WIND

WIND

“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into the garden and eat his pleasant fruits”, the bridegroom implores the wind in verse 16 of Chapter 4 in the Song of Songs.The wind is likened to the Holy Spirit. (John 3:8). The wind has to blow upon Christ’s garden so that the spices thereof may flow out. You should allow the Holy Spirit to deal with you in all areas of your life. Every organ of your body and your faculty of mind should be surrendered to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has to fill your life completely and constantly.The fruit of the Spirit i.e. love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance should manifest in your life like a fragrance emitting from the spices. Inviting the Holy Spirit into every area of your life and obeying Him would lead to His dominion of your entire life and manifestation of His nine-fold-fruit. If the Holy Spirit does not fill your life, the aforesaid qualities would not flow out of your life.

“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south” entreats the bride. The north wind has to blow towards the south where there is a vacuum or less air pressure. Where there is hunger for holiness, where there is thirst for righteousness, Christ sends the Holy Spirit so as to fill His people. If you are complacent with the progress of your spiritual life and not hungry for holiness, Christ will not fill your life with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. “He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away” (Luke 1: 53). These days, we find a good number of God’s people who take pride in their superficial scriptural knowledge are being deceived into believing that they are perfect or holier than others. They lack in humility and simplicity and do not accept the vast majority of people of the universal Body of Christ due to sheer pride. Christ does not fill such people with the Holy Spirit.

It is Christ, the Source of the Holy Spirit, Who commands the wind to blow towards the people who are hungry or thirsty. As and when the Holy Spirit blows on your life, the spices will flow out; the nine-fold fruit of the Spirit will be manifested. You should constantly implore Christ to fill you with the Holy Ghost for holy living as well as for effective ministry.

As the Holy Spirit fills you, Christ reveals himself through your life. The bride of the Song of Songs implores the bridegroom to come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. The souls saved through your ministry are indeed like fruits pleasant to the Lord. The Lord is delighted to have fellowship and communion with such souls. You may not be aware of the number of such souls and their names. These souls also include those saved through the ministry of some other servants of God whom you have been interceding for or ministering to. The Lord plants these souls in your garden. As such, you ought to intercede and minister to as many servants of God as possible. If there are no fruits in your garden, the Lord will be disappointed. As His disciple, you should “bear much fruit” (Jn 15:8).

Your garden should be tilled and manured for the growth of the plants. You should always examine your life in the light of the Word coupled with fasting and forsake sinful ways in order to secure the safety of your plants from the Devil and his soldiers who are in the form of palmerworm, locust, cankerworm and caterpillar. Their “teeth are the teeth of a lion and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion”. Please read Joel 1:1-20. Prophet lamented through his prophetic eyes that the Devil “hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white…The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the crop is wasted; the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth…. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley because the harvest of the field is perishing…. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men….”

The above prophecy of Joel is being fulfilled literally in these last days. The Devil is busy destroying our fruitful gardens. Many servants of God, once mightily used of God, have now become barren trees without producing any fruits because the strong army of Satan has deceived them in diverse ways. You should save your plants and trees from the teeth of the Devil by nourishing them with tearful prayers, coupled with fast (Joel 1:13-14).