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Listening to Voices 10
(What If This Is True?)
No need to pray, God created a polar bear for every human. They pray so you don't have to...nice.
Chapter Ten
Have you ever heard this one “…God already knows everything you need; therefore you don’t have to pray.”
That is a deeply ingrained voice and it has become a huge obstacle for many people who have been swayed by it. Here is the challenge with the quote. It is true! Our SPIRIT-PARENT most certainly knows everything you need and want …BUT — and here is another truth from the “Brad On” tab at the website, spiritualhealingsource.com, under “prayer” …an excerpt:
What Prayer is and isn’t…
What is prayer to you?
What many people consider prayer to be is a far cry from Jesus’ teaching on the subject. Some, perhaps most, people think of prayer as petitioning God for whatever …and certainly Jesus included that in what he taught.
On closer examination, however, the emphasis of his teaching is not so much petitioning God for anything, but rather overcoming the obstacles in our minds that are in the way of connecting with the SOURCE and thereby walking in light rather than darkness.
I wandered around in “darkness” for several years, deaf to the voice of our SPIRIT-PARENT because it was crowded out by myriad other voices.
The ultimate in powerlessness, is found at the point of a gun.
As I look back at it now, those “voices” were mostly from religious training at the hands of powerless, ineffective people who had all kinds of degrees, including doctorates, from “institutions of higher learning” …whose voices I finally learned I should not have trusted.
I remember one huge catalyst that happened after I began earnestly seeking that elusive “something” more. I knew that I was not only powerless to overcome any number of what I was guilt-ridden over: adjudged by some as “shortcomings.”
The catalyst was visiting a country preacher and his wife in a little town in Central Oregon who walked in miracles and insisted that the five hundred people that came to their church from several miles distant refer to him as “brother” or by his first name.
I asked them at their kitchen table, after a rather amazing service, what were the primary reasons for the indefinable power which was so evident in both their lives? “Obedience to the Holy Spirit” came out of both their mouths almost simultaneously.
Then the man said something that ran totally counter to something that I remembered the “doctor/pastor” saying and to who’s teaching I had been exposed for the previous several years since I had become a professing Christian:
“What started us on our path was something Jesus said, ‘these signs shall follow them that believe,’ we began to realize that if the signs Jesus was talking about weren’t evident, it was because we didn’t believe. When these so-called evangelists come into the area that is the one thing I look for – do signs and miracles follow them? If not, then I know they don’t believe.”
What signs follow your beliefs?
I told them about what “my pastor” had taught. That is, the particular passage he had just quoted was not in the original text.
“Yes, that’s what we learned in seminary too,” the woman said, ever so gently, “since then we’ve learned that many scholars dispute that view and give good reasons for their arguments, but the real reason for the things you’ve seen here tonight is because we don’t pay attention to what scholars say, we listen for the voice of our Master.”
“What’s the point of the Bible or those who supposedly teach it, if you don’t experience the things it contains,” the man added.
Then she added the telling point: “When we were missionaries in what used to be the Belgian Congo, we came to a village of people who simply believed that Jesus still healed. One couple showed us their darling lit
tle girl who was now about three who had been dead from sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) for several hours about a year earlier.”
Her husband interjected, “They were about to bury her, ‘when a man walked up and asked us if we wanted her to live,’ the little girl’s father said. He told us, in their dialect, that Jesus raised people from the dead and that Jesus said we could do those same things if we believed. He told us that he believed and he could do that if we wanted her to live.
Was this a "one time" event? Did it even happen? Ask NOW!
“The girl’s father told us,” she continued, “grabbing his daughter’s hand for emphasis, that this man, a fellow Congolese, took her hand and told her to wake up – and ‘as you can see, she is very much alive!”
They went on telling me about this village of about a hundred inhabitants, out in the middle of nowhere, had not experienced any deaths or even sickness for the entire time since that little girl was raised from the dead.
“If you’re looking for advice,” the preacher said to me, “I’d say stop worrying about whether the Bible is true or listening to any arguments about that and look for signs. There were no Bibles in that little village and when you find signs begin to believe and those same signs will begin to follow you.”
Was that a catalyst, or was that a CATALYST?!!!
Now then, do you, dear readers, see why Ryan and I urge everyone to go direct? We can tell you all about the signs we’ve seen, but what is important is that you go directly to the place, the kingdom of our (your) SPIRIT-PARENT and break through into belief by seeing your own and they are already there, within you.
That’s the end, for now. Back with #11 soon.