I felt the Lord showed me four different fields, in four different stages of production.

In the first field, there were people who were working by hand. They were digging up large rocks and boulders. Other people were removing the rocks and boulders. The people appeared to be straining as they dug up the rocks and boulders, and as they removed the rocks and boulders from the ground and carried them away. The earth in this field appeared hard and dry.

After the rocks had been removed, the field was plowed by someone on a tractor. I watched as the dry, hard-looking ground was overturned by the tractor. The tractor left behind deep gouges in the earth. The freshly turned earth appeared dark and moist.

When the tractor was finished plowing the ground, more people came into this field and began to spread seeds in the gouges the tractor had left in the earth.

When the seeds had been planted, the people left. For a while, there appeared to be no activity in this field.

In the second field, I saw plants beginning to grow. There were people in this field who were tending to the growing plants. The sun was shining brightly and hotly upon these people. They appeared hot and sweaty and tired, yet they continued to work, and to water and weed the field.

In the third field, I saw the crops being harvested. The scene was one of intense, yet methodical, activity. The people were rushing around helping to harvest the field. They all appeared to know exactly what they were doing, and were very thorough in their work.

When the field was harvested, it was set on fire. I watched as the stubble left in the field burned. When the fires went out, the field appeared black, and very unattractive to the eye.

In the fourth field, I saw no activity, no laboring, no planting, no harvesting. The field was empty and idle.

Next, I felt the Lord showed me myself. I was standing. There were also people standing around me. Suddenly, the ground moved under my feet. Startled, I glanced down. I saw that the ground had shifted. I looked around at the people around me. The ground had shifted under their feet also. We all appeared to be nervous and uneasy. I wondered what was happening.

Then I felt I saw the Lord taking us one at a time, one by one, into some type of enclosure. (For some reason, the word "pavilion" came to my mind.) We were by ourselves in this enclosure. We all appeared unsure of what was happening to us, or why we were where we were.

There was no one to talk to in this enclosure, and there appeared nothing to do.

I stood still in my enclosure. I saw beyond my enclosure to the Lord and wanted to ask Him why He had isolated me, and put me in this enclosure. Before I could ask Him any questions, I heard Him speaking.

"If you leave, you will have no part in the new work for which I am preparing you," the Lord said.

I glanced around and saw that some of the people had made as if to leave their enclosures. At the Lord's words, some of the people stopped and remained in their enclosure. A few, however, left.

"Why are we here, Lord?" I asked.

"I am preparing many of you for a new work," the Lord replied.

"What work is that?" I asked the Lord.

"I will reveal to each person what I am calling them to do," the Lord replied. "Some of them are already understanding and comprehending what I am now doing in their life, and will be doing in their life, and why I am doing it.

"I have shifted many of you and moved you out of your present fields of labor. The ministries many of you were engaged in, I am removing. I will replace it with another, new, work."

"When?" I asked the Lord.

"When you have made yourselves ready and are prepared," the Lord replied.

"How do we do this?" I asked the Lord.

"Through prayer," the Lord replied. "I have placed many of My children into a place of solitude with Me. It is only My voice I desire them to hear. The more time they spend with Me, listening to My voice, the less likely they will be to hear the voices of those who would deceive or confuse them. This will be a time of loneliness for many of you. It will appear that you are doing nothing, and accomplishing nothing for the Kingdom. Those of you who have been busy working and laboring for Me, will at first find this season of inactivity almost unbearable. As you pray unto Me and seek My face, then and only then will I begin to reveal to each of you the new work I am calling you to fulfill. Stay still in the place where I have brought you. Trust in Me. I will perform a good work in you."

As I pondered and prayed about this vision, I began to grasp how for many of us, the Lord is causing us to be as the four fields I first saw in this vision. Just as there were stages in the development of the four fields I saw, there have been stages of development in all of our lives, and in our ministries or callings.

Now, for many of us, the Lord has caused the ground to shift beneath our feet. He has led us aside to a place in Him of seeming inactivity. For those of us who have an intense desire to be about the Father's business, this is almost unendurable.

Yet it is in this place of seeming inactivity, in this "fourth field" if you will, that the preparation is being made to begin the work for a great harvest.

If you are one of those who now finds yourself separated from what you had been doing for the Lord, and are maybe discouraged by this, be encouraged that it is quite possibly the hand of the Lord that has led you to this place. Through prayer, ask the Lord to reveal to you if you are perhaps being prepared for a new labor, a new work, a new ministry.

While everything in your life may appear to have shifted, one thing always remains constant. And that is the Lord's presence in our lives. He will never leave us or forsake us. Trust yourself to Him. Allow Him to keep you hidden in the pavilion in which He has placed you.

In Him,
Hollie L. Moody

A pavilion is a covered place, a tent or a booth.

It is a place of refuge. (Psalm 27:5 "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.")

It is a place of being kept. (Psalm 31:20 "Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.")

It is a protective covering. (Isaiah 4:6~~ "And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.")