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Matthew 21:12-17 (NKJV)
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and
drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the
tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them,
“It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of
thieves.’”14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed
them.
15 But
when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying
out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are
saying?”
And
Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?”
17 Then
He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.
Definition of ‘crop’ –
1.
Yield from plants in a single growing
season.
2.
Cultivate, tend, dress, trim, prune, cut back.
3.
A collection of people/things appearing
together.
4.
The output of something in a season.
5.
Reduction in size by removing
undesirable or unnecessary elements.
6.
Cut into desired shape.
· The Lord is going to re-crop His Church
in our day. He is seeking a different kind of yield from the Church now,
different to what the church has been yielding.
· The Lord is going to work on cultivating
and pruning the Church for the re-cropping that He desires. This will involve
cutting back and trimming of all her excesses until the church is in the shape that
the Lord desires.
· There shall be the removal of
undesirable and unnecessary elements from within the church. (Matt 21:12)
· The church will be re-cropped with companies of disciples who are making
disciples, those who will not break the chain of discipleship, who will not deviate
from the pattern shown. Our Lord is raising up a collection, a company, a crop of people- His
disciples, His followers, those who have bound themselves to the altar of
sacrifice, those who have lost their lives, the ‘little ones, the ‘small ones’. This collection of
disciples will appear together, move together as one, have one focus.
· It is these ones who will fulfil Isaiah 58:12- they will be builders and restorers and they
will raise others after them to do the same.
Isaiah
58:12 Good News Translation (GNT)
12 Your people
will rebuild what has long been in ruins, building again on the old
foundations. You will be known as the people who rebuilt the walls, who restored
the ruined houses.”
·
The church will be built up again on old
foundations- the preaching of the complete gospel of Christ, the making and
multiplication of disciples and preparation of the church for the rapture.
·
New generations of preachers will be raised, who
will carry the life-light and will live according to what they preach.
THIS IS THE
RE-CROPPING OF THE CHURCH!!!
This is why the Lord has been concentrating His
attention
on us
and others around the world, bearing His heart so intentionally to us and
instructing us through the platform of discipleship. We are those ones who the Lord wants to use to re-crop His church! The Lord is depending on His
disciples
for this!
· Holy Spirit, we need Your help in praying for the
Church today. You know the mind of the Father concerning the Church. Please express Yourself in us and raise an intercession in us for the Church.
· Lord, don’t let Your promises be wasted on
me. Don’t let Your precious promises of mystery multiplication become a mere
slogan or a mirage! Lord, help me!!! Have mercy on me!
· Lord, please confront me now with
anything in my life that may not allow Your promises to come true.
·
Isaiah 42:1- Lord, let me
be one You can uphold and use as
You are preparing to re-crop Your church. Make me one in whom You delight- one in whom
Christ lives His life freely, one that You will look upon in mercy (Isaiah
66:2).
· Lord, multiply those seedlings of
discipleship among us. Let disciples be multiplied to re-crop Your church. Raise a strong
chain of discipleship in Your church that cannot be broken and let it
replace every evil that has multiplied in the past.
· Lord, re-crop the church with companies
of disciples and disciple-makers all over the world.
· “Your people will rebuild what has long been in
ruins,…” Isaiah 58:12a. Lord, let there be a re-building of the church with the doctrine of repentance,
the preaching of the cross and the death of the old nature, and the mystery of
‘Christ in you, the hope of glory’.
Isaiah 60:22- “A little
one shall become a thousand, and small one a strong nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in it’s time”.
Isaiah 66:8- “Who has
heard such a thing? Who has seen such a thing?....For as soon as Zion was in labour, she gave
birth to her children.”
Isaiah 66:8-9The Message (MSG)
“Has anyone ever heard of
such a thing? Has anyone seen anything like this?
A country born
in a day?
A nation born in a flash? But Zion was barely in labor
when she had her babies! Do I open the womb and not deliver the baby? Do I, the One who
delivers babies, shut the womb?
Isaiah
66:8-9New Living Translation (NLT)
8 Who has ever
seen anything as strange as this?
Who ever
heard of such a thing?
Has a nation
ever been born in a single day?
Has a
country ever come forth in a mere moment?
But by the
time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin,
her children will be born.
9 Would I ever
bring this nation to the point of birth
and then not deliver it?”
asks the Lord.
“No! I would
never keep this nation from being born,”
says your God.
· Lord, there is a nation of disciples and disciple-makers in my spiritual womb
that has
to be born NOW! Lord, let the mystery of discipleship kick in NOW! Not by might nor power, but by Your
Spirit, let this nation be born of me! Lord, You have promised that You will never keep this
nation from being born, You are ready to take delivery of this nation.
Isaiah
66:10- Lord, make Your church a wonder in our day. Let those who
mourned for her rejoice at Your work in her. Hasten this now, Lord, for it is
time.
For I'm building a people of power
And I'm making a people of praise
That will move through this land by My
Spirit
And will glorify My precious name
Build Your church, Lord
Make us strong, Lord
Join our hearts, Lord, through Your Son
Make us one, Lord, In Your Body
In the kingdom of Your Son
Dave Richards
