My son, this and the future letters are written for you. You may not fully understand what these letters are mention while you are reading them in the future. As Deuteronomy 29:29 said: “Secret things belong to the Lord our God;”, I can only ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and understand what He wants you to understand. Even understand and experience more than I can write down to you and be more thorough to allow you to return to the Lord every day in your life. You can treat this as the most precious thing that I, as your father, will leave for you in my life. They recorded how the Lord Jesus had mercy on me more than 20 years ago, through the Holy Spirit, I heard His voice, promises, encouragement, and guiding me gradually in returning to His embrace. They also recorded how the Holy Spirit made Dad understand what sin is. Why did only the Lord Jesus come to the world himself and died on the cross for our sins, covering the source of our sinful nature as humans with His blood? Moreover, we need the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our hearts so that we can respond to the Highest God who loves us, we will then be able to give up on our selfishness and be saved! You might think, why did my dad put his most precious experience on the Internet for others to watch, even though his son has not had a chance to see it first? Son, don’t forget, my most precious experience and lessons, I often shared with you in my life. Those are basically what Dad received from the Holy Spirit. It was originally not mine, but the Most High God had mercy on me. So, I have to know and walk the narrow road into the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, if God allows me to say that those didn’t belong to me, I will testify to others that our God is alive. If I do not testify that our God is living among us, I would be like the record in Luke 19:12-27, when the servant received ten minus from the master, but would not do business to earn more. Instead, the servant collected and buried them, wrapped them in a handkerchief, and kept them until the master comes back and is punished. So I can’t just tell you that God is alive and living among us. If other people can know from what I shared, know how much God, who created the world, loves us as sinners and is willing to lay down ourselves to Him, confess our sins and repent, then I will not be punished when I see the Lord Jesus again. And I am always with you, my son, don’t you often hear all the things God has done to me? So, if the Holy Spirit allows me to speak of His love and truth, let others also listen to it.
I will divide the experience of how I met the Most High God into several articles, each with a small fragment of life, to tell you. There are some fragments of life that Dad once told you. But the most important lessons that I learned, because you were still young at that time, so you still could not understand. I will write down the most important things that Dad has learned after every fragment of life. You have to keep it in mind and don’t forget. My son, you often say to me: “Dad, I have heard it, I already know, I already understand, you don’t have to repeat it to me!” Do you know why I often repeat it? It’s because it does not matter what you know, it does not help of what you understand, are you willing to keep it firmly in your heart because of what you know and understand, and be with God? And if you think you know something, you still don’t know what you should know. I don’t want you to think that the Scriptures in the Bible will bother you, so Dad won’t write down all that I have learned from God’s Words in the Bible. If you remember what Dad said, you will read the Bible and pray throughout your life. Then, in the days, the Holy Spirit living in our hearts will remind you of what Dad said to you, all the things He wants to say to you in your heart. But if it’s important, I’ll mention that it can be found in which chapter of the Scriptures. Just as 1 John 2:27, you must keep it in your heart and think day and night. Don’t forget. May the Holy Spirit guard your heart until you meet him again. Amen!
“And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you remain in Him.”
The first time I heard the Holy Spirit spoken to me At that time, I had just accepted the Lord Jesus as my personal savior, so I read the Bible and prayed as the pastor said. One day, I fell asleep while praying. I woke up after a few minutes. Then I felt very bad. When I spoke to the God who created the heavens and the earth, I fell asleep. I didn’t know why and I wanted to say sorry to God. So I bowed my head and prayed to God and said, “God, I’m sorry, I fell asleep while talking to you. Please forgive me. If you want to rebuke me, please tell me! I am here to listen.” Then I waited quietly in my heart. Suddenly a voice appeared in my heart. I didn’t know where it came from. The voice said to me, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” At that time, in my heart I was surprised. I asked a question to myself from the bottom of my heart, “Can God really speak to us?” I wanted to try again, lest I was daydreaming, so I lowered my head and prayed again, “God, if you really speak to me, will it be ok to say it again please?” Waiting quietly in my heart, suddenly the voice appeared again and said to me, “Don’t be afraid, just believe.” From then on, I could not forget that voice in my life. The voice of the Holy Spirit is full of majesty. I don’t know where it is coming from or where it is going. Although it appeared only lightly many times, it was powerful and full of love. Even if it was a reproach, it was not the same as what the world would be judged by disgust. In it, I only know by now that it is a kind of reproach of love in judgment. In my past experience, most of God’s reproach to me was not just that God used an audible voice to directly say to me or a message appeared in my heart. In many cases, things that happened in the past would appear in my mind. Dad was acting as a spectator to re-sees what I said, thought or did at the scene. So that Dad understood at that moment of what I did and my real motive, to the point that I had no excuse, I would have to ask the Lord to forgive me. Son, you must understand and accept this. This is only the work of the Holy Spirit and Him alone! It is not something that can be changed by self-reflection. If I only know self-reflection and I don’t ask for the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment and forgiveness. Then, I will be best describe of what a friend said to me, I will be similar to a cat constantly chasing its short tail, and I will never catch my tail for my lifetime! John 16:7-13 also has the same record:
“But I (Jesus) tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper (Holy Spirit) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgement: regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me; and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer are going to see Me; and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them at the present time. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”
Son, I will divide this letter into four parts, so that you can read it slowly and think carefully. I hope that the Holy Spirit who can keep you in His path will bring you back flawlessly through out your life to the Throne of Grace and Justices of the Lord Jesus who loves us, so that you will receive mercy and grace until the day you see our Lord again. Amen!
Among the gifts given to us humans by the Holy Spirit, the Lord taught me that some are hidden. Hidden means that these powers have been recorded in the Bible and have appeared in servants of God or people who have been healed by the Lord (those who are inspired do not necessarily need to be knowledgeable or smart). Or the authors of the Bible speak out due to the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the audience is pierced to the heart after hearing it, leaving them speechless, and making some listeners confess their sins and repent. Although there is no obvious explanation that it is God’s grace and power, the ability that makes some people repent can only come from God, not from humans. As recorded in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 and Hebrews 4:12:
“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,“
“For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.“
For example, Peter was a fisherman filled with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. The words he preached made the Jewish people feel pierced to the heart and made them confess their sins and repent. According to Acts 2:41, when Peter preached after being filled with the Holy Spirit, about three thousand people repented and believed in the Lord. Peter was a fisherman. Do you think he could convert three thousand people in his audience?
