CHAPTERS 5 - 6 - 7 - 8

CHAPTER 5

TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS

Psalm 51:6 “Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.”

In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul called this the Inward Man. (Rom. 7:22; II Cor. 4:16).  Note, this inward man is not the conscious or subconscious mind.  It’s a totally different mind which is called “The Mind of Christ.”  We see this truth in the remainder of Psalm 51:6…”in the hidden part, wisdom is revealed.”  Paul later in his writings reveals this as the Mystery, Christ in you, the Mind of Christ.  (I Cor. 2:16; Phil. 2:5; I Peter 4:1).

We know that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; acknowledging Him, and not leaning unto our own understanding. (Prov. 3:5-6)  Jesus, though being a Son followed this method; though He could reason and express the flesh, He walked only in this Mind set of the Spirit hearing from the Father.  He demanded, as I have mentioned before in my opening chapters, that those around Him to accuse Him of sin, doing anything independent from this method.  He said many times, “the words I speak aren’t my own but my Father’s.”  Though we can reason and express the weakness of our flesh, we too are called to follow this same method, walking in the leading of the Spirit, waiting on the Spirit for righteousness (hearing from Christ in us).  Subjecting every “self” elevated thought unto Christ, (II Cor. 10:5; II Cor. 3:5; Gal. 6:3; hearing and allowing this Christ, “while we live now in the flesh, we live by the faith (Christ hearing from the Father to relay to us something that would over ride our flesh views and opinions, thus directing our path).  This is what we are expected to experience.

Paul prayed that we would receive such a Spirit of wisdom and revelation beyond conforming to any present world view of any matter.  “As many that are lead by the Spirit, these are the Sons of God.”  You can test this Spirit to see if it is the Holy Spirit which Jesus followed, by a simple question, ask the spirit, “Did this Christ, the Son of God come in a human body, and was this human, who referred to Himself as the Son of Man, was this man, Jesus, the Son of God, God of very God?”  If you notice, every major cult will deny this, thus depriving Jesus of Deity.  You also will notice that in the Pagan world, Evil has attempted to mimic what we call The Trinity.  Those in the cult world use this to back their claims that the Trinity is Pagan.  I will not go into this further in this book leaving it for another work I have been working on for years.  You can’t imagine how important this is in light of our every having the chance of hearing God’s voice.  It has become just “another scarecrow in God’s corn field.”

CHAPTER 6

ETERNAL REPERCUSSIONS

If what I share here is only Paul Woodward’s opinions it matters little.  Yet, if what I claim and share at times is not my opinions, realize this, eternal repercussions come into play.  I do not use, “thus saith the Lord.”  I simply say what’s shared to me.  Most of the time it is general speaking and not directed to any given individual; yet there are times when it is directed to someone in particular.  It is not my opinion or personal judgment, just things I am instructed to share.

Can we claim, “the words I speak, they are spirit and they are life?”  I believe the answer is yes; otherwise what are our words if they aren’t spirit originating, thus offering life to the hearer?   Wouldn’t we want to administer life rather than death?  There have been too many laying such a claim to only find out it was presumptuous of them.  They never heard from God on the matter nor were they lead of this life giving Spirit, ending in death to what they falsely claimed.  Yet knowing this, please don’t allow the Devil’s scarecrow to keep you out of God’s corn field.  If and when you know what you have received is coming from the Holy Spirit, you must share it; many times at the misunderstanding of others.

As I’ve said, you know its source and adding “thus saith the Lord’ to it would not be recommended.  No one is going to believe it anyway, “son of the carpenter.”

CHAPTER 7

                                               Intuition Defined (Method)

I want to share something of a “how to do” in light of this matter I have mention before, of getting “Spirit given words to reveal Spirit given truths.” (I Cor. 2:13) What I am doing is for a few others I communicate to, too assisting them in “seeing” the process in living experience that I will share here.  At first these Spirit given words come via Intuition; other words, not prompted by me or the external world.  They just drop deep in us, even beyond the subconscious.  Note, we get thoughts of our own coming up out of our subconscious, this is not what I mean by Intuition.  I bring out in another work, that there are “spaces” between the matter of the material gray matter we call our brain; spaces where the TRUE source of power resides.  The subconscious is only a transmitter of this True power.  It is also, “like unto” our sun…a light holder, but not the source of the light that it holds.  It is capable of receiving in two directions for some, but not all.  For those who are spiritually conscious, this subconscious area can, via what I have mentioned, receive INTUITIONAL THOUGHTS.  The power from these intuitional thoughts cannot be compared to those thoughts we receive from the material world.  When David said, “on thy word do I meditate day and night,” he was referring to these intuitional thoughts given to him, not necessary the words off scrolls in his possession.  Know this - he was writing down these thoughts he was meditating on at that time; we call it The Bible.  

