Dear friends
Happy and blessed and healthy and prosperous and miraculous year 2024 to you in JESUS name!!!!
Do you have any resolutions or goals or a new attitude you would like to try /incorporate more into your life – or some new principles you want to go by (more)…???
Me, I’ve decided to follow GOD’s advice (even) more.
When I had to deal with a major setback / disappointment last year – sidenote: feels goooooood to put it in the past!!!! – I was revisiting my way of listening to GOD and I was really examining the situation and myself to find out if I had misheard HIM….?
You know, mishearing GOD or mistaking a voice for HIS voice if it is truly the enemy’s voice was one of the biggest fears I had after I got saved….. as you may or may not know, in my “old life” before I got saved, I was a psychic, a medium, I channelled all kinds of spirits, whom I considered to be benevolent at the time – I was even firmly convinced that I was talking to JESUS and other figures from the bible (this is where I should have become a bit suspicious), Mary, all the angels etc…. when I was truly talking to demons.
I was publishing their messages online and they were beautiful, peaceful, filled with wisdom, encouragement and love…… it was clear that they didn’t come from me and had a supernatural source, as there was so much content and teachings of which I hadn’t been aware, so I was sooo sure that it must be angelic and divine beings talking to me…..it’s even biblical (as I know today) that the devil will disguise himself as an angel of light……. and when I got saved, these voices changed and began threatening me and haunting me – so I asked GOD to really train me in discerning spirits when I got saved, I didn’t EVER want to listen to the devil and /or his cohorts again – and I also wanted to help people avoid the traps I had fallen into, hence I created this blog and of course, I deleted all the old New Age crap I had published so that nobody would be encouraged to believe in the lies of the enemy through my words…..and I repented many times and over many years for sure!!!!
This is just to help you to avoid the deceptions I was fooled into believing.
It is important to learn how to hear GOD’s voice and to discern if it is truly HIM speaking when you receive a message – because the kingdom of darkness has a fake copy for everything and everyone in GOD’s kingdom, they even have a fake jesus!!!
So as I said, I decided to want to listen to GOD’s advice more and to be more sure that it is HIM speaking to me and giving this advice and coming up into the new year, over the last few days, GOD has been hearing my prayer to be more clear on when HE is speaking and what HE is saying.
By the way, when “this thing” went so wrong last year, GOD was assuring me that I hadn’t misheard HIM, which had actually been my biggest concern, not so much that what I had been hearing and seeing hadn’t come through, but I was extremely worried that I had still been open to demonic voices, visions and dreams – or let me put it this way, that I hadn’t discerned correctly, because that would be such a tragedy for me.
My life is very much based on what I believe to be GOD’s guidance and I would say that this is the foundation of everything I do and all decisions I make.
As it should be as a believer.
Right?
But if I wasn’t following or listening to GOD’s guidance, I would be completely mislead and lost.
So what HE was assuring me is that it was indeed HIM saying these things and giving me these visions and dreams, however, HE didn’t reveal much about why the events took a turn in what seems to be the opposite direction…. the only thing I have a hunch about is protection…..
And I will tell you why, tell you how GOD confirmed this idea to me:
a few days ago, I wanted to blow dry my hair and switched on the hair dryer……. some sparks came out of the cable and the plug and in 0.000003 milliseconds, there was a flame as big as a medicine ball in my room above the cable…… I didn’t have any time to react, I remember just starting to think of what I can do now and where the fire extinguisher is in my room, instinctively, I said “JESUS” - and the flame was gone!
I kid you not.
I wouldn’t even believe the flame was ever there, but the smell of smoke was in the room for many hours later – although nothing had been burned or singed, absolutely nothing…….
GOD assured me that I am 100% and at ALL times protected by HIM.
So I can only assume that the course of events had to turn for my protection.
HE won’t tell me more (currently) and when I am in a situation like this where I don’t understand GOD’s ways, all I hear is
Deuteronomy 29:29
29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
So perhaps I will know and perhaps I won’t……
Another example:
I like to do oil pulling sometimes and I use coconut oil, which is firm in the jar and I never thought about it…..very recently, I saw a reel on social media where someone was saying to make sure to dispose of the oil after pulling in the trash, not in the sink….. and I still wasn’t thinking about it until my sink was blocked and in retrospect, I understood that GOD had warned me about this via the reel I had been seeing on the day before it happened……I just had failed to understand and to listen – this is something I am asking GOD to help me with, I have literally asked HIM to SHOUT at me and make it so clear and direct and loud when HE is speaking………
GOD can use people, social media, the radio, random strangers……..obviously also prophets, your pastor, other pastors and biblical messages and teachings and most obvious HIS word by speaking to us through the bible.
And to come back to my case, I must be honest with myself and admit that there was never a time set by GOD to the things HE promised me – it was me who had thought it would have been last year…… in fact, this is one area I have not been able to “tackle” yet, to understand GOD’s timing when HE speaks, all I know about this is that HE is never late and that HIS timing is perfect, it would just be nice to understand more about it in HIS messages, mainly to avoid disappointment – so this is something I pray for, that GOD will reveal more about HIS timing to me – we will see if HE is willing to tell me more 😉
In my experience and in my understanding, hearing from GOD and receiving HIS counsel is a process and requires sensitivity and experience on our part – hopefully, I will be able to develop myself more in these areas…. and being the GOOD GOD HE is, obviously, learning to listen better and make it a higher priority is going to benefit me in many other areas in my life, I think……
What about you, my friend, how do you receive counsel from GOD and what are your aspirations for 2024 – if you have any…..?
Me, I will even more so make GOD the CHIEF, CHAIR OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE, BOSS, MANAGER, CEO of advising about and managing and guiding my life!!!!
I hope and pray that this post will inspire, encourage, heal and bless you.
And that THE LORD will bless you abundantly in all areas of your life; that HE will keep you and shine HIS face upon you and bring you peace. In JESUS’ name. AMEN.
Witness for Jesus 