Re: Romans and the Flesh Monster.

on: February 08, 2009, 09:12:30 AM

I was wonder whether this is a constant and ongoing experience or whether it was just in dreams and experiences with other people at certain times. My experience has been a steady growth in hearing Him. I think Gene has alluded to this in numerous post about His hearing Poppa. My experience in all of this has kinda been layers of deep calling to deep. I think the deeper we dig into His word the more we are going to understand what kind of pattern He has designed in giving us these messages that are very quiet and in the stillness of our meditations. Now for yrs i have practiced this meditation. But i was always awed by the power of the word. I mean that was where i thought that He spoke to me. But then i realized that when i was meditating in the Psalms there was this total transformation of my view of things. In other words the things that were of weight in my soul were no longer carrying the same kind of heaviness. And then there is this small voice telling me to do this and dont do this, or watch out here and be careful here. Or pray for this person , or this person is struggling here, or this is what you should write. It doesnt seem very understandable to me. I mean why would He want me to react this way in this new situation? Well then when i look back i am very appreciative of Him. So then this grows on me. I mean, if there is another world where we can go and then we can talk and get answers about situations then this is like having another friend who is invisible. Let me say one more thing here. Well... as you know we live before God.. all this stuff that we see in this present world is just a very small spec to eternity... its smaller than the smallest particle in terms of time duration. Wow, people are going into eternity as i write. Everyday there is a silent exit from this spec of time into a timeless suffering or total joy and comfort. I mean that is what God does as everything before Him is seen from the beginning to the end. He delivers people whether it is in a circumstance or going into eternity. With Him a day is like a thousand yrs. His deliverance is obviously more profound and powerful than anything we can see in this present system. I mean the work of redemption goes on forever in those who He delivers from sin unto eternity. And the rest will be burned up, to deliver this earth into a new one. In the end there is only One protection that is real. But God communicates by His immense presence in eternity. God is eternally present. Where ever God is present He is present in all of His personage. That is all of His attributes are displayed in every inch of eternity. Thats why there is no place on this earth or anywhere in eternity where we can go that God has not designed for us to be where we are best able to seek Him and find Him. We spend a lot of time planning and worrying about places and times that we are just worshiping the god of contingency. God is the God of all causes that exist. So that He is present in the universe that is unseen. God is greater than we could ever move our bodies one inch without His power and hand to move in an independent way from us. For in Him we move and live and have our being. So that He communicates outside of speech. The reason that His presence is so overwhelming is that He is greater than our sense to understand. I mean that He proves His power by overwhelming us with the sense of His presence. The SPirit can fall on us so to speak, being that the Spirit is all around us and there is no up and down with Him. But we can be overwhelmed by something that we cannot understand in our ability to a sense comprehension. If God chooses at a specific time to fall on us by His Spirit then we are going to get a taste of what is to come...we are going to have a heavenly sweetness. If we were to live with this overwhelming awe then we would not live to see a full life. I mean we would be swallowed up as if we were expose to an nuclear blast. But He gives us a very profound and powerful effect in His presence so that we will learn not to trust in our five senses. He comes in this way so that we will be convinced that He is all in all. This is like Him stretching our faith. We trust in things we cannot see. Some how the inanimate things are taught by the power of those communications to our physical bodies and our souls. Here we have something that comes on us that is unexplainable. Now there is a zeal in all of this. If we are very young in the faith, we have heard people say you are over zealous. Its because we are seasoned as we grow up in the faith by this constant training of our spiritual senses to discern what is good and evil. In the sense that we test the spirits to see if they are of God. Not just a moral sense. But we do not have a God who gets us busy so that we will not sound foolish. We have a God who visits us with a spiritual reality of this overwhelming sense of His communications of joy and bliss. This is where the zeal of the Lord consumes us so that even our own family is but a spec in our view of relationships. This communication of His power cannot be thwarted. We just are overwhelmed until He lets up.