With that said, I now will give what I have called pocket notes, then in a later chapter show how the Spirit “fitly joins” these intuitional thoughts into an explosion of truth.  Note many times these isolated intuitional thoughts come over a period of time.  I am instructed at those moments to store them in my treasure house for a future explanation.  “Every scribe which is instructed into the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which bringeth forth out of his TREASURE things new and old.” Matt. 13:52).  Note, the Jewish Scribes failed, in that they focused on the letter of the Book, the old, and were not in tune with the Living, intuitional word which I speak of here.  What Christ was referring to here, using the word scribe, was what they should have been, and what we here are striding to fulfill.  I have thoughts stored in my mind.  Call it structuring, like in our school days of English, learning to structure sentences.   Many times I am instructed to “just” read things, and then put it down.  Why?  To gain a vocabulary which the Holy Spirit uses as structure (in-between words, where these Intuitive thoughts are expressed).

So here are just a few of my isolated thoughts, to be fitly joined together in later chapters of this book. (The UNDER-LINED WORDS are Intuitional thoughts, words between are the structure to give expression to intuitional thoughts…to be developed even further in later chapters. This gives you some idea of how this all works.  So bear with this part; it may appear as just jumbled isolated thoughts, which you will see appear in later chapters of this book.  I only share these to give you the reader some idea of the process the Holy Spirit will use to bring about this “Dawning of the Day Star” in our hearts.)

December 2005:   PRIMAL BASE….notes, before Adam’s fall….condition.  The Primal intent of this experience before the fall was before Evil’s usurping of mankind’s power.  Creation subjected to futility in hope…(Rom. 8:20 unreality, not of the Primal intent).  Moaning, groaning,…signs of creation’s conflict, effected by the minds of mankind out of control, unable to control, unaware of what once was, mankind’s task of control.  Thoughts spoken by the tongue empowered of a mind gone amok.

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.  Things Christ did we should be able to do and greater.  It’s the hope of creation that the re-instilled power be manifested from those who realize what Christ accomplished.  What the first Adam lost, the second Adam (Jesus) demonstrated.  His Disciples asked,“What manner of man is this?” (Matt. 8:27)  He was what Adam was and could have been before his fall.  Adam’s world, before the fall, was perfect ONLY IN THAT HE HAD THE POWER TO KEEP IT…sustain what was created.  Perfect only in this sense, “He had the power to deal with any situation that would arise.”  Body exercise profits little, but Godliness is profitable in THIS LIFE and the Life to come.  NOBLE MINDS….their down fall, development of the subconscious mind cut off from intuition…. the subconscious “id”.  Reprobate mind…meaning, using the mind for that which it was not intended to be used for, Rom. 1:28.  A “living machine” that never shuts down, empowered to destruction.   The flood.

NOTE:  This is just an example of how some rather long chapters in this book and others were developed.   I share this to give you the reader an experience of what Paul the Apostle was saying would happen in I Cor. 2:13 “Which things also WE speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; COMPARING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH SPIRITUAL. (“Spirit given words revealing spirit given truths” is it’s better translation)

Here is one more example which I have developed in my other book called, “Rights of the Unfallen Adam”:

January 2006:   In hope, meaning the experience, after the flood, was somewhat of a relief from the condition before the flood under what was called a curse.  Yet, though a relief, it still wasn’t what the original intent imposed.  It wasn’t  a curse, but a blessing in that its reality would point to a higher reality “unseen” (hope)….thus the statement said above…subjected to futility (unreality)…in HOPE (the unseen).  There would be a higher degree, on mankind’s part, or better put, harder ability to control his world, being cut off from a higher power, to control…this would impose death sooner and more often, in one sense, shorten mankind’s life span.  Yet, note this, Christ’s accomplishment brought about at least the potential to gain a higher power and greater control.  “IF a man keeps my sayings he shall never see death.” John 8:51…NOTE:  this short paragraph has developed into another book I will be putting out called, “Rights of the Un-Fallen Adam.”

