Showing posts with label listening to God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label listening to God. Show all posts
Monday, June 8, 2020
* SIGN OF THE TIMES: WHO IS JESUS COMING FOR?
Not so long ago right in the midst of a service the Lord stepped in to tell me to tell people who he is and that he is coming soon. We continued always with the preaching, teaching, healing, and more, but the focus shifted to the Lord’s coming soon. Over the years he shared more and more – directly and through other means.
Over and over he spoke of his CHURCH. “Help me find my CHURCH” is one of his words to me. And I have tried. Jesus’ CHURCH is that group of people on earth who truly believe in him, who have him as their Lord. It has nothing to do with what denomination or local church they belong to or where they are on earth. The members of Jesus’ CHURCH are currently working on ships at sea, building houses in difficult areas, cleaning up the streets of cities after riots, working to feed those who have no food, raising families, crossing the desert on a camel, fishing the bayous of Louisiana, riding a horse herding cattle in Argentina, sitting in a pub in London. You don’t know where they all are, do you? One thing – they truly know and believe the Lord. They do what he says. They have that new spirit in them that comes with being born again. They are guided by the Holy Spirit. They operate in the authority and gifts the Lord has given them.
Soon – and by that I mean incredibly soon – Jesus will come to get them. It has really been long enough hasn’t it? Almost too long for the believers. But God knows the moment. And suddenly the Lord will be here. A trumpet blast! A shout! Angels sent out to collect the CHURCH.
And in all the places I just mentioned above and countless more people will just disappear. In neighborhoods people will realize one or two of their members haven’t been seen for a while. In individual church buildings the same will happen. In some of those churches nothing will change and no one may notice. In others several may depart.
Remember the Lord’s words about the numbers. “…wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Mt 7:13-14)” It will not be a great percentage of the people, not a great number. Years ago I researched the meaning of the word translated “few” there. I looked at the original Greek of the New Testament, at least as original as I could get. And here is the conclusion: The word translated “few” means in fact “few.” That’s it. Few.
Remember what the Lord said shortly after that point: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.(Mt 7:21)” Jesus did not mince words. He made it clear.
So the few will be gone, however many that is. Soon. Incredibly soon. Remember my sharing the message I got not long ago – we only have hours. Well, that is where we are. Just don’t know how many of those hours we have.
June 2020
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
* GOD MOMENT: SIGN OF THE DOVE
Cathy and I had long loved the beach environment and we one day finally realized we could live and work there. Our goal was to find a house close to the ocean with a good view. But after weekends of driving two hundred miles from our home and then searching and finding little that fit our desires or pocketbooks, we were becoming a bit depressed. Finally, we decided to rank what we had found. Two houses came out at the top of the list.
A second-row house had a great view but a walk-through revealed wood floors suffering from water damage, repair work underway on interior walls and floors, and a general musty smell.
The other house had been decorated by someone with great taste and flair, but it had no ocean view, and huge threatening dogs lived in a pen backing up to it.
We turned to prayer, seeking God’s guidance. One day I came home from work to hear these words from Cathy: “I think our house has something to do with the word, ‘dove.’ That’s what I keep hearing when I pray. And I also hear it is “farther down the beach.”
So we returned to the shore yet another weekend. We scoured maps and searched everywhere for Dove Street, Dove Avenue, just any street that included the name dove, or for a development with that name. We also looked farther down the beach. Nothing was found.
Just before driving home, we visited a house under construction. It was a few hundred feet from the ocean, on about the fifth row of houses. As we looked about, the couple that lived across the street came to meet us. After telling us how wonderful the neighborhood was, the husband said, “We would pay fifty thousand dollars just for the right to live in this neighborhood.” Quite an endorsement.
The next weekend we returned and drove again to the house under construction. We had by now realized it was indeed “farther down the beach,” about four blocks farther down.
Cathy and I walked through the construction rubble into the house. The rooms were taking shape, and the wood sub floors were down. As I looked about the main living area, Cathy continued out the back door.
Suddenly in a firm but not loud voice, I heard her say, “John, come out here.”
I walked to where she was standing. She had a finger at her lips, motioning me to be quiet.
