Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Seed

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Our Father has children who are born out of a prophetic knowledge and promise. In fact, this is the very foundation of who we are in our Father. In Romans 8:28-31, Paul is teaching that God foreknew those whom He called to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus. The Father prophesied us from that place in His foreknowledge. In Romans 9:6-8, Paul again talks about the difference between those who are born of the flesh, and those who are born from the prophetic promise of God, and who continue in that prophetic promise. He calls those born of the prophetic promise "children" and "seed". We have to understand our origins, in order to understand how we are to continue, and what is expected of us from here.
John 1:13 describes those who are the children of God as being born not out of the will of flesh and blood, but born out of the will of God. In Isaiah 43:1, 7, and 45:4, the LORD is speaking about a people called (called out with a loud voice, appointed, summoned) by name, and more importantly, called by His name, even before those people knew who God was. This is the "seed".  Father called them forth prophetically. These are those who are called "Israel". As Paul taught in Romans 9, not everyone who calls themselves "Israel" are truly "Israel", but those born of and from the prophetic promise. Those not just born of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by the flesh, but those of each subsequent generation called by God prophetically, and continuing to walk in that prophetic destiny and purpose. These are the children; these are the "seed".
"And if you are Christs's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
                                                                           Gal. 3:29
Those who have a knowledge of being children or seed of the Father, and His Kingdom, have a special challenge before them. Psalm 105 describes one of those who is a seed called by the Father-Joseph. He was called and appointed by the prophetic word of God. That same prophetic word and destiny tested Joseph, until that prophetic word or promise was fulfilled (Psalm105:19). What does this mean to us today, to us who have an understanding what it means to be the seed, called by the prophetic promise of God?
It means that the same prophetic word of promise will test us, as it tested Joseph. Before we see its fulfillment in its fullness, we will have seen many testings. The types of testings will be varied, but the ending of it produces the refining and maturity to which we have been called. The testing provides us not only with the head knowledge of the Father, but the experiential knowledge of Him that comes from walking through the testing of His prophetic promise. In Isa. 43:2, our Father assures us:
"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
Nor shall the flams scorch you."
The testing of the prophetic promise will also implant within us the "testimony" that is needed to minister to others, and teach others, in the time of their testing.
The challenge ahead of us is to not lose hope, to not lose faith, to not let go, or turn back from the very prophetic promise that called us by name, by HIS name, to begin with.

Our Father has seed from His prophetic promise.

"Have You Been Tried in the Fire?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbi3hG9ZZLY

"A Child of God"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r3JAV2r208

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