Have you been crying out to go deeper with God and yet everywhere you look is a wilderness? Do you continue to ask God why?
“Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches” (Joel 2:22 NIV).
This is how your wilderness will become a green pasture.
This is a word the Lord has been speaking to me for those who are crying out to go deeper in Him. You want to fulfill your call. You want to see more.
This is how your wilderness will become a green pasture.
He has heard your cry. And yet there is much to that heart cry. Look at the verse above again.
Have you ever noticed that the Lord tells us not to be afraid when we have every reason to fear? Think of all the times when an angel appeared and the first words out of their mouths were, “Fear not.”
There is a price to going deeper.
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I hear many saying, “Lord I want you. I want to go deeper in You and receive all that you have.” You desire to see more in your ministry and life.
Is that true? For there is a price. Those kinds of prayers can often launch us into wilderness seasons.
I think back to the time I prayed and asked the Lord to show me about integrity in business. He did. Afterwards, there was a season when I encountered ministry after ministry that didn’t want to pay their bill for work I had done for them, didn’t want to respond to issues and were extremely rude and demeaning. I learned about integrity, but not how I expected.
A few years ago I asked the Lord to show me about honor. He did. Similarly, it was through a ministry that said they based everything they did on honor.
Yet while they did honor some, they worked off the premise that they could also dishonor and degrade those they felt didn’t deserve honor. As I searched out scriptures to their confusing behavior I did indeed learn much about honor, but not in the way I expected.
Both were painful experiences, but ones I would never trade as the Holy Spirit taught into them and imparted the insight for which I had requested.
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You cannot give what you do not possess.
We can teach on healing, but until we have experienced it, it is head knowledge rather than heart knowledge. That goes for any area of our lives. What we walk through and then obtain victory, is the area for which we can then impart that victory and insight to others. It becomes our platform for ministry.
Do not despise the trials. Do not despise the hard situations for although the Lord doesn’t cause them, He will work through them and turn them for your good.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28 NKJV).
He said your wilderness will become a green pasture. Green represents life. There is life in what you have learned if you will allow it to take you higher. You can stay in it, or go up higher.
Moses chose to climb the mountain and receive more. The children of Israel were content to let Moses have that intimate relationship with Him and couldn’t even touch the foot of the mountain.
Why? They wanted to receive from the Lord, but they didn’t want to pay the price.
There is an outpouring being released right now. A greater anointing in the gifts of the Spirit and impartation of revelation. He is taking the lid off of areas where you have sought knowledge.
But it won’t come without climbing the mountain to receive it. Even in the wilderness, the mountain was accessible for those who wanted to make the climb.
“Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches” (Joel 2:22 NIV).
Those wilderness seasons in your life, He is turning them into green pastures. The trees are bearing fruit. But you can’t have fruit, unless there is growth and health.
May you bear much fruit and may you find green pastures in your wildness. May you choose to climb the mountain. It’s worth the climb.