All these isolated thoughts, believe it or not, have come together and have been the means by which I am able now to write the books I will be sharing.  At the moment these thoughts were given to me, I was in the dark as much as some of you may be as you read them.  You will find them developed in the following chapters of this book and other books I have been lead to put together.  So, let’s continue on now to the next chapter.

CHAPTER 8

ONCE FOR ALL ACT

If we give it other thought, these other thoughts cancel out the original.  I like how Kenneth Wuest in his expanded Greek translation of Romans 12 translates the word “present” (present your bodies a living sacrifice).  “By a once for all act, once for all.”

Think about this for a moment.  A once for all settled thought and than once for all, make it known; from that point on don’t add or give it further thought or you cancel the original thought out.

Now understand that prior to coming to this once for all thought, once for all, you have time to reflect over that thought and have this tennis match go on in your mind from positive to negative belief, wanting too, not wanting too until you come to this once for all act/thought, once for all, the decision that seals it, ending the tennis match of indecision in your mind.

Paul the Apostles’ statement, as translated by Wuest, “Place your seal of approval upon it,” gives it the force of …don’t bring it up again to yourself or to others.  It is called “coming to believe.”

1.      Request

2.      Believe

3.      Expect

I’ve just showed you the process.  What is your request? In light of this book, to learn to hear God’s voice.  Can you come to believe it and expect to receive it?  That’s the tennis match that goes on in your mind.  This is O.K.  You should expect it.  But know that you may not win the first match, but by practice you win the next.  Play to win!

CHAPTER 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

CHAPTER 1

CAN WE HEAR GOD’S VOICE TODAY?

I don’t expect that many will believe this, that which I claim, that of being able to hear Him speak is true.  Who am I to say such a thing, me, Paul Woodward, hearing from God?  Well, I will leave it there.  Maybe if I share how others, those who have NEVER read the book, the Bible, have heard from God, revealing proof that we aren’t restricted to a book to hear from him.  Here is just one story among many that I could share.  This comes from a book written by Mel Tari, an Indonesian, back in late 1965 in the backward jungles of a small town called Timor, in Indonesia.  The name of the book was “Like A Might Wind.”  You be the judge.  Read it for yourself.  See it for what it implies….God will speak to ANY ONE and DOES.  What Christ accomplished made this possible.  He does light everyone who comes into the world.  There is no excuse as this story reveals.  Don’t let the fact that there have been those that had such claims and have come up with some of the strangest things…like the Mormons.  “Don’t let the Devils scarecrow keep you out of God’s corn field.” 

Note, the individual Mel speaks of could not have read the Bible even if he had it.  Hearing from God is not restricted to the ability to read or have a book.   What follows is quoted from that book:

    “I would like to share with you at this point one of the most unusual things that have happen in Indonesia.

    In 1963, before the revival, the layman in the church never preached the gospel.  And the pastors were so busy running the church that we never even thought of taking this gospel to the pagans.

    There was a pagan village called Tubunaus about three miles from Soe.  One day a pagan priest called Sem Faet, who also had leprosy, was giving a sacrifice to his “blood god.”  Jesus came and revealed Himself to this pagan priest.

    “I am the God you are seeking.”  He said.  “This is not the way to worship Me.”

    “Lord, who are you and how do you want to be worshipped” the priest asked.

    “I will tell you my name and how to worship Me later.”  Jesus said.  “First you must gather all your images and witchcraft materials and burn them.  When you do this, I will visit you again and tell you all about myself.”  Then the Lord disappeared.

    The priest told his people that God had appeared to him and that they were to burn all the idols and witchcraft materials.  Because he was the high priest, they obeyed him and everything was burned.

    The priest then prayed, “God, I have burned all our gods just like You told me.  Now there is none but You.  Please speak to me again.”

    The Lord came to him again and said, “My Name is Jesus.”  Jesus explained to him the passages of the Bible concerning salvation and the Christian walk.  The man also was healed from his sickness.

    The priest could not READ OR WRITE, and the Lord told him to go to Soe.  “When you get there, buy a pencil and pad of paper,” Jesus told him.  He obeyed the Lord.

