The main purpose the Lord has for me posting is to get people to seek Him and listen to Him - and that for themselves!!
Yet when you do actually wind up talking to Him you of course wind up asking Him about what is going on around you. Since His thoughts are not your thoughts, you don't get the answers you think you will get!!!!!! They do make sense and they are interesting, but they will be different from you understanding, otherwise His thoughts would be your thoughts. And they are not what others seem to think either, for the same reason!!!!
And while studying your Bible by leaning on your own understanding gets you closer to His thoughts, His thoughts are still not your thoughts? So you have to listen to Him. And it needs to be for yourself, because He is interested in improving you personally!! So He might tell someone something when they ask Him a question, but it might not be what He tells you when you ask Him the same question! It is not that He will tell you and them the opposite answer, but that He will focus His answer to you personally and your need to understand, where as He will tell the other person an answer that focuses on their need to understand.
So let me give you some examples of what He said to me personally, and even how it could be different to someone else asking the same question and that concerning current events:
Right as covid got going He told me that He didn't want me to protest. There was a protest gong to happen in Huntington Beach about the beaches being closed to surfers and such. I used to live there and surfed a lot. I even used to surf contests, because I surfed a lot and was pretty good. So I like surfing some contests in what was then WSA (Western Surfing Association) So I thought about going, but probably not. He told me not to go and in fact He did not want me going to any protests. About a week later the Black Life Matters protest started happening. Now then He talked to me more and more about the protests that were happening, and even about large prayer event. Now He did not like the protests, from what I could gather, and mentioned that if we were to protest it should be like the prayer event. He liked that.
Now with that said, could He have wanted someone to go, or could He have a purpose even for the Black Lives Matter protests? Yes He could!! In general, we are told in the Bible to submit to the governmental authorities!! Even they are subject to Him, but that doesn't mean they do everything right, nor that they listen to Him. As for us, we need to listen to Him!!! If He was to ask you to go to a protest, you need to do that, but should check the spirit because, In general, we are told in the Bible to submit to the governmental authorities!! But He will tell you that also!
Another example:
Shortly after I came to the Lord by brother and I had a conversation about abortion. My brother, who is also a Christian, took the attitude that abortion was wrong. But I also knew that my brother rarely ever heard the Lord, but I did. So afterwards I asked the Lord about my thinking on the subject and He told me that I was wrong! He almost never tells by flat out that I am wrong on a subject. He almost always gets me thinking about it and asks me questions to adjust my thinking. But not that time, but He did later go over it with me more and more. He explains that because He makes two become one, that we have life in His eyes as soon as the sperm gets in the egg. The spiritual meaning has physical meaning also. However, He also pointed out that Moses was a murderer and He used Him. So His forgiveness can make things right with Him!!
I am going to stop now, but will continue with a few other things on this thread later
Yet when you do actually wind up talking to Him you of course wind up asking Him about what is going on around you. Since His thoughts are not your thoughts, you don't get the answers you think you will get!!!!!! They do make sense and they are interesting, but they will be different from you understanding, otherwise His thoughts would be your thoughts. And they are not what others seem to think either, for the same reason!!!!
And while studying your Bible by leaning on your own understanding gets you closer to His thoughts, His thoughts are still not your thoughts? So you have to listen to Him. And it needs to be for yourself, because He is interested in improving you personally!! So He might tell someone something when they ask Him a question, but it might not be what He tells you when you ask Him the same question! It is not that He will tell you and them the opposite answer, but that He will focus His answer to you personally and your need to understand, where as He will tell the other person an answer that focuses on their need to understand.
So let me give you some examples of what He said to me personally, and even how it could be different to someone else asking the same question and that concerning current events:
Right as covid got going He told me that He didn't want me to protest. There was a protest gong to happen in Huntington Beach about the beaches being closed to surfers and such. I used to live there and surfed a lot. I even used to surf contests, because I surfed a lot and was pretty good. So I like surfing some contests in what was then WSA (Western Surfing Association) So I thought about going, but probably not. He told me not to go and in fact He did not want me going to any protests. About a week later the Black Life Matters protest started happening. Now then He talked to me more and more about the protests that were happening, and even about large prayer event. Now He did not like the protests, from what I could gather, and mentioned that if we were to protest it should be like the prayer event. He liked that.
Now with that said, could He have wanted someone to go, or could He have a purpose even for the Black Lives Matter protests? Yes He could!! In general, we are told in the Bible to submit to the governmental authorities!! Even they are subject to Him, but that doesn't mean they do everything right, nor that they listen to Him. As for us, we need to listen to Him!!! If He was to ask you to go to a protest, you need to do that, but should check the spirit because, In general, we are told in the Bible to submit to the governmental authorities!! But He will tell you that also!
Another example:
Shortly after I came to the Lord by brother and I had a conversation about abortion. My brother, who is also a Christian, took the attitude that abortion was wrong. But I also knew that my brother rarely ever heard the Lord, but I did. So afterwards I asked the Lord about my thinking on the subject and He told me that I was wrong! He almost never tells by flat out that I am wrong on a subject. He almost always gets me thinking about it and asks me questions to adjust my thinking. But not that time, but He did later go over it with me more and more. He explains that because He makes two become one, that we have life in His eyes as soon as the sperm gets in the egg. The spiritual meaning has physical meaning also. However, He also pointed out that Moses was a murderer and He used Him. So His forgiveness can make things right with Him!!
I am going to stop now, but will continue with a few other things on this thread later