You must become a Ripened Fruit

Many in our churches (maybe you) are like a hard unripened fruit. In order for God to get you where He needs you, He must ripen the fruit. For only when the fruit is ripen, it is ready to be partaken and it is sweet. If you are God's child and if you are drifting away, He will create circumstances to BREAK and RIPEN you.

When difficult circumstances come, it is then we generally cry out to HIM. It is then we seek HIM on a deeper level. Yes, the answer may not come overnight. Why? Because He is teaching us how to pray. He is teaching us how to worship HIM through intimacy. He is teaching you what is in His Heart. He is watching you to see if you REALLY MEAN WHAT YOU ARE ASKING. Will you persevere and continue to ask and cry out until you get the answer/breakthrough or will you quit?

Generally, at first, when we pray, we tend to give God terms. When the answers do not come, then hopefully, we will realize we cannot give God terms. Hopefully we give up our terms and finally come to the point realizing it is...."Not our will but YOUR WILL." Hopefully, we can come to realization that we must FULLY Surrender and say to the Lord, "I give up. No longer my way. I will go wherever you desire me to go and I will do whatever you wish." He requires Full Surrender. Partial surrender will always put us in front of a spiritual and physical road block.

And after much tears and after much breaking, the hard unripened fruit is tender and ready. Now the fruit is soft. Perhaps, it was bruised from falling off the tree. Now the fruit is ready to receive the gifts of God. Now the fruit is ready to receive more of God's presence. Now the fruit is ready to FULLY listen and obey. Now the fruit is ready to be presented to God as a sweet and living sacrifice.

If you are crying out to HIM for whatever your needs, continue to do so until your breakthrough. He is Faithful as long as you hold your ground and wait. He is coming! Do not give up!! He will never forsake you but you must hold your ground. Do not get angry and give up. He has told me that so many of His servants have become angry and given up. It is not about you! It is about HIM!! Continue to ask the Holy Spirit to search your hearts. Continue to carry your own crosses persevering and enduring to the end. Bear fruit of repentance.

Luke 18:1-8 (Amplified Bible) ALSO [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to [a]turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).2 He said, In a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced and feared God nor respected or considered man.3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary.
4And for a time he would not; but later he said to himself, Though I have neither reverence or fear for God nor respect or consideration for man,5Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me [b]intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or [c]at the last she come and rail on me or [d]assault me or [e]strangle me.6Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says!7And will not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect (His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He [f]defer them and [g]delay help on their behalf? 8 I tell you, He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [[h]persistence in] faith on the earth?

Joel 2:12 (Amplified Bible) Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].

May we be a living sacrifice living a life worthy of Him.

Fire of God!!
Steve Yong Kim
March 28, 2012