    When he returned to the village, God took his hand and wrote Bible verses in his book.  He did not use normal Timor writing but a type of hieroglyphics.  The Lord gave him many stories found throughout the whole Bible.  (In the book, Mel has a picture of the exact writing).

    He could also read these very clearly.

He at once shared what God had told him with his people.  Because he was the priest, the people believed him when he told them to believe Jesus.

 Some of the tribe said, “This is just like being a Christian.”

 “Were not Christian,” the priest said, “We just believe in Jesus and do what God told me.”

     The Lord just continued to teach them.  When we went to bring the gospel to them, we found a wonderful fellowship of Christians walking a holy life with Christ.

Very powerful true story; yet there is a sad side which came out later on in a second book by Mel Tari called, “Like a Gentle Breeze.”  You see, Mel thought that the American Church would receive with open arms what God was doing in his country of Indonesia.  He was greatly disappointed when they rejected it.   So, in an effort to reach the American Church, he tamed down what he had written in “Like a Mighty Wind” and called his second book “Like a Gentle Breeze.” 

You will find that whenever God is doing His work or speaking to those that will listen to Him, it is always met with disbelief.  Now you expect it from the world, but never from those who claim to know God and believe His word.  Rather sad, yes sad indeed.  You will of course find on the web all the attacks he still gets.  Everything has been done to put down this Mighty working of God and find fought with Mel.  He is just a man and of course probably has weaknesses which the enemies of God and His work used to discredit what God did back then.  Thinking to discredit Mel Tari, they have in turn discredited the work of God.  One day they will regret what they have done. 

                                                                  

                                                                  CHAPTER 2

THE IMPLANTED WORD

Why do we need this en-grafted word spoken of my James? (James 1:21)   Read Eccl. 3: 1- 8 and you will find out.    As you read through these texts ask yourself the question, “When do I plant or pluck up?  When do I kill or heal?  When do I break down or build up?  When do I weep or laugh?  When do I mourn or dance?  When do I cast away stones or gather stones together?  When do I embrace or refrain from embracing?  When do I get, when do I lose?  When do I keep or cast away?  When do I rend or sew?  When do I keep silent, when do I speak?  When do I love, when do I hate?  When is it time for war and when is it time for peace?

Many times we Labor with many of these questions and gather knowledge to deal with each.  Yet we lack wisdom to know “When, where, how, why.”  We can flip a coin and pray for the best, or we can follow what has been written….”ASK”.  (Matt. 7:7-8)

If at first you receive no answer, than follow this word of wisdom…”Continued uncertainty is reason to wait.”   Link this to Gal. 5:5 “For we WAIT THROUGH THE SPIRIT for the hope (unseen answer, engrafted word)…the hope of righteousness by faith”   Then with Expectancy, follow this word of wisdom…”God sways the judgment of the willing expectant heart; those that expect to be lead, will be lead.”

In light of this, an en-grafted word was once given to me, the word WAIT.  I had asked for an answer with a particular problem and the response I got was wait.  One word!  I asked is that it?  The reply was,” no, there is more to it.”

Now catch this; the word wait was broken down letter by letter and here was the result:

1.  W…Without

2.  A….Any

3.  I…..Interfering

4.  T….Thoughts

I rolled with laughter when I got this…that is usually my problem with waiting for an engrafted word….”Interfering thoughts.”  I have found that the best way to beat these interfering thoughts is to do your asking, then go off and do some distracting work getting you mind off the question, or simply relax as I am doing right now typing this piece for you all.  This piece by the way is an answer to what I had asked earlier for more on this Hearing from God.  Father…this is great, thanks.

