Through

Another week has passed by and with this the durian season is slowly coming to an end. It was an interesting challenge in the sense that this is the first time I am experiencing a durian season. I think I've written about that already but it bears repeating just to make my point. I've realised time and time again that the durian season is more than just collecting durians. It actually is like a thorny mirror that reflects the innermost being of a person, myself included. I've seen during this season of picking fruits the true nature of many a people and I myself have come to realise once more that we have yet more room to grow and to be moulded into the will of Elohim.

Over the course of nearly 3 weeks and counting I find that I am greatly challenged. Physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. And that's good because I find that there are many areas in my life that are lacking and as well areas that are well compensated. This season is one where I find myself put to the test and either found wanting or found fulfilled. In all honesty, this has been quite the adventure; not only am I having to deal with the durians dropping at every time of the day but also having other duties to cover as well as personal slot time in the sanctuary. All in all, I find that I'm actually more tired out than I thought I'd be and that really surprised me. However, it bears to mind that this just means yet another portion in my life that I have the opportunity to grow and learn.

Things are beginning to move once more and I find that now more than anything I must be sure of where and on Whom I stand on. The road ahead as I see for myself is long paved with uncertainties and whatnot but I have yet in me the Redeemer Who lives. People change but Yeshua Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Because of such an assurance I am able to press on, such a hope I have in Him that presses me onwards to the shining day. Things are really beginning to move for me and now I am needed to rely on the Holy Spirit not just once more but both now and forever if I am to see what He has promised me come to accomplishment. Praise Yahweh, so onward we go.

-Saturday, 28 July 2018, 2 years 10 months 21 days, 0402

Endurance Run

Well, the durian season is picking up and with it as well the hearts and intentions of many are made manifest. It's as though that as I go and collect the fruits I myself am facing my reflection in a fruity mirror and I believe not just I but each and every single person who comes involved with this season.

This is the time where I realise that it's not by might, nor by power but by the power which only the Holy Spirit supplies that we are able to continue forward. During this season perhaps the most prominent thing that has come to mind is this:

[Heb 10:36] For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

The patience that this verse speaks about is long suffering or in another term, endurance. This season has taught me in and out of the field and slopes that it's not strength neither is it power that avails much but the stamina and the endurance to see it through to the very end, no matter what fruit it yields. I'm not speaking plainly about just the durians here but in a figurative sense everything. During this season I find many issues and situations arise that puts to the test our right standing in Messiah. And it's in this season of many thorny storms that we learn not just to weather them but to breakthrough into clear skies.

[Rom 12:12] Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

The time is here that every action and word is tested by fire. Whether we realise it or not, and that also includes myself; there is a need and a must to go through each and every hurdle no matter how high or how daunting they may seem. I find that as the season continues on that should I not be careful about myself I will be easily bombarded by various thoughts and attacks by the enemy, whether physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It's in this time that I find that our foundation and our building on it is checked and if it should fall, then Yahweh is gracious enough to reveal to us while there is still time to amend. If it stands, then we praise Yahweh.

[1Pe 5:8] Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

This is a really interesting time, because I see that this durian season is really prophetic. At first, I merely brushed the idea aside because everything we do is prophetic and because of that we sometimes do not take it to heart. But truly I see that this durian season is prophetic in every sense. Personally, less for the souls out there but more aimed towards the inward conditions of many a hearts of those serving Yahweh and when such conditions are revealed...

I really praise Yahweh because it just goes to show and to remind me that I have yet much to learn and to follow through with Him. Inasmuch as He has blessed me with boundless revelations, signs and wonders, even to bear witness of what He is doing amongst the nations; all these are merely the blessings that come along when I first comes to know Elohim. I really do have much more to learn from Him and even through others. Perhaps He may even be gracious and like Boaz gift to me more than gleanings but even sheaves from His storehouse.

[Rth 2:15-16] And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

Praise Yeshua and may He empower us all through the effective working of His Holy Spirit in the times to come. Surely we have much need for Him and of Him.

-Saturday, 21st July 2018, 2 years 10 months 14 days, 0314

Fruity Mirrors

The time period where I won't be writing appears to be lengthening. Be that as it may, the work continues forth night and day and as such the durians are needed to be collected and processed through and through without end. World without end. It's been two weeks already and the season is not letting up, rather that now the trees with the desirable fruits are now beginning to drop and it's on us to go and find them. And as it continues on I find myself learning many things which I didn't know I would learn during this durian season.

