I will take my chance and drive……….. I will trust My King and learn of His voice…….
An age old question, do the shepherds want to let the sheep out of their pen?
So should we not drive a car because we might get in an accident?
Littlestone thought he never heard a parent say, I do not want you to learn to drive because you might get in an accident. Even though, the parent may be anxious, in America, when you become sixteen, you may learn to drive a car and obtain a driver’s license.
The kid will find a way to learn to drive and get a license, if a parent says no.
Drivers of cars do get into accidents. So does that mean we do not learn to drive a car or do not drive because there may be an accident? Not in America. We learn to drive and obtain a license.
My sheep hear My voice, as written in John 10:1-6:
“Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.
The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.
He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”
Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.…..
How many people who go to church on Sunday hear from You, Lord, all the time as their daily Food?
How many are taught to learn to hear Your voice? Discerning Your voice from their own is easy once they know Your Word. Littlestone thought, I have no wisdom but from the wisdom You have been made to me and I thank and count on Your Word for direction and Your inner peace within me to Guide me in all things.
How often is Holy Spirit directed as their Guide from the pulpit? The Word of God written and the Word of God spoken by His Spirit to each of His kids is imperative for a godly, fruitful walk.
There can be learning accidents in any adventure we try to learn other than sitting in a chair and doing nothing.
Father God, I thank You for bringing me into the knowledge of Your grace and love in and from Your Son by Your Spirit.
Littlestone was upset from hearing fear come from the pulpit regarding hearing God’s voice. Hearing, well, it could be yourself, and that can get you in trouble. So……we do not learn to discern?
So, a child of God, has a roadblock now from trying to discern God’s guidance in their life because it may cause them trouble? Much better to listen to their peers than His voice and learn the difference while they are young. The best way for a younger person to learn Your Voice, Lord, is put Your Voice in practice…..Then when the peers want the opposite, they know to go Your way. We pray.
Again, Littlestone never heard that you cannot drive a car because you may get in accident or play football or volleyball or swim in the ocean….. Or fly a plane…….But to stop a child from hearing the voice of their Loving Savior and Director of their Soul because they might do it wrong? Foolishness? Do not go out and hit a ball, because you might do it wrong….
Well, of course, we all will miss it but that is how we learn and discern…..Which brings peace…..Which brings righteousness and closer to Him? Which is honoring Him above all? These are the questions we should ask…….How did I miss the ball? My eye was on something else…..
The way we grow is a lot by failures…. Or mistakes…..Littlestone remembered a spelling test on the word judgment…..He spelled it judgement…. His choice made him get it wrong…..He never forgot since then how to spell judgment correctly. We learn by correction on our path. This is the way of God. To deny our flesh and allow the spirit man in us to arise and be dominant is a lifelong adventure but very needful in our King’s eyes.
He wants to know us and whose house we are from when we meet Him on His Day.
The way of God is so different from ours. He knows we will screw up….But He is always there to teach and correct and lead us into every right way laid before us as written in Proverbs.
He was galloping up the to His Hill of Meeting. He was so upset to hear people of authority shutting the Door on the greatest purpose of a child of God to do is to hear from their Heavenly Father through His Spirit on a daily and even minute by minute basis…..In Littlestone’s mind this was a criminal act against the greatest love relationship open for all who believe.
He was use to people making fun of him because Littlestone was known as His and a follower of Jesus…… Ungodly saying, he thinks he hears from God. Well, he could handle that but to hear from the pulpit……The Door that His Savior bled to open for all that believe to be closed by unbelief was trampling on Jesus’ blood in Littlestone’s mind.
The treasure of having our King so close to hear from and learn is outstanding and a complete adventure for all our lives. To miss out on the intimacy of His hand in our lives is like missing out on growing from a child to an adult…..We miss our purpose, we will lose sight of His and think to follow the world’s and be totally unfulfilled.
Child, I AM could hear the cadence of your mare climbing heavily up here. Thank you for rising up to hear Me.
Faith opens up your inner eyes to believe and see. Just as heaven is in you but where do you see this? I AM sees within your heart My place of where I AM is wanted and desired.
I AM says, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, hear…..
Who gives the ears to hear and eyes to believe?
You do, Sir.
Faith brings I AM and all that I AM to those who call on My name. I AM does not give a measure of I AM to you….I AM brings all I AM and awakens the spirit inner man to build an appetite for more of heaven….
Those who see and hear have called on Me to be their all for they cannot…..Grace is sufficient to give all you need to be with I AM in a new and special way.
What is not seen is greater than what is seen……..for I AM there.
Those who do not want to hear from Me, they will not. They have received their faith. Faith of others helps I AM break in their time.
Those who do want all of I AM surrounding their every step, will. They have and will receive the consummation of their faith.
Those that close the door on the impossible, will never see the possible either. For where is their limits drawn…. They have received their faith and are limited.
There is a barrel, a very large barrel. There is a spoon, a ladle, and a large bucket and huge tractor with an arm of a large scooper. Or will you just dive in to and get I AM all over you.
Which one will each of you take today of I AM?
This is exactly what you will receive.
No more and no less. I AM will not go beyond your limits you have placed on I AM.
May those who have ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying.
What will be the measure of allowing I AM into our heart, life and forever.
He died with His arms wide open.
His arms are still wide open.
Waiting to fill them around you.
You can hear His voice, if you turn and see where the Voice is……… run to Him.
The Door of heaven is opened by the King of All.
Now, the relationship between our Heavenly Father and us by His Spirit can be.
He did His part…..Now it is yours…….
Turn and see what all He has planned to be for you. Then you shall walk in who He has called you to be.
Are you diving in, or what?
SELAH!!!