Eze47:1,2 The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side. It starts in trickles. With trickles, one may think it is not very important, that it can sustain nothing. Is your relationship with God like that? Is the flow from your altar coming in trickles? Here a little, there a little? A thin flow that makes no noise, heard only in the quietness? Sometimes it seems to break off and appears to stop, but keeps on. That trickle does not show you all of God’s plan. Keep at it - don’t stop. If you persist and persevere, that trickle will build up. Eze47:3 Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep. God has great plans for you, unimagined yet by many.
It is the altar that initiates and sustains the flow. Keep feeding your relationship with God. Lev 6:12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. Every day present yourself a living sacrifice afresh. Have a practice of removing the ashes daily - ashes of yesterday’s success and yesterday’s mistakes and failures. Lev 6:10-11 he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar. Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. When you keep the fire burning, God will see to it that the trickles don’t stop. When God calls for a new measurement, even more would have happened. Eze 47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. Never neglect that service point you have to serve the Lord. It is in the nature of great things to start out small. Mt 13:31-32“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” Fan it into flame, stir it up. Nurture and keep using every opportunity. Keep doing it until every time we taste you, we get a taste of what God has put in you by grace. 2Tm1:6 For which cause I remind you to stir up the gift of God that is in you through the putting on of my hands. God is calling us to persist. Never be satisfied because the trickle has become ankle-deep, or waist-deep. Don’t stop then! The evidence you see of God’s hand is not the fullness of His plans for you. There’s more - much more. Eze 47:5 Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in… As you walk with Him, whatever you enter into will receive freshness. From you shall living trees be nurtured. Eze 47:9 wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. Walk consistently with Jesus Christ.
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