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<\/a>ESA\/Hubble<\/p><\/div>\n
somehow through the tiny little 1 foot square window in the room I saw the entire expanse of the the night sky.\u00a0 It was like I was laying on my back on the top of a mountain, nothing between me and the sky.\u00a0 As I looked, the stars began to move and formed the rough image of a Man with His arms open wide.\u00a0 The message wasn’t audible, but just as clear as if it was:\u00a0 “I can take care of your family.”\u00a0 Of course I knew at the moment this movement in the heavens wasn’t actually happening, but I was none-the-less confident that Christ who had created it all could just as easily have physically relocated every star to make His point.<\/p>\n
I know there are those who will read this and poo-poo it all, attribute it to lack of sleep or being asleep, or stress, or just an over-active imagination.\u00a0 That’s OK, I’d be skeptical if it hadn’t happened to me.<\/p>\n
This is the ‘loudest’ God’s spoken to me, but he continues to speak and guide.\u00a0 Sometimes through scripture, sometimes through other reading or friends, and a few times lately even audibly.<\/p>\n
I loaned my welder & generator out to someone in need to use for a short while.\u00a0 After a few months I needed it back, nearly a year later he still wouldn’t return it.\u00a0 As I was considering my options and had decided to contact the local sheriff and press charges, the Spirit clearly said, “let it go.”\u00a0 Of the dozen voices constantly rattling around in my head, this voice was distinctly different.\u00a0 It was the voice of calm authority, and I knew Who it was and so let it go.<\/p>\n
Rom 12:20a “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Deciding to follow Rom 12:20, I sent him a message (he wouldn’t answer my calls) telling him to keep the welder if he needed it.\u00a0 His reaction to that (and some lies he had heard about my supposed plans to just break in and take the welder) included threats of violence to me and my boys.\u00a0 As I began to write my response to the threats, that odd voice spoke up again, “be nice.”\u00a0 That was the last thing in the world I wanted to be, but expecting a soft answer to turn away wrath (Prov 15:1), I deleted my initial response and tried “nice”.\u00a0 That didn’t work, so the voice spoke up again, “drop it.”<\/p>\n I Kings 19:11, 12\u00a0\u00a0The Lord said, \u201cGo out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.\u201d\u00a0 Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.\u00a0After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.<\/strong><\/p>\n I just love that passage in I Kings.\u00a0 Such awesome power the Lord has, but He chose to speak in a gentle whisper, or “still, small voice.”\u00a0 I think I’ll continue to listen to His gentle whisper, because I don’t want Him to have to break out the fire, earthquakes, or rock-shattering wind to get my attention.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve never been a big “vision” person, as in actual appears-before-your-eyes or in-a-dream manifestation of something from the Lord.\u00a0 I know God can do anything, and there’s plenty in scripture to support such things, and nothing (that I can find) … Continue reading