Prune The Vine, Buy The Field, Sow The Seeds

The Transitioning Time Is At Hand

June and July the end of a particular transition period (transition within a transition within a transition) that was to act as a preparation for what is about to now be established, formed, birthed - both in the spirit and in the natural. Prophets, lead the way. How well you have prepared and surrendered to the work of the Lord in you up until now, will indicate what and to what level/degree the Lord will now have you form.

-The Limitations to the Formation: Know that there are some things that the Lord intended to now come forth at this time, but if we have not completed the preparation work in us that He asked us to yield to, then He will delay the forming so that we are not building an altar to ourselves. There are real consequences to our unprepared condition, and we need to also be aware we are in times now where even delaying addressing things too long will hold up or stop the bus with even corporate overflowing effects.

Prune The Vine

“This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.” Isaiah 65:8

The new wine is found in the cluster of grapes on the vine. Are you fully grafted into the vine and amongst the cluster? Vines respond well to ORDER, so they require a good HARD prune to produce well. Have you fully allowed the hard prune to the degree the Lord has required? New grapes, and therefore the new wine, are borne on new growth arising from last season's wood. John 15:1 The Father is our vinedresser, the keeper of His vineyard, and He will do what is required in order that His vineyard produces according to His will at this time, not our own. You will produce based on how you responded to this last season, and how willing you have been to being pruned back. Understand that how much you allow this process will determine outcomes corporately, nationally and the coming harvest and kingdom advancement. We cannot afford to be narrow in our thinking and decisions with only our personal interests in mind. We must have the bigger picture, God’s perspective, an eternal and generational perspective at the forefront, and understand the responsibility we hold in that.

Buy The Field

Jeremiah 32:6-8 Buy the field at Anathoth. Anathoth was a Levitical city, Jeremiah’s birthplace, a city of refuge, territory of the tribe of Benjamin. The anointing of the tribe of Benjamin was ones called to war and to win wars. They were ambidextrous, and archers. Called to uproot, overthrow, to build and to plant Jer 1:10. Anathoth means ‘answered prayers’. When the Lord had Jeremiah buy the field at Anathoth, which was his birthright to, he was in prison in the palace, the enemy was camped out on that very field, Jeremiah’s own people despised him for prophesying the Lord’s judgment on Israel for disobedience, and there was great oppression and war. Yet Jeremiah trusted the Lord and the purposes He had in mind for His people. Jeremiah’s act was a demonstration and participation in God’s promised restoration. Faith and hope despite a war zone and the outworking of God’s judgment. Jeremiah at this point does not take an ‘I told you so’ stance, he is “not interested in building a reputation as an accurate weather forecaster… in checking off a list of fulfilled predictions…(he is) interested in how the purposes of God can fill the present … from futility to hope” Run with Horses. When God’s judgment is at hand, he promises hope and a future. Matt 13:44 “the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field… he hid it again, then in all joy, sold all he had and bought the field.” What is the field of the Kingdom of God that the Lord has before you? Will you in all joy give everything you have, count the cost, to buy the field? See the field in the spirit, before your feet even touch it, and command the specific life that is to spring up from it before you see it come to pass in the natural.

Sow The Seeds

Matt 13:1-23, the parable of the sower. You then must take your seeds and sow them actively and purposely. The Lord showed me people holding glass jars full of seeds, seeds of prophetic promises but they could not produce because the field had not been bought and the seeds not been sown to produce. They had become like wishing jars causing hope deferred, stuck and repetitive cycles where new seasons should have been. The Lord is asking for active partnership over these seeds. “If you have pruned, and I have not held you back, if you have bought the field, now I say to you start now, begin, birth, lay your foundations of forming, and don’t wait anymore” say’s the Lord. Don’t sow carelessly that it is easily robbed; don’t sow without producing strong roots that last through adversity; don’t sow while also cultivating worry, distrust, and self gain. Sow with eternity in mind.

Israel thought their only options to navigate exile (that God had placed them in) were to conform, to run or to revolt. But the Lord’s way of advancing His Kingdom is subversive.

Jeremiah 29:5-7

Build houses, settle down, plant gardens and eat your produce. Have families, increase don’t decrease. Seek the peace and prosperity of the city… Even your very presence is an affront to the enemy and wages war, for you are the habitation of the Lord Himself and His light must light up the darkness and advance His kingdom where. Where you go, there He is. Decree the seeds of the kingdom to be established, to be rooted, to produce.

Job 22:28 “When you make a decision, it will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways. ... Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee”

Activation:

The Vine- Ask the Lord to show you the condition of your vine in the spirit. What does it look like? What vines still need the chop? What are they called? Most pruning is circumcision of the heart. What is the ripeness or maturity of your grape (life) currently for the season? Under ripe grapes are sour. It's ok if you realise you are still in the maturing process for the season. Ask the Lord to name THIS season for you.

The Field - See the field for this NEXT SEASON in the spirit. What is it? What is it called? What is the KINGDOM treasure that is hidden in that field the Lord is asking you to in all joy give all you have to buy? The treasure is that of ETERNAL value. What is the current condition of that field? What initial work will need doing for the field to be ready for sowing seed? In the spirit ask the Lord to show you the potential of the life of that field and make prophetic declarations for life to spring up from that field BEFORE you even obtain your field.

The Seeds - Write down key prophetic words that the Lord shows you are for THIS season to sow into the field. Next to those words, ask Him how He wants you to practically apply them to develop those seeds/prophetic words. Ask to see what generation effects they will have and how to develop the seeds to produce seeds of their own that have longevity.