                                                                       CHAPTER 3

Abram’s Righteousness

Note this; it is hundreds of years after the Biblical Flood.  Humanity is right back into their pagan ways and God is looking for one individual to communicate to. He finds one, Abram who later becomes known as Abraham, the father of many nations.  Abram listens to God and is shown what plans God has for his life and its future out come.  Because Abram listened, hear what is said next, “and God counted this unto him as righteousness.” Gen. 15:6

In what is called “the first mentioned principle,” this is the first mentioning of this term, Righteousness.  Usually in it’s first mentioning a term in scriptures will follow the same in context though out scriptures.  So what do we see in this first mentioning in the context of this text the term righteousness?  There is only one thing and that alone, Abram asked questions then hears God speak to him and he listens.  God responds to him with what action to start.  Gen. 15:9,10,11.  Beyond that act and that act only, and notice that that act to Abram came from God, God does what Abram could not do…Gen. 15:15…God “passes between the pieces.”  (Read Phil. 2:12 in light of this, “for it is God which works in us in both too will and to do of His good pleasure”)  So, righteousness clearly does not take on what many feel it means, self “Behavior.”  As a matter of fact God places Abram into a deep sleep and then He, God, does the work.  Gen. 15:12.  You can see Paul’s expression demonstrated here…I Tim. 4:8 “bodily exercise profits little; but godliness (God’s action of passing between the pieces) is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”   This can also be linked to what Jesus said in Matt. 11:29-30. “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.”  The question that should be asked at this point is, “learn what?”  The answer would be to “listen” to Him as He clearly demonstrated; He, Jesus, listened to the Father while incarnated in a body in a servant mode.  As He listened to the Father’s voice, we now listen for the Son’s voice, Christ in us.  It was promised that this would occur via the comforter, the Holy Spirit, who would not speak of Himself but would lead us to Christ in us, who would lead us to the Father, clearly demonstrating a perfect Unity in Diversity (something I am developing in a later book)

We all know the many texts that revealed Jesus saying “the words I speak are not my own, I see and hear the Father;” John 14:10 and others.  Understand, He came into our mode of being thus was subservient, by choice, as we are to be, to the God the Father.  He asked those of His day… “Show me where I have sinned”…sin implying in context, “show me where I have acted independent from listening to the Father’s voice.” John 8:46, 47, 48.   In a servant mode, He set aside any independent use of any attribute He possessed before coming in a body.   Thus He never sinned, or acted independent from hearing the Father’s will concerning His actions and direction of life.  He walked constantly in the Spirit and did not give what He called the Flesh, world opinion, ideas, views and perspectives place.  He, though out His life up to even the Garden scene, called the flesh “weak” yet the Spirit strong.  We, being born through the weakness of Adam’s flesh, views, perspective etc., find ourselves in a reverse situation where the flesh is strong and the Spirit weak.  We find ourselves in a constant wrestling match with this flesh wrestling against the Spirit.  Our carnal fleshly thoughts and opinions conflict with what we not only read in scriptures, but in maturity learn to “HEAR” from Christ in us, two voices engrossed in battle, something I have addressed later in this book.  The key, as I have expressed, is first learning of this “self” thought and its patterns; while doing so we learn to see the difference and can learn to hear those things God so desires to speak to us one on One.

We are commanded to not be conformed to this world but to be transformed, metamorphosed, by the renewing of our mind. (Rom. 12:2) It is only after a degree of renewal that we begin to walk in the spirit and not the flesh; from one degree of glory to another degree, from faith (hearing God speak to us) to faith.  It is the “written” word of God that has shown to us, as a light that shines in this dark place, that we can once again through what Christ had accomplished come boldly to the throne of grace, sitting on our Father’s knee crying Abba (daddy) and have Him respond to us.  Truly He is there and He is not silent.

In the closing of chapter one I will say as I always say, “TEST” this to see if it be true.  It could just be Paul Woodward’s opinion.  Test any other thought added beyond this; then Ask God for His Spirit’s word on it all. 

One more thing, I had chosen years ago a verse of scripture that has always kept me and lead me to the only leader and guide, the Holy Spirit; here is that text in Prov. 30:8-9  “Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me; Lest I be full, and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”, or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the Name of my God in vain.”  Good wisdom to follow.

CHAPTER 4

THE MAP

I have kept notes of various chats in chat rooms on the web over the years.  I no longer go to these chat rooms for the reason I found….they do not want to hear anything new, just established theology and doctrine.  If it doesn't fit their knot hole it is rejected or ignored.  Yet still I gained what now I will share with you who welcome fresh words and new perspectives.  I will take off on short quotes given to me on a Variety of subject matter.

