In Judaism there is a season of time called the Counting of the Omer. This is the designated time of 50 days between the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Pentecost. During these 50 days, according to Leviticus 23, Israel was to count the omer, but what I didn’t know is what an omer is.

Religion has captured this time, ordained by the Lord and made it a religious activity of moving from freedom received at Passover to revelation received at Pentecost. But we all know it takes a lot more than 50 days to move from freedom to revelation, or we would be living in revival all day everyday. So, I dug deeper and what I found has brought such joy to me and I want to share it with you, because we are living in the days called the counting of the omer.

The omer is a dry measure, used to measure grain that has been removed from the stalk. A sheaf is a bundle of grain gathered during the barley harvest in Israel. Now listen to Leviticus 23 “And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.”” This was a command from the Lord for all generations, they were to bring an omer from the sheaf they harvested. An omer is 1/10 of one sheaf or 2.3 liters in dry measure.

But listen to this, they were to count the omer for 50 days, this means they were to count the number of sheaves they gathered during harvest season. Think of it this way, it is like counting the number of hay bales you roll after cutting your field. Their harvest was so massive it took 50 days to count it and the Lord counted this a time of feasting and celebrating the harvest the Lord gave them. They sowed in the winter months after Tabernacles and were to count it in the spring.

I tell you all this, because right now we are in the counting of the omer, and we are to be counting the sheaves of blessings God has given to us for it is harvest time right now. Spring is the time of reaping the harvest. We are to be counting all the blessings God is giving us right now and it will take 50 days to count them all for that is how many He is giving right now. We need to repent of looking at all that is wrong and look at all that is going right, we have a lot of sheaves to be counting during this 50 days of counting the omer. It’s harvest season in the kingdom of God!!!!