The Stream And The Living Stones
Susan Cummings
New York USA
January 29, 2009
During the 01-23-09 Friday Night Service in Syracuse, NY- the Lord showed me in a vision, that the whole area was like a place by a stream. On the side of where the stream was located, were many large boulders, smaller bushes, and areas of patchy grass here and there. But where the waters edge was, I could see that there were many dried up smaller rocks and larger boulders, and scraggly plants, and some trashy debris that were washed up along the shoreline.
Out across the stream, I could see Jesus leaping from rock to rock in the middle of the stream. Some of the rocks that protruded outwards were large and some were barely above the surface, even so He knew just where to jump to land on the right ones to get Him across the river stream.
Then He stopped at a certain point and stood in midst of the river stream. He reached down and began to pick up some of the rocks that had lied submerged below the surface of the river water. I could see that they were about palm sized rocks, and they were rounded and flat. They were smoothed out by the water, and you could tell by their shape that they had been in the water a long time.
The Lord turned one of the flat rocks over in His hands, looked it over, and then He took it and flung it out across the river stream, and it bounced along the surface of the water several times, as it skipped along the surface. I watched to see how many times it would skip before it sank back into the water, but to my amazement, it didn’t. It never sank again, but kept going and then the rock changed, it grew legs and transformed into a very small person with legs and it was running on top of the water, and it kept on running till it got to the edge of the river and then the person still kept on going and ran onto the ground and speedily left the area. Where they went I do not know.
Then I saw the Lord do the same thing again and again and again. He kept picking up rocks, turning them over in His hands, and then flinging them across the water and He watched them as they skipped along the surface till it reached a certain point, and then each one sprouted legs like a person and then changed into a full fledged person who kept on running as before. Over and over, the Lord did this. Faster and faster He bent down and picked them up and then reached out and flung them, until soon He became a blur and the movements accelerated until He looked like a whirlwind in the water that was throwing the underlying rocks all around the stream, many of them still skipping and jumping and transforming and then running to their destinations.
Then He turned and looked at me and said, “I am jump-starting My Living Stones.”
End of the vision.
Further Understanding from the Father:
***Faith is being out in the flowing stream, Unbelief dries you up and you end up on the banks of the shore.***
(Jesus is wading out amongst those who have been waiting.)
(The exposed rocks and surface boulders are those people and ministries who have just begun or who have already emerged and those who have become various works and expressions of the Lord. Some were still in His flow that He moved amongst, but the majority of them lined the river banks instead.)
1 Peter 2: ESV
4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." 7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"
1 Peter 2:1-8 TM
1-3 So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God.
(Remember: We are going from the chest down to the breast now, to be found drinking the deeper things of the Spirit.)
4-6 Welcome to the living Stone, the source of life. The workmen took one look and threw it out; God set it in the place of honor. Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary vibrant with life, in which you'll serve as holy priests offering Christ-approved lives up to God.
(The Living Stones are sources of Life. Jesus is approving of those who are now made ready, and He is thrusting them forth out into the places of fruitfulness amongst His House.)
7-8 The Scriptures provide precedent: Look! I'm setting a stone in Zion, a cornerstone in the place of honor. Whoever trusts in this stone as a foundation will never have cause to regret it. To you who trust him, he's a Stone to be proud of, but to those who refuse to trust him, The stone the workmen threw out is now the chief foundation stone. For the untrusting it's ... a stone to trip over, a boulder blocking the way. They trip and fall because they refuse to obey, just as predicted.
(If you learn to quietly trust you will surely be forwards thrust; if you doubt you will find yourself out and drying up on the banks left to rust.)
The 5 Rains that will come in 2009:
Remember: The Rains came out from the fingers on the Lord’s Hand
Rains of Vindication Thumb
Rains of Revelation Fore finger
Rains of Deliverance Middle finger
Rains of Fruitfulness Ring finger
Rains of His Council Pinkie
We determine if it will be nurturing Rain or destructive Hail:
Isaiah 32:19 And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
(“Forests” are the Natural and Spiritual Oppositions and “Cities” are the Demonic Entrenchments in the Spirit Realm over the People and over the City.)
Isaiah 2:15 against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;
(“Towers” are Arguments, and “Walls” are Opinions, and Mindsets.)
Job 38:26 to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man, 27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
(Men will sprout forth from the rocks, explode in understanding, grow legs and become the living stones and learn to run upon the waters and to move in the things of the Spirit.)
Isaiah 35:7 the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
Psalms 107:35 He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
2 Samuel 23:4 he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
(The Black Mountain= the burned out ones. Taking the right turn in the path between the steep walls of rock- then suddenly stepping into the Glory- the Revelation that brings utter Transformation and the Explosion of Light from within us now “out-raying” outwardly.)
Isaiah 30: ESV
24 and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
(Seasoned fodder which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. =The deeper meat, the hidden manna reserved for this hour, for the mature, who can rightly divide it.)
Isaiah 33:21 But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.
Joel 3:18 "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.
Numbers 25:1 While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
We are being brought full circle: It is time to be thrust out and for us to get ready to run:
Ezekiel 47:1Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.
Amos 9:13 "Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
Jesus Is Our Pattern: 3 ½ miles = 3 ½ years
John 6: NIV - the churches current journey over the generations up to today-
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. 18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. 19 When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were terrified. 20 But he said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid." 21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.
John 6: AMP
16 When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, 17 And they took a boat and were going across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and still Jesus had not [yet] come back to them. 18 Meanwhile, the sea was getting rough and rising high because of a great and violent wind that was blowing. 19 [However] when they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat. And they were afraid (terrified). 20 But Jesus said to them, It is I; be not afraid! [I AM; stop being frightened!] 21 Then they were quite willing and glad for Him to come into the boat. And now the boat went at once to the land they had steered toward. [And immediately they reached the shore toward which they had been slowly making their way.]
The church encountered the living “I AM”- A New Experiential Encounter that will revolutionize us and also transform the current church- instantly positioning us in His next purposes. We no longer will row our boats, this encounter and experience with the Lord will propel us into that right place we are to be. Jesus is our direction, He is the destination, and everything flows outward from Him. He is steering the church again.
Recap:
Season of the Winds 2000- to 2008
Season of the 5 Rains 2009- to 2012
Season of the initial Launching Forth begins in 2009
Isaiah 33:21 But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.
Jesus is hand picking His Vessels, they are His Hand-sent Instruments.
No more bulky man made ships (works), but instead God is releasing His ignited living stones!
For added clarity of the 5 rains that are corporately falling on us in this 4 year season, and their prophetic significance, see the prophetic word just released entitled, “Vision of the Rain of Fire.”
http://www.intheimageofhisglory.com/1973.html?entryId=0b230b4c8d00d2cbe9cf81b5e5ac7c35
-Susan Cummings
The Full text of the Syracuse, NY Meeting Notes can be read here: http://www.intheimageofhisglory.com/2015.html