The following is a revelation I received around New Years. I was going through my e-mail folder today, and found this e-mail dated Dec 30th/03. The following changed my life, and I had shared it with a professor at FIRE School who taught on praying in tongues and divine healing. He had made a suggestion to take a book of the Bible and study it every day for a month, and just go over it over and over again and meditate on it, as well as studying with commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, etc...

Well, I had been reading it over and over again, listening to audio Bible mp3s of it on my laptop over and over again on the Song of Solomon. The point of this is that while you're doing that, your prayer life--specifically the praying in tongues part--will work together with your reading and go deeper into an understanding of what the Word says. I had been reading Song of Solomon for over 25 days, every day, sometimes more than once a day, and marking my Bible up, taking notes in a journal, and so on. And what I'm about to share came suddenly while I was in a conversation with a backslidden friend on MSN. I edited and changed it so it would flow better as a blog/journal entry type of reading, rather than an e-mail (for example, all "me" and "you" references removed so it's easier for other readers of this teaching to benefit from it)

First, I need to qualify what happened. I was on the internet that night trying to encourage a backslidden friend to come back to God his Lover and Savior, using the stuff I'd been getting revelation from the Song of Solomon about. Check out the following passage.

"My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your VOICE; for your VOICE IS SWEET, and your face is lovely. Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom." Song of Solomon 2:14-15 (NIV)

Man, you have no idea how deep that passage is just from reading it at a first glance. After reading it like twenty times, God was showing me things, like going to the hiding place (place of privacy, intimacy with Him) and letting him hear our voice, hence re-enforcing that you can't only think your prayer, but He wants/needs to hear it out of our mouths. Well, I looked up the Hebrew for the word "ruin" for where it says that the little foxes ruin the vineyard, and you know what the real word is? Châbal: A primitive root; to wind tightly (as a rope), that is, to bind; specifically by a pledge; figuratively to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition). To bind. The King James says spoil, which shows the same concept. So did you catch that? Key words in that definition include to bind, pervert and destroy, withhold. Wow.

The foxes represent or are symbolic of the devil or demons. Anyway, I knew other passages of Scripture that talked about vineyards, but I didn't REALIZE I knew what other passages of Scripture said regarding vineyards. Like, duh, what are vineyards for? Grapes-WINE!!!! Here are some other passages talking about the vineyard God plants.

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