WITHIN SAUL’S STORY
Many mornings and I mean many, I’ve awakened to the smell of wheat! I even asked my husband, can you smell that and he never could, so I dismissed it. Until, I was awakened in the middle of the night by its distinct fragrance. That’s when I started paying attention and within a few days, the wheat fragrance drifted into my office at work lingering long enough for me to question its message. That occurred a few more times and then while driving North. It was a fall afternoon and all the fields had been cut and the fragrance was so strong, I rolled down my windows thinking it’s was outside only to find that it was only inside my truck.
To be honest, the fragrance felt random but with YHWY nothing is random. I grew up as a farm girl and summer has turned to fall and the wheat has been harvested. Therefore, its time to separate the chaff from the seeds of wheat. Thank you Yashua.- I waited and the message just opened to me.
He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate—bringing forth food from the earth.” – Psalm 104:14
I bear witness to this fragrance being the harvest of wheat because once the wheat reaches the flint stage, it's cured sufficiently for threshing. We know by that the threshing floor is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff by reading Gideon or Ruth & Boaz. Metaphorically, we are the righteous wheat that is ready to be used by YHWY while chaff is useless to The Father therefore needs to be separated at the threshing floor to be carried away in His Wind. Psalm 1:4-6
Traditionally, farmers would just toss the grain into the air and allow the air current to blow the thin hulls, or chaff, away in the wind. This wind assisted process of removing the chaff from the grain is called winnowing and the grains with little to no hull are called ‘naked’ grains. So, to answer the question of what is chaff, it’s the hull or support around the wheat that must be removed. Job 24:10
Seed and chaff separation is imperative and prophetic to the word shared last week —— the House of Saul shall fall so the House of David will rise in the earth.
“In that day“I will restore David’s fallen shelter-I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins—and will rebuild it as it used to be- Amos 9:11
Although I am excited this fragrance signifies many are now being sifted by Christ, I quiet myself in front of the Spirit of the Lord for encourment because our winnowing can be turbulent.
I heard, “The outpouring of the power in the end times is coming—Wineskins have been prepared. Many places will burn while my sons and daughter of Zion will rise. I am revealing what has been hidden to my body of Ecclesia. The house of David shall become a ‘City of Gad’.”
Gad in Hebrew means "fortune" or "luck," derived from the root גדד meaning to cut or invade, often implying a hard-won blessing. There were 2 gads, one was a tribe and the other was a seer who wrote a whole book that was removed from the canon, but restored and shared by Ken Johnson, Th.D. - thank you Ken!
When fully matured The Elect will be seers. This harvest has begun so do not discount any dreams or words of knowledge. Everything hidden will be revealed. The Bible says in Romans 8:6-7, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be."
For today, let’s take a look at Saul, the King of Israel. The Lord ultimately desired to transform Saul, pulling him out of his carnal mind and launching him into his spiritual mind. The Lord filled him with wisdom and gave him the prudence to rule the nation.
The anointing of God rested on Saul’s life. In the same way, he would be granted wisdom to govern and lead his people, along with renewed boldness to stand against Israel’s enemies. It’s important you understand his fall because he didn’t start out living a life completely focused on himself.
He was a Jew from the small tribe of Benjamin; therefore, he had a basic knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Beyond that, however, he lacked any real spiritual depth.
God called him, but his ambitions destroyed him.
God chose him, but his pride blinded him.
The Lord exalted him, but he was determined to follow his own path. Rebellion and stubbornness became his twin guiding forces in life. In the end, King Saul wasted his life. In fact, he became completely obsessed with how the masses of Israel viewed him, desiring to be the center of their attention and had little concern for the Lord's desires or what the Lord thought about his actions. Saul’s life clearly reveals his character had no solid foundation, and in the end, his persistent self-centeredness sabotaged his own potential. His chaff was never removed.
Even though we are thousands of years removed, King Saul’s battle’s are the same spiritual and character struggles we face daily. Life's ups and downs, successes and failures, have a way of pressing, molding, and separating each of us from our chaff so our wheat can be harvested.
The winnowing process occurs when we analyze and judge a situation not through our normal lens but one that we have been conditioned to that suspends our analytical thinking and allows a place of awareness called “bearing witness”.
And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.” John 15:27
To bear witness, we are setting aside the focus of our own reactions and entering a place of stillness and receptivity. We are cultivating the ground to become one with whatever situation we encounter with a witnessing presence of YHWY.
When I heard, “You passed the test.” I knew the outpouring was upon us and the house of David was rising.
This brings us to the question, “What test did we pass?”
Well, to truly overcome the House of SAUL, you must enter the Lord’s divine presence in prayer every day.
We can be doing one thing and still commune with YHWY — focus on The Father. This was one of Saul's greatest internal struggles for the rest of his life. He had to choose between focusing his desires on his inner strength and seeking God's favor in his life, or focusing them on the shallow, ever-changing opinions of the masses. Saul stood before the people, feeling inadequate and small, yet God had not only established his calling but also graciously poured out his anointing upon Saul, enabling him to fulfill this incredible calling as Israel's deliverer and first royal king.
His journey began with a private anointing—just Saul and Samuel alone in a desolate place outside the city of Ramah [high place]—and it culminated publicly before all the leaders of Israel, on the side of a mountain, where he was, in a sense, crowned by both Samuel and the Lord. The Lord had anointed him to be king, and Saul was ready to embrace this great calling.
“The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility” (Proverbs 15:33).
The sobering reality is that Saul never learned to overcome himself. He was his own worst enemy.
“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up” (James 4:10).
Within Saul's story and life, there is a profound contrast between Saul and David. Both men had many similarities, and each had their own strengths and weaknesses; both held the same calling as the King of Israel; each oversaw great military victories for the nation; and both men tragically failed the Lord by committing sin and being disobedient.
What’s truly astonishing is that David found redemption and restoration, while Saul faced only judgment and rejection.
Why, because David, despite his many failures and mistakes, was able to find real and lasting redemption through his faith in the Lord. He overcame himself in his repentance. He is remembered as a man after God's own heart.❤️
Instinctively, you know you are God’s righteous Wheat, right?
You wouldn’t be here each week, because the messages are too flowery for a carnal man intellect. Hallelujah, you understand that the baton had been handed to you. It’s time you marched swiftly and quickly toward your enemies, eager to prove you do not serve the gods of this world.
There is one last point that must be recognized: you must allow the Word of God to trump your emotions at all times. Our emotions deplete our anointing power!
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16:25
Saul’s negative emotional state ended up destroying his faith in the Word of God that the prophet Samuel gave him concerning the sacrifice. You can easily fall prey to this same line of faulty human reasoning that played out in Saul’s mind if you also entertain anxieties, worries, and doubts about situations you are facing. Saul's ending might have been different if only he had trusted in God’s word more than in his own fears.
The truth is, either you will overcome your weaknesses or you will be overcome by your weaknesses- it will be one or the other. This is the real battle. This is what separated the lives of Saul and David. The battle isn’t external or against others. It’s within yourself, a fight to conquer your own darkness and selfish tendencies. The battle is tough, but in the end, you can and will overcome yourself. All it takes is a willingness to be honest with yourself, a commitment to rise above your mistakes, and a genuine desire to change. That's the beginning of your journey.🕊️
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