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It's been an awesome month filled with wonderful workshops, road trips, and incredible testimonies. Dad and I loved tag-teaming together in Niagara Falls discussing his brand-new book on Hearing God's Voice for Healing. We were blessed to have so many of you travel in from all over, with four states and two countries represented... it was the best time!

Do you have an end-time scenario? A timeline? Both of them are wrong. I promised to return and I will. Are you familiar with the disastrous history of predicting this event? This alone should make believers wary of trying again. Have you seen anything that causes more division between believers than differences over end-time scenarios? If your view of the end times isn’t making you a better person today then you can throw it out because it isn’t helping you. You should know better.

The Western culture teaches us to live in the logic of our minds. However, here are ten pictures God uses in the Bible to tell us to live from the flow of the Holy Spirit within our hearts. Let's own the revelation of FLOW and live drinking from God's Fountain of Living Waters.

Bev asks: The Lord speaks to me mostly via dreams and images.  I have heard His voice in my inner ear, but that is seldom.  I too, am left-brained and I struggle with every little bit achieved.  It takes me forever to recognize that the fleeting image I've seen is His voice.   I feel awkward and foolish speaking in tongues - it does not seem to flow naturally, and I constantly doubt and question. How do I overcome doubt? How do I get past the questioning to relax and enjoy the presence of the Lord?   How do I get past the constant feeling of foolishness whenever I share what I've seen or heard?

Have you ever been hurt? This is a universal human experience. Are you constantly feeling hurt? You know people whose emotional pain is constant, from an endless series of offenses. Woe unto the world because of offenses, and by those from whom the offenses come. But offenses require two parties, a giver and a receiver. Is it as bad to eagerly receive offenses as it is to give them? So if you are constantly being hurt, is it because of others, or because of you? Can you reduce the level of offenses in the world by reducing your own sensitivity to emotional pain?

I’ll try to preface this briefly for context.

Do you live a life of gratitude? What is the basis for this? Do you have an overwhelming sense that you are getting better than what you deserve? This involves a sense of reasonable expectations and an awareness of the blessings you are a recipient of. Gratitude is the opposite of entitlement and privilege. If you have unreasonable expectations and only an awareness of them, how will you be grateful for what you have? Do you understand how many blessings you have by default?

Who is the easiest person for you to deceive? You are. Can you be too wrapped up in your own life to see it clearly? Is it possible not to be? The Bible passages about communion teach you to examine yourself when you partake of this sacrament. You can see that this is appropriate, but how do you carry it out? How do you put enough distance between your acting self and your observing self to get an objective evaluation? I promised that my sons (and daughters) would be led by the Spirit. Can you submit to a spiritual observation from beyond yourself to get accurate results?

Do you study to show yourself approved? Do you study the Bible in the same way you study other books, or the subjects you were taught in school? Can you acquire insights from the Bible the same way you do in class? This is possible, but you get uninspired results, and you can tell the difference between messages based on academic inquiry and messages from God. The prophets of old said that the word of the Lord came to them. Has this ever happened to you? Does this seem like a passive rather than active means of inquiry?

Prophetic word through a Bible meditation, sent to me from Ian Wilkinson.