Hearing Aids.
π"The PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE":
The Word that God spoke to me in 1992 when I began to recognize and hear His Voice and we were being called to leave our church denomination.
-As I was working in our former carpet cleaning business, it happened.
As Pentecostals for 12 years, I was an ordained minister in the UPC but times were troubled, and we were seeking to know God's Will and question our Father in heaven regarding church matters.
As I worked in an empty apartment, I began π hearing strong words in my mind. At first I thought it was my own thoughts.
π But the Words were repeated and I realized they were not mine, nor were they being heard in my mind as words I would say or think. -I began to listen and this is what I heard, I knew of a certainty they were not my words.
"THE PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE PAINT OF MANS' RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH WHICH YOU HAVE PAINTED OVER THE FACE OF GOD"
what!! ??? It was shocking.
Our Pentecostal church was strong on rules and tradition. For 12 years we never questioned them and lived them.
Some found them oppressive, others said we were "LEGALISTS!"
But we lived with the "holiness standards" faithfully as we followed our church leaders.
π―How could they be wrong?" We trusted.
But then I *heard* in my mind,
"THE PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE PAINT OF MANS' RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH WHICH YOU HAVE PAINTED OVER THE FACE OF GOD".
"ME?, guilty of hiding God's righteousness with our church tradition?"" THAT was scary.
I wrote the Word of the Lord down and returned to my work.
Then...
π"TASTE NOT TOUCH NOT HANDLE NOT. NOTHING IS UNCLEAN OF ITSELF. TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE".
The VOICE I was hearing was AUTHORITATIVE.
Rather than dismissing the thoughts,
I wrote the words down with the others, but I was shaken.
The second paragraph I found out later was scripture, confirmed by two passages verbatim.
I wonder how many times God speaks to His children and they shake off The Voice by attributing His words to their own thoughts?
If you LISTEN, you will hear. (Unless you are in willful sin which separates.
Neither God nor me can make someone hear The Voice that comes to us through His Spirit into our mind and spirit.
HE SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN.
Listen for Him. He wants you to HEAR HIS VOICE.
The Lord led us out of that Denomination, we had put our trust in man, in our leaders, in our traditions. And God wanted us for Himself. So we went on to repent regarding the false ways of our church ways.
1Samuel 3... And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh,
for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh
πby the word of the Lord.
Dec. 2022.
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