Last
year I saw two large fruit trees in the neighbor back yard, behind my
house. One was a tangelo and the other was a grapefruit tree. The
neighbors no longer lived there and were trying to sell the empty
house. There was a lot of fruit on each tree, and the fruit on the
tangelo was ripening and would soon fall to the ground and rot, if no
one was going to pick them. The grapefruit would be ripe another
month later. After checking with other neighbors to see if it was
okay, I regularly, climbed over the fence and picked the fruit, and
enjoyed eating a lot for the next few months, plus gave some to other
people too.
I
never thought I would be still here in this same house a year later,
and the trees were full of fruit again, but not as much as the year
before, because the water system had been turn off for two weeks last
summer, and at other time too and the automatic water system was not
able to provide the water needed during those hot days and so some of
the branches had died. But there was still a lot of fruit to eat.
However, I noticed some tangelos had already fallen off, so I figured
some were ready to pick. But when I went over to pick, I noticed a
lot of small frying insects around the tree, and a small little hole
in some of the ripe tangelos that the bugs were entering the fruit
and causing them to rot and fall off to the ground. A week later I
went over and there were more insects and damaged fruit. I did not
have this problem last year, and was disturbed by this turn of
events. I was sure that this was not the only fruit tree in the area
with this problem. It was one of the curses, because of mankind’s
sin. But what could I do.
I
realized I needed to do something, not just complain. If my prayers
could turn a hurricane and heal the sick, why not remove this curse.
Jesus spoke to a fig tree and cursed it, why shouldn’t we be able
to speak to a tree and remove this curse of pestilent, after all
they were nail to the cross along with all the other curses and sins.
I know there is no diseases and pestilent in the Kingdom of God, so
it time to start turning the table around and say NO MORE. So I when
out to the tree a couple days later and did just that, but as I was
praying I realized that this was just a small thing to God; the most
important thing was people, and their lives. All creation came under
a curse from Adam's sin. And we are from the earth, and God is the
potter of these earthen vessels that now walk it in His amazing
grace. Our roots need to tap into that Eternal River that will never
run dry so that our leaves can heal the nations. But unfortunately,
we have also become very ignorant of the disease and pestilents in
our hearts that destroy the fruit He desire to see come from us too.
Many people, including Christians still have various amounts of pride,
greed, lust, unforgivness, self-worth and are unable to see how they
have damaged or destroyed lives. Plus, it also separates or hinders their relationship with God
and others. I have asked my Heavenly Father to remove our “hearts
of stone” and give us a “heart of flesh”. Then asked Him to
remove all the disease and pests in my own heart, and give me a heart
like His, so that our life will be BUG FREE in His Kingdom.
By
Faith, I do have God’s heart, and that is why I am here and
speaking His words across Mexico and the Internet.