Another example is the man who was born blind from the Book of John’s Chapter 9. He had never seen and had no education opportunity in his life. In the real society, he was only the lowest class of people. However, God chose him to be the speaker for His own Son and to show God’s power in front of people. Just because the man who was born blind received the grace of the Lord, even under the pressure of the religious leaders at that time, he who was healed by the Lord still spoke the words from the bottom of his heart that came from God: “I was blind, but now I can see.” According to John 9:3, the words of the blind man were based on the Heavenly Father’s plan to show the deeds of God in him. Although there is no record in the Bible, anyone including his parent at that time was brave enough to openly support the blind man. That man was still grateful for the Lord’s grace and testified without hesitation, saying the following words, so that the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, was glorified and praised!
“I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples too, do you?”
“Well, here is the amazing thing, that you do not know where He (Jesus) is from, and yet He opened my eyes!“
“If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.”
“I believe, Lord.” And he worshiped Him (Jesus).
Those who received these words inspired by the Holy Spirit due to the healing of the Lord Jesus, and the influences on other people’s hearts, were like a two-edged sword, cutting through the self-righteous self-defense of the soul, making people feel guilty. The power of righteousness and judgment, self-condemnation, and speechlessness comes from the Spirit of God and is not obtained by those who preach it through their own efforts and research. Therefore, the blind man would willingly bow down to the Lord Jesus. Peter would thank the Lord for denying Him three times and still accepting him. As a result, Peter spent his whole life to bear witness for the Lord.
One of the gifts from the Holy Spirit is “description—the power of description that comes from the Holy Spirit.” It was only a few years after the Lord reviewed me that I was slowly able to understand what the descriptive power that comes from the Holy Spirit is like. This is different from our worldly ability to describe. People’s ability to describe can be a kind of insight and expression ability for things that happen to them but are not easy to say it clearly. For example, when a person eats too much shaved ice, he feels a rush of ice. The cold air flowed behind his back, along the back and tail keel, and rushed to the back of his head. The back of his head was numb due to the cold air, and his mind went blank. This is a kind of descriptive expression ability that people in the world may have. The descriptive power that comes from the Holy Spirit, although it is also spoken from human mouths, controls the appeal of those words to the readers after hearing or reading, as if they are seeing everything again in their hearts, or the ability to resurface thoughts that are usually hidden in people’s hearts, or the ability to leave people speechless, comes from the Holy Spirit. But our eyes only see the person speaking in front of us, and we misunderstand the person speaking in front of us, which makes us feel uncomfortable. As recorded in John 16:8,
“And He (Holy Spirit), when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment.“
Since what we are talking about is the world, is it only judged the world who do not believe in the Lord? Isn’t it also judged the world who believe in the Lord? This is why the Lord asked me to speak out about the importance of the hidden way of speaking recorded in A Moment of Eternal Light – Part 2 of 3. It is not easy for all of us in the world to understand that when we feel pierced in our heart and uncomfortable, it is not always because of the other people who blame us, but it is also possible that the Holy Spirit of the Most High God who speaks to us in hidden ways in our hearts. However, not every word that people say that makes us uncomfortable comes from God. Only when the hidden thoughts in the heart are revealed and so can there be a chance that they come from the Holy Spirit. So we have to ask the Lord to give us the ability to discern.
The most important thing is that those who fear God and follow Jesus from their heart. We are just a messenger and a follower of Christ. Because of this mentality; and also because our God does not like to share His glory with the world. The descriptive power that comes from God can be recognized by the Holy Spirit and touch the hearts of those who listen or read these words.
But even so, if the one who preaches is complaining in his heart, like Jonah, the peace he deserves will be gone because man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. Most importantly, the Holy Spirit’s power to the audience, who should have only been gently rebuked in their hearts and led to repentance. A condemnation may be added that does not come from God but comes from the soul being infected by selfish desires. This makes the audience unable to accept the condemnation and walk away from the Gospel. It is like sprinkling salt to the wound. The pain makes people avoid and shrink away, and reduces the chance of asking the Lord for forgiveness. As Proverbs 12:18 says: “There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” Moreover, the Lord also wants the author to be fair here. The author myself had been self-righteous, so why should I sprinkle salt on other people’s wounds and reduce their chances of confessing and repenting? This is also displeasing to the Lord, as recorded in Proverbs 24:17-18 and Matthew 5:44.
Finally, if readers ask the author, does preaching the gospel require knowledge? Of course, it’s good. At the very least, the blind man can know what kind of God he believes by listening to others around him daily. If we have no knowledge, can we preach the gospel? The author has the affirmation from the Holy Spirit in his heart that we can preach the gospel in good times and bad times. As Ecclesiastes 11:4, “One who watches the wind will not sow and one who looks at the clouds will not harvest.” But the author hopes even more that the Lord will be with me and pass on His grace to those who are willing to listen. Just like a fisherman and a born blind man, let the descriptive power from the Holy Spirit inform the world. Knowing that my Lord Jesus is alive, let the Spirit of the Lord break through all obstacles and unable to deny that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the living God and my Savior! So what if I don’t have knowledge? As long as the God I fear is wiser than anyone else in the world, that is all I need. But my son and readers, please remember that we must learn to return to the Lord every day, read God’s words, and let His words wash our hearts every day. So what if I become spiritual? So what if I know everything? A branch can do nothing even if it is separated from the vine! Only when people are willing to follow God humbly, His power will be with them. This is what I admire the most about my God. His wisdom allows wise people to reveal their foolishness through knowledge, allows fools to gain wisdom through obedience. The glorious name of my living God is “The Lord of hosts”!