It was Peter who said, “We have a more sure word of prophecy, which we should pay attention to, as a light that shines in a dark place, UNTIL, the day dawns and the DAY STAR arises in our hearts.” II Peter 1:19 Many in these chat rooms felt threaten if you dared to announce that what you were giving, via you typed or spoken word, was from the Lord at that moment and not your words.  So, I learned not to say or type that.  Was it?  Yes.  I have come to know my “self” well enough over the year to know the difference.  You can see the reasoning behind getting to know yourself as many advocate.  The reasoning being, if you ever were to hear from the Lord you would know the difference thought patterns. 

Well, enough with these thoughts which I have addressed in the previous chapters.  Let me begin with the first entry:  “Question….Do you still use a map to go to a place you have been to over and over again?  Once you have learned via the use of a map, somewhere in time you will not need the map because it is now in your memory.  You have what they call an inward guidance.  Now you can use the map to aid the first timer….UNTIL, the Living Guide works for them.”

Interesting thing this matter of seeing the Bible as a Map; I have traveled so many times to Florida that now I need no map to get there.  I remember the first time I attempted to travel from Southern New Jersey down Rt. 95, I got to Baltimore, Maryland and made a wrong turn ending up going West on the Baltimore Beltway.  Well I corrected this only to end up later missing another turn which put me in Downtown Washington.  Needless to say I learned from this experience.

Well, a few years later I told another trip to Florida.  By then I had forgotten the way, yet remembered two mistakes I would not do again.  So, I used the map when I approached these two errors in the past.  Again, years later, I told a third trip to Florida.  I told along the map but this time found I didn't need it.

I said all this to get to a point.  In the early stages of our spiritual grown, to use the Bible as a guide was correct; as Peter states, “it’s a light in a dark place,” (or unknown territory).  But somewhere the UNTIL must come and the dawning of the Day Star should arise in our hearts.

GPS SYSTEM

Today more and more vehicles are coming equipped with GPS guidance systems built in the car.  You don’t need to try and unfold and re-fold those old paper maps….remember?  It again is only there should you ever need it.  But once you get a sense of direction it seems like just another expensive piece of equipment added to an already expensive car.

Well, thinking in a carnal sense of this, the GPS system is new to us, something that wasn’t there in the past.  Kind of a mystery thing only thought of in Science-fiction movies.  Yet here we are seeing and experiencing what once was science-fiction, the mystery now being revealed in our experience of the GPS system.

Well, now to the spiritual side of this.  You can see where I am going with this correct? Question?  How do you know this?  Maybe there is another reader of this chapter of my book who doesn’t know where I am going with this?  Why do you know, and he or she doesn’t?

 

I know of people who have a GPS system in their car and never used it.  They go on trips and still use a paper map.  Why?  They, for one, are computer illiterate.  Anything that smacks with computer graphic etc. scares them from using it. You might think, “Boy that’s stupid..  What a waste of money.”

Well that’s kind of correct.  But understand this, they might say, “THE CAR CAME WITH THE GPS SYSTEM. We didn’t ask for it.  It just came with it.  We would have paid for it whether we wanted to used it or not.  We choose not to use it. It’s too complicated.”

Christ accomplished something whether you know it or not.  It’s in all of us, for it claims that he has lit everyone who has come into the world. (John 1:9)  Also it states that eternity has been placed in everyone and if you don’t know this, you won’t be able to figure out the beginning from the end.  (Eccl. 3:11) We have in us all a guidance system that lights the way and points the direction.  It came with the body.  In our case, someone else has paid the price to assure that you were given this inward system.  As a matter of fact it has always been there.  Kind of like a MYSTERY.  Something there yet not revealed UNTIL now.  It was placed in you FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.  The SEAL of approval, and the written guarantee that it would work, if you would use it, was placed on it at the factory. Seal with the blood of the ONE who put it there. 

Now you can ignore it and not use it.  You can “wing” it and use you carnal sense of direction or figure it out the hard way.  It’s not as complicated as you think.  Just two bottoms to initiate it.

A & Z.   The “A” button is your Acknowledging what has been placed in you.  The “Z” button sets the Zone, direction that you need.  There is only one direction to go.  So that’s a no brainer.  Once you have done this, you initiate just one more button…the “ASK” button.  This you can push any time and for any reason while heading in the one direction you have already initiated.  Have a nice trip!!  (For those who might be asking, “Where are we going?”  The only real place; one Jesus said He had prepared for us, John 14:2.)

