In part of my dream last night I saw cast sheep dying. After talking with Jim a previous sheep farmer, cast sheep are when they are pregnant and they lie down and cant get up. So my thinking is that there are sheep (people/christians) pregnant with things; dreams/visions/hopes in the spirit and in the waiting are really tired and so are sitting down/giving up on their dreams. Sometimes when we are expectant and pregnant as a mother we can become tired in the waiting for the baby to be born, but keep going, keep believing and it will come to pass. There is always the tiredness and exhaustion in the final stages of labour but the thing that keeps you going is that there will be a baby. Isaiah 66:9-11 "Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says your God ....v10 For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance." God gave me this scripture once when I was really struggling to keep going and so I encourage not to give up but keep believing by faith and those things that he has given you will come to pass.
Reading in Acts 7 this morning the story through Stephen of Abraham being told by God to " Leave your country and your people and go the the land I will show you" So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living. He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child." As I reflected on this and the journey of Abraham stepping out in faith into a land that he received no inheritance in but a promise of what was to come for his descendants of which we live in the fruit of that, I thought of todays generations in which often is only doing things that we want to do or that will benefit us personally as we live for 'today' not worrying about tomorrow. A sense of if it feels good then do it, if it doesn't then we will move on - perhap