When the Holy Spirit inspired me to write this series of “A Moment of Eternal Light”, the author once said to the Lord with great worry: “Lord, You asked me to speak to such a great extent, but I’m worried that I won’t be able to finish it!” But one day, the Lord’s words came to me, and they whispered in my heart: “I will help you, don’t be afraid.” I was worried that I heard wrongly, so I ordered the spirit who said he would help me by the name of the Lord to answer me, “Do you believe that the Lord Jesus has become flesh?” As a result, the Lord replied to me: “I AM.” The author’s God is honest and trustworthy. If He said He would help me, He would definitely help me complete what He wanted me to share in His own name. As Zechariah 4:6 says:
“…This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,”
I hope readers can see the Spirit of God and accomplish what the Lord has asked the author to share. The author is a person with no eloquence and mediocre logical thinking and analytical skills. I am even more capable of saying inappropriate words when inappropriate. Such a person should not have any readers who would misunderstand that the author relies on his own knowledge and ability to write my testimony. And to be honest, I just don’t want others to see me and not see the work and teachings of the true God who created heaven and earth in me!
In this article, I will record how the Lord led me through the reasons for testing my spirit and what are the testing methods to see if it comes from God. This article will be divided into several short chapters, each of which is limited to less than or equal to eight minutes of reading time. If the Lord is willing, when the author completes each short article, he will update the web link here so that readers can go to the short article they want to read at will.
Introduction (1) – Doubts from the Bible
Introduction (2) – Descriptive Power from the Holy Spirit
The Reasons for testing it comes from God
An Experience of Being Fooled
Reflection – Everything in the dream is positive, it is the Lord who judges me
The Evil One – the old evil monster in the sky who holds the dark power of death
Romans 7:21 — Where there is light, there is also evil
An unacceptable revelation to me
A Confusion and a Reply from the Lord
Who is in charge of the final touch in the cycle of spiritual disciplines?
The Testing Methods if it comes from God
1 John 4:1-6 — Discernment of spirits — By the name of the Lord Jesus
Tears moved by the glory of God
Job 33:15-18 — Soul’s Response to Temptation in Dreams
1 John 1:8-10 — Lord, I was wrong, please forgive me!
Philippians 2:10 — Willing to kneel before the Lord every day?
John 21:15 — Do you love me more than your logical thinking?
The benefits of reading a testimony before the throne of the Lord
Romans 8:16 — The Holy Spirit bearing witness in our heart
My Inner Cycle of Brothers and Sisters in Christ
1 Corinthians 4:7—So what if it’s all done? Gratitude or self-confidence?
Doubts from the Bible
It is recorded in the Bible that there are some people who are chosen by God and sent to fulfill His will, but in their life or at the end, they stray from God’s will. This makes me very confused. For example, King Solomon, God gave him wisdom that no one had ever done before, and no one would come after him. When Solomon built a temple for God and offered sacrifices to God, he said if Israel’s people sinned against God but were willing to repent and confess their sins, they would ask God to forgive them. God also accepted Solomon’s prayer by His mouth. King Solomon also lived in happiness and honor throughout his life because God’s wisdom was with him. But later, when Solomon was old, an emperor who had wisdom from God in his life led God’s people to worship foreign false gods. Even when God personally pronounced Solomon’s sins, he still refused to plead guilty, as if he knew that his sins were heinous. Solomon relied on his own wisdom from God and did not believe in God’s promises. The promise of as long as he was willing to repent, God would forgive him. Solomon could only make plans for himself and wanted to kill the person chosen by God. Protect his rights. Another example is Jehu in the Old Testament, who was chosen by God to be the king of Israel and ordered him to cut off King Ahab’s family and Jezebel because they allowed the Israelites to worship false gods, disobeyed God’s commands, and killed Naboth. take away his vineyard. But after Jehu completed the task assigned by God, it was recorded in Hosea 1:4:
And the Lord said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.”
What puzzles me the most is the man of God recorded in 1 Kings 13:1-32. God sent him to speak to Jeroboam, and He also told him not to eat or drink in that place, but I don’t understand why God allowed the old prophet to deceive the man of God, so that God because of his disobedience, he ate and drank water with the old prophet, God punished him and ordered a lion to kill him? Moreover, the true God who created heaven and earth seems to have known that the man of God would be like this early on, so he warned the man of God in advance. However, the man of God eventually died of his own decision and did not faithfully adhere to the words that Jehovah said to him. Is this, as Deuteronomy 13:3 says, God wants to test His servants to see if they will obey His words with all their heart and soul? Therefore, every sentence and word that God speaks to each of us as the servants who serve Him is related to our lives as servants. We cannot take it upon ourselves to claim to be working for the Lord but do so arbitrarily.
“you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.“
There are also some records in the Bible. Some people who faithfully follow God suddenly seem to be possessed by evil and do or say things that should not be done or said as God’s servants. For example, the Great King David, a servant who is said to follow God’s heart. God also blessed King David greatly, but once, actually seemed to have no struggle at all before committing adultery. It was more like his soul was deceived at that time, and he began to sin as he pleased and sinned against our God. What exactly is sin? It was so terrible that even a servant who was said to be after God’s own heart was defeated by his own selfish desires. He knew clearly that Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah, a loyal warrior to him, but he still committed adultery with her and found Uriah, someone who was absolutely loyal to him. King David persuaded him to go home and so to lay with his wife, and serve as a scapegoat for the scandalous things he had done. Then, after the scandal failed, he sent Uriah to battle to be killed by the enemies and took his wife. God was humiliated by His enemies because of this. Why would a righteous man after God’s own heart commit such a scandalous act that destroys his conscience?
In another example, Peter also advised Jesus not to go to Jerusalem to die, but the Lord rebuked Satan for using Peter to only please people. Peter was not insane, why was the Lord faced Peter and rebuked Satan? At that moment, was Peter still have consciense but was the devil taking the initiative? These Bible records make me confused. How is the definition of a spiritual person defined? And why do some spiritual people who originally walked in the footsteps of God suddenly become completely different and be deceived by the devil? At that moment, they seem to be a different person, or they may say something correct, but through Satan they speak? Moreover, it is recorded in Matthew 7:22-23 and 19:16-22 that some people preached, cast out demons and performed miracles in the name of the Lord throughout their lives. Isn’t it a good proof that the Lord with those people? But the Lord Jesus said to them at the last day: “I never knew you…” It is also recorded in Matthew 19:16-22 that a young ruler who claimed that he longed for eternal life. Because he couldn’t let go of his wealth, he gave up the hope of eternal life that he kept pursuing, and left the Lord sadly. How can we feel at ease and know that we are not just claiming to love the Lord, but that we are truly walking in the Lord and can be with Him forever, instead of deceiving ourselves and others, living in our own dreams, and doing everything according to our own will? , everything is beautiful? Living in the church and being recognized, accepted and supported by other Christians for “faithful service”, occasionally talking about this injustice, laughing at that evil, waiting to retire and enjoy happiness, waiting to return to heaven? Readers, please do not misunderstand. The author admires people who sincerely serve God, and I also like the happiness and joy that comes when serving the Lord. However, the doubts I see in reading the Bible make me want to find out. , why do God’s servants have mishaps midway and abandon the Lord’s way? How can this situation be solved?
