And every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another, ( Mark 9: 49-50).
In prayer one day, I saw the Lord’s hand shaking a container full of salt. The salt was popping out all over the place while the little white container was upright in the Lord’s hand. The container was not turned upside down as He was shaking it.
I asked, why am I seeing this and He said, My shaking of vessels is good. The vessel and I see what comes out as I shake.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
Let you light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify you Father in heaven, ( Matthew 5:13-17).
Salt is a purifying agent. We have been born again with the Incorruptible Seed. The Lord’s Spirit is the salt that comes out of us when we are shaken…… or not…… the fleshly spirit of man can come out of us too, when we are shaken by the Lord’s hand.
So when I saw the Lord’s shaking a salt shaker and white grains of salt coming out and spreading all over the earth. I have to say that is good and it is God’s work in us and through us to the world. But we have to check to see that our flavor and fragrance is of the Lord. As we maintain ourselves in the word and in prayer of His presence, we keep our focus on the Lord. This keeps our season or fragrance of Christ. We then have not been corrupted or spotted by the world’s spirit, we will remain seasoned with the flavor of Christ.
In His presence is the seasoning to keep the fire of the altar burning within. May the world then see and know God is here today in our midst. God is watching and God is wanting to talk to them…. then may they turn to Him today as it is the day of salvation.
So do not fret when the shaking starts…..because: whose voice then shook the earth; but now has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven. Now this, yet once more, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire, ( Hebrews 12:26-29).
If we have been faithful in walking in and with the Spirit, when we are shaken the seasoned salt of the Lord’s presence will come popping out of us spreading His knowledge for His glory.
This is a good thing! This is one of our purposes, beloved. The spreading of the Incorruptible Seed, Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God…..as Savior of the world, their Savior.
If we are shaken and some things pop out that are not of Him, well, thank God for His mercy. He will give us the grace and fire of His Spirit to keep going and eradicate the carnal parts that have been crucified at the cross in Christ. In other words, the Holy Spirit will cut at the root that which is taking up space which is owed only to Christ. He expects our obedience in the death of ourselves at the cross….. as things pop out, He is faithful to purify us for the fullness of measure of Christ…..but He also expects our agreement and humility in this process. This is good.
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not, as so many peddling the word of God; but we speak in the sight of God in Christ, ( 2 Corinthians 2;14-17).
I know when I shake the salt shaker to season my food, I expect to taste the salt! If I don’t, something is wrong and I throw the salt out….. Does not the Lord do the same thing?
Maybe this helps explain the words of Jesus Christ in John 15;2-8, Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vines, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
I AM the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
As we abide in the Lord, our Source is Him. Our strength is His and we are strong as we abide in Him…..Christ in God will continue to become all and our all. Then our heavenly Source is as salt or fire in our lives and pours out from our lives…. He is incorruptible. So as we take our new birth from heaven and our only Source that we live by is God’s power. We do not go to rely on the world’s wisdom or ways and take strength from other sources, including ourselves. We shall remain seasoned for such a time as this, His light through us will not be diminished by corruption.
He answered and said to them: He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels,and they will gather out of His kingdom things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
I much rather be pruned and corrected by the Holy Spirit now then let any corruption reside in me that I refuse to die to and leave behind. I pray that His love always draws us so close, we would rather suffer the pruning or chastisement now, then lose our seasoning of the hand of the Lord on our lives. May our drawing towards the Lord in His righteousness be our choice always. Lord, we need more grace and to live and abide in as Your great mercy surrounds us in Christ Jesus.
We never get upset when our mechanic says there is a leak in our brake line, do we? Well, I hope not. We are appreciative that they found it today! We gladly pay them what is the value to fix the car correctly! Why? Because our lives and those we love are at stake in a faulty brake line in our car……….Hello……….!
When our Holy Spirit advises that there is a leak that is allowing the incorruptible resurrected life to run out and our life in Christ is at stake….. Should we not be appreciative also of the great awakening that He gives us to correct our lives before it is too late……Is it not more valuable as our eternal future is at stake?
Lord, may we have eyes to see and hears to hear and a heart to receive what bread You are giving us today!
Father God,
May You bestow upon us greater vision of the value of Your grace and mercy we have in Your Son, Christ Jesus. May we seek Your Heavenly Guidance as You shake us to see what comes out, may it be pleasing in Your sight…… Help us be faithful and be Your salt in this earth in Christ Jesus.
We know the Acts was the book written of the new dispensation of God by the actions of the Holy Spirit through those that believed in Jesus Christ…. Well, let it be said of us, as the followers of Christ in Acts 17;6, But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.
As Paul states and we learn and walk in a greater measure daily from strength to strength: I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me, ( Galatians 2:20).
Check list for realizing your gift from our Heavenly Father for 2015….. Lest we forget to press in:
Are you walking daily as a recipient of your gift from the Lord for 2015? Do you realize the increase of God’s gift in you?
When the shaking occurs, now who do you say I AM ?
Are you enjoying the shaking as well as the peace as the shaking is going on simultaneously?
That is a God way! You are blessed, beloved. Be enveloped in His great love!
He is still holding you in the palm of His hand, even as the shaking occurs….
because He never lets go. Trust Him and see His infinite love that never fails for you!
I am anxious and anticipating as the new creation is continuously being revealed that the Lord has planned for His beloved!
Selah!
