The Measuring Rod

A week ago, as I prayed, God reminded me of a word that came through by prophecy addressed to me last year. It was about abundance like I had never seen before, specifically in the area of finances!

In my mind, I hadn’t experienced it yet. But God tasked me to double check my earnings. To my shock, by midway March, I had already earned a third what I ever made in the entire year of 2019, and perhaps half what I’d earned in 2020.

This was eye-opening, and it only made my trust in God firmer, reenacting & resounding the word of abundance! At that moment when God had told me to ‘measure’ my abundance in 2022 so far, I remembered that vision by Ezekiel in chapters 40 & 42.

A man appeared to Ezekiel and measured dimensions that were to be followed to build the temple. In the New Testament, we are told that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. To me this is allegorical (as though) to say; ‘measure yourselves!’

What do I mean?

Many of us receive promises or instructions from God, but do not bother to ‘measure’ them (to see the progress of their manifestation). Maybe during prayer, someone said to you, ‘You’ll receive a lot of dollars this coming year!’

Your pastor will say, ‘This is the year of Revival,’ or, ‘This is the year of the manifestation of light of sonship’, or ‘This is the year of divine strength’ or ‘This year, a little one shall become a thousand…’

The other day, while in a car with a friend, she said, ‘It’s already coming to April…but have we really seen the revival prophesied that we’d have?… If you’re not careful, it’ll soon be November, and people will shrug it off saying ‘AH, maybe God meant 2023…and if it doesn’t happen they’ll push it to the year next…’

The essence is; (for the scenario of the examples I have shared,) can you measure and see if revival has happened in you? Can you measure and see if you’ve started becoming a thousand? Are you seeing any manifestation of divine strength in your life? Is anything in you expressing the light or power that shows that you’re God’s son? Have you found any scenario that has proved you’re God’s son?

Take ye the measuring rod O child of God, and ‘measure’ yourself!

Jesus said mightier works than He did you’d do! Measure yourself, have you done any mightier?

It is in the measuring that we determine the times of the full manifestation of the promises’ end.

For example; If I was Noah, I’d ask myself ‘how much of the ark have I built?’ For then I’d know, that the closer I get to finish building it, the closer the rains promised come. If I take my time, the rains would also take as much time as I’m wasting. If Noah measured in such a way, perhaps he’d have quickened and finished building the ark in 50 years…but he took 120, and the rains (which were a prophecy) had to wait & work according to his pace.

Jesus said He was coming back for a spotless bride—the church without blemish! And that He’d also return when the gospel had been preached to all ends of the world!

Let’s measure and see; is the church spotless? Not in my eyes yet. I see slander and factions fighting saying ‘they belong to Apollos and those belong to Paul!’

Has the gospel been preached to ALL ends…? No it has not, but it’s reached more ends today than it did in 1900!

As we measure and see, we can then estimate the times and seasons we are in. Whether closer to fulfilment, or delay. Our faith comes into play so as to please the promise giver. If God said I’d earn dollars, my measuring rod would find me guilty of not having a dollar account! Faith would open up one already to provoke the quickening from on high.

In other circumstances, measuring the situation or yourself won’t apply for some extreme promises. Sarah measured herself and found herself lacking! She was too old to receive the promise! When she kept measuring, she found herself getting older, planning things God didn’t consent to, like involving Hagar… But when she decided to get the rod and measure God, she found Him FAITHFUL!

Ah, she rejoiced, saying ‘He that promised me a child is faithful. He won’t lie. He won’t put me to shame,’ that’s when her miracle happened! She measured God and said ‘maker of the stars and galaxies can’t fail to deposit a boy in this expired womb!’

And boom, a bun in the oven she received!

Measure God and see how wide He split the sea! Measure His arms and see how short they are NOT, to save! Measure His deeds, of old, what He’s ever done for you & your Jewish ancestors! For after all He too is your dwelling… A temple too, worthy to be measured like yourself!

And as you do, you’ll be encouraged to believe Him more!

For cases where you have measured yourself, and found yourself lacking, that’s a call to more. More prayer & more word!

Of course you are complete in Christ, but there’s always more in God. If you measure the patriarchs and matriarchs, like Kenneth E Hagin, or Kathryn Kuhlman, and you see you haven’t manifested their kind of power yet, it only drives you to sink deeper into God, for by divine law of greater works, you’re SUPPOSED to be greater… or do mightier works, just like they did mightier than those that came before them!

When Heaven measures the glories of past and future, yours is greater than the former! But is there any evidence? For though you’re supposed to do greater works, it is not obvious that they’ll come swinging into manifestation; for you’ve measured yourself, and you know where you lie on the scale.

This is not to compare you or to drain you.

It’s a practical call to check ourselves, and return on our knees, or dwell so much in God that we are transfigured into His very same image, such that every promise He said to us isn’t just a theoretical yes and amen, but a practical yes and amen EXPERIENCE, daily, till our deaths, and until the day Christ returns (as He continues to be faithful to accomplish every good work that He begun in each of us)

I pray; that at the end of your life, when you measure it, and compare your values with God’s, that they’ll be the same, according to His heavenly scrolls. I pray that when you measure your spouse, that the value you get, isn’t that signifying inequality in your yoke! I pray that when you measure how you raised your children, that indeed they’ll have been taught of the Lord.

I pray that when you measure your peace, and joy, and righteousness, that they’ll be increasing daily, becoming immeasurable, by the measuring rod. I pray that when you measure God, and His thoughts or plans towards you, that your results conclude ‘peace and prosperity, but not disaster!’

I pray that when you measure your standing with God, that the results may show you have faith, which pleases Him!

Ezekiel 40:3 He took me there, and behold, [there was] a man whose appearance [was] like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.

Zechariah 2:2 So I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what [is] its width and what [is] its length.”