The author is a middle-aged person with “a lot of questions”. After repenting, every time I have questions while reading the Bible, I am eager to know how to answer them so that those questions will no longer appear in my mind. But when I asked other Christians my questions, they had very different responses. Some would honestly say to me, “I don’t know.” Some would lead me to a dream world of birds singing and flowers fragrant in their words. Everything in the dream was good, except after waking up from there, I found that I was still in the same place. If I continued to ask, some people would ask me: “Why do you want to ask me these questions? You have to have faith. As long as you believe, you shall not ask many questions so that you will stay in faith.” But I don’t know where the source of faith for those Christians comes from? Is it because you don’t know that so you have to believe it? What exactly do they want me to believe? Some people seem to have a pair of eyes in their souls, with the eyeballs pointing upward and reflecting white. I don’t know why? It seems that a Christian has too many questions, which are manifestations of lack of faith, abnormality, and taboos. Later, I became impatient. Since others had confidence, I did not. Moreover, those problems seemed to be carved in my heart and often surfaced. I began to ask God, and unintentionally, I entered into the Lord’s promise without knowing it. As recorded in Psalm 27:4, Isaiah 65:1, and Matthew 7:7:
“One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I shall seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in His temple.“ (English Standard Version)
“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’ To a nation which did not call on My name.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.“
Therefore, I love Jehovah, the Creator of heaven and earth, because He heard my voice with many questions and my pleas. He did not look down on me because of my many questions but had mercy on me. When the word of the Lord of hosts is opened, it gives light and gives understanding to the simple like me. Since He has opened His ear to me, I will call upon Him all my life.
The author has some relatives, friends, or relatives of brothers and sisters in Christ. Some of them are elderly and have aging health issues. Some are suffering from incurable diseases. They may die soon, and some have already passed away. Although this is the path that we must take in life, the author still feels a bit of sadness that he doesn’t know why, which is accumulated in his heart, and he is not in a happy mood. Strangely, the Holy Spirit moved the author in this mood, he wrote this article and invited relatives, friends, and readers to organize a “Tour Group in Heaven” in the future when we get there to visit its scenic spots and talk to biblical figures. Because the Lord does not want the world not to know that whether we are righteous or sinners, He is by our side and accompanies us when we are suffering. As those who are saved and reborn and belong to the Lord, we should not only live with hope in this life. If we have hope, we should also be moved by the Holy Spirit and look forward to our future home in heaven. In the past, the author saw many friends posting photos of their travels to various places on social platforms. In each photo, everyone looked very happy, keeping the happiest time as a souvenir. The author also longs to travel with like-minded children of God in the Kingdom of Heaven in the future, extending the joy of traveling on earth into hope for heaven, becoming the motivation for our longing, and laying a beautiful foundation for the longing for that heavenly home. As recorded in 2 Corinthians 5:4, we are not willing to take off the tent of this life, but we are willing to look forward to the future home in heaven. For this reason, the author wrote this invitation letter and sincerely invites readers to form a group. No matter whether you are old or young, sick or healthy, despised or envied by others, rich or poor, Christian or not, as long as you admit that you have sinned against God, the Creator of heaven and earth, and are willing to rely on the guidance of the Holy Spirit to repent. Our Creator also invites you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Kingdom Hope, Celebrities and Tourist Attractions
In fact, there are many famous people and tourist attractions in heaven. In the past few years, the author has been looking forward to personally experiencing what the spiritual body is like in the future, and going to the following places, and having personal conversations with the following biblical characters. The current itinerary is just the author’s personal thoughts. If other group members have other suggestions, you can leave comments on this article. I will propose the final itinerary and let the group members make the final decision. We will wait for everyone in heaven and set off together in the future. Go on a tour.
1. Go see the Lord with my own eyes. Although Revelation 1:13-16 records the image of the Lord’s future glory, I still want to see Him with my own eyes and bow down to Him;
2. Touch the land of heaven and the place that the Lord has given to each of our group members to live;
3. This is a question raised by the son of one of the group members. In heaven, will our spiritual bodies have wings and be able to fly, like some angels? 🤔If I had wings, would our spiritual bodies still need to take a bath every day? If I have wings, it will be more difficult to dry them after taking a bath. Can I put them into my body before taking a bath? 😂
4. As recorded in Revelation 22:1-2, we can gather together by the river of life every month, eat the fruits of the tree of life that are different every month, drink the water of the river of life, and see how the leaves of the tree of life can heal all nations. Can the leaves be used to make tea?
5. Gather together every day to kneel down and praise God;
6. According to Luke 16:19-31, go to the place that is separated from Hades by the abyss and see if the sound can reach Hades.
7. According to 1 Corinthians 4:9, how do angels see people on earth in heaven as if they were watching a play?
8. Is King Solomon actually in the Kingdom of Heaven? Or is he in Hades because he didn’t repent and confess his sins?
9. According to 2 Kings 2:23, Elisha is bald. Will he have hair in his spiritual body in the kingdom of heaven?
10. What was Moses like? Why our God record in Exodus 4:24 that He wanted to kill him?
11. Ask Paul what the thorn was that frightened him according to 2 Corinthians 12:7? Could Paul tell us?
12. What does the Book of Life look like?
13. According to Malachi 3:16, what does the book of remembrance look like that God uses to record the conversations of all the God-fearing people on our earth?
14. Go and tell Apostle Thomas that on earth we still call him Doubting Thomas. However, my son said that many people should have told Thomas about it after they returned to their home in heaven.
