Welcome to the final Verbal Vitamin of the year...Lesson 1 of 2.
I will start this off with some knowledge the Lord has blessed me with recently.
A new trail has been made in my mind.
I have spoken on having 3 voices within every human being...Good-Bad-You or God-Devil-You.
Whether or not you believe in God , You cannot dispute the fact that these voices exist and present us with multiple choice scenarios in our daily lives.
Like many of you , I have struggled to understand the concept of "The Trinity"...
But God has enlightened me.
I have been, for quite some time , in complete agreement that the good voice within us all is the holy spirit of God...
( Most of you refer to this voice as "Your concious" )
Which would obviously mean that your negative thoughts would be influenced by a negative force.
and there you are...Stuck in the middle with you :)
Now let me flip the script right quick...
Why do so many "Christians" fail ?
Why do so many "Believers" fall out of love with God?
This was an answer I was seeking from The Lord because I was struggling...I was in that , "Where is God at ?" mode...
Feeling lonely and abandoned and I began to question and like usual , when I began to question , He begins to answer.
GOD is The Father - The Boss - The Creator.
Jesus is the SON - mediator and savior
and The Holy spirt is ever present to guide our behavior.
and they are all forms of each other...
When you discover God , You get this high about you.
When you Hear from God , You change , you have a realization that you are not alone in the universe , You get a pep in your step , your telling people about it , your excited , YOU were given SOMETHING in YOUR LIFE that is REAL.
Some of us know in that moment that were not alone , others know exactly what there purpose is , Others get a word of instruction or encouragment or prophesy , some get all of the above at once...
So you get High...
Walkin around like Jay...We are really High .. Really Really High...
But this high is different than any street drug can give , any sexual relationship can satisfy , or fantasy could compare...
This high last from periods ranging from days to years...This is a Soul High...Supplied by God....THE FATHER
This is a huge hit that stays with you , But like every high...It eventually wears off ...
Some of you read that I went to see a prophet and Got a word ..... well this word got me high.
The Lord spoke some great things concerning me.
So here I am , expecting these things to occur like ,right away ,and when they did not , my impatience and anger took over.
(This also taught me a lesson about wanting to know ... there is a distinct peace in not knowing)
So I was having a withdrawl from my high... Ya'll following me?
God speaks to you in some form or fashion and it impacts your life greatly , and then , it gets quiet....
So what I was seeking God about was "Where are you in those quiet times?"
This is where the opening of the eyes occured...
Imagine a timeline of your life...A straight line...
Now take every one of your life changing events and make them Soild big circles on your line.
Where is God in between these circles?
You discover him , Your life changes , and now your wondering where he is at....
He never left...
and if you seriously stop and look and reflect , you will see how it was you got by in between the big circles and what you learned in the process...He was there through it all , Whether you acknowledged his presence.
Let me explain.
When you hear that grand message or get that grand revelation , this is GOD THE FATHER speaking.
He gives you an eye opening hit of life and the high is not comparable...
After you get this high potent awakening , You are now constantly looking to acheive the same level of high that you got the first time (or the last time) you felt a great move of God in your life...Like any other high you enjoy , You want to feel that way again...and when you dont , You start to feel that God has left you alone and you start trying to do everything yourself because you havent "Gotten High" like you did before and you start to withdrawl and this is where the enemy moves in the troops...
Impatience , questions of sanity , anger , bitterness , confusion , loneliness .... I know of these emotions , I got my knowledge in the storm , Feel me?
we start doubting what we heard and the enemy moves in and you may even start doubting God's presence alltogether ....
How can we let this happen to us ? We were JUST on fire with belief !
We were JUST convinced we had a life changing expierience !
How can this roller coaster be going down now ?
Because were looking for the same high to occur EVERYTIME and GOD does NOT work like this....
So where is he ?
He is working on what he told you or showed you or promised you or whatever "Deal" ya'll made , The FATHER is doing what needs to be done to fulfill the agreement he has made with his child (You) in the initial or last meeting....And depending on what was said by either party , Your next big "High" could be a good minute.
SO , In the QUIET times , We are dealing with the HOLY SPIRIT of The Trinity...Just like we always have , But since society would rather say "concious" , we do not equate this with the 3rd being in the trinity and many therefore dont recognize the God within themselves...That voice within that pushes you for your BEST.
and JESUS the SON made manifest in the flesh was the one who enabled us to be in this position to begin with.
JESUS was / is the loophole in this cosmic game of chess... I mean that with no disrespect, it is what it is.
and there is your Trinity...
