Let me tell you about a wonderful experience I had on Monday, March 19, 2007, shortly after 6 a. m. God really spoke to me. I have no doubt it was God. I’ve heard your words in my mind as clearly as when a conversation goes through memory. The words were in English, but they had an aura of authenticity. Today, God keeps talking.
For some reason, I couldn’t sleep. I was at Shalom House in northern Minnesota for a couple’s retreat. At about five-thirty in the morning, I lay down wondering if I should get up or wait until I could go back to sleep. In his mercy, God took me out It was still dark, but I managed to find my clothes, get dressed, take my towel and leave the room without waking Christmas. Downstairs, the main lobby was completely silent. It looked like no one else was standing, so I sat on a couch, which was in the corner, to pray.
- It was while I was praying and meditating that this happened.
- God said.
- “Come and see what I’ve done.
- “I had no doubt that these were God’s own words.
- At this very moment.
- At this very moment of the 21st century.
- 2007.
- God spoke to me with absolute authority and authentic reality.
- I stopped to absorb what was going on.
- There was sweetness there.
- Time seemed to matter little.
- God was close.
- He had me in his vision.
- He had something to tell me.
- As God approaches.
- The haste stops and time passes slowly.
I was wondering what he meant by “Come and see. ” Would he take me to another place, as he did with Paul when he took him to heaven to see what could not be said? Does this mean that you would have a vision of a great action of God that no one else had seen? I don’t know how long has passed between God’s first words “Come and see what I have done” and his next words. It didn’t matter, he was wrapped up in love from this personal interaction. The god of the universe was speaking to me.
Then, as clear as any other word that occurred to me, he said to me, “I am great in my actions for the children of men. ” My heart skipped a beat. Yes sir! You are great at what you do. Yes, for all men, whether they see it or not. Yes! What are you going to show me now?
The words are back. As clear as before, but increasingly precise: “I turned the sea to the mainland; crossed the river on foot. So they rejoiced in me, that I rule them forever with my power?Suddenly I realized that God was taking away many years from me, until the Red Sea and the Jordan River dried up. His words brought me back to the story of these great actions. That’s what he meant by “Come and see. “He transported me, through his words, to these two glorious acts before the children of men. Was it them? Great deeds, to which he referred. God Himself counted God’s mighty actions, He was doing this for me. He did this with words that resonated in my mind.
A wonderful arc runs through me. There was a tangible peace in the place. It was a sacred time and a sacred corner of the world in northern Minnesota. Almighty God came there and gave me the calm, the opportunity and the willingness to hear his own voice. As I marveled at his power to dry up the sea and the river, he spoke again: “Do I still look at the nations? Do not the rebels rejoice?
It was mind-blowing. It was very serious, almost like a rebuke, at least a warning. Perhaps he grabbed me by the neck, raised me with one hand, and said with an incomparable mixture of rage and love: “Never, ever, ever be exalted. Don’t you ever rebel against me?”
I sat down and didn’t look at anything. My mind was filled with the glory of God: “I continue to look at the nations. “He told me. It’s not just that he said that, yes, it’s glorious. But he told me. God’s own words in my head. They were in my head just like the words I’m writing right now are in my head. They were heard as clearly as then, when I remember my wife saying, “Come to dinner as soon as you’re ready, ” I can hear your words. I know those are my wife’s words. And I know these are God’s words.
Think about it, be afraid of it. The God who persists in observing nations, as some look at castles, stock exchanges or construction works?This God continues to speak in the 21st century, I have heard his own words. He spoke to me personally.
What effect did this have on me? It filled me with a new understanding of God‘s reality, this has assured me more deeply that it acts in history and in our time, this has strengthened my faith that it is for me and takes care of me and will use its enormous power to take If not, why would he come to tell me these things?
This increased my love for the Bible as the word of God, because it is through the Bible that I have heard these divine words, and through the Bible I experience them almost every day. The God of the universe speaking on every page of my mind?and your mind. We hear your own words. God has multiplied his actions and his wonderful thoughts upon us; Nothing compares to him!I will proclaim them and announce them, even if they are more than can be counted (Psalm 40:5).
Better yet, they’re accessible to everyone. If you want to hear the same words I heard on the couch in northern Minnesota, read Psalm 66:5-7, that’s where I heard them. Oh, how precious the Bible is, this is the very word of God. This is where God speaks in the 21st century, it is God’s very voice. With this voice, he speaks with absolute truth and personal strength. With this voice, He reveals the excellence of His beauty. Through this voice, it reveals the deepest secrets of our hearts. No voice anywhere can penetrate as deeply, rise as high, or rise as far as the voice of God we hear in the Bible.
It is a great wonder that God, even today, speaks through the Bible with greater strength, greater glory, greater security, greater sweetness, greater hope, greater direction, greater power of transformation, and a greater truth that exalts Christ than any voice, the human soul on the planet, who is outside the Bible.
That’s why I found the article My Conversation with God?(My conversation with God), this month’s issue of Christianity Today, so unhappy. Written by an anonymous professor at a “recognized Christian university,” he recounts an experience in which he listened to God. What God has told you is that you should give all your proceeds with a new book, at the expense of a student in need. What saddened me in this article is not that it is not true or that it did not happen. The sad thing is that it gives the impression that additional biblical communication with God is something incomparably wonderful and dependent on faith, while the supreme and glorious communication of the living God that, personal, powerful and transformative, erupts every day in receptive hearts.
I’m sure the theology professor didn’t mean it that way, but what he really said was, “For years I taught that God keeps talking, but I couldn’t witness him personally. Can I do it now anonymously, for reasons that I think are obvious?(emphasis added). Surely he didn’t mean what that seems to imply?which is only when you hear an extrabbolic voice say “money is not yours” that you can personally testify that God He certainly did not want to lower God’s voice, through the Bible, who speaks every day with truth, wisdom, glory, joy, hope, wonder, and help ten thousand times more powerfully than anything we can hear from the outside. The Bible.
I’m sorry about what’s being said here. In our time, there is a great need for people who have experienced the reality of God’s existence by hearing his personal and transformative word in the scriptures. Something is wrong when words listening outside the scriptures are more powerful and move us more than God’s inspired word. Let us shout to the Psalmist: “Tilt my heart to your word?”(Psalm 119: 36). Open my eyes to see the wonders of your law?(Psalm 119: 18). May the eyes of our hearts be illuminated to know our hope, our inheritance, and the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge and be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 1:18; 3:19). Oh my God, let’s not be so deaf to your word and be moved by the ineffable evidence that we have treated the little things as if they were the most exciting, and we still consider this error to be printed in a national magazine.
Always listening to his voice in the Bible,