Well firstly, it would be that collecting and harvesting durians in Glory Place Mantin had a spiritual side to the matter as well. What the Holy Spirit prompted in me was that unless preparation of not just the mind and body but also pre emptively of the spirit, the collection for that day will be rife and few. I found that to my surprise the more I pondered and thought about it, the more it came to be evidenced true. There was a time when the little boys and I went to collect some durians a while back and just before we went, they had a squabble with one another and not made up whereas I was in the sanctuary taking my slot time to worship and to read the Word. During our hike up the hills, we encountered a beehive and that beehive sent out its members to harass us away. The boys immediately scattered, and I was left to slowly climb down the hill. Having a basket full of durians I had to tread wisely else I tumble like tumble weed. Not to mention that though the bees to chased me, they did not sting but rather just nonchalantly landed and buzzed around me. Never stung even once. This is not a random occurrence but I found that the more I observed everyone who came and who did not come for the durian harvesting I found that and the land and its inhabitants testified to their faces.

For those who are diligent and joyous in their durian picking the trees yielded plentiful whereas those who slack about and are aloof and goofs the trees yielded more hazards than it did fruits for them. Those who did not prepare themselves spiritually were either before, during, or afterwards attacked spiritually. Example most used being that those who found not in their hearts to take their time of worship just before seriously finds their time of work full of strife, derision, and discontentment with their situations and fellow field workers. But those who did prepare themselves to seek Yahweh on the field inasmuch as He was in the sanctuary found the field yielding much fruit and abundance to them. For me personally, I literally see paths opening up to me leading to big and ripe durians whereas others can only find miniature and small ones because before then, they had previously squandered their precious time to prepare themselves in the sanctuary with me.

This is such an eye opener for me because the same surely applies to me as well. Hence, I ought all the more to tighten my guard, lift my spirits in the Lord Yeshua, and go forth prepared spirit, soul, and body to just collect durians. The land yields to those who first yields to the Lord Yeshua fully and so I go with that mindset and surely I am bound for bountiful plenty in Him. When we seek for Yeshua, the land yields Him to us and all His glory manifested physically in the abundance of fruit, joy and peace. If not, the land yields what the rest of the world yields.

Praise Yeshua. The season picks up into high gear now.

-Saturday, 14th July 2018, 2 years 10 months 7 days, 1641

Work is Blessed

Very, very long since I last wrote. Perhaps I'm using this time to truly immerse myself in the work Elohim has given to me abundantly. The work never ceases but that's not a bad thing, I really enjoy myself during these times. There's few people here and the work and demand is plentiful and yet I am so glad because every day I see the sovereign hand of Yahweh just taking over each and every work and task given. So much so that the work for each day is accomplished beyond what was given. When compelled to go one mile, go with him two and so we did by the grace of Messiah Yeshua upon us all.

[Mat 5:41] And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

All in all, for this post I just want to give thanks to Yeshua for taking over the work so that it progresses superfluously. I have come to realise that alone, and bearing the burden alone will utterly weigh me down and cause even a breakdown one day. But together, with the brothers and uncles around me we not just make it work; by the Holy Spirit we accomplish over and above what we met out. For that I am glad. Surely they are a great boon to me and I am so glad that Yeshua has placed each and everyone of them there. Knowing their strengths and flaws, I am able to assign work to them that not just aids me but also work that greatly emphasises on their strengths and what they do best. They too, give me suggestions and ideas on what and how some matters pertaining ought to be done and with that we are seeing great things. Miracles, I would say.

I am glad that I'm not alone. A long time ago I had the mentality that all we need is Elohim and everything will work out. Which is true, don't get me wrong. But He made Eve for Adam, a helper comparable to him and with that He too has provided help in the form of many hands. And such help I've learnt in due time not to refuse but to utilize and use each one as their gifts and calling goes.

[Rom 12:4-8] For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Messiah, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Believe you me that I'm seeing this particular verse and many others becoming so real and alive to me personally. I'm thoroughly immersing myself in the work because I enjoy it. Truly Yeshua is good, all the time He is to me. I am the most favoured of the Most High (as we all are).

-Thursday, 6th July 2018, 2 years 9 months 29 days, 0042