19 April 2014

Yesterday I got a ride from Challis, Idaho to Lolo, Montana with a guy named Brian.  He was a Christian and we had some really good fellowship.  Brian had just left California a few days before he picked me up.  He said that the drought is really bad where he was at in central California.  The Lord told Brian to leave California and go to Montana.  I told Brian that the drought is only going to get worse in parts of the United States because too many people have turned their backs on God.

Then Brian told me of a dream he had a while back concerning the drought:

In his dream, Brian saw this combine in a corn field where half the field was mowed down.  He walked up to this corn stock and looked inside the husk and it was empty.  Then he saw these two men with long black hair and beards and they were pulling at their hair and crying out, “Africa, feed us!”

In the last scene of the dream, Brian saw this combine in Africa.  The combine was then converted into a war machine.  Brian then saw these African troops going to Asia.

In the first part of Brian’s dream, the drought could be literal where people are starving for physical food.  Or else it could be a spiritual drought:  people are hungry for the Word of God—Jesus Christ, the Bread from Heaven.  Maybe the Lord will send more African Christians to the United States to preach to a people that are hungry for God.

“The lion does not turn around when the small dog barks.”
–African Proverb

Flee California!
California Drought
Therefore Deliver up their Children to the Famine
A Sword
Is Famine Next–end times?
Population of Africa, 2015
Uncle Sam Brought to His Knees
God’s Storehouses in Famine
A vision: four horsemen
Barack Obama and Africa
Las Vegas Earthquake
Christian Exodus from California
Prophetic Vision of Joseph Ayo Babalola
South Africa’s Apocalyptic Genocide

This is from my Facebook page, 15 April 2014:

“Last night I saw the Blood Moon.  I was sleeping on a grassy area overlooking the Salmon River in Riggins, Idaho.  I was sleeping in my sleeping bag and I woke up in the middle of the night and the moon was very bright.  Then I went back to sleep.  I woke up again and I thought that the moon went under the mountain because it was so dark.  But I saw the moon in almost total eclipse:  you could see a sliver of light at the bottom of the moon; the dark part of the moon was very red.”

Micah 3: 5-7:  “Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.  Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.  Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded:  yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.”  

An excerpt from What Shall This Man Do? by Watchman Nee:

Pages 117-118:  “It is weight that counts.  Wood, hay, stubble are cheap, light, temporary; gold, silver, precious stones are costly, weighty, eternal.  Here is the key to value.  The heavy metals, the gold of the divine character and glory, the silver of his redemptive work:  these are the materials he prizes.  Not merely what we preach, but what we are, weighs with God; not doctrine, but the character of Christ wrought out in us by God’s orderings, by God’s testings, by the Spirit’s patient workings.  Work that is of God is work that has been to the Cross.  When our work has been that way, we can rest assured that it will in the end survive the fire.  Not ‘Where is the need most evident?  What ideas and resources have I got?  How much can I do?  How soon can I put that doctrine into practice?’ but, ‘Where is God moving?  What is there of him there?  How far is it his will for me to go?  What is the mind of the Spirit on this?’—these are the questions of the truly crucified servant.  He recognizes God’s ‘Go’ and his ‘Speak,’ but also his ‘Wait,’ and his ‘Go, but say only so much.’  Aware of his own weakness and emptiness, his greatest lesson is to commit his way to God and learn to see him move.

“The problem lies in our failure to understand that, in God’s work, man in himself is of no use.  Wood, hay, stubble, these suggest what is essentially of man and of the flesh.  They imply what is common, ordinary, easily and cheaply acquired—and of course perishable.  Grass today may clothe the earth with beauty, but where is it tomorrow?  Human intellect may give us a grasp of Scripture; natural eloquence may have the power to attract; emotion may carry us along; feelings may seem to supply a guiding sense—but to what?  God looks for more solid values than these.  Many of us can preach well enough, but we are wrong.  We talk of the flesh but don’t know its perils; we talk of the Spirit but would we recognize him were he really to move us?  Too much of our work for God depends not on his will and purpose but on our feelings—or even, God forgive us! on the weather.  Like chaff and stubble, it is carried away by the wind.  Given the right mood we may accomplish a lot, but just as easily, in adverse conditions, we may down tools entirely.  No, as the fire will one day prove, work that is dependent on feelings or on the wind of revival is of little use to God.  When God commands, feelings or not feelings, we must learn to do.”

This is from the blog Life on Life:

TENDING SHEEP IN THE WILDERNESS

Have you ever had one of those moments when it’s very clear to you what God wants you to do with your life? Perhaps it was a glimpse – a piece of the vision – of what He might be calling you do. And maybe you responded YES, or maybe you wrestled with the idea for a bit… But once you’d embraced the whole thought and taken some baby steps – then NOTHING happened?! Sigh. Yea, you are not alone on that one.

Oswald Chambers writes in My Utmost for His Highest, “In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.”

40 years of feeding sheep! But God, I’ll be dead by then! Ahhhh.

“We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses’ forty years in the wilderness. It’s as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, ‘Who am I that I should go . . . ?’ We must learn that God’s great stride is summed up in these words— “I AM WHO I AM . . . has sent me to you” (Ex 3:14).

We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him— our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be“well pleased”. We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, “I know this is what God wants me to do.” But we have not yet learned to get into God’s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead. (Oct 13)

I have become wary of thinking that it’s all about me. It’s His agenda, and His timing. I am learning to walk with Him.

“The vision is yet for the appointed time, WAIT for it.” Hab 2:3

Life on Life