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    This is what God showed me last night....



    Dec. 30, 10:30 PM


    “Keep Oil in your lamp”,” Do practical things till I come”.


    This is what I heard as I started drifting to sleep. I had been talking to the Lord before half dozing off. Why is it Lord that it
    is so much easier to say “Well, I will just trust the Lord when hard times hit”? Then sit back.

    He is showing me He didn't intend for us not to prepare for the storms of life. The opposite is true. Each time it was in a
    stepping of faith and trust in God, that brought about salvation. Moses and Noah came to mind as His presence stirred
    within me and around. But He placed the ten virgins in my mind in Matthew.

    I rose out of bed and went to the living room and started reading.

    Matthew 25:1-5

    "The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went to meet
    the bridegroom.  2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.  3 The five who were foolish took no oil for their
    lamps,  4 but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil. NLT

    This is meant as both spiritual and practical meaning. When the foolish needed fuel, they did not have it. They had not
    thought at all about any needs of the future. It is easier and you can be lazy and ease through days if you don’t.

    God does not honor the slough full. That stirred in my mind. He detests the sluggard’s ways, He indeed gives example.
    Look up sluggard and I did.

    Proverbs 6:6-11

    6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and be wise! 7 Even though they have no
    prince, governor, or ruler to make them work, 8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. 9 But
    you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? I want you to learn this lesson: 10 A little extra
    sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-- 11 and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
    scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

    Then He said look up” Tree” in Matthew.

    Matthew 21:18-19

    18 In the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, he was hungry, 19 and he noticed a fig tree beside the
    road. He went over to see if there were any figs on it, but there were only leaves. Then he said to it, "May you
    never bear fruit again!" And immediately the fig tree withered up.

    I believe the fig tree to resemble the lazy servant. That is what I feel God was revealing.

    “What is a lazy servant Lord?

    Comes back- “One neither cold nor hot, I will spew them out of my mouth”. They are of no use to me. They gather and do
    not sow; they will want and not gather in times to come.

    “If my people will humble themselves and cry out to me and turn from their wicked ways, then I will heal their land”.  Many
    will not turn, their foreheads are like flint.

    My People will call out to me, MY people will purify themselves. Many lazy will fall by the wayside. There was no effort to
    help the needy. There was no trudging of the plow of daily tasks, but instead the glory given the shade of a tree in which
    to lie under. No trust in Me, just idleness.”

    “Time, times, and a half. Time, times, and a half will be, do not look beyond, trust and obey. Though the yoke is heavy,
    the burdens will be light. Do as I lead; not as the world does, nor as the religious sayers do. Trust MY Word. Study to
    show thyself approved; needing not to be ashamed.

    A workman honors his master

    A servant honors his Lord

    A son honors his father

    All things combine as the workman, servant, son comes to me in relationship that is more than them all. A child of the most
    high God, Creator of the Universe.

    My grace is sufficient for you. Honor me by your working in Love. Do not yield the fruit of idleness that kills the tree, as the
    moths consume the useless branch. Forever reach out to others in comfort. Love and supply. Kindness I have shown you.


    1 Corinthians 13

    13:1 The Greatest Gift


    Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a
    clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
    though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow
    all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

    4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;5 does not behave
    rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the
    truth;7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

    8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease;
    whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.10 But when that
    which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

    11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I
    put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I
    shall know just as I also am known.

    13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


    That is what God has shown me. I know that in obeying the steps God is showing me to do,that it will bless others to come.
    And in this, I believe, it will bring them to a hunger and thirst for Him that supplies and foods cannot remedy, only that
    relationship with Jesus can fill that need. He is the source of all things good and sustaining.
Dreams and Visions
Keep Oil in Your Lamp
December 30, 2009