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MUMBLING AND MUTTERINGS
Bob Neumann
MUMBLING AND MUTTERINGS
I just spent the last hour just driving around with THE LORD. I have been doing it for years. Sometimes it is because i have a “need” somewhere in my life and iknow my only source is THROUGH THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. I do not look for things to get spiritual on. But things that i have “mumbled” about over and over will find a focus and a “SUDDEN CLARITY” just hits me in the face.
Over the last few days i have had a few “loose threads” that have kept my attention and kept me “mumbling”. Now you might ask yourself why i mention “mumbling”. Let me give you a simple answer. Ever find mumbling to yourself…”GEE LORD….why did you send me here?….what am i supposed to do now?….is that a joke?…..” Mumbling under your breath when you are supposed to be praying….Murmuring to yourself as you find yourself with one problem after another….one bigger trial following another big trial. In the natural if you saw someone mumbling and murmuring to themselves you would distance yourself from that “crazy person”. In Hebrew the term we find repeatedly translated “meditation” in the KING JAMES actually means to “murmur” .… to “mumble”…to “mutter”…. But then again Paul explains it well….
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Sure it sounds foolish…insane even….but to walk in HIS WISDOM is to walk in HUMILITY….BEFORE HIM. Yesterday someone on this sight spoke about “‘relationship, relationship, relationship'”. So i had to add that to all that i had mumbled about for the last few days. And what had been running in my Thoughts was the images of North Carolina having both an area of BLESSING and of REFUGE. As i said something that is something i have some awareness of….you can say. It just so happens that in that hour i covered most of McDOWELL COUNTY. From NEBO to PLEASANT GARDENS, from OLD FORT to MARION. McDowell is one of the SEVEN counties where BLESSING will be reserved.
Now that was not a WORD i received and shared. It is a “word” that i was having a personal problem with WITNESSING TO. ****i am not saying it is not a TRUE WORD….what i am saying is i am having a problem.**** That is why me and THE LORD had a serious ride and talk session. So i had a load on my HEART….concerning images of REFUGE…GOSHEN…. BLESSING ….RELATIONSHIP…. but then something kicked in….so to speak…The person who shared “‘relationship, relationship, relationship'” .Started with “LOCATION>>>LOCATION>>>LOCATION”.
The old adage about successful businesses require a “proper location”. Being properly positioned in the marketplace.
Where “traffic” flows around you. Now if you had been with us in our drive you may have noticed all the “PRIME REAL ESTATE” upon which closed restaurants, gas stations, factories presently sit. You would have passed the MARION WINN-DIXIE with the “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS” sign across the front. Maybe you would have noticed the empty church parking lots. Little is done during the week in most of them. And you would be surprised how many church buildings stay locked on Sunday. CLOSED DOWN….for whatever reason. So once again i asked ABBA….why am i here? After four years i still am amazed how smooth and slick things went to get me here and to keep me here. The drive ended in the center of MCDowell County. Just off of MAIN STREET in MARION. At the RAILROAD STATION. It too is closed….has been for years. Same can be said of Old Fort and Nebo.
Now trains run through here all the time. Heavy freight trains. But none stop. Seems like there is nothing that is needed from McDowell County….and nothing is coming.… Strange IMAGE….strange THREAD…. Now when i think of GOSHEN….i think of a place prepared…..with a purpose ….for a season.
REFUGE is a place to run and hide in. Now in all therecent posts i see nothing about PEACE…SAFETY… Which is interesting. I know that i am in my place…i have been BLESSED with PROVISION and PEACE.Someone sent me a post in the last week talking about “OVERFLOWING GRACE”….and in my spirit RED FLAGS raised up HIGH. So in my mumblings i was reminded that THE BOOK does not use the “TERM” ””’overflowing”” in relations to GRACE… DIVINE FAVOR. In fact Paul himself states that GOD told him he had been given SUFFICIENT GRACE…..which is all we really need. Like MANNA in the desert…. take enough for the day…and be thankful. In point of fact…Paul uses the term “OVERFLOWING” with JOY and THANKFULLNESS…or THANKSGIVING.
On the other hand….Isaiah speaks of “OVERFLOWING”….he talks about “MIGHTY WATERS”…”STREAMS”… and twice he says “SCOURGE”. Jeremiah talks about FLOOD…and Ezekiel RAIN and SHOWERS….all “OVERFLOWING”…. Now i share all this with you readers of the WPA SITE not as a prophetic word….because it is not. It is just a stream of mumblings. So i await what is to come. To many all this “prophetic” warnings is but a way to kill idle time. Something to entertain them.
They really do not take too much that is GODLY seriously. That is because their “relationship” with THE MOST HIGH GOD has never changed, grown or matured. 10-15-20 years supposedly as Christians and still have a sheep relationship with THE SHEPHERD….still infants crying for milk when they should be “growing up”. Relationship is indeed important….but so is OBEDIENCE…but what can you expect from SHEEP … GOATS … TODLERS and INFANTS? How do you look for accountability in the sheepfold and the nursery? Warnings are important….but only when obeyed…followed through with. Otherwise all we have is what the prophet spoke of….
27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
30 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goethafter their covetousness.
32 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. Selah bob neumann
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