The visitation of God’s Holy Spirit
We are reading the Bible through in one year in our church congregation and I have personally chosen to read and listen from an audio version found in www. BibleGateway .com from the NIV.
On Tuesday evening of this week we gathered for prayer at the church house and a message in tongues and interpretation was given and part of the message said, “behold, I come quickly and My fan is in My hand and I will thoroughly purge my floor.”
That next morning which was Wednesday as I was reading and listening to the third chapter of Matthew’s gospel, verse 12 says, “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” The King James says “purge”. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I believe that God is telling us to get ready for a visitation of His Holy Spirit.
THE WINNOWING PROCESS (if not already) will soon begin.
That verse is taken from Matthew 3 as already stated and it was quoted by John the Baptist and I want to give it to you in it’s context. Matthew 3:5-12 (King James Version)
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5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
6And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
It speaks here of separation…the wheat and the chaff and it speaks of the fire of God the Holy Ghost burning up the chaff after the threshing floor has been swept clean. The winnowing process separated the chaff from the wheat..
Notice that when the Holy Ghost comes He burns up the chaff in our lives. We must live a separated life; that is a life that is separated from sin; not people.
There has been chaff in my life and I pray that God will burn it up with His unquenchable fire so that all that is left is good. What about you today? Has the winnowing fan separated the wheat from the chaff; do you know the process that God is using?
In the book of Romans ch. 7, the apostle writes about our sinful flesh and he also speaks in verse 18 concerning the fact that in our flesh dwells no good thing even though we want to do good we can’t because of sin. Verse 19 says, “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20) Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me. “Then down in verses 24,25, “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Sin is like the albatross around the Ancient Mariner’s neck) The answer comes resoundingly from the pen of Paul here in verse 25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”….chaff needs to be burnt. With my mind I too serve the law of God; but like Paul I find myself many times failing and serving the law of sin…..thoughts,attitudes, feelings,lusting after things,wasting precious time following “trivial pursuits” the list goes on and on. Anyone else know what I am talking about?
I cry Lord send the fire! Burn up the chaff! Burn up the dross! It is coming folks and I don’t want to miss it! I am determined not to miss it. It is the Divine visitation of the Spirit for these last days!! Get ready and pray for it to come your way….pray that the wind of the Spirit blows in your direction…Jesus said “the wind blows wherever it wants to” so let us pray that it will blow on us. Don't miss it! There's nothing like it!
We are reading the Bible through in one year in our church congregation and I have personally chosen to read and listen from an audio version found in www. BibleGateway .com from the NIV.
On Tuesday evening of this week we gathered for prayer at the church house and a message in tongues and interpretation was given and part of the message said, “behold, I come quickly and My fan is in My hand and I will thoroughly purge my floor.”
That next morning which was Wednesday as I was reading and listening to the third chapter of Matthew’s gospel, verse 12 says, “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” The King James says “purge”. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I believe that God is telling us to get ready for a visitation of His Holy Spirit.
THE WINNOWING PROCESS (if not already) will soon begin.
That verse is taken from Matthew 3 as already stated and it was quoted by John the Baptist and I want to give it to you in it’s context. Matthew 3:5-12 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
Public Domain
5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
6And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
It speaks here of separation…the wheat and the chaff and it speaks of the fire of God the Holy Ghost burning up the chaff after the threshing floor has been swept clean. The winnowing process separated the chaff from the wheat..
Notice that when the Holy Ghost comes He burns up the chaff in our lives. We must live a separated life; that is a life that is separated from sin; not people.
There has been chaff in my life and I pray that God will burn it up with His unquenchable fire so that all that is left is good. What about you today? Has the winnowing fan separated the wheat from the chaff; do you know the process that God is using?
In the book of Romans ch. 7, the apostle writes about our sinful flesh and he also speaks in verse 18 concerning the fact that in our flesh dwells no good thing even though we want to do good we can’t because of sin. Verse 19 says, “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20) Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me. “Then down in verses 24,25, “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Sin is like the albatross around the Ancient Mariner’s neck) The answer comes resoundingly from the pen of Paul here in verse 25, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”….chaff needs to be burnt. With my mind I too serve the law of God; but like Paul I find myself many times failing and serving the law of sin…..thoughts,attitudes, feelings,lusting after things,wasting precious time following “trivial pursuits” the list goes on and on. Anyone else know what I am talking about?
I cry Lord send the fire! Burn up the chaff! Burn up the dross! It is coming folks and I don’t want to miss it! I am determined not to miss it. It is the Divine visitation of the Spirit for these last days!! Get ready and pray for it to come your way….pray that the wind of the Spirit blows in your direction…Jesus said “the wind blows wherever it wants to” so let us pray that it will blow on us. Don't miss it! There's nothing like it!
posted by Randall | 7:32 a.m.
3 Comments:
That is the cry of our hearts to Randall Oh GOD come and burn up that which is not of your and help us to be willing to let go of the things that are keeping us from moving forward in you Lord Jesus hear our cry today we pray. B&G
Good thoughts Randall. I totally agree with what you said. We have to completely and totally surrender ourselves to the Lord. Sin will always be there, but thank the Lord He can take them away. I know that there has got to be a breakthrough in my life. I want so much more of Jesus, but I feel the pulling of satan so strong on me sometimes, but I know that satan will ALWAYS be defeated!! I am looking forward to the day when Jesus pours out His spirit among all of us in a way like never before!!
Another wake-up call, Randall. When I think about the “purging” of the Holy Spirit, it is hard to be indifferent. It is a frightening thought - we pray for a visitation of the Holy Spirit but we don’t want to think about what it will look like. We have selective vision as to what a visitation of the Holy Spirit might look like in our lives. I looked up the verse in a commentary and this is what was said about Matt. 3:12, “The grain is the part of the plant that is useful; chaff is the worthless outer shell. Because it is useless, chaff is burned; grain, however, is stored. The unrepentant people will be judged and discarded because they have no value in God’s work; those who repent and believe will be saved and used by God.”
I pray for God’s mercy that my life will be useful to Him and not as chaff that will be burned up by the fire of His judgement. Thank God for the Holy Spirit who leads us in righteous living.
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