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the flower fades, when the breath of Yahweh blows upon it; surely the people are
grass.

The Spirit spoke clearly to me at that time and said, “I have indeed called you to be a
cutter of grass, for all flesh is as grass, but I can only use those for this ministry who have
allowed me to first cut the grass in their own lives.” I knew the Spirit was saying that He
needed to deal with my flesh, before He could use me to deal with the flesh of others. God
was about to speak to me again about cutting grass, and I was about to have my own lawn
mowed (my flesh cut away).
The home God had provided for us in Montezuma was surrounded by a beautiful lawn
of lush green grass. It was undoubtedly the nicest lawn of any home in which we had lived.
This was a very remarkable fact to me, because, since the time that the Father had spoken
to me about my calling to be a cutter of grass, every home we had lived in had terrible lawns
where I could not get grass to grow. In one home that we were in for a year the backyard
was devoid of grass. I borrowed a friend’s tiller and it would barely scratch the surface of
the dirt. The ground was like concrete, concrete made of Georgia red clay. I scattered grass
seed on it in vain, for the yard remained nothing more than dirt for the entire year we lived
there.
The next home we lived in had never had a lawn planted in it before, being in a new
development. The owner promised to plant grass for me when we moved in, yet it was four
months before he was able to get anyone to come and do the job. The land was tilled with
a tractor and prepared to receive seed. The seed was sown and straw placed over it to
protect it from the rain, yet the day after the seed was sown a heavy rain came and washed
all the seed away from the house and down to the edges of the yard and into the road. To
the day we moved out we never had grass growing around the house. This was the house we
were in just prior to moving to Montezuma.
You cannot imagine my excitement then when I saw the beautiful yard of grass around
this home the Father had just moved us to. I thought that perhaps now the Father would
open the door for me to begin to minister as He had prophesied to me. While in the
previous two houses the opportunities for ministry were as barren as the soil surrounding
our homes, but now we had a lush and fertile yard.
A couple years previous I had bought a used push mower at a yard sale for ten or
fifteen dollars, and I had been using it to mow the sparse amount of grass that I had. Now
I had the better part of an acre of thick grass to mow, and I thought of purchasing a riding
mower to do the job. The Spirit closed every door that I knocked on as I looked for a riding
mower, and I became convinced that He desired for me to continue using my 22" push
mower.
The Spirit has for quite some time spoken to me through numbers, and I noticed the
prevalence of a certain number when we moved to this home. The house number was 2231,
and the road we lived off of was County Road 22. When the Spirit showed me I was to use
my push mower, the first thing I noted was that it was a 22" mower. I began to wonder
about the significance of this number, and I was certain it had something to do with cutting
grass, that is, removing sinful flesh. Before I was to leave this house, which would be our
residence for two months, the Spirit revealed the significance. I did a search in my Bible
software for the number 22 and I came up with the following.
Jeroboam, the king who made all Israel sin with the two golden calves he set up
reigned 22 years and God cut him off (I Kings 14:20). Ahab, the king who did more evil than