destroy Jerusalem when it was His holy city.  Isaiah said that God was treating Israel the same way a farmer treats his field.  In order to get the proper harvest, sometimes it is necessary to cut into the soil, turn it over, and cultivate it.  This is a very violent act.  The violence continues as he says that the wheat must be threshed and the spices must be crushed in order to harvest the good fruit.  In other words, there is a time and a place for everything, and the only way God was going to be able to salvage anything out of His people was to take them to the threshing floor!!”

HOLY SPIRIT ALSO REVEALED THE NUMBER 88. BIBLICALLY, THE NUMBER 8 IS USED BY GOD TO ILLUSTRATE RESURRECTION .. NEW BIRTH, NEW LIFE, NEW CREATION .. HE IS MAKING THINGS ALIVE AGAIN AND FRUITFUL. 88 IS 8+8 .. 16 .. AND THE BIBLICAL MEANING OF 16 IS THE LOVE OF GOD 💕

ROMANS 8:8 AMPC “So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.”

ZECHARIAH 8:8 AMPC “And I will bring them [home] and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and faithfulness and in righteousness.”

IT IS 9:09 RIGHT NOW 👀👀 👉🏻 THE BIBLICAL MEANING OF 9 IS JUDGMENT OR FRUIT BEARING. 

9:09 pm 

LORD WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY?

I shall circumcise every heart to be in alignment with My heart. I will cleanse and purify you. Without this pruning and cutting away of what is old and dead you will not thrive. So I chop at your roots as the Gardener of your life so that you may produce good fruit. Submit to My pruning shears. Bear up under it. It is for your good. I love you. Adonai. 

MESSAGE STARTED AT 9:09 AND ENDED AT 9:12

GENESIS 9:9-12 AMPC “Behold, I establish My covenant or pledge with you and with your descendants after you And with every living creature that is with you–whether the birds, the livestock, or the wild beasts of the earth along with you, as many as came out of the ark–every animal of the earth. I will establish My covenant or pledge with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; neither shall there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth and make it corrupt. And God said, This is the token of the covenant (solemn pledge) which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations.”

DEUTERONOMY 9:9-12 AMPC “When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water. And the Lord delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant. And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.”

AND CONFIRMATION OF ISAIAH 28 AND SAMARIA 👀 👉🏻 ISAIAH 9:9-12 AMPC “And all the people shall know it–even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [its capital]–who said in pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks have fallen, but we will build [all the better] with hewn stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put [costlier] cedars in their place. Therefore the Lord has stirred up the adversaries [the Assyrians] of Rezin [king of Syria] against [Ephraim], and He will stir up their enemies and arm and join them together, The Syrians [compelled to fight with their enemies, going] before [on the east] and the Philistines behind [on the west]; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, [God's] anger is not [then] turned away, but His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].”

LINK TO THE INSTAGRAM POST I SHARED EARLIER TODAY ✂️: 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYvSa5Bvpa1/

LINK TO TEACHING I REFERENCED: 

https://www.stevethomason.net/2010/07/23/dont-beat-the-wheat-a-reflection-on-isaiah-28/

PROPHETIC WORD I WAS LISTENING TO: 

https://youtu.be/OGRDzEbFMME

RECEIPTS ✂️

BLOGGER NOTED THE TIME I STARTED THIS POST WAS 12:06 👉🏻 THE MIRROR IS 6:12. THERE ARE 2 SCRIPTURES THAT CONFIRM THIS MESSAGE.

HEBREWS 12:6 AMPC “For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.”

ROMANS 6:12 AMPC “Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.”

"If you openly declare Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.”

Romans 10:9-11

RAISE YOUR HANDS IN SUBMISSION & FROM YOUR HEART PRAY THIS PRAYER ALOUD TO RECEIVE ETERNAL SALVATION. YOU MUST BE SINCERE AND INVITE JESUS TO BE THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE. AND THEN YIELD TO HIM!!!

Jesus, I declare that You are the Son of God who died for my sins. I believe you were raised on the third day and are now seated at the right hand of God the Father. I confess my sins to you now & ask for Your forgiveness. I ask you to come and live in my heart & to be my Lord and Savior. I surrender my life to You. Thank you for giving me Your righteousness, for transforming me into Your image and making me a child of God.