Conclusion
This week, the author is trying to invite friends to form a group. So far, thank the Lord, ten Christian families have agreed to wait for everyone in heaven to set off on a trip. For readers who are interested in joining a group, let me state in advance that this is an international tour group in the Kingdom of Heaven. There is currently a brother living in Africa. He and his family, all family members who recognize the Lord Jesus as the Savior, will also participate. If any of the group members who participate have relatives who have not yet accepted the Lord Jesus as their Savior, please pray that the Lord’s salvation will come to their relatives and that they will be taken up to heaven and travel together. To prevent our appearance and body from changing in heaven in the future, no one can recognize whether each other is a group member. If a group member who is willing to form a group has a suggestion, what code should be used? So that in the future, we can recognize all other members of the Heavenly Kingdom tour group, please inform the author.
For readers who believe in the Lord, if someone dear to you has passed away, it is natural to be sad. It is in line with God’s will to mourn with those who mourn. Do not suppress your emotions. If you or your relatives or friends are suffering from illness, I hope this article can become the hope in your heart or your relatives or friends. Although illness or death may seem to last a long time on earth, it will always pass and end. The end on earth is just the beginning of eternity. Please do not focus on the short-term suffering or separation in front of you. In heaven, our Creator has prepared a wonderful hometown for the people who believe that He is the only true God and listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit to abandon evil and choose good. The author invites you to leave a comment below this article to join this heavenly tour group and set off in heaven together with the other group members in the future. The author will pray regularly for all group members. May the grace and peace of our Savior Jesus be given to you greatly from heaven!
I hope that every child of God also has the humble yet strong and affirmative faith recorded in Job 19:25-27 that comes from the depths of our soul. Although birth, old age, sickness and death are painful, after the flesh is destroyed, God will be seen outside the body. I will see Him with my own eyes – I, and not another! Also, as the apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:18, we are full of hope for that which is eternal but cannot be seen now. May the grace and peace of the Lord Jesus always be with our brothers and sisters who are sad in spirit and suffering in body!
「I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. …」
「So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.」
I am very grateful to several brothers in Christ who, despite their busy schedules, not only read my last article but also gave me valuable opinions! So I wrote this short postscript. This is also a gift I want to leave behind and give to my family and beloved relatives. I hope that one day, you can find the God who saved me from death to life in the footprints I left. , what kind of God is He. I can’t explain it to you in detail nowadays, but I do want to write down my God’s kindness to you. I leave it to you who I love deeply in my soul.
In the last article, I shared how the Lord taught me to learn to listen to the way He spoke to me. I just wanted readers to know that God will talk to the world, so I wrote it down. My readers, if you have just accepted the Lord Jesus as your Savior, or if your mind goes blank after reading my previous article, please forget what I shared in the previous article. My experiences may be too complicated for you and they may not be suitable for you. This is valuable advice given to me by a brother in Christ, and it is also the same idea given to me by my Lord during meditation. My Lord does not have many requirements for the young believers. As long as we reject evil and choose good, He will have glory, and that’s it. Forget about the dialogues I shared about talking to God. This may be better for you now. Until one day in the future, the Holy Spirit reminds you of the experience I shared. Perhaps then, it will be the Holy Spirit’s call to you. If you forget it all your life and the Holy Spirit does not remind you, then what I share will not be the medium used by the Holy Spirit to call you.
The footprints I leave behind in the last article are in the hope that someone will start out on their own and be willing to look for patterns in God’s conversation with them. It is not intended to sell readers a “quick lunch set” for talking to God. In this world, there is no such crash course in emotional cultivation. Once you know it, you can graduate without putting any effort into the relationship. Everyone must start by themselves to search for God and find ways for the Lord to communicate with him so that he will not eat other people’s recipes and feel uncomfortable and out of place because they are not the recipes he found by himself and are not suitable for his own taste. Or if the Lord is willing, some readers can learn from my experience. On the journey to find God, they encounter the doubts I have experienced, and the Holy Spirit reminds him/her of my sharing. I hope the Lord can use them to teach others, leading others through the doubts and difficulties in the process of searching for God and walking with God throughout their lives. Readers, please do not misunderstand, this is not a question of whether a Christian is saved or not, it is a question of whether the soul has peace in the Lord. I believed in the Lord for more than thirty years. Before I repented, I only confessed Jesus as Lord in front of others, but in my heart, I had no reliance and was afraid of death. In my daily life, I did not think about where I would go after death. But when encountering difficulties or dangers, I find that deep down in my heart, I don’t know where I will go after leaving this world. Later, when I read 1 Corinthians 15:19, I discovered that at that time, I only had hope in this life. Just as the Holy Spirit said to believers through the apostle Paul in Hebrews 2:14-15, I am still a slave to the fear of death all my life. At that time, many Christians around me said to me, “You must have faith, you have passed from death to life.” But deep in my soul, I still longed to ask the Lord, why, and I was still afraid to die? This is the Lord’s way in my heart calling me to seek Him. The way the Lord calls me is not necessarily the way the Lord calls others to seek Him through the Holy Spirit. How does the true God who created heaven and earth call you and how does he get along with you? I discovered that whether I have hope or not to meet the Creator in person, it may not necessarily be able to measure how long I have served in the church, how many years of fellowship I have attended, how many years of Bible studies you have completed, or how many years the other God’s people appreciate your “faithfulness” as a measure. Only I, after experiencing certain things, will truly know what I think deep inside. Only when I found the Lord Jesus who died on the cross for me (actually after the Lord came to find me personally) did I truly know that He is the living and true God. He is not just heard in the church and not only belongs to others. God is then my Lord and my God.
I hope that readers will find the God who loves them and that their lives will never be like mine in the past. May the Lord allow readers to find Him, and He delights in His people seeking Him. To this end, I am called, to share this good news, in the hope that some will set out to find their own Lord, their own God. I’m not talking about finding an idol who does everything according to our own pleasant will, but the true and living God who created the heavens and the earth and all things. The prophet Isaiah called our Creator “The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth” I hope One day, I will be able to call God “My Master” without any shame, but His own noble, loving and fearful name is “Lord God, the Almighty”!
This article will require 25 minutes of reading time. The readers do not need to read it all at once. The table of contents above has a pointer to each major section. I also wrote this article sharing with my niece and my son. They prefer to read English.
