I felt the need to ramble again. I've been hurting, because of some things that happened, but God has been encouraging me, both in His Spirit and through some people on this forum. Praise Him! I always feel better after talking about God.
I've rarely been rebuked by other Christians for misbehaving or being sinful (except by the staff on here for breaking the rules, for which I apologize). That seems to mostly go unnoticed these days. (Then again, the Lord rebukes me constantly)
Instead I've been attacked for speaking His truth, or for sharing the way He speaks to me and blesses me. Or for rebuking sin or correcting someone who is being misled. But then Satan is behind those attacks, not God.
Someone told a friend: Never apologize for being blessed!
And it keeps coming to mind for me as well. What is it to anyone else if Jesus wants to bless me or reveal Himself to me? As long as it conforms me to His image, everyone can see that it's of God, because we are told to judge a tree by it's fruit. Why judge the way He prunes the tree? It's for His purposes, so why judge God?
God has been speaking to me almost constantly since I was saved. To teach me, to correct me or to lead me.
I know I'm not special. Jesus has always kept me humble. He has commanded me to never advertise myself like others do, speaking highly of themselves as if they are more important than others, being special Prophets or Apostles, yet showing no fruit of the Spirit or having any knowledge on God. Because it's not our Father that they are worshipping in Spirit and in Truth, it's the father of lies, so they worship themselves as he worships himself. Harsh words, but they are true!
The true God speaks to me through impressions and convictions and Bible verses, just like with everyone else, and through visions and dreams and words, and sometimes in odd ways through His creation. And He has spoken to me audibly many times. It is the Spirit of the Lord speaking. Sort of like receiving a vision or a word, it's coming from Heaven through the Holy Spirit.
Demons and Satan have also spoken to me audibly. And I have been deceived by it in the past, until the Lord opened my eyes. But they also speak through impressions and through signs and wonders, and dreams and visions, just like God does. And they use Scripture, even convincingly, but it will be taken out of context and misused. So don't be deceived! Satan is a deceiver, but also an imitator, who knows God really well and is able to deceive even the elect (unless God reveals Truth to us through the Holy Spirit, which He does if we stay humble and listen)
But let's not put God in a box. Let's not despise prophecy just because it could be false, but test it to see whether it's from God. Test it against Scripture! Test the spirits! That's what we are commanded to do.
We know if it's the Spirit of God speaking if it lines up with His Word, and perfectly so. It always does for me, in ways that sometimes doesn't make sense until months later, it's powerful. We cannot judge it by any other measure, not by sensation or by our human understanding, we have to judge it from His perspective.
I've been given the gift of discernment, and I've had to use it. I've been through so much spiritually and I have learnt from it. And my gift is there to edify the Body of Christ.
So I know when the Lord is speaking to me. Not because it feels good, but because it is true! God cannot tell a lie. It feels like Scripture to me, if that makes sense? Like that foundation of Truth that He has put in me through His Spirit, which is the Spirit of Truth. It feels like Jesus, like when I hear God speaking to me from Scripture. I feel humble. He is God, and I am a very sinful woman, yet His beloved daughter. And it feels like Heaven. Like the real Heaven, where God is.
And when demons speak, pretending to be God, they "shine" and feel sort of heavenly and holy, but it feels false, and they give me this feeling of being special. Not set apart from the world, but set apart from the rest of the Church. Better, more important. Or they make me feel worthless like God doesn't love me, or they excuse sin instead of correcting it, yet trying to get me to condemn or judge others. I rebuke them! Jesus didn't let them speak, and neither will I. And their flattery won't work, because I know our Lord and His will for us.
We cannot discern God's voice by our human standards, but by His standards. I've been judged and persecuted for sharing the way He speaks to me, by people claiming to know the things of God. But God doesn't listen to man.
He will speak to His children in His ways, not in our ways. And His Word tells us what those ways are. Let's hold fast to Scripture, and discern the spiritual things by His Spirit, not by our natural minds.
