Ditch digger

The ditch digger dream:

• A dream of the night (early September 2015′)

• In this dream I was standing in the court of the Lord, by a pillar.
• As I was looking towards the throne room, I heard the Lord call out…
• “I will have a ditch digger.”
• So, immediately I turned and went to my room across the way and collected my work gloves…then headed out to the job.
• On the the way a woman with long dark hair followed me and asked of me, regarding being a ditch digger, whether I was disappointed?…as I had previously been a carpenter.
• Then I woke up and thought and said, “No” that I was not at all disappointed. 

2 Kings 3:16-18 KJV: And he said, Thus saith the Lord , Make this valley full of ditches.  For thus saith the Lord , Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.  And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord : he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. http://bible.com/1/2ki.3.16-18.KJV

Revelation 3:12 LEB: The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go outside again, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name. http://bible.com/90/rev.3.12.LEB 

• (a word to the church of Philadelphia).

6-3-19 Mo. 4:30pm: C. H. Spurgeon on ditch diggers, and the Lord’s smile…

Today’s Reading

Morning

“These were potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.”

1 Chronicles 4:23

“Potters were not the very highest grade of workers, but “the king” needed potters, and therefore they were in royal service, although the material upon which they worked was nothing but clay. We, too, may be engaged in the most menial part of the Lord’s work, but it is a great privilege to do anything for “the king”; and therefore we will abide in our calling, hoping that, “although we have lien among the pots, yet shall we be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.” The text tells us of those who dwelt among plants and hedges, having rough, rustic, hedging and ditching work to do. They may have desired to live in the city, amid its life, society, and refinement, but they kept their appointed places, for they also were doing the king’s work. The place of our habitation is fixed, and we are not to remove from it out of whim and caprice, but seek to serve the Lord in it, by being a blessing to those among whom we reside. These potters and gardeners had royal company, for they dwelt “with the king” and although among hedges and plants, they dwelt with the king there. No lawful place, or gracious occupation, however mean, can debar us from communion with our divine Lord. In visiting hovels, swarming lodging-houses, workhouses, or jails, we may go with the king. In all works of faith we may count upon Jesus’ fellowship. It is when we are in his work that we may reckon upon his smile. Ye unknown workers who are occupied for your Lord amid the dirt and wretchedness of the lowest of the low, be of good cheer, for jewels have been found upon dunghills ere now, earthen pots have been filled with heavenly treasure, and ill weeds have been transformed into precious flowers. Dwell ye with the King for his work, and when he writes his chronicles your name shall be recorded.”

12-5-20 Fr. 7:32am:

• I found this Spurgeon writing in my email this morning and it reminded me of the ditch digger dream here, when he described God wanting men, four carpenters, to do rough work…ditch digging is also very rough work…

Evening (Spurgeon devotional)

“And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.”

Zechariah 1:20

“In the vision described in this chapter, the prophet saw four terrible horns. They were pushing this way and that way, dashing down the strongest and the mightiest; and the prophet asked, “What are these?” The answer was, “These are the horns which have scattered Israel.” He saw before him a representation of those powers which had oppressed the church of God. There were four horns; for the church is attacked from all quarters. Well might the prophet have felt dismayed; but on a sudden there appeared before him four carpenters. He asked, “What shall these do?” These are the men whom God hath found to break those horns in pieces. God will always find men for his work, and he will find them at the right time. The prophet did not see the carpenters first, when there was nothing to do, but first the “horns,” and then the “carpenters.” Moreover, the Lord finds enough men. He did not find three carpenters, but four; there were four horns, and there must be four workmen. God finds the right men; not four men with pens to write; not four architects to draw plans; but four carpenters to do rough work.Rest assured, you who tremble for the ark of God, that when the “horns” grow troublesome, the “carpenters” will be found. You need not fret concerning the weakness of the church of God at any moment; there may be growing up in obscurity the valiant reformer who will shake the nations: Chrysostoms may come forth from our Ragged Schools, and Augustines from the thickest darkness of London’s poverty. The Lord knows where to find his servants. He hath in ambush a multitude of mighty men, and at his word they shall start up to the battle; “for the battle is the Lord’s,” and he shall get to himself the victory. Let us abide faithful to Christ, and he, in the right time, will raise up for us a defence, whether it be in the day of our personal need, or in the season of peril to his Church.” ~ C. H. Spurgeon 

2-28-21 Su. 1:27pm: 

• This dream was referenced in another notebook on incoming wisdom regarding my mission…
• I notated there that I had seen a large earth moving machine arriving on a flatbed, in a dream…perhaps strength arriving for my duties.