Tree of Life

Note: I appeal to all of you who love the truth... when you read the following post, please dun just glance through it cos there's so much truth that the Lord has revealed and i dun want it to go to waste... There are some parts that may be hard to digest but meditate on it and it will bless you! :)

I'm always very curious at what God is doing... and when He's revealing something, I'm usually very excited... but it seems that this year is the bumper year when He's really going ballistic in terms of revelations and all that... :)

Just wanna write down things i sense during the day and during my time of prayer.. while reading the prayer booklet today, the Lord just impressed upon me a few things to do for the WMD Camp... hehe.. it's gonna be the first time we're gonna do it in any camp... curious? Wait until the camp lah.. just wanna whet ur sense of expectation.. :) I'm really v v v excited! :D stay tuned...

While praying, i saw the number 12 before me and a tree which i knew was the tree of life... And the Scripture that was impressed upon me was Proverbs 13:12 (which incidentally had the number 12 in it..)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

And the Lord has been building upon the words that he has released throughout the year.. some of you may recall about John 10:10 and John 3:16 which talk about the life of Christ.. and about the cherubim with the flaming sword which turned every way to the tree of life in Genesis.. the Lord is making the tree of Life available to us! It's a revelation of Jesus as the Author of Life.. as the Great Reviver cos revival is essentially bringing life into something... And the arrival of the Great Reviver is also mentioned in Haggai, when the Desired of the Nations comes.. that is, when longing is fulfilled... it's too much for me to write about but meditate on these topics... Revelations 22:2 also says:

On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Again we see the number 12 there as well as the tree of life... It's talking about fruitfulness.. 12 is a number representative of government.. and when the government is in the hands of Jesus- the control, the dominion, etc...- then we'll see life, we'll see fruitfulness!

One thing that the Lord was impressing upon me today was that hope is something that we have to wait for, something we wait in eager expectation to arrive... in the NIV, when it comes, it talks about a longing being fulfilled... the term longing indicates that its a long time of waiting... but when it comes, it's gonna be a tree of life.. the waiting will be all worth it cos things of true value are worth waiting for... and that's how you know how genuine and valuable they are.. cos the earth is fleeting and quickly fading away but the Word of the Lord stands forever and He is not stressed to bring about what He has promised.. cos He owns time.. He's in control of time and he will fulfill His promises at his own time... And that's what proves that they are something of the Lord and something of true value and not just a temporary hype created by human earthly wisdom...

The longing is the process... And what He's doing in this period of waiting and longing is more than just bringing about an increasing expectancy.. he's actually bringing us into focus, into a divine convergence on who He is, not just on what He does.. cos this season of waiting is a season of preparation cos if revival is launched prematurely, we'll be more caught up with its manifestations than the Person of Jesus! So what He's doing in this long waiting period is He's getting us hungry for Him! He's bringing us to focus on Him- on His Person! He's revealing himself as the Desired of all Nations cos He can't reveal Himself like that if there's no time of waiting for the nations to desire Him. Do you see- the period of waiting is our preparation! And this principle is more than just a principle for building a lasting revival... it is a principle for the Bride of Christ herself as she awaits the coming of the Bridegroom! It's also a principle you can apply for intercession.. that's why you wait in the presence of God and discipline yourself to cast all distractions aside... so that after the time of waiting and barging through a siege of distractions, then all you'll be left with is Him, the Bridegroom, the Desired of all Nations....

This is the third installment of what the Lord has been teaching me for the past 3 days... If i had a title for the whole thing, i would call it "Preparing the Way"... but i'm sure there'll be more truth that the Lord will reveal.. :)

Ok on a different note.. while praying for Children's Church just now, i strongly believe that the coming healing move of God will involve them as well... as in they will be equipped and mobilised to go forth and pray healing over people... and I'm so excited cos the Lord has already revealed to me a part of what i'm called to do in CC... so everyone, pls uphold CC in prayer cos we dun wan anything to prevent us from entering into that promise! :)

Time to meditate! :) God bless! ;)