Rambling feels good. And God is with me. Praise Him!
I've rarely been rebuked by other Christians for misbehaving or being sinful (except by the staff on here for breaking the rules, for which I apologize). That seems to mostly go unnoticed these days. (Then again, the Lord rebukes me constantly)
Instead I've been attacked for speaking His truth, or for sharing the way He speaks to me and blesses me. Or for rebuking sin or correcting someone who is being misled. But then Satan is behind those attacks, not God.
Someone told a friend: Never apologize for being blessed!
And it keeps coming to mind for me as well. What is it to anyone else if Jesus wants to bless me or reveal Himself to me? As long as it conforms me to His image, everyone can see that it's of God, because we are told to judge a tree by it's fruit. Why judge the way He prunes the tree? It's for His purposes, so why judge God?
God has been speaking to me almost constantly since I was saved. To teach me, to correct me or to lead me.
I know I'm not special. Jesus has always kept me humble. He has commanded me to never advertise myself like others do, speaking highly of themselves as if they are more important than others, being special Prophets or Apostles, yet showing no fruit of the Spirit or having any knowledge on God. Because it's not our Father that they are worshipping in Spirit and in Truth, it's the father of lies, so they worship themselves as he worships himself. Harsh words, but they are true!
The true God speaks to me through impressions and convictions and Bible verses, just like with everyone else, and through visions and dreams and words, and sometimes in odd ways through His creation. And He has spoken to me audibly many times. It is the Spirit of the Lord speaking. Sort of like receiving a vision or a word, it's coming from Heaven through the Holy Spirit.
Demons and Satan have also spoken to me audibly. And I have been deceived by it in the past, until the Lord opened my eyes. But they also speak through impressions and through signs and wonders, and dreams and visions, just like God does. And they use Scripture, even convincingly, but it will be taken out of context and misused. So don't be deceived! Satan is a deceiver, but also an imitator, who knows God really well and is able to deceive even the elect (unless God reveals Truth to us through the Holy Spirit, which He does if we stay humble and listen)
But let's not put God in a box. Let's not despise prophecy just because it could be false, but test it to see whether it's from God. Test it against Scripture! Test the spirits! That's what we are commanded to do.
We know if it's the Spirit of God speaking if it lines up with His Word, and perfectly so. It always does for me, in ways that sometimes doesn't make sense until months later, it's powerful. We cannot judge it by any other measure, not by sensation or by our human understanding, we have to judge it from His perspective.
I've been given the gift of discernment, and I've had to use it. I've been through so much spiritually and I have learnt from it. And my gift is there to edify the Body of Christ.
So I know when the Lord is speaking to me. Not because it feels good, but because it is true! God cannot tell a lie. It feels like Scripture to me, if that makes sense? Like that foundation of Truth that He has put in me through His Spirit, which is the Spirit of Truth. It feels like Jesus, like when I hear God speaking to me from Scripture. I feel humble. He is God, and I am a very sinful woman, yet His beloved daughter. And it feels like Heaven. Like the real Heaven, where God is.
And when demons speak, pretending to be God, they "shine" and feel sort of heavenly and holy, but it feels false, and they give me this feeling of being special. Not set apart from the world, but set apart from the rest of the Church. Better, more important. Or they make me feel worthless like God doesn't love me, or they excuse sin instead of correcting it, yet trying to get me to condemn or judge others. I rebuke them! Jesus didn't let them speak, and neither will I. And their flattery won't work, because I know our Lord and His will for us.
We cannot discern God's voice by our human standards, but by His standards. I've been judged and persecuted for sharing the way He speaks to me, by people claiming to know the things of God. But God doesn't listen to man.
He will speak to His children in His ways, not in our ways. And His Word tells us what those ways are. Let's hold fast to Scripture, and discern the spiritual things by His Spirit, not by our natural minds. Rambling feels good. And God is with me. Praise Him!
