Yesterday the Lord gave a vision of a wheat plant. And I saw the branches--the leaves that produce the fruit--of the plant. Some of these leaves were doing just fine, and being left alone, while others were being sifted through a little combing machine. This sifting machine just took the chaff right out of the wheat. About a third of the entire plant was being sifted and sorted so that only the wheat remained.
I realized that God was showing me the work He is doing in my own life. Sifting out the unfruitful parts, so that the parts bearing fruit--bearing wheat--have room to grow and become even more productive.
"His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matthew 3:12
Let's look at the context here. For believers, for those already saved, this is what the baptism in the Holy Spirit and His fire does to us! This is a work of God, not in judgement, but in refining. God takes away the hindrances and sifts out the impurities. He cleanses us initially, and that process never stops.
"You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you." John 15:3
We are clean because He's spoken and told us so. Praise God! It's a real revelation to know the righteousness He's given us. And then what?
"He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful." John 15:2
We have been clean since salvation. But have we been perfectly clean? Not yet, not unless God makes us that way. We may still have personal issues that need sorting out. We probably do! If we have issues, then we have need of a sifting. (Luke 22:31) So God takes these things and combs them off, cuts them off, burns them up. He burns them away in His purifying fire. We don't need to have issues any more! We can be made perfectly whole.
"He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness..."
Malachi 3:3
This is what God does to all who accept His gift of grace. He purifies us so we can give purity to Him. It's time to accept holiness. It's time to accept purity. It's time to accept that biblically, we are all saints. It's time to walk worthy of the calling with which we've been called.
"...so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God..." Colossians 1:10
I realized that God was showing me the work He is doing in my own life. Sifting out the unfruitful parts, so that the parts bearing fruit--bearing wheat--have room to grow and become even more productive.
"His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matthew 3:12
Let's look at the context here. For believers, for those already saved, this is what the baptism in the Holy Spirit and His fire does to us! This is a work of God, not in judgement, but in refining. God takes away the hindrances and sifts out the impurities. He cleanses us initially, and that process never stops.
"You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you." John 15:3
We are clean because He's spoken and told us so. Praise God! It's a real revelation to know the righteousness He's given us. And then what?
"He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful." John 15:2
We have been clean since salvation. But have we been perfectly clean? Not yet, not unless God makes us that way. We may still have personal issues that need sorting out. We probably do! If we have issues, then we have need of a sifting. (Luke 22:31) So God takes these things and combs them off, cuts them off, burns them up. He burns them away in His purifying fire. We don't need to have issues any more! We can be made perfectly whole.
"He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness..."
Malachi 3:3
This is what God does to all who accept His gift of grace. He purifies us so we can give purity to Him. It's time to accept holiness. It's time to accept purity. It's time to accept that biblically, we are all saints. It's time to walk worthy of the calling with which we've been called.
"...so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God..." Colossians 1:10
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