The Sandwich Process

UV 3432/10000 The Sandwich Process
I will multiply on you man and animal; and they will increase and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly, and I will do better (things) for you than at your beginning. Then you will know (with great confidence) that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36 v 11

When the Tri-une God inhabits us on our invitation by faith, He does better things for us than in our former days. He will cause us to excel, multiply, be fruitful. When we moved to our new house called The Tabernacle in 2001, along with a one year old baby added to our family in 2000, older daughter, we had a female Dalmatian brought in from Bangalore. The uni-verse literally came true for Spotty, the Dalmatian soon gave birth to a litter of beautiful pups, including one that had a spot over one eye, promptly called Dot-com. He had multiplied both man and animal in our home and caused us to inhabit the Tabernacle even as He co-habits with us.

God is the Lord of increase and multiplication even as the enemy of our souls believes only in division and subtraction. The Lord increases our traction or momentum in the right direction while the latter slows and hampers us with confused thinking, bad decisions, assaults of every kind imaginable even through human agencies. The Lord does so to boost our faith in Him, so that we know with increasing confidence that He is indeed the Lord and ruler of all things and all nations, all domains. He does it to encourage us. He does it so that we remain connected to the very source of eternal life.

When we look back, we should give thanks, honour, praise and glory continually to the Lord for all the multitude of blessings He has sent our way, for the things He has orchestrated in our lives without our even knowing or being aware. The promises of God remain inert in the Word if we do not appropriate it through what I call a “sandwich process”. The word of the Lord needs to speak to us in a specific situation and personal way. Then, we need to believe it, accept it, run it in our hearts and minds over and over again, treasure it in our hearts, thank the Lord for it. Then, the second slice of the sandwich process will fall in place, namely its fulfilment in real time in an amazing and wonderful way that cannot be logically or naturally explained or understood. We will now know for sure that it is the unseen hand of the Lord, the invisible grace and great love of the Lord for us that caused it to happen.