Eph 3:20 Now to
him who is
able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine (think), according to his power that is
at work within us.
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This is the word that came to me on Friday night, 18th April during Easter 2003,
Today I have been to church and then went land hunting with my wife and
two of my children. I have always been a man of the land, though rover
the last few years I have been of it. The ties to the land runs in my
blood, and tonight I was reflecting on how you can take the boy from
the bush but can't take the bush from the boy.
Then I felt the Lord had this to say, which I am sharing with you now.
Malachi 4:6
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the
hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike
the land with a curse.
To our men of the land.
Tonight I felt the lord had me say this. Men you are in relationship
with the land, sometimes you hate it, sometimes you love it and
sometimes you wish you could pretend it's no longer even there. You
wrestle with it, to draw the best it can give, you nurture it, you till
it, you fertilise it, you seed it, you cull and weed and burn and
spray, you even water it when there is water to give, and then you
harvest it.
The harvest depends on the amount of nurturing you give it, and on the amount of water it receives.
Guys you can work hard from sun up till sundown working the soil hard
to give it its best and it will give you its best it can give you with
all the hard work you put into it, but the true harvest depends on the
water, the life giving, thirst quenching water, the water that brings
healing, the water that brings life, the water that sustains life and
even produces new life.
Men of the Land listen to what the Lord would have you hear him say,
you work hard for your families, you work hard for yourself, and the
words you speak to your family, the words you speak to your self can be
like words of water or poison. They can either build up or burn down,
they can encourage your wives and sons and daughters to bloom and to
blossom and to bear much fruit or they can spray over them like toxin
and cause them to wither and die.
Words have the power of life and death, men of the land listen up, many
of you feel that you are like wells run dry that you are like dams with
a little muddy water left in them that you are like the garden tank
hose with no pressure, that you are like a cloud with no water, that
you are running dry with nothing else to give.
Men of the land listen up; it is when you are this dry you need to turn
to the source of water, the source of living water which is there only
for the asking, every one who drinks of the water of the Lord will
never thirst again, indeed it will become like a well in you, a spring
that flows up to eternal life.
Who is this source of living water; it is none other than our lord and
savoir Jesus Christ. Who beckons and calls, "Come to me all who are
heavily burdened, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light"
I ask you, over this Easter will you allow Jesus to refill your tanks?
Craig
Monday 11th April 2005
To our Men of the land
Tonight
the lord was talking to me about his being a Father and how there is a
wound that runs deep within Australia of many being fatherless and that
wound is reflected in our churches and across this nation of ours. He
has been talking to me about how Australia has roots that run deep of
fatherless-ness right from the very beginning of Australian settlement,
a wound that caused much wounding of the original inhabitants.
Australia
was settled by many children ripped from the care of their parents and
sent out here without a father, many men were ripped from their
families and sent out here causing an issue of fatherless-ness where
they left.
This
wound was what was behind the killing of many aborigine men in the
land, again causing the issues of fatherless-ness to increase, and then
this wounding was the root cause of what caused the men of this land to
then rip many aborigine children from their families and caused another
deep wounding of fatherless-ness,
This
wounding on the nation was again compounded by the various wars across
that our nation was involved in, where many men were killed or in
action while their wives gave birth back home, causing an issue of
wounded-ness
in these children of being brought up with no father, during world war
one may of our men who went to war never came back and the same with
the second world war, those who did come back found it hard to be a
father to their children and the cycle was growing worse and worse.
Then the Vietnam war came and men went to war and caused much heartache
and brought home much heartache, and as a result again many children
increasingly were being raised up with no father.
Again
we are at war, this ugly issue of Fatherless-ness is again increasingly
raising it’s ugly head, only the spiritual stronghold behind this
is worse, fathers are abandoning their children in many ways, one is
through abortion, another is to leave their families and there kids for
a life of their own, and the 3rd issue is that men are opting out of
father hood altogether, deciding not to have families, deciding not to
have children at all.
Then the lord spoke to me and said,
There
is a deep wound in the men of the land, a wound that has been caused by
fatherless-ness, a wounding that runs deep into the very soul of
Australia, a wounding that is festering and weeping, a wound that is
gaping open and is ugly and is a wound that can not be left to heal on
it’s own, it’s a wound that can only be healed by me. Men
of the land, you need to turn to me and to come to me as your father,
you need to lay down all your hurts, you need to lay down all your
pretences, you need to lay down all your pride and come to me and allow
me to be your father. Men of the land listen up, I am the father of all
fathers, I have seen and I know the weaknesses and the failings of your
own natural fathers, the very weaknesses and failings that were caused
by them being wounded by less than perfect fathers, men of the land
listen up, you cannot do it on your own, you can not continue to be
independent, you cannot continue to pretend you are not hurting, men of
the land, many of you are orphans, many of you have no father, many of
you have never known a true father and for many of you wish that you
never had a father. Men of the land listen up, I am the only perfect
father, to the men of the church you need to get a revelation of me as
your father, you need to get this revelation deep into your soul, deep
into your spirit, and you need to bring about that revelation into your
community. Men of the land listen up, your communities are hurting
because of fatherless-ness, your children are hurting, your walk with me is hurting, men of the land turn to me,
Deu
14:29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of
their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in
your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your
God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
And
Psa 68:5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Men
of the land I am calling you to stop the curse in this land, I am
calling you to me and for you to rise up and defend the cause of the
fatherless and for you to turn to me, to seek my face and for the
stronghold of fatherless-ness to be broken in this nation.
Men
of the land listen to me, my son died for you, and through him I have
called you to be my children, I have called you because of my son, come
to me all you who are heavenly laden, cast your cares on me, my yoke is
easy, my burden is light, come to me and cast all your cares on me
because I care for you.
craig