Child of God, it is time to zip the unnecessary, frustrating and wasteful conversations
with your God. Tune out the NON-SENSE
and tune in to GOD-SENSE.
I was having one of those nonsense conversations with Holy
spirit, that made a whole lot of sense to me.
I fuss with Spirit all the time on this issue. You exist out of time and space, you don’t get
that if the healing doesn’t come on time doctors start chopping stuff off. If the money doesn’t come on time the
electricity cuts off. Things fall apart,
businesses go down, lives are lost. On
time delivery matters. Timing is
everything!
I finish my huff-fest with one last frustrated swing. Why do you not like to talk to me about the real, concrete, temporal matters of my life? The answer is calm, quiet and immediate, ‘The conversation is unnecessary’.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” - Proverbs 3:5-6
Hmph! Holy Spirit can be infuriating. But it does remind me of another inspiration
I received recently.
Tune out the non-sense, tune in to God-sense.
Have you ever had one of those evidence based conversations with your God, where you present Him with inarguable and absolutely compelling evidence against what you are believing for?
Father, my car got repossessed, this is evidence that you are not Jehovah
Jireh, where is my provider? My liver is
rotting away and the doctors can’t stop it, where is Jehovah Rapha, my healer? Lord I am praying and praying don’t you see
my condition, don’t you feel my need?
Where is El Roi, the God who sees me?
Have you spent perhaps hours building your case and
presenting a mountain of supporting evidence? Well, you wasted your time with
God on a whole lot of nonsense. Talk
about shooting yourself in the foot.
Man-sense aka non-sense relies on evidence, God-sense sees beyond the evidence. Non-sense obssesses about evidence, God-sense pierces through the evidence.
Man-sense sees a mountain blocking your path. God-sense sees verdant hills, exhilarating vistas
and opportunities to come up higher. Man
sense sees a brick wall, God-sense sees an ocean of possibilities. Man-sense sees the knock down, God-sense sees
the rebound.
Tune out the non-sense, tune into God-sense.
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness .. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.” – 1Corinthians 10:1-5,10
Let your murmurings cease.
Don’t allow yourself to go down in your wilderness. Hang on to God-sense.
The foundation of God-sense is trust and the hallmark of God-sense
is surrender. A surrendered heart ceases
the unnecessary conversations of frustration, and tunes in to the heart of
God. A surrendered heart releases all
resistance. It stops wrestling with the
circumstances and demanding solutions. It stops murmuring, complaining, begging and bargaining. Instead, it turns its attention to high
quality communion. A surrendered
heart goes into prayer with God and the problems are not even on the
agenda. It simply trusts God to get it
right, every time.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” - Matthew 6:25-27
Christian friends it is important for us to start seeing our
time with God as a sacred privilege. Yes
we can cast our cares upon Him, yes we can lay our burdens at His feet. Yes He will be our fortress in our time of
trouble and under His wings we can find a hiding place.
But do we need to go on about it all day, every day?
If we came to see our time with God as a sacred rendezvous,
a time to be in His presence and to simply drink of His essence, perhaps we
would toss the evidence.
The evidence is nonsense.
We think the entirety of our lives is about the
evidence. That is the mark of the kingdom
of darkness, where our world is comprised entirely of what we can see, touch,
hear and experience. We are fed by our
senses and experience determines our perspective.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. .. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” - Hebrews 11:1,3
God-sense changes your perspective radically. The simple act of releasing resistance to
what is going on, and allowing yourself to be receptive to God’s heart can
transform your prayer life. It may even transform
your entire life.
Trust God to do the thing that is perfectly right for you in
this moment and the next and the next.
God-sense is built on trust.
The enemy binds us up in the nonsense. He stifles our spiritual evolution and
growth, and smothers our temporal realization of the blessedness that our
heavenly Father has ordained for us.
God plants the seeds of our greatest blessings in our
greatest challenges. Too often those seeds wither and die because we are so
caught up in the nonsense that it chokes out the God-sense. Miracles are called forth through
God-sense. Breakthroughs come through
God-sense. Restoration happens through
God-sense.
All too often we go to our graves consumed by nonsense,
never tasting the fruits of God-sense.
Before God moves in your life He tells you about it. He tells you because He wants you to
recognize Him. He wants you to
acknowledge Him. A little heartfelt
appreciation and gratitude goes a long way.
How about adoring Him, without demanding that He prove Himself as God?
In the same way you want to be seen, heard, known and
unconditionally loved, He wants that from you.
God wants to be known by you. He wants to be recognized by you. He wants to be appreciated by you, not because you want something from Him, but
because you have a genuine, two-way, heart-to-heart, symbiotic relationship
with Him.
God-sense is one of the most precious fruits of that relationship
and one of the hardest-won. When you
truly and unreservedly give God your heart, He gives you His sense. He allows you to see life through His eyes. He will guide you through even the most
mundane thoughts, decisions, interactions and circumstances.
God is very hands-on and very personal. This is what the new birth is about, this is
regeneration, this is the renewal of our minds.
“Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” - Romans 12:2
This is God-sense. Let
your conversations with God be productive in ways you cannot even begin to
consider. Shut up for a bit. Tune in to Him. He is the one with the master
plan and He executes flawlessly. If you
will allow it, He just might tell you all about it. What a difference that would make to your
experience.
Tune out the non-sense. Tune in to God-sense.
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