September 14, 2011

• Did God Speak Again?

  September 9, 2011

  During the Labor Day weekend, while I was taking a shower, my heart was moving in many directions.  While I do not fully understand what I was feeling and thinking, one thing is clear, God was speaking to me.  And, a few days later, I felt His heart for people who have moved away from Him and choose to have a relationship with the Bible and their interpretation of the Bible instead of Him.  I was thinking about the day and about what I should do in the future.  My wife and I are planning things and putting together pieces of the future.  He gave us a lot of input into what He wants us to do and how that comes together for us.

  When I hear from God regarding divine discipline, I always seek to have such communications confirmed.  The last time such revelations happened, an entire church lost its assistant pastor, senior pastor, and a majority the deacon board had accidents, some requiring surgery.  The word was given to me to tell them that they were under divine discipline.  When they finally turned back to God in a small step, proposing that the Senior Pastor have a say in their decision making, God was merciful and healed the eldest elder.  At the same time, God commanded me to visit the church so that they would know that He was speaking through me.  So, having experienced God firsthand, I do not dismiss these words, but to discern them.

  This time the words came to me during a shower.  And, God told me that they (let's not say who or what group) were under His divine discipline, the alarm clock in the bathroom, the one that never worked for ages, beeped.  At first, when I heard the sound, I was surprised and wondered what was going on in the bathroom and whether I needed to turn off my iPhone, which I may have brought into the restroom.  I took a peak through the curtains and saw nothing.  The sound did not continue, so I thought I was hearing things.  Yeah, it must have been my imagination.  Then, I started to shower again, then I heard the Lord say, "They are indeed being disciplined."  Now, there was a feeling of deja vu.  This has happened before and it is strange to me that something that had happened before would happen again, but then when God told me this, the alarm clock started to play its music.  As soon as I moved my attention to the clock, it stopped.  I didn't think much of it at first, just continue to take my shower and get ready.  My mind, in fleshy ways, dismissed it all as a fluke.

  Then, it hit me sometime later, I don't know exactly when, but I remembered what happened and thought to myself - it is God.  The alarm clock playing sounds was a miracle since it never played sounds for a long time.  Then, it played sounds when God told me something very important.  It clicked in my head.  God was telling me about another divine discipline that has already taken place or will take place.  Some Christians do not really think that divine discipline happens.  They construct their own god and ignore the parts of the Bible that they do not like.  The OT is a great example of what they ignore, but they also ignore Hebrews 12.  Now, I felt really bad about this all, like I was having little faith.  When He spoke to me and I paid attention to Him, the alarm clock played sounds, but when I moved my attention to the alarm clock, it stopped playing sounds.  It felt like Peter walking on water and losing sight of Jesus and His voice.

  I told my wife about what happened.  She told me that the alarm clock may be broken because there was no sound for a long time.  I told her that I heard the sound and described it.  She acknowledged that it was the alarm clock.  But then, she asked me, why would God tell you this?  Does He want you to tell them?  I told her that I do not really know and I am hesitant to give words to this effect - no one really wants to hear that God is disciplining them, not because they do not believe in God, but because they think of God as not doing things like that (they also dismiss the OT).  I hope and pray that God is just giving me these words for intercession purposes and not communication purposes.  I rather another person tell them what is going on with them (I hope this is not a Jonah situation).

  Of course, I am assuming that it is true that God is disciplining them.  I am going to do the Gideon thing and ask God to confirm one more time that this is true.  Yeah, even after the alarm clock that never played sounds suddenly played sounds when He spoke to me.  Even after the messenger told me that whoever is not with them is against them.  I know...  I have experienced what the overall message is, but at the same time, I going to be prudent and ask God to confirm this again.  If He wants me to get the message, He will confirm it again.

  Do you believe that God can speak to you?  If you do, how has this affected your life?

  Copyright 2011 by Christenstein

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