Questioning With the Mind vs. Entering-In With the Heart

I recently received a good question from a person that has a hunger about 'God' but still isn't 'sold' in the heart area:

Q:  "I understand that you are pretty confident in your beliefs...let me ask you a simple question: have you been looking for disconfirming evidence to your beliefs?"

A: "You don't understand what a radical conversion experience brings… it's something others cannot understand if they don't have the living God in their life (the Holy Spirit living within).  He's more real than you are… that's why the apostles had no problem witnessing even unto the grave after Jesus ascended.

During the loneliest time of my life…I ran to God and HE showed up with literal signs and wonders.  Think about it…. do people these days 'need God'?  Who runs, asks, seeks & knocks…. who really tests the scripture to see if its so?

The problem is that I needed God and every step I took in believing/trusting…He was there.  But is that a problem?  It is for ever turning back.

Then come the promises in abiding (which is abundant life)…  How often do people pray their needs but never get to know Him?  Read the word because they need something but then don't do anything God says to do found in the bible?  Not many, and that's not 'relationship' which is what God wants with His creation.  He wants to be loved in relationship, not as a dictator.  I can't buy your love in friendship, nor will God (Jesus was enough).

So if I have dreams that are prophetic and happen (even documented on YouTube), and visions -  if I hear Him speak - if I've seen spirits - if I've been delivered from spirits simply by following what the bible says to do and felt them physically leave my body and experienced freedom… and been healed from sciatica, - and if - and if…..and if…..  why would I have cause to doubt, lest I was dealing with a spirit of doubt? 

My history is so full of Him that people that don't know 'us' have no say in our relationship; and that's a problem for you, not me.  I'm sorry I can't manufacture 'relationship' that He offers with you so you could understand….nor do I offer my irl (in real life) husband over to single women, LOL…. I tell em':  "get your own man!"  So see the cost involved….and ask yourself if you really care to know. That is the only way…we have to want to & then take Him at His word or Christianity doesn't seem to fly."

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How Do You Deal With It?

If things have been hard lately... If you've felt squeezed or pinched in your situation.. You're not the only one, we'll second that emotion.

Stingray shares how we are to really 'deal with it' by looking into the Word, at how some of the Bibles biggest names got through their trials and tribulations... because they didn't 'deal with it', but instead clung to God.

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blind Faith

 
Could you offer your first-born on an offer of sacrifice?  What about something a little more 'down the earth', like go against the grain and suffer persecution from family and peers?

These are the days of 'blind Faith', where He's testing hearts in an unconventional manner.  Tune into His voice...it's a matter of who's 'taken' and whose ‘left’...and I'm not talking about 'rapture' either!

Based upon a dream I had...

I'm joining my husband on a mission where he has been for a while at a hotel on the beach.

I go down the elevator and in there a hotel employee says the strangest thing...about "In the event of a hurricane, you should be as close to the water as possible".  I am thinking to myself, "Is this God speaking?".

I leave the elevator, in search of breakfast, and a ‘christian’ is with me.  As we go down a hallway, to the left is a church service or religious function of some sort & this ‘christian’ immediately goes to their knees & is drawn & consumed by this event & is no longer responsive to me so I continue on.

I reach the beach in a tented area where breakfast is being served.  Again, a hotel employee (this time I over-hear conversation) mentions that in the event of a hurricane, one should be as close to the water as possible.

The wind is picking up a bit & the sky begins to look foreboding.  A group of men are talking about the weather and one of them has constructed something akin to an 'Indian weather rock'.  Before he can finish talking about it, it signals that a hurricane is indeed coming.

I recognize that, indeed, the information that the hotel employees gave me was actually God speaking through them unawares, so I pan the beach for the furthest structure--closest to the water, which is a small cinderblock towel storage building and I am looking it over to see how I can get in it as it is accessed by hotel personnel via key.

As I awoke I had the sense that, the whole hotel structure was going to collapse...so because I was to be in the small building--I would have remained safe.

Interpretation:

First of all...the Lord had me read in Luke 17 that night prior to the dream, so here is an excerpt:

      31On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. 32 Remember Lot's wife! 33 Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."

What we need to pay attention to in this dream in conjunction with what God was leading me into prior, is that I recognized the voice of God, but His instruction was Life-Threatenly unconventional. 

       "Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it."

--only by the Spirit of God will we be safe (by abandoning your will to Jesus)...those that attempt preservation by any other method will lose.

In the hall on the way to the beach a ‘christian’ literally was brought to their knees by 'religion' & lost all sense around them.  They became hypnotically ensnared & could go no further.  I feel this is a stern warning for those that continue to hop from function to function proclaiming "Here's it is' or 'There it is' (taken from Luke 17:20)--and remember that Jesus was addressing those that asked 'When would the kingdom of God come?'.  Recall His reply?  "The kingdom of God is WITHIN you".  So, the partner was captured & could go no further on with God because of the allurement of the Spirit of Religion.

God's method of telling me what to do was very plain to me, in that, by using locals that would never agree with such statements naturally.  So, although the directive would be fearful to the natural man, because I knew the Voice of God there was nothing to question in His seemingly deadly command.

Which brings me back to the excerpt I added...after that passage a disciple asks:

37 "Where Lord?"  He replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather."

I believe that this 'dead body' is the 'church' at large, and the ‘christian’ in my dream would represent a vulture that gathers.  Have you ever seen a lot of vultures fighting over a scarce bit of food?  Not a pretty sight.  This is a pretty accurate description of what happens as the churches all continually hop on these bandwagons all preaching the same things...all writing the same books etc.  Instead of being rivers bearing life, they are reduced as scavengers...similar how demons become as parasites leaching off the glory of God out of human vessels.

Judgement comes, but those that stay on task & target have nothing to fear.  The true sheep know the Master's voice and He continues to go after every last one.
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