{"id":2114,"date":"2012-01-25T04:19:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2012-01-25T04:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:19:18","slug":"this-morning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2114\/this-morning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I woke up very early this morning. Laid in bed for a while but could not go back to sleep. Finally after a good while of unsuccessfully trying, I just started speaking in tongues and prayed silently in the bed. And the Spirit started to flow as I did…. I was praying in tongues for a little while, then the Spirit started speaking to me, in English. Here’s what it said, as close to what I remember. I inserted in [brackets] things that I felt, that were not really spoken just, so I could relate what I was feeling:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Expect to be used. Tell that to the young people [meaning about 10+ to young adults among us]. Tell them to expect<\/span> it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[God talking] …. If you [young people] will get still, and put aside some “things” [not bad things, just things that occupy your time and thoughts], and listen carefully, expect to hear from me. I will talk to you, just get still, and listen.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You are going to have experiences. You are already having them, you just don’t think they are important, but they are. If you will tell what I’m doing in you, and what I’m saying when I talk to you, and tell how I’m making you feel, no matter how small YOU think those things are, I will do things [in you, and for others] that will surprise you when they happen. Expect to be used.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was it best I can recall, it’s pretty close.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gary<\/span><\/p>\n

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John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Here recently, I\u2019ve been typing out your short sermons from our meetings. I had literally just finished reading this one below about experiences and saw this email from Gary. Wonderful lessons!<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

Experience<\/em><\/span>
\n Saturday, December 31, 2011<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of people push aside the need for experience saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not by works\u201d. It\u2019s by God\u2019s work. That\u2019s not work of the Law; He\u2019s never kept the Law. God has never kept that Law. He isn\u2019t about to keep that Law. He IS the Law. Praise God. We are His workmanship.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When God first somehow got through to me that He was calling me out of Christianity, I was afraid to move, I remember telling you about it, you might remember. I was telling you, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do next; I\u2019m afraid to move in any direction.\u201d And I felt like and said, back in \u201993, I felt like my back was right outside the walls of Christianity. I had come out but there was nothing out ahead of me but a desert with no signs, no roads, no nothing. I didn\u2019t know which direction to go. Didn\u2019t know how I was going to get across it, get us across it, to the promised land; didn\u2019t know. I had no idea.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A good little time passed because I was sitting in the basement at Elderwood Lane (when the Lord showed me about leaving Christianity I was living in Lexington). I was sitting in the basement at Elderwood Lane rewriting the tract on \u201cYou Must Be Born Again\u201d. And the Lord surprised me by speaking to me. And when he did I was just amazed at what he showed me there. But that wasn\u2019t the point. The point was that when I leaned back against that wall of Christianity, I fell down because it wasn\u2019t there anymore. I was out. I was out there in the desert. What got me out there was an experience, with God. He moved me. He moved me with His voice. He got me farther away from it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And what He showed me, it\u2019s a little bit embarrassing but it\u2019s a perfect parable, it shows that when the Bible calls something, something, that\u2019s what it is. Solomon said a parable in the mouth of a fool is like a man with one leg shorter than the other. But God\u2019s no fool. When he says something, when he describes something with a word, that word fits. And when he called Christianity Babylon, the Great Whore, that\u2019s exactly what it is. Because what He showed me when I was writing the tract, was that those street walkers make their money by committing the act that ought to produce children, but children is not what she\u2019s after. If she finds out she\u2019s going to have one she gets rid of it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In this New Testament, the seed of God comes through the mouth. Jesus said the seed is the Word. And Satan\u2019s ministers make their money by doing the thing that ought to produce children to God, but if someone really gets under conviction they tell them they\u2019re already saved and put it out; real children of God is not what they\u2019re after. They\u2019re after the money. When He says that\u2019s the Great Harlot – glory to God – while He was talking I was being transported across the air. The back of the wall wasn\u2019t there, it was over there somewhere. And He\u2019s continued to move us through the desert with experience. We still don\u2019t know where to go from here, but we know what\u2019s going to get us across it. It\u2019s an experience with Him. God, don\u2019t leave us. Don\u2019t leave us out here; we don\u2019t know where to go. Praise God. Praise God for the experience.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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