by Clare Tremeer
6th March 2008
The Lord often uses prophetic pictures to help warn us and to teach us what He is saying and doing. He gave me a picture of a milking machine. Specifically the suction cups that attach to the cows udder, and suck out the milk from the cows teats. The impression I got was that we are under many and varied pressures, and that we are in dangerous times and the strongholds over the nations are gearing up to suck the people dry. When people are dry they become barren and without the living waters that flow from the throne of glory there is a numbing, poisoning, and shrivelling up. Resulting in a death to all innovation, imagination, and passion so that although there appears to be life it is in fact shut down, stripped, and help captive to a false reality.
Only from the living waters of God come the true nutrients, vitamins, and nourishment that we as spiritual people need. Without these our spirits and souls wither. The soul becomes pre-eminent and blindness sets in so that people do not even realise that they are almost walking dead, wretched and lifeless. But God wants to protect us, heal us, inspire us, and lead us out of our captivity. In 2 Chronicles 7:14 God instructs us :- “If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
God is calling us to turn, turn away from all the distractions that are sucking us dry.
Back to the milking machine. So God does not want us to be sucked dry so we become slaves to the strongholds of stress, anxiety, busyness, and the work harder mentality. Instead God wants to inject us, flow into us, and restore us. His milking machine works in reverse. It instills, puts back, and fills up so we can function and survive in perilous times.
I sensed that God was saying I have big nipples and when I asked Him what that meant, He said that we are to suck Him dry - pull on Him, just like with the milking of a cow, the pulling pressure on the nipples causes the milk to flow down and be released. When we draw near to God, He draws near to us and when we pull on Him, have needs of Him, and require and depend on Him, then He answers our earnestness.
God ever waits to respond to His children, but we must first position ourselves. Just like the milking machine suckers must be positioned over the teats so the milking process will function, so we must also position ourselves. Choice is important, as we make a decision and engage our will to turn away from the worldly pulls and false impulses and enter into His ways and designs. It requires a laying down and turning away from all that would hold us back, a turning from the false glitter of darkness to the real light. Only then can He fill us, renew us, and lead us into all that He has for us. So we must choose to be led and let go of all our own self control and independence. So I guess it is all said in ” Choose this day which God will you serve” - will you be sucked dry or will you suck up all the goodness God has? Will we turn from our wicked ways and be saved? What is milking you of your strength energy and passion?
