LENDERS OR BORROWERS?
January 4, 2009
by Claire-Lise Walk – Ontario, Canada
Someone asked me a question with regard to the axe head that fell in the river and one thing leading to the next, in seeking God’s face, here is an excerpt of what Dad revealed to me.
The lord said in
Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD shall open unto you his good treasure, the heavens to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.
And again in
Deuteronomy 15:6 For the LORD your God blesses you, as He promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.
A lender is someone who has something in his possession, because he has worked or even fought for it. He is a possessor of wealth, of land, and of revelation knowledge which has to be “passed down” to our children(Deu 32:46- Ps 78:1-7).
A borrower is one who needs what the lender has in order to live or make a living or obtain a certain end. But the borrower has to repay what he has borrowed in the first place and usually with a return of some sort. He is indebted to the lender.(Proverbs 22:7)
God wants us to be intimate with Him (or to commune with Him) so that He can covenant and impart to us the unveiling of Himself. As He reveals His Truth, more and more flesh is removed from us, He appears more and more clearly to us. We have a removal of the veil and we see Him as He is, or His very existence and essence is manifested in us.
As Dad reveals Himself to us and we declare the revelatory Truth to others, we become lenders. Those who receive are the borrowers, unless that which was lent brings forth a “return”.
It is a seed planted in our earth that waits to germinate, that is of course if we tend to its care. (Matt.13).
Until a revelation of the Truth has manifested in us we borrow that revelation. Once its wisdom manifests, it brings an appearing of Yeshua, it brings about salvation and we can become lenders. It brings a “return”, or a “tshuvah” or a turning of our heads “in Hebraism”, from our wicked ways. Or else that revelation will fall by the wayside or sink to the bottom of the water or sea of carnality.
When a Truth of God’s Word has been revealed to us, it becomes a sword or an axe into our hand depending on the work it is called to accomplish. If it is a sword, it will prune us. It will cut the branches that do not bear fruit, it will cut off our own head, or thinking or mindset off, so that Yeshua can be the Head of His body.
If it is an axe it is to be used that we might chop at the root of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This tree cannot be pruned with the Sword, or else it will bear more deadly fruit. It has to be chopped down not even leaving a stump or else it will birth new growth and multiply. Yeshua came to put the axe at the root of the tree (of the knowledge good and evil, the tree of religion with its “man-made” material), that bears deadly fruit, so that He, the Tree of Life, may be firmly planted in us, bearing fruit worthy of the Kingdom. (He confirms it to us by saying: “I AM the vine, you are the branches that must bear much fruit” – John 15:5, and also, “I AM come that you might have Life and have it abundantly” – John 10:10.)
In 2 Kings 6:5-7, someone was a borrower of an axe but the head or the power of it fell into the river of carnality and sunk down to the bottom or to the ground. The prophet Samuel let none of God’s word fall to the ground. He knew how to wield both the axe and the sword. He had Wisdom and Prophetic understanding. In contrast, this person tried to use it before it manifested in him, and it became of no effect; it had not the power as when he first received it from the lender. He was still in the process of understanding its deeper meaning and being unified with it and being in covenant with it, hence he says : “it was borrowed”. This word means “Ask: To seek to understand what is not known. [Hebrew and Aramaic] ask, enquire, desire, require, borrow, salute, demand, lent, request, beg| {str: 7592, 7593}”
So he cried to the Prophet Elisha- whose name means “God is salvation”; it is composed of H410 – אל “el” : Almighty, God, and H7769 – שׁוּע “shua”: to cry for help. This person cried out to God for help in dealing with the condition of his mind (vs 6- place-H4725) that needed to be exposed and revealed to him. He showed the man of God the place where this axe head fell.
And what did the man of God do? Since he was already a lender and transformed into the image of Yeshua, he therefore had the power to come to his rescue. He revealed to him the stick in his own eye that he had to removed before he could chop the beam in his brethren’s eye. All wood, hay and stubble is to be burned up in the fire.(1Corinthians 3:12-13) It burned the wood, or the wrong mindset, or the flesh that prevented him to use that revelatory axe. A religious mindest is a mindset that is ”opposed to God” and was veiling him to the deeper truth. Hence the revelatory axe floated back to the surface of the water. As “instructed”, he picked it up with his own hand and it became the powerful axe it was always meant to be. Salvation had come to his house. Yeshua (whose root word meaning is H3467 – ישׁע yasha : to save, deliver, to save from moral troubles, to give victory to) was walking on the sea of his carnality. He took dominion over the carnality of his life. Now he could grab that axe, use it and lend it or bring forth the revelation to others. He was no longer a borrower but a lender in the Kingdom to the praise, glory and honour of the Most High God.