Frank and Doves:I TOTALLY AGREE WITH GRANNY..."VERY WISE AND DEEP WORDS!!"
We CAN just get caught up in going to and working for an institution and
forget that our fellowship with and our listening to and our following Jesus is
MUCH MORE IMPORTANT!!! I think what Jesus said in Revelation:Revelation 3
10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also
keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole
world to test those who live on the earth. 11 I am coming soon. Hold
on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 Him
who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again
will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name
of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out
of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.Frank R Molver (22 Apr 2004)
"just skimming the surface"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2004/frankm422.htm
God woke up with this thought on my mind the other night. It was a true
statement for me and I believe most Christians. I guess we shoot for
our comfort zone. I wrote a letter recently about my 5 weeks in Mexico.
I did a lot of construction work for a church. God did bless me through
that but really it is not satisfying to the soul when you feel there is
something missing. I wrote in that letter of a Christian phenomena
that I was skeptical of. My purpose in writing that was not to legitimize
or prove a Christian event that puzzles most Christians but to ask the
question, " is there a deeper calling or deeper relationship that
God is calling us to"? We go about our business and perform
our religious duties. God is in our thoughts sometimes. Yet it
seems most of us are caught up in a pursuit of knowledge or
activity that is not beneficial to our relationship to Jesus. So
Jesus is sort of put on the back burner of our priorities or 2ndary
to what we spend most of our time thinking about. Our relationship
with him has become obligatory rather than someone we want
to spend all our time with. So there is a place deeper, I feel, many
of us are being called to. Not just more prayer, fellowship or bible
study. We can't just clutter our time with religious activity and think
that will satisfy our souls craving or our Lord's craving for deeper
fellowship We have just been skimming the surface.
God bless
frank.I found the following (below) in some of my files. It and this scripture from
Ecclesiastes 5, I believe, add to what was said by Frank.GOD BLESS,
Calvin
Ecclesiastes 5
Stand in Awe of God
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen
rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.2 Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
3 As a dream comes when there are many cares,
so the speech of a fool when there are many words.
Talk, Talk, Talk
November 14, 2003
Mary Clark.In a vision, I saw someone's fingers moving up and down on the thumb in
the manner that someone does when another person is talking too much.
Why did You show this to me, Lord?I want My dear children to recognize the consequences of talking too much -
saying things that are not My will.I would have all of My children speaking My truth. I never want My children
talking just for the sake of talking - just for the sake of contributing something
to a conversation. I would have your talk be plain. I would have your talk be
filled with My truths - plain and simple.In this day I hear many voices. I hear endless chatter about things that are
of no importance. I shake My head, wondering what the "to-do" is all about.
Many things that I am hearing have no substance. I hear words spoken over
and over again that bear no witness to what My heart is saying in these days.I do hear some of My beloved children speaking forth My truth. I do hear you
saying words that thrill My heart, while the rest of the world goes about the
day speaking words that bear absolutely no truth.I would have you aware of this interesting fact: I am a God Who wastes no
words. I speak words of truth in order to be heard and obeyed. I speak
nothing out of boredom, and I never speak words to appease another. No, no, no!
That is not the way that I do things, and that is not the way I want you to do.
Don't try to appease another with words that are not of Me. Speak My truth,
and let that be enough. Speak the words that I give to you, and add nothing.In this day I am hearing endless chatter going forth across the face of the
earth. I hear the same words repeated over and over again. I grimace at their
lack of truth. I grimace at the way these words are being touted as factual.
Nothing is factual unless it bears My truth. Nothing is to be embraced
unless it is the truth of the Almighty One.So hear Me now. Hear Me now, beloved, and know that I want you to move
along into the extremes of your God, and the best way to move is by speaking
the words of truth as I give them to you. Stop speaking words of appeasement
to those who do not agree with My truth. Stop speaking just to hear yourself
talk. Talk, talk, talk! I keep hearing the same old words - the same old lies -
coming forth from mouths all over the earth. I want My beloved to realize that
this displeases Me. Walk in My truth, looking to Me to present My truth to you
in living color. Do not go the way of the world. Do not partake in that endless
chatter - that useless talk that has no meaning or truth to My way of thinking.
Have I not told you that you are to have My mind in matters of the heart? Have
I not told you that I am shaping you into what I want you to be - bearing the
likeness of your Beloved? Then hear Me out, and know that I am displeased
when I hear My children falling into the trap of the enemy. Steer clear of walking
in the enemy's lies. Instead, walk in My truth. Declare My truth, and know deep
in your heart that the words that you have spoken have either brought salve to an
ailing heart or a blessing and a thrill to your Beloved. Think on these words tonight,
beloved. Think on these words of caution!!!