In more than thirty years of my Christian life, I have often heard Christians praying during worship services, asking the Holy Spirit to give wisdom to the speaker, so that the church members can feel the same spirit, and benefit the speaker and the audience. So after I believed in the Lord, I was often curious to know, are people who pray just asking? Or do they really know that the Holy Spirit is truly giving wisdom to the speaker? So that God’s words come out of the speaker’s mouth are known to everyone and benefit the audience. Yes, if we know a good friend or a loved one, and have a relationship with each other, we should know how my friend refers to himself, the way he speaks to me, his tone and attitude, etc. For example, a wife may call her husband “Honey” when no one else is around, but if suddenly a voice calls you “Babe” or “Sweetheart”, you should know the source of that voice is not from your wife. When that strange voice comes, you won’t continue talking to or picking up anything from that voice. The same is true for those who walk with God. As Hebrews 13:8 says: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” The name that God uses to talk to His people in the Bible will not be one day calling Himself “I AM” or “I am the Lord”, and the other day He calls Himself “It’s me”, “Yes, that’s right”, or “Here am I”. However, if I feel doubtful in my heart, ask who said in me by the name of the Lord? The voice that spoke in my heart does not dare to call itself “I AM” or “I am the Lord”. It can only say: “It’s me”, “Yes, that’s right”, or “Here am I”, or it is silent and does not answer. Then I would advise you not to believe that the voice is from God. Although such an indicator is simple, when I am hesitating in my heart and wondering whether God is speaking to me, it is one of the best indicators that can identify the source of the sound, giving me something to rely on in my heart.
The Holy Spirit’s dialogues with people are not a mysterious thing. He can speak to righteous or bad people. Don’t think that the Holy Spirit only speaks to righteous people. This is a wrong concept. God told Eli that because of the evil deeds of his two sons and he honors his sons more than the Lord, his descendants would be removed from the priesthood. God also wrote words on the wall, declaring the throne of King Belshazzar, King Nebuchadnezzar’s son, had ended. At that point, it also indirectly indicated that he was also destined to die. In the New Testament, on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended and spoke through the disciples to the Jews who did not know the Lord Jesus as the Messiah. The Holy Spirit also speaks to sinners like me. Who can say that the Lord is only speaking to the righteous people?
The following is a sharing of my past experiences in learning to listen to God’s voice. In prayers, I asked my Lord to help me sort it out, so I was able to write it down. I hope readers can get inspiration from it and start seeking for God to speak to them personally. The way God speaks to me through the Holy Spirit is not limited to speaking directly to me in my heart. This is actually as the Lord Jesus said in John 14:26, the Holy Spirit can “remind me” of what the Lord has said to me. This is a method that I often ignored before I repented a few years ago. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.“ And there are three ways the Holy Spirit reminds me of everything the Bible says.
Direct Dialogues from the Scriptures
Hidden Dialogues without using Scripture
Direct-Hidden Mixed Dialogues Interaction
Direct Dialogue from the Scriptures
The first is a direct way. It can be that the Scriptures come to my mind when I am doing something during the day, or it can be that the Holy Spirit reminds me of or comes to mind of certain people or what someone said or did while reading a certain passage in the Bible. Apostle Peter once recorded in Acts 1:20-22: “MAY ANOTHER TAKE HIS (Judas) OFFICE.” This is what Psalm 109:8 says. If readers believe that the Bible is inspired by God and believe what the Lord Jesus promised in Matthew 10:20 before He suffered, “For it is not you who are speaking, but it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you.“ Then what Peter said is the Spirit of our Heavenly Father spoke directly into Peter’s heart using the Scriptures. For example, I recorded in “The Lord’s Anointing is in My Heart” that the driving incident directly reflected the direct dialogue using Ecclesiastes 7:22.
Directly while reading a certain passage from the Bible, the Holy Spirit can also remind me or emerge in my mind of certain people, or what someone said or did. For example, it is recorded in “One Thought Sinking into Hell (Part 1 of 2)” that when reading Jude verse 23, and 1 Samuel 2:33-34 and 3:12-13, the image of my younger biological brother came to mind. It was also a direct dialogue from the Scriptures. It’s just that when reading the Scriptures, the image of others comes to mind, so it is another way of expressing direct dialogue using the Scriptures. Just because of this way of direct dialogue doesn’t follow the method of studying God’s words that I learned in church, which is to understand God’s words based on context. So, I used to filter out the direct dialogues using the excuse of not following context. When trying to discern whether God was speaking to me, the truth is that I did not understand the righteousness of God. So, I accepted the method I had heard as righteous and did not obey the righteousness of God. After I repented and reflected on my past experiences, the Lord opened my eyes and saw my past foolishness. It turns out that not only can God’s words be understood based on context, but my Sovereign God can also speak to me without following context. For example, in Jude 23, and 1 Samuel 2:33-34 and 3:12-13, I can’t know my brother’s intention. This is a direct dialogue that does not follow the context, and it is even less likely to be a life application from the Scriptures. (Could anyone tell me how it can be explained as an application from the Scriptures?) Just because God wants me, a fool, to know some things that He wants me to understand that would touch His bottom line, but I still don’t have the spiritual life that can communicate with the Lord without any barriers and be able to understand what God is trying to tell me. To put it bluntly, because I am stupid, God mainly uses some revelations that can attract even stupid people’s attention to remind me. This is the reason that the Lord reviewed to me why He used direct reading of Scripture on me to bring certain people, certain things, or certain words to my mind. As 1 Corinthians 1:21 records: “For since the wisdom of God the world (I) through its (my) wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those (me) who believe.” This way of directly reading the Bible and revealing other people, things, etc. is also hidden. It was easily ignored by me in the past, and it can also be regarded as a way of hidden dialogue.
