The Vineyard - Pastor Rusty - Jan. 7, 2025
“And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.” Mark 12:1 KJV
I’ve read this passage in multiple translation and kept coming back to the KJV.
The Vineyard
There is a vineyard here in the Ozarks. It was planted long ago. The vineyard is His community of believers that inhabit and that have inhabited this region for for over two hundred years. The one who planted it was the Lord of heaven and earth.
The Hedge
He “set a hedge about it.” The Lord brought in intercessors and prayer warriors who began to pray according to God’s purpose and intercede in the Spirit according to God’s will and the Lord erected a hedge around His vineyard.
The Wine vat
The wine vat is the part of the wine press that catches the run off from the wine press. It is the receptacle of the “blood of the grapes” that become the wine. Every vineyard needs one. It is the vat that receives the wine when harvesting the grapes. The husbandmen need to be partakers of the fruit. 🍇 Every prayer community need a wine vat if you find one cherish it, place value on it, and protect it. (We have one here in the Ozarks). We need the effect of the wine vat in our prayer core, lest we become rigged, stoic, and religious in our prayer community.🤔
The Tower
The natural course of every prayer community is to develop a watchtower. 🛕 The watchtower (citadel) plays a different role than the hedge and the wine vat. It is the refuge of prophetic watchmen that the Lord erects to watch over the vineyard. Any prayer community that gags it’s prophets have set themselves up to fail. They will constantly function without heaven’s direction. And will constantly lack heaven’s input in their gatherings. This is a safeguard God Himself has placed in the midst of His vineyard.🧐 To think that we have a vineyard without a tower has left the vineyard vulnerable. It is sad when we feel no need to erect a citadel in the midst of the vineyard. But God in His grace is giving us a fully functional vineyard here in the Ozarks with every part in place. To have a citadel that Is unmanned is like gun without bullets.🤔
The Husbandmen
The husbandmen are the shepherds and overseers that the Lord has I trusted his vineyard too. Let us not make the same mistake the Pharisees did in the time of Christ appearing. The vineyard is His not ours. He has only lent out responsibility for it. May we value every part of the working of the vineyard. The Lord is going to produce a very special blend of wine here in the Ozarks that the Lord is going to give to the nations. This wine is going to be unique of this region that the Lord is going to press from the grapes grown in this region. The Lord is going to cause the nation to drink from this special blend and begin to be healed. Then the Lord is going to cause the nations of the earth to drink from this wine and be refreshed.
“I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.” SOS 8:2
“Eat O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.” SOS 5:1
Pastor Rusty
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