During the summer of 1999 we suffered a severe drought and I noticed the effect on my rose garden. The roses appeared to be healthy with deep glossy leaves but to my disappointment, there were only a few blooms, and those blooms were smaller than normal and lacked their normal heavy fragrance. This circumstance was a window to my soul and the Lord spoke this parable to my heart.
Dear Child,
“Look at your rose garden! They look healthy enough yet no blossom and therefore no fragrance! Because of the lack of water and the scorch of the sun they are in survival mode, doing all they can just to stay alive.
Likewise My people stay too long in survival mode, and there is no fruit from their lives. Yes, they are spiritually alive and look and appear to be healthy, but where is the blossom and fragrance from their lives? They are not drawing near and supping with Me where I can give them rivers of living water to sustain them during all the trials of life.
Many will spend their lives at the Brazen Altar in survival mode, where, yes they are believers but they are not disciples and priests ministering unto Me at the Golden Altar of Incense.”
Thus saith Papa
Mark 11:12 -14 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.; Mark 11:20-21 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
CHALLENGE: Does the fruit of our lives satisfy His need or does He just find leaves?
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