RHEMA 6/03/09 LABOR AND BUY WHAT ENDURES

PIX:  I witnessed someone going into a grocery mart.  There was a canopy type umbrella on the outside of the store. 

HEARD:  What’s 9 plus 9?  The best thing you can buy.

IMPRESSION:  9 plus 9 are  the full fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit and He will make these fruits and gifts manifest in our lives.  These fruits and gifts also represent the FULLNESS of Jesus Christ which we are promised to walk in when we have grown to maturity.

Eph 3:19  NKJV

That you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Eph 4:12-14  NKJV

Till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Col 2:9-10  NKJV

For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

QUICKENED MEMORY:  The word “buy” was quickened to me because when we buy, it costs us something.  I wondered what scripture had the word “buy” in it and the following came to mind. 

Isa 55:5  NKJV

Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters ;And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you — The sure mercies of David. 4 Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, A leader and commander for the people. 5 Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, And nations who do not know you shall run to you, Because of the LORD your God, And the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you."

[Please help Lord.  I miss You, I need to hear You.]

Bob Jones prophesied that 2009 would be a year of hard plowing.  I have found this true in praying the Lord would fill our family table with His Bread.  When I finish harvesting a month of rhema, I am so relieved and blessed by the Words He gives to us, but some months are really hard work.  It is not always that way, but I have felt the load more the last couple months.  It has been hard plowing in time, effort and pressing into the Lord.

HEARD:  Refreshment.  Download. 

[Welcome Holy Spirit.  I just received a wonderful download of His Presence!  Thank You Lord!] 

HEARD:  My pleasure.   Daughter.  Deep inside.  Peace from within.  I am here.  Bubble forth.  As a fountain.  Whoosh.  Lot’s of bread. 

Lifeline.  Allotment.  Every day a measure.  Set your heart in readiness.  In the loaf. 

PIX:  I saw a tiny dot inside a humongous loaf of bread.

IMPRESSION:  I realized that when we are hungry for more of the Lord, to hear from Him that we dont have to go very far!  He is the Bread of life and when we are IN Him, we are totally encompassed by His bread!

John 6:26-33 NKJV

Jesus answered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."   28 Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?"  29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."  30 Therefore they said to Him,

"What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?  31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"    32 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.   33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

COMMENTS:  When reading the above passage, the words “labor and endure” popped out at me.  This scripture verifies that sometimes we need to labor for our daily bread.  His Bread is so valuable, it endures even beyond our lifetime and throughout eternity. 

WORD TO PONDER:  LABOR AND BUY WHAT ENDURES  6/03/09

Yes beloved one, sometimes it feels like you are fighting against spiritual famine and you have to work harder for bread.  Yes I did say to pray for daily bread and sometimes prayer is laborious.  My promise is daily Bread, so do not let your daily portion be stolen.  Even if you were to expend all your efforts into obtaining your Bread from heaven, wouldn’t that be worth such value?  My Bread endures through out all eternity. 

You will find that the more you abide IN Me, the more you will sense and realize you are totally encompassed by My Bread.  Sometimes the “dot” of your perspective is so small that you do not see the whole.  Ask that I widen your perceptions and enlarge your heart so that you will receive the fullness of what is available.  Press in, for My true fullness is coming and it is beyond what you could ever imagine or think.  Blessed are you who hunger, for you shall be filled. 

Matt 6:9-11  NKJV

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread. 

Luke 6:21 NKJV

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled .