Vision: Pomegranate Arils
31st August 2018
I saw this vision yesterday .
Wheresoever I looked the land was covered in pomegranate arils.
I saw a few people ‘walking’ over the arils without bruising or crushing it. Untrained people could not walk this walk. The men and women who did, had spent a long period in training and were now skilled at gliding over the pomegranate arils without their feet ever touching it.
Two groups dwelt in distant places, on pomegranate aril-free grounds.
They looked perturbed. The sight of the distant ground covered in pomegranate arils disturbed them. A glimpse from afar, of the skillful walkers bothered them.
They did not know who these skilled people were nor could they understand to whom God had sent such as these, and why.
One group could be recognized by their defiant look, another group by their tedium. The latter mostly lay on the beach looking bored, kicking sand with their feet.
Now nearest to the skilled walkers, was yet another bunch of people. They stood miles away from the other two groups, and had been repeatedly asking themselves just one question.
Next
These skilled ones who walked on pomegranate arils, were distributing sheets of paper to all the three groups.
Written upon the sheet of paper were these Scriptures.
Deuteronomy 10:12-14
12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord‘s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Isaiah 1:2
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Matthew 22:35-40
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Next
A stranger passing by the two groups saw them frowning and looking most displeased. He overheard the two groups as they read the Scripture and questioned one another.
” These who walk on pomegranate arils….To whom has God Sent them ?”
” To the backsliders and the rebellious “, said the stranger.
The third group……
Now the bunch of people assembled nearest to the skilled walkers, ( but on pomegranate aril-free ground ) , had been repeatedly asking themselves just one question, and that was:
“What does God want from us?”
This group rejoiced and leaped for joy as they read the Scripture.
Swarna Jha
Bombay-India
Proverbs 1:1-7
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Tents of Issachar 
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Thank you so much Paul.
Abundant blessings
Swarna
From: REVIVAL List
Date: Thursday, September 6, 2018
Subject: [revival] AFRICA BECKONS YOU! – Andrew Strom
To: anzac@welovegod.org
Excerpt/quote from this post 🙂
“We need to
realize that there is a wide world out there that is hungry and
desperate for sound preaching and biblical truth. Its just not in
our own countries any more! Sadly the days of the Western
nations welcoming John the Baptists is largely gone – let’s face facts.
I remember once hearing David Servant make an analogy of a
fisherman with two fishing-holes to choose from. In one fishing
hole he caught virtually no fish at all, and the one he did catch
jumped up and spat water in his face! In the other fishing hole
the fish were so desperate to be caught that they were clinging
onto the line and he was hauling them in as fast as he could get
his pole back in the water! Which fishing hole should he choose?
Of course it was the second one.
A lot of us think it is the “spiritual” thing to do, to wait and wait
and wait in unwelcoming or unresponsive places, but as David
Servant also pointed out, Jesus clearly told his disciples that if
they are not received in one town, to leave that place and go on
until they find a receptive place. This is actually a commandment
of God. Otherwise all of God’s servants are left wasting their time
in unresponsive environments. Jesus says “GO!” ” (end quote)
Love this analogy which I think complements the vision that you shared. Love this vision you shared -thank you!
Love, Blessings and Hugs, Judi
(This prayer was added to a post from a group I follow and I saw it after I commented from Revival List.)
“Lord, may we be the light of the world, the city on a hill as we dwell in your presence, living our lives in your will. May we also sense the thirst the world has for you, our Living God, despite the cynicism and hardness around us. May we not fear or cower before their contempt. Instead of the hypocrisy that the cynics expect, may they see us drawing true life, light, and living water from you and using it to mend the brokenness of all we touch. May this inspire a thirst for the same Living Water.”
Maranatha Mirror
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/maranatha-mirror-group-13-16/TbjjzOR77-0/64FxJIYzAwAJ
Amen!
Thank you so much Judi for sharing the insightful and thought provoking revival list message and the prayer. I checked my mail and read the full article.
Amen to the prayer! I prayed it.
Love and blessings and hugs
Swarna
David Servant’s insightful analogy on fish is from his August 2007 newsletter. Its a pdf file.
Thank you, Swarna! I am so glad that you shared where the whole article by David Servant can be found. Just finished reading and so timely for today’s conditions.
John 21:4-7 Revised Standard Version (RSV)
4 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any fish?” They answered him, “No.” 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish. 7 That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea.
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21%3A+4-7&version=RSV
Judi, am reminded of this….
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Into the Deep
By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
“Launch out into the deep” (Luke 5:4).
How deep He does not say. The depth into which we launch will depend upon how perfectly we have given up the shore, and the greatness of our need, and the apprehension of our possibilities. The fish were to be found in the deep, not in the shallow water.
So with us; our needs are to be met in the deep things of God. We are to launch out into the deep of God’s Word, which the Spirit can open up to us in such crystal fathomless meaning that the same words we have accepted in times past will have an ocean meaning in them, which renders their first meaning to us very shallow.
Into the deep of the Atonement, until Christ’s precious blood is so illuminated by the Spirit that it becomes an omnipotent balm, and food and medicine for the soul and body.
Into the deep of the Father’s will, until we apprehend it in its infinite minuteness and goodness, and its far-sweeping provision and care for us.
Into the deep of the Holy Spirit, until He becomes a bright, dazzling, sweet, fathomless summer sea, in which we bathe and bask and breathe, and lose ourselves and our sorrows in the calmness and peace of His everlasting presence.
Into the deep of the Holy Spirit, until He becomes a bright, marvelous answer to prayer, the most careful and tender guidance, the most thoughtful anticipation of our needs, the most accurate and supernatural shaping of our events.
Into the deep of God’s purposes and coming kingdom, until the Lord’s coming and His millennial reign are opened up to us; and beyond these the bright entrancing ages on ages unfold themselves, until the mental eye is dazed with light, and the heart flutters with inexpressible anticipations of its joy with Jesus and the glory to be revealed.
Into all these things, Jesus bids us launch. He made us and He made the deep, and to its fathomless depths He has fitted our longings and capabilities. –Soul Food
“Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each;
Enough forevermore.”
The deep waters of the Holy Spirit are always accessible, because they are always proceeding. Will you not this day claim afresh to be immersed and drenched in these waters of life? The waters in Ezekiel’s vision first of all oozed from under the doors of the temple. Then the man with the measuring line measured and found the waters to the ankles. Still further measurement, and they were waters to the knees. Once again they were measured and the waters were to the loins. Then they became waters to swim in–a river that could not be passed over. (Read Ezekiel 47). How far have we advanced into this river of life? The Holy Spirit would have a complete self effacement. Not merely ankle-deep, knee-deep, loin-deep, but self-deep. We ourselves hidden out of sight and bathed in this life-giving stream. Let go the shore-lines and launch out into the deep. Never forget, the Man with the measuring line is with us today. –J.G.M