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Each of us have so many opportunities to meet the daily needs around us by offering to people a supernatural touch from Almighty God. In the story below, what it took was the simple laying on of hands and the prayer of faith, performed over the phone, and a serious health problem was removed. Thank You, Lord! This testimony is from Lois Rader.

Question: I am greatly utilizing 4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice book and CDs. They are life changing!  I desire to learn to become still.  In the Bible, Elisha used music to enter God's presence.  I believe the music allowed Elisha to become still so he could fix his eyes on the Lord, and tune to flow to hear God's voice.  I believe sound will do the same for me.  I have done some searching on the web for sound files for meditation. Is there anything you can recommend?

There are different types of relationships and they use completely different terminology. The legal system uses terms that are formal and highly structured. Contracts are written to be binding with obligations and penalties clearly spelled out. Friendship is based on affection and shared interests and values. The terms of friendship are the terms of endearment. If you spoke to your friends in legal terminology would you expect them to remain your friends? My word distinguishes between the covenants of law and grace. In the covenant of grace I call you my friends. It is appropriate for you to address me as a friend, in terms of endearment rather than terms of law.

My word records many encounters between men and angels. These are heavenly messengers and ministering spirits. They may have an unremarkable appearance in that some have entertained them unawares. They can also present in such splendor that they warned those they encountered not to worship them. You know that you are to worship me alone. Yet you should not ignore them either, for they come to you on my behalf, to assist you and to relay messages from me. Did anyone in my word ignore an angelic messenger? I want you to be open to receive from those I send. They serve me and are your friends and are on your side. 

Holy Lord Jesus, it is now my understanding that You received wisdom as You spent time with Your Heavenly Father, hearing His voice, seeing Him in vision. Your comments please upon my thought.

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Do you assume that my involvement in a situation will bring harmony between all those involved? Are you familiar with the verses that say I came not to bring peace but a sword, and that because of me even the members of a family would be set against each other, that people would be offended because of me, and that you would be hated of all men because of me? Would you like to follow me and have the approval of all men for doing so? It isn’t going to happen. This is the cost of discipleship. Do you desire it enough to move ahead even at the cost of being misunderstood and rejected? 

You describe your faith as a relationship with me and you are right. Do you understand and walk in all that this implies? Your faith is not a relationship to a book, not even the Bible, nor is it a relationship to a church. Both of these things are good, but they are an outgrowth of your faith rather than the central theme of it. Your relationship to me is the basis for the revelation of my Word to you. It also makes you a member of my body that you may take your place in my body. Search the scriptures for in them you look for life, and they testify of me. Come to me that you may have life. 

Do you do a thorough housecleaning in the spring? Is it a relief to get rid of the clutter that seems to accumulate with no effort on your part? This can make you feel more at home in your own home. You can think of your life in a larger sense as a home and your body as my temple for dwelling. The metaphor of housecleaning applies here as well, and you benefit from eliminating clutter and dirt from your life. You don’t need to wait for spring to do this. Eliminate low value activities that clutter your life, and the character flaws that hinder your effectiveness. Set your house in order that your temple may be a comfortable dwelling place for me. 

Would you like to see a miracle? Would you like to have a miracle performed on your behalf? This is possible, but miracles are not for entertainment. I don’t perform them without a purpose and a need. Let us rephrase the questions above. Are you willing to be in a state of need so desperate that only a miracle will save you? You are used to seeing entertainment and being unaffected by it. The story of someone else’s miracle may build your faith, but not as much as one you receive for yourself. The more difficult the situation, the greater glory I receive for intervening on your behalf. Are you willing to endure this degree of difficulty that I may be glorified through you?