Ex 5:1-19

Whilst in prayer, my mind was called to the passage in Exodus, where the children of Israel were forced to gather their own material for making bricks for Pharaos building projects. It more or less meant that they had to make the same quota of bricks, having less materials and less time to make them in, due to the extra time needed to gather materials to match their need. This is what I believe the Lord will say and add to you now - if you like - a wearing down.

But I believe the Lord would say - I am the straw of your bricks.�

He showed me that Jesus himself can be likened to a single straw of corn, standing alongside and himself rooted in the field and harvest of man, rooted in your ground, next to and amongst YOU, ALL

� He says - I am a single straw in your harvest; I have stood with you and faced the blowing in your wind. I have stood in your rain and your darkness of night and the dryness of your drought. I have known the bowing down of your head as you have faced and still face the onslaught of the elements. I have felt the burning upon you from your sky, even from the highest height and utmost heat as it has scorched you, where you lay and stand. I have felt the heat of the burning of the stubble at the scorching of man and sin, as you have lay cut in your fields. I too have felt and still feel when you have been trampled on, and pressed and squashed and threshed and winnowed at the hands of and underneath the feet of men. I to know what it is like to be torn apart and shredded, so that you do not resemble what you were before. I have known what you have known and you also know what I have known. They did it to me; they will do it and have done it to you. But what you do for the least of one of these my little ones, you do unto me, you do to me and is done for me. For me in my suffering, for me in my glory. For whenever and wherever you suffer for me, I suffer with you and my glory and my pride in you, rests upon you and overshadows you.�

�- Despite the hardships of Pharaoh, I did not fail them THEN and I will not fail you NOW, my children�

He showed me that God hardened Pharaohs heart to show Israel that it was not a man that set them free, not the world of man., but God and Gods man Alone. God did it then He can and will do it now. The Pharaohs of this world cause us hardship so that we might be defeated and cease from Gods work. He does not want us to enter into Gods rest, but into a prison he would make for us. But God in Jesus still has His rest for us. He is concerned about us and not just our work. For though the devil is angry, God uses it that we might find and enter into Gods rest for us and complete the work He has called forth in us to do. He continued�- and He did so by seeing and showing us as a sturdy field of corn covering the heights and slopes of every valley and every viewpoint.

�- I will add to your need. I will multiply. I will cause it gain and not loss, for I am your need and I am its gain. I am its source and I will rise again in your day and set again in your night. I will surpass every yield and cover every field. Every slope with the bounty of my field. My corn will be gathered and my corn will be ground and my storehouses will be full of my grain, grain for you and bread for the desolate, arid and barren world. I will crown my crop with the bounty of my grace and the mercy of my love�

�- And where there is no straw, I will be your yield and I will be your field and your fullness and your harvest unto you. Fear not little flock, fear not little yet great field, it is the Fathers pleasure to give you the kingdom. And I will comfort, strengthen you and water you and your soil when they are in need , for not only are you my harvest, my yield and my field but you are also this to a hungry and thirsty world in the field of my Earth. I to am a God who hungers and thirsts for you, you, the Crop of My Heaven but also the Yield of My Son -  He continued�-

�-�In the midst of blight, in the midst of storm, in the midst of destruction, you are My Children. You are my Light and Bright seed in the midst of darkness. So rise, stand for me, and hold your heads up high, waving and swaying together under the wind of my grace. Stand proud, stand tall shoulder to shoulder, let the full ear fall, let it all fall, let it all come my field, my corn, from the tip of your ear to the root of your field. Come, come gather together, shoulder to shoulder, wave and sway in your unison, gather together in your ripeness as you display the field of my glory, the field of my love, lightening up the darkness and lightening up the night. Strength, strength, strength from Me, standing in My strength. I am your strength for My Love has been spent. I am your yield for you are My Field�and I,  I am the Straw of Your Bricks