Joe Hoyle (13
Apr 2004)
"REPLY TO SORAYA"
HI SORAYA
To be honest with you, there were parts of that post
pertaining to your dream that I really would have rather left out, and
not said at all, and you know what the parts were; I just didn't want to
say some of those things.
And as the Lord Jesus is my witness, I almost emailed
Tng, and had him pull the whole post.
But I really knew that I couldn't pull it, nor could
I have left out anything, and still say that I did my job.
If I would have left something out, I wouldn't have told
the whole truth as shown to me; and if I would have had the post pulled,
then that would have been disobedient; and for Rapture purposes, I'm very
big on being obedient.
As far as your "comfort zone"; you were looking for some
sort of feeling that you were doing something right.
I learned a long time ago that our Spiritual 'comfort
zone' has little or nothing to do with feelings; because feelings are forever
changing and fleeting; plus feelings can't really be trusted in the Spiritual
realm anyway.
The true 'comfort zone' is in knowing that you have did
the right thing by the Lord Jesus, in knowing that you have did the best
you can do in the task assigned to you, in knowing that you have been as
honest and sincere with the Lord Jesus and others as you can be, and in
knowing that you have been obedient to the best of your given ability and
understanding.
If we can say yes to those things, then we truly are
in our "comfort zone" and are walking by Faith; and its only by our Faith
that we can please the Lord Jesus (Hebrews 11:6); and our feelings don't
always tell the whole story there.
Now I'm no super Christian, and I don't know one, and
I'm always suspicious of those that appears to be one.
For me and my Christian walk; I spend more time falling
on my face, than I do standing on my feet.
In fact, I spend so much time with my face in the mud,
until I sometimes think that the Lord Jesus is standing behind me just
shaking His head; and thinking something to the effect of.....'I've been
dealing with this boy for the better part of 55 years, and he still can't
get it right.' <G>
That's the way it seems to me a lot anyway.
Bottom line here; it appears and sounds to me that you
are on the right track, and doing the right things right now.
But always try to be attuned to the voice of the Holy
Spirit, and always try to be obedient to His voice.
And of course always making His Holy Word our Alpha and
Omega is always front and center, as a matter of course.
In so doing, you'll always be right near or in your "comfort
zone"; whether you have any feelings about it or not.
Trying to be obedient will always be counted in our favor;
while not trying will always be counted against us.
That's the way HE has taught me; and that's the way I
see it.
By the way, I'm always looking for and seeking signs
myself; and that is a natural thing to do I reckon.
God Bless you as well Soraya.
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(LUKE 21:36)
Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that
shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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