The Third Part

The Lord awakened me at 4:40 a.m., and I knew the number "44" was significant. He then began to speak to me from 2 Kings 4:44.

2 Kings 4:42-44 - "Now a man came from Baal-Shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, 'Give them to the people that they may eat.'"
"And his attendant said, 'What, shall I set this before a hundred men?' But he said, 'Give them to the people that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, "They shall eat and have some left over."'"
"So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord."

The Lord quickened me to look up the meaning of "Baal-Shalishah". "Shalishah" means "third part". The Lord spoke:

Zech.13:9 - "And I (have brought) the third part through the fire, refined them as silver is refined, and tested them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are My people.' And they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

For the past number of years, the Word of the Lord has been testing His body. Each time we have received a revelation, it has been tested and proven in our lives. We've been through the refining fires of the Holy Spirit so that the Word of the Lord is now a "pure" word in our mouths, proceeding from a pure heart.

All prophetic voices agree that we have come to the time of miracles, signs and wonders. These signs will be released as a confirmation of His word spoken under the unction of the Holy Spirit. After Elijah raised the widow's son from the dead, she said, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth!" (1 Kings17:24).

We will know the people of "the third part" by the signs that follow. One of the key ways in which the Lord will be moving is in the area of multiplication of resources. That which is dedicated to the Lord (as in first fruits) will multiply, resulting in ample provision for those that we're ministering to. There will also be an overflow, so that our own needs will be amply met. Let us be alert to the new thing the Lord is doing in this season! Let us walk by faith and not by sight, expecting the supernatural in our midst. Let our words not be "in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power"! (1 Cor.2:4)