Old Dog IV
The Place of Understanding
August 14, 2000:
I Suppose I should SAY “”THIS ONE’S FOR HARLEY””….
As usual I had a ‘chat’ with HARLEY last night, and he asked if I was planning to ”get” something tonight. Sunday Night/ Monday Morning is a hard time to sleep so I usually try to ”spend” that time wisely. Often with Dr. Strong at my side, and sometimes just in the quiet of the night I will do what Habakkuk did, wait and stand ‘my watch’. Often it is just the lack of distractions and irritations that I can ‘hear’ THE VOICE OF THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT that my “hidden room” provides. But then there are those rare days where I hear ABBA’S VOICE so clearly that I wonder why I could not do so for weeks and months. For a long time I chalked it up to ”timing”…. as in HIS SET TIME.
The last few weeks I have had several emails I could not answer. One asked why that person didn’t hear GOD like ”everyone else did”. How do I honestly answer that? Especially if I had been complaining to GOD for HIS SILENCE HE had blessed me with. Likewise I had an email from a person who was hurting, who wanted a ”word” that GOD LOVED them and that SALVATION had been given them. This one hurt because I had felt that doubt and fear all too often.
Likewise I don’t do ‘words’ for people. I know some are out there who would say ”WORDS” come from our spirits that bring COMFORT…EDIFICATION… CONFIRMATION. They have no problem writing or saying….”THUS SAITH THE LORD”…..when it was them…and not GOD. Even if it was meant for good, if GOD DID NOT SPEAK IT….it is presumptuous sin. Most may disagree, but I have no peace ”ministering” to people. But on that occasion I heard and I shared. It had been almost two months since I heard ABBA, and even if it was not for me, I enjoyed just to HEAR HIS VOICE.
Last night I heard it again, and once again it is not for me….at least the part I am about to write down. I think this is when I hear most clearly….when I have a purpose.
”TELL MY CHILDREN TO STEAL THEMSELVES AWAY FROM THE WORLD AROUND THEM. TELL THEM TO FLEE THE DARKNESS AND COME TO ME. I HAVE LONG DESIRED TO GIVE THEM THE KINGDOM. BUT I SO GREATLY DESIRE THAT THEY BE MY KINGDOM. DID NOT MY SON SAY, SEEK FIRST MY KINGDOM AND MY RIGHTEOUSNESS? MANY OF YOU GO LACKING AND HURTING BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT ADDED TO THE FOUNDATION THAT I GAVE TO YOU OUT OF MY
LOVE. SO FEW HAVE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF MY SON. FEW HAVE HEARD HIS WORDS TO COME AND LEARN OF HIM, SO THEY CONTINUE TO CARRY THEIR OWN BURDENS. UNTIL THEY TAKE UP HIS YOKE THEY AN NOT LEARN OF HIM. AND ONLY THROUGH HIM WILL THEY COME TO ME.
COME AND REASON WITH ME. FEAR NOT YOUR OWN BURDENS. HOW MUCH YOU WANT THE ”ALL THINGS” THAT MY WORD PROMISES TO THOSE WHO HAVE FOUND MY KINGDOM AND MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. BUT LITTLE ONES, ONCE YOU FIND MY RIGHTEOUSNESS ALIVE IN YOU, YOU WILL NO LONGER SEEK THE ”THINGS” THAT YOU WANT ME TO ”ADD” INTO YOUR LIVES. THAT IS WHY I TELL YOU NOW THAT YOU MUST LEAVE YOURSELVES BEHIND. NOT JUST YOUR PAINS AND FEARS AND DOUBTS, BUT YOUR ASPIRATIONS AND PLANS AND GOALS THAT YOU HAVE BUILT UPON.
MY WORD WAS GIVEN TO YOU AND YOU HAVE YET TO LEARN ALL HE HAS TRIED TO TEACH YOU. MANY OF YOU LOOK FOR NUGGETS OF REVELATION AND PEARLS OF WISDOM AS A CHILD PICKS UP PRETTY STONES FROM A STREAM OR FLOWERS FROM A FIELD. IS IT THE SAME AS STUDYING TO SHOW YOURSELVES APPROVED? HAVE I WITHHELD MY HOLY SPIRIT FROM YOU? HAVE I SEPARATED MY TRUTH FROM YOU? AM I AS FAR AWAY FROM YOU AS SOME OF YOU NOW THINK?
OR MAYBE THE CARES OF THIS WORLD HAVE CAUGHT YOU UP. JUST MAYBE YOU FELL INTO DISTRACTION BY THE MANY THINGS THAT STILL BURDEN YOU DAILY. THEN THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY YOU FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE DECIDED IS RIGHT IN YOUR OWN EYES AND WILL NOT SETTLE FOR MORE. AND CHILDREN I DO DESIRE MORE FOR YOU.
BUT I ALSO DESIRE MORE FROM YOU.
MANY CALL ME FATHER WHO I DO NOT KNOW FOR THEY KNOW NOT MY SON. THEY KNOW OF HIM. OF ME MOST CEREBRALLY. THEY ALSO KNOW OF MY MOST HOLY SPIRIT TO SOME DEGREE. BUT WHAT GOOD IS THEIR AMASSED KNOWLEDGE WHEN THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING.
SO CHILDREN IT IS TIME TO LEARN AND TO GROW. TO BECOME ALL THE WONDROUS THINGS MY WORD HAS DECLARED OVER YOU SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. SO I TELL YOU MY PRECIOUS ONES IT IS TIME TO COME TO THE PLACE OF UNDERSTANDING. THE PLACE WHERE MY WILL AND MY PURPOSE BECOMES PARAMOUNT IN YOUR THOUGHTS, WORDS, AND DEEDS. THEN YOU MIGHT FIND THAT THERE IS NOTHINGELSE WORTH YOUR TIME AND ENERGY EXCEPT MY KINGDOM AND MY PURPOSE. THEN YOU WILL WALK IN MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. THAT CHILDREN IS INDEED MY DESIRE FOR YOU.
THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO FORSAKE THE WORLD AND SEEK MY FACE. IT IS JUST THAT PERSONAL FOR EACH OF YOU. BUT TO FIND ME YOU MUST COME THROUGH THE WAY I GAVE TO YOU AND IT IS UPON HIM YOU MUST TRUST AND LEARN”.
Now this is where ABBA stopped and I will not add to it. But allow me to share two pieces of THE WORD which seem to ”pop” up. The first I have read many times these last few weeks….the second seems to fit the TIMES AND SEASONS….so I’ll call it a pearl for any ‘sons of Issacar’ who wish to understand what we are supposed to be doing.
20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: butmany shall cleave to them with flatteries.
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and topurge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
selah
Shemuel