Subject: re: Revelation of (anything) Date: 16 Oct 2000 19:19:46 -0500 From: joebry@a-znet.com Reply-To: higher-fire@prairienet.org To: higher-fire@prairienet.org Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and LEARN OF ME; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light. James 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet YE HAVE NOT , BECAUSE YE ASK NOT . 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because YE ASK AMISS, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. We can GO to God and ask of him ANYTHING. God is not ASHAMED of any of our questions. GOD LOVES YOU AND WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. HE will answer any question you ask. This is called LISTENING PRAYER. God wants HIS people to be PERFECT (WHOLE OR COMPLETE) Philippians 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be PERFECT (WHOLE), be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall REVEAL even this unto you. Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the RENEWING of your mind, that ye may PROVE what [is] that good, and acceptable, and PERFECT, will of God. GOD WANTS US TO ASK. SO WE CAN KNOW HIS PERFECT WILL and if we listen HE WILL ANSWER!!!!! 1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. If we listen God will/does speak to us. This may sound crazy to some but the God that speaks (old testament name) still speaks. Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of HEARING THE WORD OF THE LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it]. That day is here. This verse doesn't say GOD WILL NOT SPEAK or IS NOT SPEAKING. But that there are/is a shortage of hearers. Many Christians don't know how to discern the voice of God. Nor take the time to hear him. All Christians know God. Hebrews 8:8...Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MIND,(REVELATION[Joe]) and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. But not all have learned to listen to him. I'm not talking about one way prayer I'm talking about a conversation with God himself. Not what we think he's saying. But talking to God as Adam did in the garden. We can ask him anything honestly with out shame. He will not judge us but will show/tell us the answer clearly. He will do this for anyone. God doesn't Just talk to the Preachers But to anyone in the BODY 100% of the Body can hear and converse with the ALMIGHTY GOD who is not a respecter of persons. If he conversed with Adam, He will with you. If he conversed with Enoch, He will with you. If he conversed with Abram / later Abraham he will converse with you. We could go on and on how he conversed with people through out time. But this is the bottom line. Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if ANY man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Man kind (including many Christians) wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and all they have to do is open the door(ask) and he will come in and sup(converse)with him and he with me. In another place he said The Spirit seeketh such to worship him. If God is seeking and we are seeking how do we miss the word of the Lord? Because we don't ask expecting to receive of the Lord (LISTING) We can GO to God and ask of him ANYTHING. God is not ASHAMED of any of our questions. GOD LOVES YOU AND WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. HE will answer any question you ask. This is called LISTENING PRAYER. God wants HIS people to be PERFECT (WHOLE OR COMPLETE) Joh 6:48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]. GOD SAYS APPROACH ME, ASK OF ME, I WILL ANSWER AND REVEAL UNTO YOU IF YOU WILL LISTEN Joe ************************************************ One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. One God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in you all. joebry@a-znet.com