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Genesis 1:29 -"And God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that
yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed;
to you it shall be for food.'"
Pollen is the male seed of flowers. It is required for the fertilization of the
plant. Pollen is essential to the life and well-being of the bee hive. The
first foods the risen Christ ate after the Resurrection were honey and bee pollen in the
comb, and broiled fish. "But while they still did not believe for joy, and
marveled, He said to them, 'Have you any food here?' So they gave Him a piece of a
broiled fish and and some honeycomb." Luke 24:41-43.
According to Dr. G. J. Binding of the British Empire, "Bee pollen is
the finest, most perfect food. It is a giant germ-killer in which bacteria cannot
exist. Many thousands of chemical analyses of bee pollen have been made with the
latest diagnostic equipment, but there are still some elements present in bee pollen that
science cannot identify. The bees add some mysterious "extra" of their
own. When researchers take away a bee's pollen-filled comb and feed her man-made
pollen, the bee dies.
Several intercessors from the Marble Falls area attended the "Keys to Freedom"
conference in Lewisville, Texas, in 1996. Lila Terhune and Brenda Kilpatrick from the
Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, were there and ministered to us.
We were all very blessed, and a fire was ignited in us. Lila Terhune spoke to us
about cross-pollination, and it was poured into our Spirits that we were to take the
pollen they had deposited in us back to our churches and cities. We have been endeavoring
to cross-pollinate since that conference.
God wants to move in every city, state, and country! He will come wherever He is
welcome. He comes in many different ways, but there is only one Holy Spirit. He has
poured out His Spirit in Argentina, Toronto, Holy Trinity Brompton, and in Pensacola, to
name a few. They don't look the same--God doesn't seem to have a blueprint for
revival, but the same Holy Spirit is present in all of these places. He just wants
us to welcome Him, and Yield ourselves to Him completely!
I believe that if we cross-pollinate with others that we can help spread revival wherever
we go. If only we could work together like the bees do in their colonies. A
colony consists of three types of bees; the queen bee, drone bees, and the worker bees.
The worker bees gather the pollen, ripen the honey, produce the royal jelly, feed
and tend the queen, feed and rear the brood (nursing bees), repair and build the comb
(builder bees), ventilate the hive (fanner bees), fight all the battles necessary to
defend their hive (guard bees), and these worker bees, though they are the smallest, hold
the power and regulate the ongoing work of the colony. As the forager bees buzz from
blossom to blossom, microscopic pollen particles coat their stubby little bodies so
densely that they sometimes look like little yellow fuzz balls. When they arrive at
the next flower, a portion of the live golden dust is transferred to that blossom and
pollination is accomplished. These bees are the harvesters! There is a vast
number of hurting, troubled people waiting for us to sprinkle them with the "live
golden dust" of the Holy Spirit that has been imparted to us through this great
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Like the bees, we have to work together in unity, and
especially have unity in the Spirit, so that we can reap the great harvest!
Revelation 10: 8-11 -"Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and
said, 'Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the
sea and on the earth.' So I went to the angel and said to him, 'Give me the little
book.' And he said to me, 'Take and eat it: and it will make your stomach bitter,
but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.' Then I took the little book out of
the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I
had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. And he said to me, 'You must prophesy again
about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.'" The Little Book is not the
scroll which only the Lamb could unseal, since it is open. The little book is the
gospel that John and the two witnesses are to proclaim. EAT: The message must
saturate the personality of the proclaimer. BITTER....SWEET: The message brings
God's grace, love, and mercy: But when rejected it brings inevitable judgment.
(Submitted by Jean Henderson, Glory House Ministries, passages
from NKJV Spirit Filled Life Bible)
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