White Rabbitt Posted January 16, 2017 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 219 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 190 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/28/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/31/1950 Share Posted January 16, 2017 I made mention of this in a previous thread and I wanted to add to it. I thought a separate thread was appropriate. I will write what I wrote in the other thread and then I will continue. I've heard voices. Are they from God? I hope so. Here is a way to look at hearing from God. God will always say what can be confirmed in his word, the Bible. The Bible is complete. There is nothing new under the sun. What did you hear God say to you? Can you back it up in the Bible? There's a good chance you are hearing him if you can. How can you know for sure? Trust and obey. Trust you have heard from God and obey what he says, as long as you know the Bible backs it up. God will never confuse you or play games with your mind. He is probably speaking to you right now. Do you hear him? Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus,is to trust and obey. Amen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Rabbitt Posted January 16, 2017 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 219 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 190 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/28/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/31/1950 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 With this in mind, I would like to bring up some examples of knowing and hearing God's calling in your life. I don't claim to be a great Bible study teacher but hopefully I can say all this and have it make sense. Fasting It seems that fasting in Scripture is a sure fire way to know what God wants of you in this life. What is your fasting purpose? Is it to have him lead you into the next area of your life? Let's look at Ezra. Ezra 8:21+23; "There,by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. Other things happened here. He fasted and that caused him to humble himself before God. And he was afraid to ask the King for protection so he went straight to God, believing God would take care of him. Many fasting verses throughout Scripture. But next is prayer. And I was not surprised to find so many verses with fasting and prayer included together. Acts 14:23; "Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust". Here we see elders being appointed after prayer and fasting. Do you think maybe not all their choices qualified? That by prayer and fasting, God gave them the answers? I think that's exactly what happened. And this is how we, the church today, should be making our choices as well. And the third thing is the Word of God. God will speak to you with answers, whether it's from reading Scripture or hearing a quiet voice tell us an important truth of Scripture, if it leads us to worship and praise God and draw us closer to him, then we can know it comes from him. Now through all this you are looking for a special calling in your life, God will make it happen. Zechariah 4:6; "So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty." Yes, God will make it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted January 16, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,760 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted January 16, 2017 Isaiah 58:1-12 points to what fasting is about. Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God. ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’ In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your laborers. Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high. Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the Lord? Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted January 16, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,760 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted January 16, 2017 Ever wonder if there is a progression for us to follow? 2 Peter 1:5-11 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I think of this as a set of stairs where the ground floor is faith, the next step virtue, the next knowledge, then self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and finalizing with love. To me, these must be prevalent in a persons life to be able to do His work without stumbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted January 16, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 951 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,565 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,045 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) I often hear from God. He often says to me, "I told you so". Edited January 16, 2017 by Neighbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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