After reading the previous article, some of my friends gave me this opinion, “You said you heard God speaking to you. I have been a Christian for decades and can’t hear it. For what reason, shall I believe in you? Moreover, when you said this, some new Christians could be confused. What is the reason why they cannot hear God speaking to them but you? What was your intention when you said this? Are you showing off?” I hope readers can understand. I didn’t say that I could talk to God all the time. God came to me, a person who believed that the Lord Jesus is the Son of God, but I was lost and self-righteous, God helped me at the most difficult and helpless time in my life. It was only after I had got out of the predicament that I knew His call to me. As recorded in The Precious Blood of Jesus is covering me and By the Name of the Lord Jesus (Part 1). I was not sure either because I couldn’t see God. I doubtfully asked God in my heart: “Lord, is it you?” Then, through the Holy Spirit, the Lord whispering in my heart: “I AM.”. Only then, I had reliance in my heart, holding the Lord’s hand and walking out of the darkness. If you ask me what is my intention? Am I showing off? God just told me to tell the truth about the process I went through in my darkest days, because it was there that the eternal Creator saved me. Most people, when they want to show off themselves, always use the times or results when they are the brightest and can best show their happiness or ability than others to prove themselves or show off to others. This does not mean that everyone is showing off. Only those who enjoy it very much in a state of mind at that moment, or to put it more directly, their souls are so high like smoking marijuana to the brain. There are also some people who go to the other extreme and tell others their most disgraceful things, as if this can prove that they are more candid than others. Am I the other extreme? Even I don’t know it myself, and I know that my God knows everything about me. He alone can judge and rebuke me, just as the Holy Spirit taught Paul, so that he said in 1 Corinthians 4:4, “For I am not aware of anything against myself; however I am not vindicated by this, but the one who examines me is the Lord.“
If the Holy Spirit is willing to bear witness in the heart of the readers, I am the man who was once possessed by a demon and was sent by the Lord to preach in the house of God as recorded in Mark 5:18-19: “Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.” Sharing with them the good news that God is eternally alive and is still personally saving sinners today. He is still preaching to the children of God that a sinner who is changed from death by relying on the precious blood and name of the Lord, confesses his sins and repent. His transgressions forgiven is more rejoicing than ninety-nine righteous people who do not need to repent. The Lord does not need to seek advice with anyone. He does not save sinners after being approved by others. Let us fear God and give glory to our living Creator. Why should we only focus on ourselves and not give glory to our Lord Jesus because the Word of God comes to a sinner and pulls him out of the mire of sin? A brother who shared with me that he almost decided for divorce after a fight with his wife as the negative feeling of divorce was so strong in his mind until Holy Spirit told him directly that “What God has joined together, no person is to separate.” Then, the negative feeling was disappeared from his heart. It is the reader’s choice to accept whether God is still talking to His children directly or not today. I will just suggest to the readers not to use your own believe to influence others as some other children of God may need the direct guidance from the Holy Spirit to get out of hardship or walk out of darkness from the Evil one.
I am an engineer, and one of the learning spirits of an engineer’s thinking is to “boldly assume and carefully verify” the things or things discovered. I think this is also the attitude a person should have in the world. If I hadn’t found the time when God had a conversation with me in my memories, such as the experience of hearing the Holy Spirit spoke in my heart for the first time recorded in “Struck down, but not destroyed (Part 1 of 4)”. Then, I boldly assumed that God still communicating with us humans through various channels today. I will not look for the pattern of His dialogue with me. Why search for it? All I care is that I have received salvation. That’s because I have doubts, I know full well that I’m not sure, so I want proof to search for the truth. This is the spirit of “carefully seeking verification.” After I repented, I began to realize that precisely because of humbly searching and unintentional mistakes, which corresponded to the Lord’s promises in the Bible, the Lord opened the door and allowed me to find Him. As recorded in Luke 11:10-13 and Hebrews 11:6:
“For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be opened. Now which one of you fathers will his son ask for a fish, and instead of a fish, he will give him a snake? Or he will even ask for an egg, and his father will give him a scorpion? So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?“
“And without faith it is impossible to please HIM, for the one who comes to God must believe that HE exists, and that HE proves to be One who rewards those who seek HIM.“
My Master called me to say this to those Christians who do not believe that God is still speaking directly to his disciples today. In the hope that someone will seek HIM, and that those who seek God will continue to take steps to find HIM.
The true God of the Trinity, who created the heaven and the earth, is my master. If I just said the above words to you, I would only ask you to find God yourself and not share with the readers how God taught me and my experience of the guidance of the Holy Spirit in my heart. The readers can simply ignore what I said. I will share with you my lesson learned. I am doing it only with the hope that the unique channel that God helped me to establish can be an insight for the readers to find their own channel with the Creator of the Universes. I hope more people will not take the wrong path and find the right direction to reach our God.
I originally wanted to leave my experiences on the spiritual journey to my wife and son alone. There are some things that they do not understand now. I often pray to the Lord, hoping that one day, they will understand. But I cannot say it in full directly to them now, so the next article is the most precious experience in my life of being found by the Lord. Only by thinking of my family, I can retain these experiences. As for why I first wrote down such a valuable experience on the Internet, it is because the Holy Spirit once reminded me: “Your life experiences are used to glorify me. As long as you abandon evil and choose good, I will have glory.” He also called me through Luke 12:48b: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.” At that time, because it occurred to me in my heart, how did the Lord save me from the evil one? This experience of Holy Spirit spoke to me is based on the teaching of John 14:26, how the Holy Spirit calls people.
“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.”
Only then, I am sharing my experience of how the Lord saved me and how the Lord got along with me, and let the world know about it. Maybe someone will search for the eternal true God who created the heaven and earth. As long as one person searches for the Lord, I will have joy. I hope that person, will not like me, can find the right direction in the process of searching for God because of the indicators I left, and does not have to take too many wrong paths.
In the next article “Moment of Eternal Light shining upon us”, it will be divided into three small parts. The first part will share the experience and understanding of communion with God. The most important thing is how to distinguish from the many thoughts that appear in the heart those that are truly from God. The thoughts that came to me, which ones were not, and how God gave me the affirmative answer from my daily reading of the Bible, that I was going in the right direction. The second part, sharing the call of the Holy Spirit to me, corrected my most erroneous thoughts in the past, so I didn’t know it when I passed by the Holy Spirit. Also, I will ask Heavenly Father, through the Holy Spirit, to personally work in the hearts of readers. Witness what one of the most important ways of His calling to the world is like and what things may come to mind when He speaks to us. The third part is about the changes and motivation in the soul after being healed by the Lord through repentance. Moreover, every day is a new day. You must not dwell on the past experience but start it over every day.
Finally, I can feel the confusion in the reader’s heart about God being able to communicate directly with the world, but the road goes on and on. No one can really help you but yourself. I can only point out the indicators, not the final destination of your spiritual journey. Only by believing will the Lord Jesus make a way for those who are looking for Him and let them find Him. Only by kneeling before God and moving forward courageously can we clear away the fog and see God’s true call to us. Go, those who are looking for God to talk to you personally. There are a long path waiting for you to walk on your own. You just need to remember that at any time, keep your original intention, the original intention of searching for the truth God. Don’t just feel satisfied that you are already affirmed by Christians in your local church, so you just stay in feeling good about yourself and stopped on a highway exit and not going to reach your destination again. Because Proverbs 27:21 records:
“The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And each is tested by the praise accorded him.“
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