THE CRUSHING PROCESS IS PAINFUL, BUT YOU SMELL GREAT IN THE END

THE CRUSHING PROCESS IS PAINFUL, BUT YOU SMELL GREAT IN THE END

Take sweet spices--stacte, onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, an equal amount of each-- [35] And make of them incense, a perfume after the perfumer's art, seasoned with salt and mixed, pure and sacred. [36] You shall beat some of it very small and put some of it before the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you; it shall be to you most holy." Exodus 30:34-36 (AMP) Each of the specific ingredients listed for My holy perfume came out of some type of suffering, from the puncturing of a tree, to being put on the fire, but each were derived from some type of individual suffering.

The threshing floor is where sheaves of grain are opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. Pairs of donkeys or oxen (or sometimes cattle, or horses) would then be walked round and round, often dragging a heavy threshing board behind them, to tear the ears of grain from the stalks, and loosen the grain itself from the husks.

After this threshing process, the broken stalks and grain are collected and then thrown up into the air with a wooden fork-like tool called a winnowing fan. The chaff would be blown away by the wind; the short torn straw would fall some distance away; while the heavier grain would fall at the winnower's feet.

Now let's talk about you and My Father. I understand you want to carry and host His presence on earth. However, it's not quite that simple, or every believer would do it. There is a purification of character that is essential to hosting. Even the best of natural human character cannot host His presence. The painful process of crushing of all your personal ambition, must happen first and it is extremely painful to the soul. Disappointment, after disappointment, let down after let down, then a little lifting up, to let you know I am still there, and then hope after hope is dashed, a little lifting up, and the wind blows through everything and you come crashing to the floor.

You are squeezed, twisted, wrung out, put over the fire, stirred, divided, misunderstood, and trampled on, lifted up and knocked down, until there is no more ambition left. You have no desire to even talk about it, and couldn't if you wanted to. When your flesh has finally given up every effort to build anything for Me, but you still love Me with all your heart, without knowing it, you are beginning to host My presence.

It is impossible for natural man to smell good in the kingdom, "but thanks be to God, Who in Me, always leads you in triumph as trophies of My victory and through you spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere, [15] For through the crushing process you are the sweet fragrance of your Master, which exhales unto God. You are clearly discernible among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:" because you carry His presence. 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 (AMP)

"Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Me (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP) Man's salvation position is instant, but to have My Father's character, is a death process that few are willing to volunteer for. There is a fragrance that comes from every believer, and only the kingdom apothecary, the Holy Spirit knows the fragrance My Father enjoys.

When He is finished with you, everyone will love your fragrance, but beware: "This is a holy anointing oil, symbol of the Holy Spirit, is sacred to Me alone throughout your generations. [32] It shall not be poured upon a layman''s body, nor shall you make any other like it in composition; it is holy, and you shall hold it sacred. [33] Whoever compounds any like it or puts any of it upon an outsider shall be cut off from his people." Exodus 30:31-33 (AMP) It is not for sale, and anyone who counterfeits the anointing will be judged. Anyone who uses the anointing for his own purposes will be judged unrighteous.

The winepress, the threshing floor, and the Apothecary, are tools designed to make you the sweetest wine, the richest grain, and the sweetest smelling in all the kingdom. The question is can you stay in them for a lifetime.

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Jim Hammerle

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