Hidden Dialogue without using Scripture
The second way is the hidden dialogue, which means that God is speaking to me directly but not using Scripture. Therefore, before I repented, I often ignored this way. This method can be words that we humans can hear, dreams, thoughts, visions, images of others, or words spoken by other people (the other people do not necessarily need to be Christians). This method was easily overlooked by me in the past. The reason is that the Holy Spirit does not speak directly using Scripture, but uses various expressions mentioned above. However, because I cannot see God, it is not easy to detect that it is the Holy Spirit who speaks to me using the hidden dialogue. In particular, if the words of the Holy Spirit come from the mouth of others, if they could pass through my filter of analytical thinking in the brain, it would be possible to accept them, but they would also be easily missed coming from God because they were just what the other people said. The object is focused on the other people and does not know it is the Lord, just like the child Samuel mistakenly thought Eli was calling him several times. And if I don’t like what others say, I will feel that others are attacking me, and I will not look into whether the Holy Spirit is speaking to me.
To testify whether it is the hidden dialogue from the Holy Spirit, the Lord taught me to keep in mind the words, dreams, thoughts, visions, images of others, or words spoken by others that touched the depth of my heart. During the waiting and continuing of my normal Scripture reading, the Holy Spirit will remind me of His previous dialogues with me, as recorded in John 14:26. For example, the Apostle Paul recorded in 2 Corinthians 12:9 that he begged the Lord to take away the thorn on him, but the Lord directly said to Paul: “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” These are directly speaking from God, and it is a hidden dialogue that does not directly use Scripture. Also in my experience, as recorded in “One Thought Repent Longing to Heaven (1)“, the Holy Spirit said to me: “Forgive your father, and also forgive yourself.” This is also a direct conversation without using Scripture. Although it is not in prayer or Scripture reading, after knowing the Lord, the Creator calls me the sinner to repent. It is the hidden dialogue. It can also be through dreams, as recorded in Joel 2:28-29, Job 33:15-18, and Matthew 1:20-21:
“It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, Your old men will have dreams, Your young men will see visions. And even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”
“In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds, Then He opens the ears of people, And horrifies them with warnings, So that He may turn a person away from bad conduct, And keep a man from pride; He keeps his soul back from the pit, And his life from perishing by the spear.“
“But when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a Son; and you shall name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
Just remember,
First, those people, things, words, dreams, or visions that emerge do not contradict God’s words in the Bible or God’s attributes.
Second, the attributes revealed in revelation that lead me to God. Bearing the fruit of the Holy Spirit but not self-righteousness; secretly, I am still willing to kneel down and pray and read Scripture every day.
Those people, things, words, dreams, or visions that emerge are God speaking to me through hidden dialogues. However, there is a problem with this hidden method that I have not been able to resolve before, that is, I am not 100% sure that they really come from God because they are not references to Scripture. Even if they are references to Scripture like the direct dialogue, I cannot be sure that I won’t be self-righteous afterwards. Therefore, the Lord taught me that like Mary, the earthly mother of the Lord Jesus, I must keep it in my heart and wait for when I read Scripture in the future. The Holy Spirit will remind me of the previous hidden dialogue conversation, and the reminder needs to naturally emerge in my heart. Only in this way can it be accepted. (The kind of thinking that I am very eager for God to speak certain words to me cannot be counted.) Even if I accept it, I still need to be examined through God, but the reason and method of examination are not what this article is going to talk about. I will share them in the next short article. Never forget that the focus we kneel down to worship is the living and true God. He sees all our thoughts and desires, both openly and secretly. Just because He sees, and hears. When we are willing to kneel down and draw close to God, He will one day respond to us. We must wait patiently for that day to come because our focus is the living and true God.
Direct-Hidden Mixed Dialogues Interaction
The third way is the direct-hidden mixed dialogues interaction. It is recorded in Acts 10:11-17 that in Apostle Peter’s vision, the Lord asked him to eat those four-footed animals and crawling creatures from the sheet coming down from the sky. Peter was unwilling, and the Lord told him, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.” This is not directly saying using Scripture, it is a hidden dialogue without using Scripture. Later, Peter saw the Holy Spirit descending on all the Gentiles who heard the message. Those people spoke in tongues and praised God for His greatness. When Peter stood among the apostles, he defended his testimony of preaching to the Gentiles, saying that he remembered the words of the Lord, “John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” This was the Lord directly using His words to confirm in Peter’s heart that it was His will for Peter to preach to the Gentiles. For another example, I recorded in “By the Name of the Lord Jesus (Part 1)” that the Holy Spirit said to me in a hidden way, “You don’t necessarily have to be tempted passively by the evil one and then ask me to have mercy on you. You can rely on me to resist those temptations.” This is not from Scripture; it is what the Lord said to me with the hidden dialogue without using Scripture. Until in “By the Name of the Lord Jesus (Part 2)“, I directly read 1 John 4:1-6 and then commanded the negative and proud thoughts in my heart to answer by the name of the Lord, “Do you believe that the Lord Jesus has become flesh?” At that time, I had a commotion in my heart, and then I drove away that thought by the name of the Lord. This is the hidden and direct mixed dialogues interactive method, and it is also the result of believing and acting. For another example, it is recorded in “Struck down, but not destroyed (Part 2)” that I lied to a friend, and the Holy Spirit said to me softly in my heart: “Do you know that you are lying?” It was a hidden dialogue without using Scripture. Until that night, while reading the Scriptures, the Holy Spirit used Proverbs 19:5 and 9 to directly let me know that bearing false witness is hated by God. Then, I was afraid. When I got up, I saw in my heart that I was telling the lie to my friend so that I could return to God and confess my sins and repent. This is the direct-hidden mixed dialogues interactive method using hidden -> direct -> and hidden dialogue again.
When the repeated dialogues occur, whether it is repeated direct dialogues, repeated hidden dialogues, or direct-hidden mixed dialogues interactive method, I must carefully pay attention to why our Lord speaks to me repeatedly and in various ways. This is similar to why I must pay attention to Scripture when God repeats the same verses or the same principles, which are very important instructions to me. Lord, what exactly do you want to express? Why do you say it so urgently and repeatedly? Before I understand why, I will pray to the Lord in my heart and asking Him showing mercy to me, a fool. If my heart is heavy and unable to settle down, I will enter a room and close the door. Kneeling down and praying to the Lord in heaven, to open my eyes and enlighten me. So that I can understand His will. When there is no clear revelation in prayer, I will read the Bible as usual and pray in my heart that the Lord will be gracious to me one day and enable me to understand His will. Please don’t be discouraged. The Lord will answer our prayers at the appropriate time in His plan, in daily Scripture reading or in daily life, and remind us of all the words He has said. Because of His own promise, those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to those who knock. This is what I say from the bottom of my heart and experience.
