God Speaks I Listen

1 Thessalonians 4:17 After that,  we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

As soon as I began to pray today the Lord said to me He is coming back soon!! ….Very soon. We are going to be caught up. I kept hearing that word in my mind “caught up”. I have a charm bracelet with many charms on it and sometimes depending on what I have on it can be tricky wearing my bracelet.  I’ll raise my arm and my blouse will be caught up in the charms and snatch my blouse up with the bracelet in an instant.

That’s how we are going to be caught up with Jesus. First our loved ones who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior will be caught up and then all living believers will go. This will happen instantly. Are you ready?..…are your family and friends ready?….. Have you told other people about Jesus so they can be caught up?

Do you have your good pajamas on?  Let me explain this statement. When my children were little I taught them about the rapture and every night before they went to bed I would say: “do you have your good pajamas on because Jesus might come back tonight”. I would try to make them so excited about His return. Of course we know Jesus can come back at anytime day or night, but it was my special thing I did with my kids. Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour” (Matt.25:13)

Message for Today:  Don’t get ready….be ready for the Lord’s return.

Remember the story of the 10 virgins  (Matthew 25:1-13)

Note from my heart- There has been much talk lately about the day Jesus will return and the Bible is very very clear that nobody knows.  But God gave us clues in the bible. As a prayer intercessor I sence this and I know there are others out there who feel this too……it will be very soon. There are too many things going on right now on this planet not to figure this out. Truly these times are like a woman in the last stages of labor.  Pray fervently everyday for people to believe in Jesus Christ….time is running out…..I can hear the Lords footsteps…….getting louder, coming closer…..my heart beats hard with anticipation. The bridegroom is coming for His bride. Are you ready……. Do you have your good pajamas on?

⁹However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

¹⁰these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.    

A website’s dictionary meaning of the word supernaturalness is:  a quality being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.  I would like to add….. That man can understand or explain.

In my prayer time with the Lord this morning I experienced the supernatural with God. I have physical manifestations and I can feel what feels like oil being poured on my forehead. I have had this phenomenon happen a year after accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. I had this happen this morning. I also saw several visions. Some visions were of people I am to pray for and one vision was a white dove flying.
God presence was on me in a powerful way….it was real…..I felt it and it is unexplainable in human terms. I have held peoples hands when I was praying and they have told me they felt what they described as electricity from my hand to theirs. I have told people things that I could not possibly have known. Does this happen to me all the time…….”no”…..Does this mean I’m special…..”No way”. God is no respecter of persons and He uses all His children in different ways. If you are available to God He WILL use you.

To understand the supernatualness of God you have to study the bible carefully and understand His attributes and then you have to spend time in prayer and God WILL reveal Himself to you by the power of the Holy Spirit. You must seek Him and trust Him. When it comes to having this supernatraul relationship with the Lord I trusted Him like a little child with his father. I didn’t question God a lot I just wanted more and more of Him and He kept doing more things in my spiritual life and showing me more visions.

I WANTED MORE OF GOD SO BAD that for the first about 7 years of my born again life I prayed up to 8 hours a day almost every day. My husband understood because God was doing special things in a different way with Him. Family members thought I was a little strange. I would not answer the phone or go out at during those prayer times.

There is no other Being like God in the WHOLE universe!!!!!  He is unique, different, unusual……He is nothing that we can even begin to imagine or explain. He is superpowerful and can create things out of thin air and make anything disappear. He can make people…look in the mirror. He makes planets and galaxies. He can speed up time or slow it down or make it disappear because He has no time constraints. God is awesome!!

And guess what……..I’m His daughter……this powerful awesome supernatural God is my Father! And if you are a child of God He’s yours too.

I thank God for my special time with Him this morning. I so pray what I have shared with you today although it might be a little strange and personal will inspired you to hunger after God and ask Him to reveal Himself to in a much deeper way than you are use to communicating with Him. He is gentle patient and kind and would never force Himself on anyone or make you feel uncomfortable. Trust Him like a child. Open you arms and cry out for your Abba Father. Our Dad is there to be everything a supernaturall father can be to you….if you let Him.  God bless you I’m praying for you!

Message for today:  Yes God is supernatural but even so He can and is so willing to reveal Himself to you. He can do this through the power of the Holy Spirit and because of the sacrifice of His precious and only Son Jesus Christ who bridged that gap between you and God and put you in a right place to receive blessings.

Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I am in the secret place of God this morning. Oh how I love being there. Tears flow out of my eyes because I can feel His presence and His love. His Holy Spirit is revealing His heart to me and we are connected. He knows my thoughts and I can feel Him searching my heart. I feel like a child needing their father, I feel like a patient needing their doctor, I feel like a wife needing her husband…..I feel like I have all that and more.

