He will watch over His Word to perform it!
During the month of February, 2021 while in prayer, I heard the Lord speak to my spirit. He said, “I will watch over My Word to perform it.” I recognized that this was a Scripture and began searching for it in my Bible.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, “I see an almond branch.” Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
Jeremiah 1:11-12
There was no doubt in my mind that the Lord was speaking. I decided to look up the farming process of an almond tree.
This process is fascinating! https://www.almonds.com/why-almonds/almond-lifecycle
November through January, almond trees go through a period of dormancy, losing their leaves and chilling out in California’s cool, wet winters. Orchard soils store up rainwater for the upcoming growing season, and the trees store nutrients and energy for next year’s crop. Toward the end of dormancy, buds begin swelling on each tree’s branches in preparation for bloom
Between mid-February and mid-March, almond tree buds burst into beautiful white and light-pink blooms.
From March to June, almond kernels mature and grow to full size, with the shell hardening around it—both protected by a fuzzy outer hull.
In July, almond hulls split open, exposing the almond shell and allowing it and the kernel inside to dry.
From August through October, mechanical tree “shakers” harvest the crop by vigorously shaking it to the ground.
What I found even more fascinating is that during the time that the Lord was speaking to me about this verse, my youngest daughter became pregnant! I began to reflect. She and her husband began trying in November and conceived in January. Their due date will be the end of September. It is as though the Lord was giving me an event in the natural to coincide with His Word!
I am not sure what this all means, and whether or not Jeremiah 1:11-12 is speaking of a literal timeline. What I do know is that God says He will watch over His Word to perform it!
My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your waysand my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
What I do know is that our God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. There is no one like Him and there never will be. He is Alpha and Omega. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all things in it. A worm is more complex than a smart phone and yet we would never admit that a cell phone evolved from nothing.
In the beginning God spoke and all things became. Genesis chapter 1 clearly delineates the order in which He spoke and the order in which what He spoke was established.
His Word is powerful and it produces! It will NEVER return void!
“The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
Isaiah 55:10-11
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
Hebrews 4:12
Has the Lord spoken a word to you? Are there promises you are holding onto? Are you delighting in Him?
Numbers 23:19 says that He is not a human that He should lie, or change His mind. It poses the questions, “Does He speak and then not act, promise and not fulfill? He is faithful even when we are not.
Clarion Call by Barbara Karpouzian 