I believe that for all of us there is a time of "threshing", when God separates the "wheat' from the "chaff" in our lives. When we step onto God's "threshing floor" He deals with those things which need to be "winnowed" out of our lives.
The threshing floor experience is not pleasant but looking back on it, it is the one time in my life that I realized that He was all I needed. I could relax and be happy within the intimate relationship established between Daddy God and me. In that intimacy with the Lord, a quiet trust grew. I know that through whatever storms my life might bring (and I know there are storms ahead) I have a safe harbour to rest in with the Lord.
We know that after wheat goes through the threshing process it is then ready to be used. This is the way it is with us. After going through this process we are ready for His purposes and we can minister to others who find themselves on the threshing floor. If you are going through the threshing process today it is because He has something for you to do, he knows that you are worthy of taking time with because He sees the harvest !
There is always something that God is wanting to thresh out of our life, his work is never finished.
Those who have gone the way of God's threshing floor will know, like Abraham and David, that it is the only place where God can build His house. It is a mistake to think that we can escape God's threshing floor, it is a place of judgement and of blessing.
"The threshing-floors will be filled with grain the vats will overflow with new wine and oil, I will repay you for the years the locust have eaten." Joel 2:24-25 [NIV]
Are you sitting comfortably with God? If so, he wants to shake you up, to disturb you. With this Sunday being Pentecost, are you willing to get All Shook Up? If so I invite you to pray this prayer, written by Sir Francis Drake - "Disturb Us O Lord". I think it is awesome; it's a prayer for dangerous men and women of God. I continue to commit it to the Lord and believe it is no co-incidence that the first link I saw for this prayer had a picture of a golden harvest!
Dawn Milward
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