A few months ago (while on the Race) just before we left South Africa, my team and I did listening prayer for each other.
I asked my teammates to listen about two things from the Lord – CGA and Fasting.
I got the following responses:
- Trust
- Look up verses about fasting
- Patience (Ironically, my teammate Jenn saw a snail holding a letter with this one, because, ya know, snails are slow aka – patience required!) The Lord has definitely grown me in patience this year! 😛
- ‘Coming Soon’ (like what you used to see on movie previews)
- Proverbs 3:17: “Her ways are of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.”
AND,
- Ezekiel Chapter 17
I’d read the chapter when I first received the reference but didn’t understand what it was supposed to mean to me.
You see, since October I’ve been reading through the bible chronologically, and in just the last couple weeks I’ve been reading through Ezekiel.
The significance of Ezekiel 17 didn’t hit me until last week when I was sitting in bed one night scrolling through my phone and I came across my listening prayer notes.
I felt prompted to read it again, and this time it blew me away!
Chapter 17 talks about the Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine.
The first eagle comes along and he is beautiful! He is majestic with bright multi-coloured feathers and large wings.
He comes across a cedar tree and breaks off a couple of its twigs and replants them in good, well watered soil. The plant flourishes and grows strong in it’s new location.
Along comes a second eagle, also great and majestic like the first one.
The vine sends out its roots and branches towards him so it can be watered from far away and its branches bear fruit.
’Will it thrive? Won’t it be pulled up by it’s roots? It won’t be hard to take it down.’ (paraphrased vs 9-10).
‘God, the Master, says, I personally will take a shoot from the top of the towering cedar, a cutting from the crown of the tree, and plant it on a high and towering mountain, on the high mountain of Israel. It will grow, putting out branches and fruit – a majestic cedar. Birds of every sort and kind will live under it. They’ll build nests in the shade of it’s branches. All the trees of the field will recognize that I, God, made the great tree small and the small tree great, made the green tree turn dry and the dry tree sprout green branches.
I, God, said it – and I did it.’ (vs 22-24)
Ezekiel has been fascinating me.
God revealed why He chose this chapter for me:
God is the majestic eagle, taking and re-planting me from Canada to the USA in January because He knows I am going to grow a lot here.
He knows that I will flourish far more by doing CGA and being in this community then I ever could in my old one.
CGA is not going to be without it’s trials and testing, but by abiding in the Lord and being obedient to His voice, there will be so much fruit produced!
‘You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He may give it to you.’ (John 15: 16)
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