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iris:
Thank you Arcturus for sharing this with us.
May God be with you and comfort you in
your time of need.
You are in my prayers.
Iris
Deborah-Leigh:
Iris
We are all appointed a "time of need" as you say. My time of need seems to be all the time! ;D
I just want to explain what your post means to me. You see in Psalms 27 King David wrote the following:
vs 8 You Lord have said "Seek My face, inquire for and require My presence as your VITAL NEED.
In the margin of my Bible, and referring to this vs I wrote : As you Know My presence is your vital need, you step into MY Grace and flow of My Power. When ever you know this..."MY Strength is made perfect in your weakness."
So I guess you will see how much your kind words mean to me because your prayers for my comfort in my time of need are prayers for relief from my human condition and deliverance from evil until I reach perfection in HIS Spirit which is THE vital need of all humanity.
Thank you my sweet Sister for the heavenly fragrance of your sweet prayers.
Peace to you
Arcturus :)
DWIGHT:
Arcturus,
I too am going through quite a time. I have so many things coming at me at one time that it seems over whelming. In reading this thread, I thought about these verses....
14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Daniel 3: 13-25
It seems the closer your walk with the Lord is, the hotter the firery furnance becomes. But as they were in the furnance, the Son of God was with them. Because they were faithful and did not give in to the flesh nor bowed down and worship any idols of the heart, this is what happend to them...
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon. Daniel 3:26-30
Look what happend when they were tried. Those who threw them into the fire were burned. When we are truly tried by the Lord, even those around us will be burned by our fire. I am waiting for the King's promotion. Praise His name.
In Him,
Dwight
Flipper:
Not sure it will help or hinder, but 'winnowing' is a word, perhaps a farming term used to describe the way how barley so easily comes off the stalk - it winnows.
Also, barley is the first of 3 major harvests.
I look at it as God's first and most gentle way to get our attention. If that doesn't work, we go to the next harvest - Wheat.
Wheat must be 'thrashed' against a screen floor to remove the kernel, well at least that's how it was done back when. If THAT doesn't get one's attention, God has one more trick in the arsenal to drag (gr. helkuo) to Him and that's where the final grape harvest comes in.
Grapes must be trod under foot, well at least that's how it was done back when!
I've also heard about God's 2x2's 4x4's and 8x8's!
hebrewroots98:
Hello and Welcome Flipper. Did I miss your intro?, if so, I'm glad that you are here. Obviously your name is Phillip? Where are you from? One of my best high school buddies' name was Flip...
Interesting about the winnowing! I hope that I will only be in need of the first step in the process of God's work in my life, unfortunately, I know better b/c there will be times when HE will have to do some harsh work to get my attention!
Im looking forward tohearing more from you!
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