25th February 2014
I saw this vision on 20th February 2014.
It was decision-making time.
God fearing men and women were individually crying out loud to the Lord, seeking to know if they should leave the heat-stricken environment they were in.
In the past, on the direction of the Lord, these God lovers had obediently moved from two different places they had long resided in, and never looked back. One word from the Lord, and they had departed both places, and cared not for the assets, works, properties, relationships that they had left behind.
The Lord had then led them to this third location. When they had arrived here, the climate had been temperate. Then little by little, their enemies, challengers, and people they would have expected better from, began to create unbearable circumstances. This was done to pressure these God lovers to hurriedly make several decisions on varied matters, all at once.
These God fearing folk smiled. There was only one decision to make. They would move.
They had moved twice before and were ready to forsake all and move the third time. They looked around and saw nothing but carnality. They praised God they were not bound by anything and were willing to do the noble thing; even if it meant that they were to leave behind assets, work, properties, relationships………everything, again, for the third time, for the love of the Lord.
Yes, that’s what they would do.
They ran home, packed a few basic belongings, and slung the bags over their shoulders and without informing anyone, they left through the back door.
As they walked away from their homes, they jumped, they whirled, they flung their arms in the arm and proclaimed to the world at large, “There! That’s my decision. I’m outta here.”
They felt a momentary high as they walked away but then they came to a standstill. Their feet seemed reluctant to move one step further.
They remembered that they had not sought the Lord.
They presumed that the Lord thought just like them and would be in total agreement that they move. After all, twice before, He had led them out from carnal places and circumstances, and God could not have changed his stance on carnality. He would back their decision. Nonetheless, since their feet refused to budge, they felt strongly that they must pray for a sign confirming their decision to depart.
They stood out there in the dark for hours, praying fervently for a sign that would back their decision, to leave. To their utter shock, none came.
They wept all the way back to their home.
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Now the enemies of the God fearing people continued to harass them. They positioned scores of massive hot air blowing machines, as walls around these godly folks, so that the heat would debilitate their ability to even think straight.
The opponents worked from air-conditioned environments, but ensured that none of the coolers or air conditioning worked for these God followers.
The sweltering heat became unbearable. The people cried out to God. Their bags were packed, they were ready to go, but their feet would not move, without a confirming sign from Him. They were willing to forsake everything, dump all, and move away.
They knelt where they were. “Send us a sign”, they cried aloud, “What are we to do……. dear God send us a sign…….. it’s so hot here, we can’t even think straight, ……….take away this heat…….. Help us, please,” they wept.
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Meanwhile, elsewhere, men and women, who had been walking in obedience, were being given a new work.
To their surprise they were handed gunny sacks and told to fill them.
“Fill them with what?” each wondered aloud.
They were shown a snow-covered mountain in the horizon, and were astonished to hear that they were to fill the gunny sacks with snow from that mountain.
Now each one wondered how they’d get there. They were instructed to place one foot on the mountain.
Immediately, they stretched out their foot.
These men and women had walked in obedience for a long time and were quick to believe and obey the Lord’s instructions.
Now with one foot firmly planted on the snow-clad mountain, they were instructed to place their other foot in a distant land. They were to pack the sacks full with snow and give them to the people there, who were crying out to God for relief from the intense heat.
The obedient ones worked diligently day and night; they speedily packed and delivered gunny sacks of all shapes and sizes. Some of these gunny bags had been re-designed and a few looked like large envelopes.
Those who were crying out in the sweltering heat were overjoyed to receive these gunny envelopes, sacks, bags, and the like, all brimming with snow, but puzzled by what it signified.
The heat-stricken inhabitants arranged the snow in hammocks, on beds, in chairs and other places of rest and reposed there. The snow refreshed them and they praised God.
I saw that the heat could not melt the snow and the snow did not drive away the heat, but it gave respite to the sufferers. The snow sacks provided the comfort and relief that people had been desperately longing for.
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I saw the God lovers, swinging in their snow-lined hammocks. No matter the heat from the enemies’ machines, they remained cool, calm and collected. They could now think.
They were grateful to the Lord for the snow, and were slowly beginning to understand many things. The snow was a message from the Lord that they were not to move presumptuously; but to remain in their location and not give up everything and move as they had done twice before.
They understood that the Lord wanted to settle and establish them here. They were to remain cool, calm and collected and not make hasty decisions as most if not all problems were synthetic.
To gain undue advantage, their enemies had exaggerated situations, created dilemmas, and fabrications.
They now understood that the Lord wanted them to remain where they were, fight, and not give in. They were not to try and escape from the discomfort of decision making. In the past they had not needed to do the things that the Lord was now instructing them to do.
The circumstances of the past may have seemed similar, but were not the same.
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Though the heat was turned up against them, the godly lounged in their snow-lined hammocks. Aghast at their cool demeanor, their enemies, who could not see the snow, surrounded them and demanded that they make instant decisions.
Unperturbed, the God lovers continued to relax in their hammocks.
“Why?” asked a godly woman quietly, “what’s the hurry?”
Now the challengers had always presumed that these godly folk shied away from confrontations, and were more likely in the name of peace, to look for a consensus, or an amicable settlement. So a female opponent, misreading this godly lady’s quiet demeanor, lashed out at her. This challenger fully expected that the godly woman would seek to appease her, if she raised her voice.
The Lord had instructed them to refute every tongue that rose against them. And this godly lady did just that, in no uncertain terms.
Suddenly, all the air-conditioning that the enemies had relied on switched off, and the heat blowing machines now turned and aimed at the faces of all the foes.
For the godly, the climate was temperate, but for the enemies it was as hot as a furnace.
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The faces of the opponents now looked like melting wax. They were gasping. They wanted to make deals, and treaties with the godly. The enemies had outsmarted themselves. Some of the opponents whilst manufacturing problems to trap the godly had inadvertently paved the way for their own downfall. Now they wanted out.
They laid the papers on the table and each one handed the godly a pen, saying, “You fill in the blanks, we are willing to sign everything on your terms”.
The God lovers smiled as they saw the mountain of pens, their enemies had placed in their hands. Many had run away and would not be coming back. And as for the rest, with a stroke of their own pen, they would be put in their place.
As they fell prostrate these grateful ones thanked and praised God for sending the timely gift of snow, in gunny bags.
They understood that in the past, moving locations twice had been His Will, but now in this time and moment, He wanted them to settle and be established in this place. Whilst others would be surprised by their mettle, thinking they had changed, the Lord assured them that He had filled them with all good things and each gift and good thing would come to the fore when needed.
The jealous would say, “Didn't know you had it in you to accomplish this,” but the Lord was showing these God lovers that He had given them everything needed to fulfill His Will. But that would not be evident, until the moment it was needed.
These God lovers had been harmless as doves, and now they were to be as wise as serpents. Their feet had been trained to depart from evil, and now the time had come for their hands to be trained for war, and be taught to prosper.
They would be strengthened and established right where God was settling them.
Bombay-India
Swarna Jha
Psalm 144:1-2
Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Psalm 90:17
17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Matthew 10:16
16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Job 5:12
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Proverbs 25:25
25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Proverbs 28:1
28 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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