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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