by Tony Clark
Recently a strong theme has been coming through in Forerunners International and during my latest prayer time, God showed me a picture of a seed falling to the ground and dying.
“Verily, Verily, I say unto you. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12:24
Jesus used this analogy to speak of His death and revealed its purpose: that His death would result in a harvest - that the single corn falling to the ground and dying would result in many sheaths of wheat in a golden harvest.
God began to speak to me about Jesus’ selfless example to us in this, and showed me that it is to be the same with our lives. Our lives are no longer our own if we have given them to Christ, they really do belong to Him, “not my will, but Your’s be done.” God requires our lives of us, that we might be sown, wherever He might see fit, so that He can bring a harvest. Our lives, while ever they are our own, don’t bear fruit, but as we give up our lives for His sake, and really die to our own selfish desires and plans, and allow ourselves to be sown into what He wills for us, we will bear much fruit.
It really is the call of the end time church to “Love not their lives unto death.” Revelation 12:11
If we want to walk in resurrection life then we need to pass through the veil of death to our own selfish desires, so that we can truly live. It really is about counting the cost in the seasons to come.
But there will great blessing and fulfilment in this. Those that lose their lives for His sake will TRULY find it.
“For whosoever will save His life shall lose it: but whosoever loses his life for my sake, the same shall find it.” Luke 9:24
Jesus Christ was the greatest example of this.
(Prophetic word given on the 12 June 2011)
