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My Storehouses …The
Endtime Collection …Chronicle by
Glenda Wilson
This rendering was
inspired by a word sent by email from Chuck Pierce – I have included
an excerpt below.
June 26, 2005 –Chuck Pierce –“This is the
also the time that a new level of supply begins to be unlocked. Watch
for new provisional strategies in the earth realm. He is "preparing us
for the suddenlies”. Suddenlies usually occur and overwhelm us when we
least expect something is about to happen. To prepare means to "build
a form for something, like a frame for a house”. If we develop a
frame of reference for an enlarged storehouse, the Lord will bring
the infilling.”
With the story of
Joseph so ingrained in my spirit, when I hear of storehouses, I always
think of his story. Since I am a visual person and artist –a frame of
reference for me is a picture. Immediately I began to envision the
granaries that were in Egypt in the time of Joseph and the famine. How
large those storehouses must have been to be able to send provision to
the nations.
In this current
hour, we find a famine in the land in both the natural and the
spiritual. Since we realize all things result form the spiritual
realm, we must realize that the famine is not from a lack of water and
food but one for a lack of the word. Remembering that the Bible
translators voted to render the scripture in the causative – Amos’s
statement says that God was sending the famine. Knowing that God is a
good God, I believe that He allowed the famine and determined to use
it to turn those that would be His toward Himself.
Amos 8:11-12 Behold, the days are coming,
says the Lord God, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine
of bread, nor a thirst for water, but [a famine] for hearing the words
of the Lord. And [the people] shall wander from sea to sea and from
the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word
of the Lord [inquiring for and requiring it as one requires food], but
shall not find it. AMP
Jesus was tempted
by the devil to turn stones into bread, but His reply was, "It is
written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God'" (Matthew 4:4).
The purpose of
Joseph’s testing was to develop character, to mature his vision and
ready him to provide the nations with grain (the equivalent of “The
Bread of Life”). God entrusted Joseph with the task of preserving the
lineage that would bring forth the ultimate “Bread of Life”, Jesus the
Christ. I am always moved by the maturity of Joseph’s reaction and
revelation he shared with his brothers who betrayed him.
Gen 45:7 7 God sent me before you to
preserve for you a posterity and to continue a remnant on the earth,
to save your lives by a great escape and save for you many survivors.
AMP
We to must come to
the realization, as did Joseph that we too have been sent. We must
position ourselves in character and maturity to disburse the wealth
that is about to be released into our hands. We must spiritually
prepare a frame of reference for larger storehouses. What would have
happened had the Egyptians not had the foresight to build large
granaries –granaries that they thought would be to hoard provision,
but was ultimately for God’s purpose?
Where are we in the
process? Are we building storehouses for our purpose or for His? Where
is our treasure laid up …for where our treasure is, there also is our
heart. Everything always reverts to the heart and motive.
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