But be careful in the hidden dialogues or the direct-hidden mixed dialogues. It is because I can understand wrongly, or be self-righteous, and more importantly, I can be deceived by voices or thoughts pretending to be angels of light. So, in the future days of reading Scripture, it is very important to seek the Lord repeating what I understand from the Scriptures is truly coming from the Lord. Also, because of my limited brain power, sometimes when God’s will is reviewing to me, I cannot accept the understanding at that particular time. I must keep those words in my heart and wait for my heart to calm down with the understanding. I am not sure how the other believers’ submission to God’s will. The process of calm down my heart with the understanding is usually taking a minimum of one year or two back and forth many times during the period of struggling with it. Once again, when I am willing to submit to God’s will and act accordingly, my heart will naturally remember in my mind of everything the Lord said to me in the past every time I acted. This is then a very clear evidence that God is speaking to me using the direct-hidden mixed interactive method. Just as the meaning and method are recorded in John 2:22:
“So when He (Jesus) was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.”
Please remember that you can do things with the Scriptures directly appeared in your mind. Then, in a later time when you read the Scriptures, Holy Spirit can let us remember naturally the people we met or the things we did as a reaffirming response. It is ok if the order is swapped. When I am not sure or doubt whether the Lord is speaking to me, I can ask the Lord again in my heart. This is very important. In the past few years, when I learned to get close to God and listen to God’s voice, the direct-hidden mixed dialogues interactive method was the most common method that the Lord used to teach me something that He wanted me to learn. Just because I can’t see God, He wants me to know His thoughts and He will speak to me again and again. As John 14:17 and 16:13-14 say:
“the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.“
“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me (Jesus), for He will take from Mine and will disclose it to you.“
The most important thing is to understand the state of my soul after listening to the hidden dialogues or direct-hidden mixed dialogues interaction. In layman terms, what your mentality is after listening to the dialogues. Therefore, the Lord taught me to kneel down in the secret room every day, return to His throne of judgment and grace, and have my state of mind examined by the Holy Spirit. My experience in the past few years tells me that this is a test of all things! As Psalm 33:13-15 and Job 36:8-10 say, it’s true!
“The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of mankind; From His dwelling place He looks out On all the inhabitants of the earth, He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands all their works.“
“And if they are bound in shackles, And are caught in the snares of misery, Then He declares to them their work And their wrongdoings, that they have been arrogant. He opens their ears to instruction, And commands that they return from injustice.“
Conclusion
If someone asks me, is it because God does not speak directly to all mankind anymore now a day, or because we cannot understand how God speaks to us, and thus we miss the dialogues from the Creator of the Universes? I will say without hesitation, “I didn’t understand in the past!” In the past, I would only insist on using the text from the Bible to explain God’s words. At most, I would only accept half of the direct dialogues using the Scriptures. Not to mention, I can understand what God is using the hidden dialogues method to speak to me. And don’t even think I will have a chance to understand that my God is using the direct-hidden mixed dialogues interactive method to speak to me. But I praise my Lord, as it is written in Isaiah 65:1:
“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’ To a nation which did not call on My name.“
He didn’t give up on me just because I couldn’t understand it even after believing in the Lord for more than thirty years! Therefore, I have confident that the Lord will not give up on anyone who is willing to search for Him or desire to have a conversation with Him.
A friend of mine asked me once: “Is it because you read the Bible every day that those Bible verses naturally emerge in your heart? In fact, it is not any Holy Spirit you talked about speaking to you in your heart?” I thought for a while and an evident came to my mind through the hidden dialogue. So, I said to my friend: “After I first believed in the Lord Jesus, I fell asleep while praying. I felt guilty and asked God to rebuke me. As a result, the Holy Spirit said to me in my heart, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”” (The details are recorded in Struck down, but not destroyed (Part 1)) At that time, I didn’t even know that this sentence was a Bible verse. Therefore, it was impossible that time the Bible verse naturally appeared in my mind because I read too much of the Bible.” And when I have doubts, I ask God: “Lord, is it You?” When the Lord responds to me in my heart, “I AM.” I then know the truth. It was the Lord who spoke to me.
If you don’t understand the way God speaks, you still have the opportunity to learn to understand it. If you think that the Lord will no longer talk directly to His people in this era, you will miss that wonderful blessing. Brothers and sisters in Christ who tell people not to believe that God will directly communicate with His people today, I pray that the Lord will make you understand that your disbelief is your own choice. But don’t mock or discourage others from going in to find God to talk to them. Anyone who prevents other children of God from coming to the Lord will displease the Lord. As servants of the Lord, the Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 13:8 is truth for all of us.
“For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.”
Job 42:1-5 records that Job did not dare to boast that he knew everything. Why do we have the courage to make a conclusion that we do not understand, so it was impossible for others to understand what God was speaking to them?
“Then Job answered the Lord and said, “I know that You can do all things, And that no plan is impossible for You. ‘Who is this who conceals advice without knowledge?’ Therefore, I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I do not know. ‘Please listen, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.’ I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You;”
Our Lord Jesus spoke on Revelation 1:17-19: “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. Therefore, write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.“
Indeed, the Lord Jesus is alive and will live forever. He taught me that there is no need for me to say anything using my own knowledge about Him. As long as I truthfully tell what He has done on me, what He has said to me. How He has interacted with me, and what He has taught me about His will. That’s what He asked me to do. All Glory Be to Christ our King! He is worthy of our praise and worthy of our kneeling to Him every day forever and ever, as it is written: “Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually. Let the heavens be joyful, and the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns! Bless be the LORD, the God of Israel (and us), from everlasting to everlasting! Then all the people said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD.“
If any reader has any questions that you want to reach out to me, please leave comment in this article. I am open to have a dialogue with you. A dialogue cannot be one way. It requires both parties in order to have a dialogue. Please be reminded that our Lord Jesus is also waiting for us to understand His calling to us so that a dialogue can be established with His children. May our Lord move His children in their heart!
In the next short article, I will share the reasons for testing whether God has spoken to me, and the method of discernment that the Lord taught me.
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