* LETTING GOD BE GOD

It is the early hours of the morning and I am still excited. 

Learning more every day of the Father’s magnificent hand in our lives, of the Lord’s putting together every step of his plan.

I will guide you step by step, he has told me.  I will show you the way.

So often in recent months and years the point has been made.  I can’t do it.  No, I can’t.  For all the best of motives and goals, in trying to go forward and implement what I understand to be God’s call and assignment, I can’t do it.  I can make headway, to be sure.  And good things at times can happen, to be sure.  But to fulfill his plan, his objective, his assignment, he has to do it.  Through me.  Around me.  I have to become nothing.  To give myself up entirely.  To be consciously and unconsciously open to what he is doing, sensitive to him always, not ever pressing or forcing anything that I think must happen but rather letting him work through me to accomplish.

Dying to self.  How many years, Lord?  How long ago did you tell me that, that I would be dying soon?  At least twenty.  I remember talking about that with two wonderful people you put in my path decades ago.  We were pondering.  And yes, I and we all had the right answer.  Dying to the old self, the old priorities, the old interests, the old objectives.  But year after year in all you have taught me and all that we have done together, still learning.  Still learning what that means.

Just not me.  No evidence or glory of or for me.  It is all about you, Lord.  It is all you, Lord. Everything.  And if I don’t know or see how something is to go forward or might happen that you have revealed to me, well, that’s alright.  You will reveal what you want me to know at your time, your perfect time.  It is never my time that counts, but yours.

Surely the Lord does nothing without revealing his plans, his secrets to his servants the prophets.  Yes, the Bible says that.  And how true it is you have shown me.

 

So long ago you revealed your plan.  You made it known.  And then suddenly you act and it all comes to pass.

There is no god but God.  All things are possible with him.  We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Rest in him.  Live in him.  Use all the tools he has given you, and live in him.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                            (May 2016)

                                                                                            Copyright © 2016 by John Newlin

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* NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ON OUR FACES. NOW!

I’ve written of how people hear from God in a variety of ways.  Our newsletter of October 2013 dealt entirely with that.  It is of course a subject of great interest to all believers.  People hear from God directly sometimes in a still small voice or even an audible voice, or in times of prayer, or through reading and focusing on certain scriptures, or through a dream, or a vison, sometimes through other people, or circumstances, and more.

Over the years I have at times openly spoken of some specific revelation or word of guidance I have received from the Lord that I know is to be shared broadly.  Many of those in recent years have related to the imminent return of the Lord.

Well, in the wee early hours of May 2, just a few days ago, I had a dream that was so clearly from God.  It was a message that must be shared.  I sat up in bed, got my writing tablet, and wrote all down the Lord had shown me.  This I pass on to you now, because surely it is for everyone.

In this dream, I saw the action before me.  I was not actually a character in the dream, just an observer.

As the dream began, the scene was in Congress.  Three men were walking pointedly down a corridor, very purposefully, determinedly.  One was a senator and was carrying a briefcase.

In the dream I saw as if from behind, and I saw these three walking.  To the left of these along the corridor was an area that continued the length of the corridor.  It was full of people watching and murmuring.  Murmuring.  There was a sense that the senator and Congress don’t know what they are doing.

The senator was walking to vote on a very important matter – environmental, economic, something like that, something important.

And this murmuring from the crowd continued.

Suddenly the senator turned to the crowd and spoke:

“Yes, we don’t know what to do.

But here’s the truth.

You don’t know what to do either.

None of you.

No one on earth knows.”

And in the background these three words came forth:

“Only God knows.”

And then this message: People have to get on their faces and ask God – all people!

And the dream ended.

That was a direct message from God. 

The key of the whole thing is obvious:  This situation we the people are all in now cannot be solved by people.  The people do not know what to do.  The organizations and the world systems just are not working well. 

Obviously for any believer, the only one who does know is God, and then anyone to whom God reveals his guidance and plan.

God.

There is that wonderful scripture in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (NIV)

That’s it.  That’s the message God just gave me for the people.  For all of you.  For everyone.

The last message of the dream is that people have to get on their faces and ask God – all people.  That is humbling themselves.  That is praying and asking God.

We know we are so close to the return of the Lord.  We know the vast majority of humankind in the world and in America is as lost as skunks and not at all ready for the events soon to unfold.

And yes we serious believers – ministers, pastors, teachers, everyday people – try to do all we see and understand and are led to do.  But as of now, the vast majority still does not hear. 

Get on your faces and pray!  Seek God and ask!  The Bible talks in Philippians about how at the name of Jesus everyone will be on their knees.  Well, in this dream from the Lord, he wants us on our faces.

Now look at this!  I today watched a video of Jonathan Cahn speaking on May 5, just three days after my dream.  As I watched I was amazed by what he said.  He called on everyone to fall on their faces before God!  Again, the guidance to get on our faces.  He heard the same thing I did!  Cahn went on to call for the Holy Spirit to fall, for a revival in the land.

Add to all this another dream:  A few days ago my wife Cathy had a dream clearly from God.  In it people sat in a theater watching a play about a fire burning a building.  All the while, the theater itself was on fire!  Can you think of a better description of our situation in America today?  People all the time watch movies and programs and activities with violence, mayhem, wild disasters, immoral behavior, and more, all the time they themselves are living in the midst of and at risk of that very thing in this society.

My message to you:  It is time.  Now is the time.  Help us people.  You are the people.  Newsletters and services and preachers and such can only reach so many.  Help us.

Pray for God to remove the veils from the minds of the people, that they will be able to see and to receive and to understand the truth – to understand who the Lord is and the times we are living in and to receive the Lord as their savior, their King.  Pray for revival.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to touch everyone.

Help yourselves and us people!  Yes, the Lord is coming soon.  But surely we don’t have to sit by and let America totally fall to shreds before he comes.  Certainly we can be out there striving to do all he has asked.

We all do have to answer to the Lord too.

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!

                                                                                               (MAY, 2016)

                                                                                             Copyright © 2016 by John Newlin

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