Face Time
Sunday, May 06, 2012
I didn't have a Face Time with the Lord yesterday. I had the Lord on my mind all day, and I had prayer and kept the Lord in my heart all day... but I did not have a dedicated Face Time with the Lord yesterday. Friday I had encountered and overcome a category four hurricane in my spirit, and I had called upon the name of Jesus to help me handle that situation as best as I could, with God's help.
I was not the only brother who had faced this weather pattern for our spiritual experience that day. He and I were both faced with the same challenge. I do welcome the resistance that would ultimately develop my character and strengthen my walk. I do welcome another opportunity to make a willing decision to do what's right in a questionable situation. I had not always made the right choices during these situations in the past, and I do look forward to when I can easily deflect such offers with the Word. Perhaps because I would speak the Word into a situation, with my own tongue, not just a song lyric or such temporal thing.. I mean, I want to speak directly to that situation, to call by name, and speak the Word of God into the whole thing.
I know that this is 100% effective. I have tried it and found it to be very true indeed. Instead of exercising the 4 "C"s, (and I tell you, the 4 "C"s is extremely effective also. ), I can enter the eye of the storm, where it is calm and the temperature is exactly neutral. I do not know of a single place on the entire earth that is more calm and more serene than in the very eye of a storm. Even the sky is bright blue and clear. This is where we should find our Secret Place and have our Face Time with God. I mean, think about it... how can you possibly have any distractions when you are in the very eye of the storm? Rise above that storm with the 4 "C's if you need an escape for whatever reason. However, if you wish to have some one-on-one Face Time with the Lord, why not simply enter the eye?
Today, I did have some Face Time with God, as was directed by Pastor Clay. During this very brief, five minute Face Time I did receive a Word from the Lord. One was personal, for a specific brother, while one was general for whoever has ears to hear. The specific one was, "with structure and always weighing the priorities anew, the effort will prosper." This Word was specific and was made complete when the Lord followed it up with, "I know we had our storm Brother, but that's over now... in the past".
The general Word that the Lord gave me today was, "sometimes we don't get our breakthrough because we are too contented by the benefits of our shortcomings". This Word means that for example, I had a broken foot and I won't lie, I really enjoyed my mothers' hospitality during my recovery. At times, I really wanted to just let time slow down so I could savor the rest. More often than not, I would had rather been working and profiting from my labor.
Because I had become restless in my immobility, I went against the doctor order. I decided to begin using my foot a little at a time, quite a bit earlier than suggested. I even removed the protective cast far earlier than prescribed. Now, I cannot suggest this sort of thing to a general audience, because it is a case specific decision. In fact, I can't say I would go that same direction in a similar scenario. I'm only saying that's what I had chosen to do. As a result, I do walk, jog, work and do all the things I can do, only 1.5 years later. Now, I had been using my foot completely from only 6-7 weeks after the accident. All the bones in my foot were broke or fractured.
Well, I didn't use the pain medication because it made me more sick than the pain did. Every now and then I put on a pain patch and think how grateful I am that I did not permit doctors to put pins in my foot. My foot is stronger than pins now. I deserve the real parts fixed, not some artificial part to assist or replace my natural bone. I am under warranty, and I do have replacement parts coverage.
Another situation, I won't tell you who it was, but it was a very long period of struggle with this individual. He had a heart situation some years ago and has been prescribed the associated medications for it every sense. Well, God had shown me that this man was healed specifically on Christmas eve of 1999. This man carried on his "fake" ailment for the rest of his natural life. He had these medications that he no longer needed. He used them even more than he had when he was still ill. He haggled with these pills. He manipulated people with these pills.
Now, I know this probably isn't you, or maybe only some of it is you. Anyway, even if you take a pain pill that you already know isn't going to make your pain decrease.... or even if you take a sleeping pill that you already know you won't be needing tonight... I think you see what I am saying now. Don't use the wheelchair if you know you can walk that short distance. Don't take the sleeping pill when you know that God has personally lulled you this time. If you don't have pain, or if you know for sure the pill won't relieve the pain, don't take more... instead, don't take the pill at all this time.
I know that you love your little pets, your "benefits" of your ailment... but what do you love even more? Would you like to try total freedom? Would you like complete restoration, with a surplus that is not less than 7 times as much as the enemy had stolen? If that's you, I challenge you to give back the carnal thing, the temporal thing that the world offered you. Stop the pill if you know that you can. Put the wheelchair back into the closet if you know you won't need it this time. Take the harness off the oxen because today, you will reap from a harvest you did not plant. Today, you are the primary beneficiary for the entire crop, instead of merely gleaning the fields.
This Word is by divine appointment, and not that of me... not of my own opinion only.
Sunday, May, 6th, 2012 6:31pm
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