What do you think?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 7:57 am
Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Since my wife and I have united in pursuit of the God of Whom you teach and determined in our hearts to pursue Him to the fullest, we have already begun to experience the joy and healing of the Lord in our lives. It is with great anticipation that we seek to fulfill every command revealed to us and with great hope that we seek to obey at all costs! I had anticipated beginning a tithe this paycheck, but unsurprisingly my finances were completely consumed, such that I'll be scraping by until next paycheck. But with that next paycheck I will begin my lifelong commitment to following the Law of God in all my ways, financial matters included, and I am absolutely certain that He will always provide all that I need, as He always has but even more so when I walk in Him.
Herein lies my question; I know that we are to "come as we are called" so to speak, but I am active duty military and limited in my opportunities to move and act freely for several more years at a minimum. My family is well cared for in this way, but I cannot do as I'm inclined; which is to move closer to you and invest my full time and energy into the pursuit of the Lord and His will for my family and I. In prayer, the only conclusion I have reached thus far is to simply to do my best where I am at and wait for the Lord's leading. Although it's several years out, I am beginning to contemplate whether I will be reenlisting for the financial security of my family and their obscenely expensive health care needs, or whether it is of God that I would place the wellbeing of my family in His hands exclusively in faith to experience the fullest of His will in the life He has given me.
I've always felt led to be one who gives, and I have ample reason to believe this may still be the case, so there is still part of me that wonders if God would have me remain in my career and move upward for the sake of being a financial blessing to others. Ultimately, my desire is to live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Right now, my primary focus is simply learning to hear the Word of God such that I can move toward living by It. So far I have heard that I must worship in Spirit and Truth, which is to say that I must keep the Sabbath, tithe, and avoid unclean foods according to His unchanging Law. I am still reading to see if there are other feasts I must keep, how I can go about renouncing vulgar celebrations in a society that doesn't know how to function in their absence (as I have step children that complicate foregoing birthday and holiday celebrations for my wife), and generally how to live by the basic principles of God so that I will be ready to obey as He reveals deeper things to me.
One last question regarding the Truth the Lord has revealed to me and my efforts to spread It; if I attempt to witness and am stymied by being spoken over, interuppted, and assailed with circular religious-speak, am I right to abandon the effort on a given associate and move on? If I don't feel led to pursue my witnessing, indeed, if I feel strongly inclined to remove the individual from my life in light of their adherence to vanity and objection to the Truth, am I safe to consider that as being from the Lord?
I do not hear a voice, I do not see a light, and I do not feel a touch. But the intuition and conscience that have been with me as long as I can remember, the very same in me that cried out "The Truth!" when I started reading your teachings, still influences and guides me today. My current line of thought is that I've been hearing from the Lord all along, hence my longstanding distaste for the pagan Christian church and ways of the world, and I just need to learn to discern His leading by following what I have from Him thus far. I feel like I'm learning to trust Him, and I very much enjoy it! I was listening to Hebrews 12, the Message translation, and I felt the words like never before! Right now my wife and I are in a period of peace, experiencing the rest and goodness of the Lord like we've never known before. I anticipate hard times to come, likely harder than I've ever known (as ever intensifying and unprecedented hardship has become my new normal in life), but I feel like in this period of rest, God has changed our hearts such that we will be ready to face His glorious fire in faith, endure by His Grace, and overcome by His Power.
So I continue to read, learn, and speak with God and experience His presence. Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord! Thank you for your ministry.
Gabriel
Since my wife and I have united in pursuit of the God of Whom you teach and determined in our hearts to pursue Him to the fullest, we have already begun to experience the joy and healing of the Lord in our lives. It is with great anticipation that we seek to fulfill every command revealed to us and with great hope that we seek to obey at all costs! I had anticipated beginning a tithe this paycheck, but unsurprisingly my finances were completely consumed, such that I'll be scraping by until next paycheck. But with that next paycheck I will begin my lifelong commitment to following the Law of God in all my ways, financial matters included, and I am absolutely certain that He will always provide all that I need, as He always has but even more so when I walk in Him.
Herein lies my question; I know that we are to "come as we are called" so to speak, but I am active duty military and limited in my opportunities to move and act freely for several more years at a minimum. My family is well cared for in this way, but I cannot do as I'm inclined; which is to move closer to you and invest my full time and energy into the pursuit of the Lord and His will for my family and I. In prayer, the only conclusion I have reached thus far is to simply to do my best where I am at and wait for the Lord's leading. Although it's several years out, I am beginning to contemplate whether I will be reenlisting for the financial security of my family and their obscenely expensive health care needs, or whether it is of God that I would place the wellbeing of my family in His hands exclusively in faith to experience the fullest of His will in the life He has given me.
I've always felt led to be one who gives, and I have ample reason to believe this may still be the case, so there is still part of me that wonders if God would have me remain in my career and move upward for the sake of being a financial blessing to others. Ultimately, my desire is to live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Right now, my primary focus is simply learning to hear the Word of God such that I can move toward living by It. So far I have heard that I must worship in Spirit and Truth, which is to say that I must keep the Sabbath, tithe, and avoid unclean foods according to His unchanging Law. I am still reading to see if there are other feasts I must keep, how I can go about renouncing vulgar celebrations in a society that doesn't know how to function in their absence (as I have step children that complicate foregoing birthday and holiday celebrations for my wife), and generally how to live by the basic principles of God so that I will be ready to obey as He reveals deeper things to me.
One last question regarding the Truth the Lord has revealed to me and my efforts to spread It; if I attempt to witness and am stymied by being spoken over, interuppted, and assailed with circular religious-speak, am I right to abandon the effort on a given associate and move on? If I don't feel led to pursue my witnessing, indeed, if I feel strongly inclined to remove the individual from my life in light of their adherence to vanity and objection to the Truth, am I safe to consider that as being from the Lord?
I do not hear a voice, I do not see a light, and I do not feel a touch. But the intuition and conscience that have been with me as long as I can remember, the very same in me that cried out "The Truth!" when I started reading your teachings, still influences and guides me today. My current line of thought is that I've been hearing from the Lord all along, hence my longstanding distaste for the pagan Christian church and ways of the world, and I just need to learn to discern His leading by following what I have from Him thus far. I feel like I'm learning to trust Him, and I very much enjoy it! I was listening to Hebrews 12, the Message translation, and I felt the words like never before! Right now my wife and I are in a period of peace, experiencing the rest and goodness of the Lord like we've never known before. I anticipate hard times to come, likely harder than I've ever known (as ever intensifying and unprecedented hardship has become my new normal in life), but I feel like in this period of rest, God has changed our hearts such that we will be ready to face His glorious fire in faith, endure by His Grace, and overcome by His Power.
So I continue to read, learn, and speak with God and experience His presence. Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord! Thank you for your ministry.
Gabriel