He speaks to me so softly and gently.  My mind and heart is seeking Him ….hungering for His thoughts and He is revealing Himself to me.  The Holy Spirit reveals to me the scripture written above. The scripture now burns in my heart and mind and I know the Lord wants me to share this with you.

He says “Tell them to meet me here too. The secret place. A place that no other man can see …..It’s our secret place we are meeting in. A time you carved out for me and a place only you and I are at. It’s the deepest part of your mind and heart reserved for me. I love being with you and I feel I have your undivided attention there and I pour my heart out to you and you do the same to me. We experience oneness in that space of time.  I hear you calling my name and as you cry out in worship my purpose for creating you is complete to me. I love you my dear child…….I love you”

Message for today: Find a quiet place, anywhere….car….home……closet….right where you are now….pray…talk to God…..He’s waiting ever so patiently. He has all the time in the world…..do you?

Proverbs 8:32 “Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

Psalms 84:4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.

I’m so ashamed to say this….but sometimes I’m not grateful enough  for what God has given me. Not only am I not grateful enough but I forget sometimes what He has done for me. I don’t intentionally do it…..I believe it human nature to want more, want better, and to live our daily lives without even thinking of all the blessings we’ve received from God yesterday.

I’m being honest here and revealing personal things about myself because at this point in my life (I’m 58 years old) I don’t have anything to hide. I just want to be real with God, myself and others. Life is short and I want to grow as a person and encourage others along the way.

This week I was totally blown away with a story I read about of a new friend of me and my husband.  After reading His story I could not stop thinking about him and all he’d been through and how blessed I am. Please read his story…here’s the link:

http://glencove.patch.com/d/blog_posts/the-will-to-live

The spirit of God let me know today as I prayed how blessed I am. I’m not talking just financial things but physically, spiritually, emotionally….. In fact in every area of my life everyday….24/7.

I’m in my right mind (for the most part , I can walk, talk, breath on my own, go to the bathroom (hey you know for some this IS a blessing…just being real here). I have a roof over my head, food to eat( I guess a lot food since I am overweight) I have clothes, a car, some gas(smile) A loving husband, and wonderful adult children, a cute grandchild, I’m happy, have the grace and peace of God, health insurance…..well I could go on and on but you get my point. Even writing this out I fell even more blessed.

I love the Lord so so much and I serve Him and obey Him and the bible says many promises that God bestows on His children when they do right by Him. Just giving your tithes to the Lord will cause Him to open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing.

I feel so blessed this morning. Yes I still have many things going on in my life and there will be more difficult trials to come BUT…when you get into an attitude of being grateful for past and present  blessings …..it will keep away the stressings!

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

Message for today:  We are so blessed By God even if we had nothing we are still blessed.  The greatest gift mankind has EVER known is that there was a man named Jesus who was sent to earth by God to put us right with God  by sacrificing His life, so that we can have eternal life. Because of this gift alone…….WE ARE BLESSED!

Isaiah 40:31 31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

 
Oh No!!!! I’m all over the place in my thinking. Plotting, planning, coming, and going, over thinking situations. I’m doing this and doing that. I’m thinking I must be running ahead of God. How do I know? I’m tired, I feel weak, a little faint and I’m crawling around. I’m trying so hard to do many things and I’m really going nowhere. My mind is not as calm as it should be and this causes me to……you got it….run ahead of God.

The Lord is telling me to wait on Him let Him and He will lead me in every area of my life. He showed me in a vision a man and a woman dancing.  Both people are trying to lead while they are dancing. They are a mess, they can’t do it. They’re struggling stepping on each other’s feet and they both get frustrated, discouraged, angry and eventually quit dancing.
One person just needs to submit and stop trying to run the show, wait for the other person to lead and they will be able to dance. If we wait on God we’ll be able manage ANY situation….not only manage but fly over them.

God will let me run ahead of Him and when I realize that I’m too far out ahead of Him I turn around and look and say to myself, “God where are you?” It’s such an awful feeling to feel you are alone in your situation and it’s just sneaks up on you. Whenever I feel myself running ahead of God I know that’s a time to wait, stop and pray.

This morning after I finish writing this message, I’m going to meditate on the scripture above, think about different areas of my life and see where I’m running ahead of God either in my thinking or doing and I’m going wait on the Lord in those areas.
There are rewards in doing this…..I won’t faint…..I can walk up rightly…….I won’t be weary…..I’ll be able to run with God……. .And I’ll mount up and fly.

I believe I can fly………………….If I wait on the Lord that is !!!!    :-)

Massage for today:       Stop!….Just  stop running!  All those things that you are worried about, all the things you gotta do before you pray about it…. stop!…. Now wait just a minute…………..wait I say!…………..on the Lord.