Whilst in prayer, my mind was called to the passage in Exodus (Exodus 5:1-19 below) that, where the children of Israel were forced to gather their own material for making bricks for Pharaoh’s building projects.

It more or less meant that they had to make the same quota of bricks, having less materials and less time to make them in, due to the extra time needed to gather materials to match their need. This is what I believe The LORD will say and add to you now: “I AM The Straw of your bricks.”

He showed me that Jesus Himself, can be likened to a single straw of corn, standing alongside, and Himself, rooted in the field and harvest of man.

“I AM a single straw in your harvest. I have stood with you and faced the blowing in your wind.

I have stood in your rain and your darkness of night and the dryness of your drought. I have known the bowing down of your head as you have faced and still face the onslaught of the elements.

I have felt the burning upon you from your sky, even from the highest height and utmost heat as it has scorched you, where you lay and stand.

I have felt the heat of the burning of the stubble at the scorching of man and sin, as you have lay cut in your fields.

I too have felt and still feel when you have been trampled on, and pressed and squashed and threshed and winnowed at the hands of and underneath the feet of men.

I to know what it is like to be torn apart and shredded, so that you do not resemble what you were before.

I have known what you have known and you also know what I have known. They did it to Me, they will do it and have done it to you.

But what you do for the least of one of these my little ones, you do unto Me, you do to Me and is done for Me.

For Me in My Suffering, for Me in My Glory. For whenever and wherever you suffer for Me, I suffer with you and My Glory and My Pride in you rest upon you and overshadow you.

Despite the hardships of Pharaoh, I did not fail them THEN (Israel) and I will not fail you NOW, My Children”

He showed me that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart to show Israel that it was not a man who set them free, not the world’s man, but God and God alone.

God did it then. He can and will do it now.

The Pharaohs of this world cause us hardship, so that we might be defeated and cease from God’s work. They do not want us to enter into God’s rest.

But God, in Jesus, still has His Rest for us. He is concerned about us and not just our work. For though the devil is angry, God uses it that we might find and enter into God’s Rest for us, and complete the work He has called forth in us to do.

He continued… and He did so, seeing us as a sturdy field of corn, covering the heights and slopes of every valley, field and every viewpoint.

Everywhere I looked, I saw full fields of corn as with their waving heads and stalks, being moved by the wind as if giving praise, adulation and glory to The King and LORD of The Harvest.

“I will add to your need. I will multiply. I will cause it gain and not loss, for I AM your need and I AM its gain.

I AM its source, and I will rise again in your day and set again in your night. I will surpass every yield and cover every field, every slope, with the bounty of My Field.

My Corn will be gathered and My Corn will be ground and My Storehouses will be full of My Grain, Grain for you and Bread for the desolate, arid and barren world.

I will crown My Crop with the bounty of My Grace and the Mercy of My Love.

And where there is no straw, I will be your Yield, and I will be your Field, and your Fullness and your Harvest unto you.

Fear not little flock, fear not, little, yet great field, it is The Father’s Pleasure to give you The Kingdom, and I will Comfort, Strengthen and Water you, and your soil, when they are in need… for not only are you My Harvest, My Yield and My Field, but you are also this to a hungry and thirsty world, in the field of My Earth.

I too, AM a God who hungers and thirsts for you — you, the Crop of My Heaven but also the Yield of My Son.”

He continued… ”In the midst of blight, in the midst of storm, in the midst of destruction, you are My Children.

You are My Light and Bright Seed in the midst of darkness. So rise, stand for Me, and hold your heads up high, waving under The Wind of My Grace.

Stand proud, stand tall shoulder to shoulder, let the full ear fall, let it all fall, let it all come My Field, My Corn from the tip of your ear to the root of your field.

Come! Come, gather together, shoulder to shoulder, wave and sway in your unison, gather together in your ripeness as you display The Field of My Glory, The Field of My Love, lightening up the darkness and lightening up the night.

Strength! Strength, strength from Me, standing in My Strength. I AM your strength for My Love has been spent.

I AM your Yield for you are My Field… and I, I AM, The Straw of Your Bricks!”

“Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, “Thus says The LORD God of Israel: ‘Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ”
And Pharaoh said, “Who is The LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know The LORD, nor will I let Israel go.”
So they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the desert and sacrifice to The LORD our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.” And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!”
So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it. For they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it, and let them not regard false words.”
And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I will not give you straw. Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced.’ ” So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, “Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw.” Also the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?”
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why are you dealing thus with your servants? There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make brick!’ And indeed your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.”
But he said, “You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to The LORD.’ Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.” And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You shall not reduce any bricks from your daily quota.” Exodus 5:1-19.

First published: August 6, 2005.

~ David Hood

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David Hood, is from Stanley, County Durham, England and was born-again 30 years ago. He began a more serious prophetic insight in the 90’s.

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