Chestnuts

Ann gave us a bag of chestnuts on Sunday. How time flies, I remember it was just a while ago when a group of us went to her farm in Lang Lang last year. It must have been more than a year now that a new season of harvest has arrived.

So I got a handfull and sliced the shell lightly with a cross before baking it in the oven. This will stop them from exploding under heat like pop corns. They are very nice to eat freshly out of the oven. Sarah and I were eating it and making a mess on the dinning table. As a preacher, I find that i always tend to see illustrations in the most unlikely places - you see, chestnuts grows in tree and the fruit doesn't look appealling at all. They are full of dense long prickly thorns. In order to get to the nuts, one has to equip with thick gloves and gumboots. You will need to pluck the fruit, throw it on the floor, step on the thorny fruit so it may split and spill out the brown nuts.

I am not sure how they plant the trees, I suspect you can do a bud-graph but the seedlings have to grow from the seeds! To stretch our imagination further, every seed is a tree - is it not? "I am eating another tree now" so i was telling Sarah, who is used to my random and weird comments.

The Bible said "Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." (1 Sam 16:7). And he will get into a lot of trouble to get the best out of us even when we are pretty ugly and hostile on the outside - like a furry, prickly chestnut fruit!

Prophetic Words for Australia

Word for Australia, Sept 2004
Mary Lindlow "The Messenger" Ministries, USA
OH AUSTRALIA! LAND OF THOSE ONCE SHAMED AND SENT INTO EXILE.

Peoples of all races now surrounding coastal regions. I have seen your struggles and achievements. I have watched with a focused and unrelenting eye as you have grown and have matured into a nation with a unique voice…a unique sound. A sound now being heard as a blast of warning saying... "Prepare you the way of the Lord make My paths straight!"

AND SO OUT OF YOU SHALL COME A FIERY AND PASSIONATE MOVE OF APOSTOLIC RELEASE, WHICH WILL EXPOSE FALSE MOVEMENTS AND FALSE DOCTRINES NOW MASQUERADING AS THE NEW WAVE.

MELBOURNE, CANBERRA, PERTH, AND YES EVEN REMOTE ALICE SPRINGS WILL SEE MANIFESTATIONS OF GLORY AND SIGNS AND WONDERS that will silence your accusers and bring about national waves of repentance for the sake of unity. The rains will begin to pour forth in the natural as waves of rain from the heavens are released in the supernatural upon you.

I WILL DRIVE THE PROUD AND SCHEMING FAR FROM MY PLANS FOR YOU AUSTRALIA, and those who would merchandise My anointing will be exposed for thieves in My holy place of Divine Purpose. I give them yet a little time to repent and to turn to a new way, a new wine skin of purpose.

JUST AS YOUR FLAG DISPLAYS MY GLORY IN THE SOUTHERN CROSS SO SHALL I DISPLAY THE GLORY OF THE CROSS IN WAVES OF SALVATIONS AND REPENTANCE. Out of you Australia will I Send those of every race and ethnic origin into the nations who once exiled you.

YOU ARE MY FAITH SEEDS FOR THE NEXT HARVEST FIELD AROUND THE GLOBE.

AS THE OLYMPICS BEGIN TO PROCEED, I WILL CAUSE AUSTRALIA TO SHINE LIKE A BEACON THROUGH IT'S GIFTED ATHLETES. There will be a glory resting on them, which I will use to draw attention to your country.

AMONG YOUR PEOPLES ARE THOSE WHO HAVE WEPT IN BROKENNESS AND INTERCESSION FOR THE PROMISE OF BLESSING I would soon give to them, even when the land still remained destitute and proud.

WATCH NOW AS I REDEEM THE LAND. YOUR DRY DESERT PLACES WILL SEE RAIN AND WATER LIKE NEVER BEFORE RECORDED IN YOUR HISTORY.

BEHOLD! YOUR DESERT PLACES SHALL BLOOM AND FLOWERS AND PLANTS WILL SPRING UP FROM SEEDS THAT LAY DORMANT FOR DECADES. So shall it be in the spirit. You will see those assumed finished, weakened and buried; now spring up into the destiny of My Glory.

PEOPLE FROM ALL NATIONS WILL FLOCK TO YOU TO TASTE THE SWEET AND UNEMBELLISHED GLORY THAT I WILL ALLOW TO REST UPON YOU IF YOU KEEP YOUR HANDS AND PLANS OFF OF IT. All glory will be Mine says the Lord.

PREPARE, MAKE READY, GUARD YOUR BORDERS IN PRAYER and pray for those Joseph types of men among you to know that this is the season for extravagant giving, loving, and living.

OPEN WIDE YOUR ARMS AS A CHILD DOES TO IT'S FATHER. I AM ABOUT TO PLACE A GIFT OF MY DIVINE GLORY IN YOUR MIDST! It flows from the place of your brokenness and intercession now well heard in the heavenlies.

AUSTRALIA, SOUTHERN LAND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BEHOLD THE GLORY OF GOD IS COMING TO REST UPON YOU.

PREPARE, PREPARE, ENLARGE YOUR PLACES OF PRAYER, stretch your tent pegs, prepare the new wine skin, and I will bring the sweet overflow of new wine into your places of worship, your marketplaces, and your schools.

THERE WILL BE SUCH POWERFUL VISITATIONS THAT EVEN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENTAL SESSIONS WILL BE OVERWHELMED AND SEEMINGLY MOMENTARILY SUSPENDED AS I DIVINELY CONVENE AND REIGN. Soccer matches and Cricket games will be postponed due to massive visits of my convicting power to save and redeem.

PREPARE…MAKE THE PATH STRAIGHT FOR THE SEASON OF DIVINE FAVOR IS UPON YOU.

Duplication and re-transmission of this writing is welcomed provided that complete source and website information for Mary Lindow is included. Thank You! Copyright ? 2004 " THE MESSENGER " ~ Mary Lindow www.marylindow.homestead.com