Cathy said not a word but pointed down to the right. There standing quietly and looking back at us was a dove, a real, living dove. For a moment we were overcome and absolutely still, looking at the beautiful bird and realizing the incredible hand of God.
We quickly checked out the entire house and even climbed onto a high unfinished deck. No stairs had yet been built so we had to use a ladder. Once there, we stood in awe, shocked by a spectacular view of the ocean.
We bought that house, the house farther down the beach, the house of the dove, the house to which Cathy had been guided. It was also the house with our desired view of the ocean and, as has proven to be the case and as we were told, with a great neighborhood. God is so good!
Copyright © 2017 by John Newlin
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
* LISTEN TO GOD
Simple to say. Wonderful Advice. The key is to do it!
We all know every believer in the
Lord Jesus Christ should pray regularly and should keep his spiritual ears open
to hear the Lord. God will speak through
the words of the Bible certainly. He
will speak through circumstances and events, and even through other
people. And he will just speak to you in
real words. My experience is that most
of this occurs in that famous still small voice of God that you alone will
hear. Sometimes though he might speak to
you in an audible voice, or at least a voice that to you is bold and audible
whether it really is or not.
What else can you do of more
importance than to truly live a life of prayer and always, always be in an
attitude of listening expectantly for God’s word, for his guidance?
Anyone who has followed us has
heard or read of instances in my life where the Lord has spoken. I only write or speak about a few as
appropriate to what I am writing. And
too, some of God’s words are just for me, or for Cathy and me.
Let me present one great example
of the Lord’s speaking to me. It occurred
in August and September of 2001. Cathy
and I had an important meeting scheduled near New York City for September 11 of
that year. It involved many people and
had been fixed for some time.
About six weeks prior to that
date, one day while sitting quietly in prayer about that upcoming meeting, God
spoke: “No need to make airline or hotel
reservations…” That’s what he said.
Then in succeeding weeks he spoke
again and again on this. Always the
words contained advice about taking no airplane. Sometimes they included no hotel and no car.
All in all, he spoke about five
or six times on this.
Needless to say Cathy and I were
concerned about these words from God and about the meeting. We even invited over the minister of the
church we were attending and his wife.
They were obviously amazed. One
said “You can’t go!” The other said “You
have to go!”
So we pondered and prayed.
Finally we made what seemed
sensible from a human standpoint. We
flew to the area early, before September 11.
And then we took a hotel quite a few miles away and rented a car.
So on September 11 we were there,
in a city outside New York City, and we drove to the place of our scheduled
meeting. We parked in a garage, got out
and walked through a tall hotel on the way to the building of the meeting. While walking through the lobby we
encountered a television set blaring in the lounge in the bar, and one or more people
standing rapt in attention watching. We
stopped. The television was showing an
airplane flying into the World Trade Center.
It was quiet. A man at a nearby
table prayed out loud. The moment was
overwhelming. Cathy and I looked at the
television and at each other.
Soon quietly we stumbled on to
the place of our meeting. A few minutes
there and we heard another plane had hit the World Trade Center and one had hit
the Pentagon. The meeting was postponed.
Cathy and I left. Later in the day I telephoned the minister
back home. Simple comment. “Did you see what happened?” Of course he had. No words fit.
God had warned Cathy and me over
and over about 9/11. He never told me
what was to happen, but he told me what we needed to do to protect
ourselves. In terms of the gifts of the
Spirit, this could be called a gift of knowledge, and perhaps also a gift of
prophecy. It was a warning to us about
an event to happen, and thank God we at least adjusted our travel plans.
In these difficult days leading
up to the Lord’s return, we all need as much of God’s guidance as he will give
us. Listen to God. Ask him to speak. Seek him.
He will be found by those who seek him.
Who knows the truth but God? Who knows the future but God? Who cares more for you than God?
Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(December
2016)
Copyright © 2016 by John
Newlin
[NOTE: This article may and
should be copied, printed, or forwarded by email to others so long as it is
copied, printed, or forwarded in its entirety with the appropriate attributions
included (including the copyright and the ministry contact information). It may also be quoted in part as long as
appropriate attributions are given. We
in fact encourage you to do all this and to give printed copies to those who
you know would benefit and do not have access to computers.]
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