By Jessica Miller
Email: jmiller@elijahlist.net

"We are entering a season of great harvest, as well as manifestations of the supernatural that are yet unheard of."

We are at a time in the Hebrew calendar that is called the Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth). This feast is so very significant for many reasons--one being that it was instituted by God through Moses while in the wilderness. Note that it is called a "FEAST" not a defeat or fast or a time of mourning--even though the children of Israel were in the wilderness!

Leviticus 23:43 describes the eternal purpose of the FEAST--to let the people of God know that after the Lord brought them out of Egypt, He caused them to dwell in booths (temporary structures) while they were in the wilderness. The wilderness experience is not the only thing that is TEMPORARY; so is the place (your situation and circumstance) that you have been dwelling in during your sojourn toward the promises of God.

Sometimes I have felt like the Israelites who, after noting no malls, grocery stores, swimming pools or high speed internet connection in the desert, decided that Egypt (the world system) was an easier place to inhabit--even if in bondage.

Moving from self-reliance to trusting in God is a furnace of emotions, temptations, experiences and trials. This is the way into the great and precious promises of God. This is the way into your destiny! If you are like me, had I known the way into intimacy with God would buy me a ticket into the wilderness, I might have not had the guts to be a desert dweller. He had to entice (or in a good way--trick) me!

The Sound of Comfort and Breakthrough

Hosea 2:14 reads like a shocking news flash--God said, "Therefore, I will ALLURE her (you and me), and will bring her into the WILDERNESS!" He then goes on to say, "There in the wilderness that HE brought her (you and me) He will speak COMFORT!"

Beloved, listen, do you hear the sound of comfort? He IS speaking to you. He is for you. He and all the hosts of Heaven are instituting and orchestrating your needed answer.

Hosea 2:15 tells you this: In your present dwelling place of trouble, He will give you a vineyard, He will give you hope. And you will sing as in the time when you first came out of Egypt. (Do you remember the joy when you first believed in the Lord, rejoiced in His word and received His love?)

Verse 16 is sweetest of all--you will have grown from the place of being a servant and of God being your Master, and you will call Him your "Husband" (and He will BE your Husband).

What a huge transition that is transpiring in the Body of Christ at this very season--from slave to "beautiful one," married to the Lord! We are being fashioned in much the same way Esther was--an orphan into a queen who captivated the heart of the King to the extent that He would do anything for her. You were born for such a time as this, and you are coming out of the wilderness at exactly the perfect moment.

Song of Solomon 8:5 asks this question: "Who is this coming up out of the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved?"

The Lord has allured us into the wilderness so that we would learn to lean upon Him--and yes, the devil has been very determined to make the wilderness feel like a never-ending time of trouble. But the Lord has prepared a FEAST for you in the presence of your enemy (the devil). You are coming out and will have an established place of effective authority in God's presence!

We are entering a season of great harvest, as well as manifestations of the supernatural that are yet unheard of at the level that is even now beginning to be released. This will require tremendous trust in the Lord, as well as a free flow of His wisdom, resources, strength, authority and power, grace, holiness and manifest glory.

This is the vineyard He has been establishing for you. The battle has been so fierce and the wilderness so bleak, that it is challenging to look at the rock and actually BELIEVE it is full of water! Speak to the rock--don't strike it in frustration or desperation. When your "rock" situation seems to have absolutely no way of producing your answer: Decree the Word of the Lord and wage a good warfare by the prophetic words you have received.

Make it your constant mission to build up and encourage those who are around you--remind them and yourself, continuously, of the goodness and greatness of our God.

It's time to celebrate that the temporary structures that were needed in the wilderness are just that--temporary. The God of Breakthrough is doing just that--He is breaking through for you.

Your set time has come!

Jessica L. Miller, Publications Manager
The ElijahList
Email: jmiller@elijahlist.net

Posted on 9/26/07

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