THE FATHER hits you with something Amazing and then goes to work FOR you , meanwhile , the Holy spirit within , goes to work , ON you....
So while the Father is preparing the path , the spirit is preparing the person to walk on that path... Praise God! That is some deep knowledge right there ya'll.
Problem is , we drown out the voice of the spirit because were expecting to hear the Voice of The Father every time.
We are not alone in the quiet times , in fact it is the opposite , this is when the spirit of the Lord is closest to us ...
But we walk around with blind eyes and deaf ears wondering where he is at and all the time he is trying to get your attention from the inside.
Think back to ANY hardship / sorrow / heartache/ bout of depression/ As nasty as you felt , there was a voice inside of you that TRIED to help you and encourage you.
But everytime that voice spoke , another voice would enter and tell you ,YOU didnt feel like doing or saying anything or you just hated the world and so many times we just surrender to the voice thats filling us with self pity/ anger/ or emotion #13 Mike Muir spoke of , and it drags us further into a form of Hell...
"I excuse myself- I'm used to my little cell - I amuse myself in my very own private hell"
Alice in Chains
UNTIL someone or some expierience opens your ears/eyes and the voice of the spirit is dominant again...You have your "Awakening"..
Some suppress the voice of the spirit till it's inaudible or they just completely ignore it , which often leads to very bad places or death...
Point is this , After The Father speaks, pay attention to what is going on in your mind , your gut , your concious....
Because now the spirit is just not dealing with our daily bread , you have a mission and the faster you do what your spirit leads you to do , the faster you will recieve what it is you have been seeking...So quit asking what is taking so long for your blessing and start asking , what steps you need to take to handle the blessing you are seeking...
EXAMPLE : Everynight for YEARS , My spirit would tell me , "Scott , Once you quit smoking cigarettes , everything changes" ...Everynight I would say "Yeah , I know" and I would go through the routine of hating myself and feeling like a prisoner to the nicotine and making empty promises...
Where would I be today had I listened to my spirit all of those years ago?
Everyone on earth KNOWS what they gotta do , You have that voice , same as I do... The longer we fight our spirit , The longer it takes to get where we are going.
We are drowning and yet we get angry or supress the voice when the spirit tries to pull us out of the water...So we flop around like insane salmon and get angry with GOD...When all along he is like "Hey man , I'm waiting on you! Get this part done and remove that layer so I can take you where I told you I would !"
He is everpresent with us...
See how this works?
GOD speaks to you in a profound way...After that , follow your spirit , get in touch with the God inside of you and be obedient.
Then you get what you asked for and God speaks again...and this continues forever until the next stop on your journey....
This is how we evolve into what we were truly born to be...But it works both ways , You gotta put in your work also.
This knowledge is groundbreaking for me , Maybe you or someone you know already knew this ....If you did , why didn't you tell us?
This God given knowledge helped me out tremendously , because it opened my eyes to what I was doing wrong.
I was allowing the enemy to come in and rob my blessings by distracting me and taking up valuble mind time.
So instead of walking around like "Where is God ? He dont love me no more ! What did I do wrong? What did I say? Why arent you talking to me? Do you even exist? "
All that nonsense...That would drag me down and distract me...
I am now at peace ... The Father Spoke and I am listening to my spirt till the Father does what he does ...
Then that high will come again....
This was important to me to share because this goes back to the question I asked earlier...
Why do so many fail?
The time after God speaks is a crucial time...If your new in your faith or you lack patience , This could make or break you as a "believer".
This is the time that the enemy works very hard to distract you and steal your joy.
YOU MUST BE PATIENT AND ON GUARD...I have learned this the hard way.
This is why Jesus speaks of the seed that was cast on stony ground...The roots dont run deep , they wither and die.
Because they lack the knowledge and patience to understand , God never stops working , and they stop running the race halfway through and never taste of the victory that was almost theirs...
I was one of these people.
Now I am on a whole nother level and it feels great...
SO if your on the same level I am , Please take this teaching with you and share it.
God is never absent from you , Your ignoring his inner voice because your expecting that outer voice.
The Outer voice will come back when you finish what the inner voice is telling you to do.
Which brings me back to what I started with... The 3 Voices.
You know what's right and wrong and you know when you get a "Feeling" about something....
Learn to listen to and work with your spirit...in "The quiet times" ....
I pray this blesses you and gives your mind some peace.
Thanks to everyone who hits my inbox with prayer request and your thoughts and your worries and your questions....
I appreciate you and will always give you the Best/Honest/Logical advice I can give.
God Bless
Scott Johnson
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