Angels trimming the Hedges
vision:
While at the prayer watch on 4/20/12, the
Lord showed me a vision of many angels who had long bladed instruments and they
were trimming hedges and straggly looking bushes that had grown up around the outside
of the windows of a building. The bushes were unkempt and needed trimming and re-shaping
so that you could see out of the windows. The Lord then said, "This
represents the realm of the soul and of the spirit in My Church that is
cluttered with the things of the world and the things of this life. Many have
allowed themselves to be entangled with cares and with busyness, so much so,
that their spiritual receptivity to Me is cluttered and diluted. I am bringing
forth a new trimming work among them so that they can be brought forth into
greater clarity and into a more accurate level of spiritual insight, and so
that they can more fully understand the things that I want to do among them in
the days ahead. I am going to unclutter My Church."
John 15:1 I AM the True Vine,
and My Father is the Vinedresser. 2 Any branch in Me that does not bear
fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He
cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to
make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit. 3 You are cleansed
and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I
have discussed with you].
Matthew 15:13 He answered,
"Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted
up. ESV
Romans 11:22 Then note and
appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those
who have fallen, but God's gracious kindness to you--provided you continue
in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off
(pruned away).
The world and it's desires cloud the vision:
1 John 2:15 Do not love or
cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the
world, love for the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the
world--the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust
of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in
one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things]--these do not come
from the Father but are from the world [itself]. 17 And the world passes
away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate
desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His
purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.
Job 30:13 They break up and
clutter my path [embarrassing my plans]; they urge on my calamity, even though
they have no helper [and are themselves helpless].
Luke 11:34 Your eye is the
lamp of your body; when your eye (your conscience) is sound and fulfilling its
office, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound and is not
fulfilling its office, your body is full of darkness. 35 Be careful, therefore,
that the light that is in you is not darkness.
Notice the work of the
office of the prophetic or the revelatory realm...it brings light to the Body.
Clutter hinders the working of the Lord's light in the Body of Christ. A
diminished revelation brings dullness and lethargy sets in.
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Proverbs
29:18 Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of
God, which includes that of man]--blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is
he.
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1
Samuel 3:1 Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. And
the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
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2
Chronicles 15:3 For a long time Israel
was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,
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Psalms
74:9 We do not see our signs; there is no longer any
prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
Matthew 6:21 For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The eye is the lamp of the body.
So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light. But if your
eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very
light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!
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Lethargy
aids in dulling the conscience (your spiritual discernment in your spirit) to
become weak and unresponsive to the Holy Spirit's warnings, thereby if it is
not engaged, eventually your conscience will harden and become seared.
Deuteronomy 4:9 "Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the
things that your eyes have seen,
and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your
children’s children—
Deuteronomy 11:18 "You shall therefore lay up these words of
mine in your heart and in your soul,
and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes. - Focus keeps your faith grounded!
The world, the flesh, and it's desires dull
the hearing:
Acts 5:11 Concerning this we have much to say which is
hard to explain, since you have become dull
in your [spiritual] hearing and
sluggish [even slothful in achieving spiritual insight].
Mark 4:18 And the ones sown
among the thorns are others who hear the Word; 19 Then the cares and
anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and
delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and
passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word,
and it becomes fruitless.
Acts 28:27 For the heart
(the understanding, the soul) of this people has grown dull (stupid, hardened,
and calloused), and their ears are heavy and hard of hearing and they have shut
tight their eyes, so that they may not perceive and have knowledge and
become acquainted with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with
their souls and turn [to Me and be converted], that I may heal them.
The Word of God (by the Holy Spirit) washes
our souls and spirits when it is spoken to us and embraced by us.
Ephesians 5:26 So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,
John
17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but
because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth
(regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Removing the Clutter and clearing our
Spiritual Seeing:
Acts 24:16 Therefore I
always exercise and discipline myself [mortifying my body, deadening my carnal
affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects]
to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God
and toward men.
Job 4:25 I
had heard of You [only] by the hearing
of the ear, but now my [spiritual]
eye sees You.
Numbers 22:31 Then the Lord
opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way
with His sword drawn in His hand; and he bowed his head and fell on his face.
Numbers 24:3 And he took up
his [figurative] discourse and said: Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eye
is opened [at last, to see clearly the purposes and will of God], 4 He [Balaam]
who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down,
but having his eyes open and uncovered, he says: 5 How attractive and
considerable are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!
15 And he took up his
[figurative] discourse, and said: Balaam son of Beor speaks, the man whose
eye is opened speaks, 16 He speaks, who heard the words of God and knew the
knowledge of the Most High, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling down,
but having his eyes open and uncovered. 17 I see Him, but not now; I behold
Him, but He is not near. A star (Star) shall come forth out of Jacob, and a
scepter (Scepter) shall rise out of Israel and shall crush all the corners of
Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth [Moab's sons of tumult].
2 Peter 1:1 SIMON PETER, a
servant and apostle (special messenger) of Jesus Christ, to those who have
received (obtained an equal privilege of) like precious faith with ourselves in
and through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 May grace
(God's favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all
spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral
conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and
correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 For His divine power has
bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and
godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and
to His own glory and excellence (virtue). 4 By means of these He has
bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through
them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and
corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and
become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. 5 For this very reason,
adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in
exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian
energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence), 6 And
in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising]
self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising]
steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety), 7 And in [exercising] godliness
[develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection
[develop] Christian love. 8 For as these qualities are yours and
increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful
unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the
Anointed One). 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [spiritually]
shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the
fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.
Susan O'Marra