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CHAPTERS - INTRODUCTION AND FOREWORD

CHAPTER 1      Can We Hear God’s Voice Today?

CHAPTER 2      The Implanted Word

CHAPTER 3      Abram’s Righteousness

CHAPTER 4      The Map

CHAPTER 5      Truth In The Inward Parts

CHAPTER 6      Eternal Repercussions

CHAPTER 7      Intuition Defined (Method)

CHAPTER 8      Once For All Act

CHAPTER 9      The Just Can Hear His Voice

CHAPTER 10    Timing Is Of the Essence

CHAPTER 11    Priming the Pump

CHAPTER 12    Beyond the Written Page

CHAPTER 13    Servants of Righteousness

CHAPTER 14    Throwing it All Out

CHAPTER 15     Dogs and Swine

CHAPTER 16     Know Yourself

CHAPTER 17     The Condition of Communications

CHAPTER 18     New Words and Biblical Texts 

CHAPTER 19     Defining Moments

CHAPTER 20     Knowing and Intuition

CHAPTER 21     Honesty of Experience

CHAPTER 22      Prime Directive of My Life

 CHAPTER 23    The Written Side of Life

CHAPTER 24     Things that ARE

CHAPTER 25     I Know It All

CHAPTER 26     The Unknown Unfolding

CHAPTER 26     The Thin Line of Direction

CHAPTER 28     Know and Don’t Tell

CHAPTER 29     Breath Prayer

CHAPTER 30     Filling Up That Which Is Lacking

CHAPTER 31     Strange Matters

CHAPTER 32      Hope Unseen

CHAPTER 33      Faith in the frame

CHAPTER 34      Plagiarizing the Word of Intuition

CHAPTER 35      What about John

CHAPTER 36       Letters of Defense

INTRODUCTION

 At the request of many of those I have shared spiritual insights to over the years, I decided to put this book together that deals with our learning to hear God’s voice and how to overcome our fears of doing this.  I decided to call it, “The Devil’s Scarecrow,” which came to me by way of a quote I heard years ago which went as follows:

    “Don’t let the devil’s scarecrow keep you out of God’s corn field.”

 I have observed in the course of sharing this truth that there are those who dislike anyone who lays claim to hearing God’s voice.  I understand this, and know why this is felt having experienced it myself.  We have heard of those who have claimed to hear God’s voice and have lead many astray, to the point we no longer desire to hear from God.  If this isn’t, in itself, a trick of the devil to cut us off from God nothing else is.  If it is possible, this matter of hearing God’s voice, and a needed thing in our growth, evil has accomplished what it wanted in using good, sometimes well meaning individuals, to keep us from ever hearing what it is that God, through the Holy Spirit, desired for us to know daily, Living Words; living words that only can give what has been called the dead letter, life.

Usually the error in this matter of hearing God speak to us comes via what is called prophecy, especially in areas of end time predictions etc.  This area is one of the main reason people have been turned off.  So, I will not at this point address this abuse but will focus on “personal direction” from our hearing His voice.  I have come to experience that this is where we each have to begin.  Beginning in this manner will keep you from falling into the many errors we all have seen and experienced with what I have said of following individuals that are being lead astray.   This matter of hearing from God is a personal encounter with the living God which is confirmed as one needs confirmation unprompted of human efforts.                                                                                                                                   

 Later, in the unfolding chapters of this book, I will share, via some experiences I have had with hearing God’s personal direction in my life, in hope that it will clarify what I mean by “hearing from God.” For now, let me continued with some examples we all know from Scriptures.

Let me now show you how those who were able to hear from God, did at times make mistakes or were uncertain of what they had heard and questioned it, desiring confirmation.  I’ll start with the book of Acts 16:6.  Here we see Paul the Apostle being forbidden to preach at that time in Asia.  In Acts 16:7 Paul continues on as if not knowing where the Spirit desired him to preach.  He goes to Mysia then wanted to go to Bithynia… still finding the Spirit forbidden him to do so.   He ends up in Troas and a vision appears to him.  In Acts 16:9 it says that in his vision he sees a man from Macedonia saying “Come over to Macedonia.”  He ends up in the chief city of Macedonia meeting Lydia, “whose heart God had opened.”  She and her house hold receive the Lord through Paul’s words, words the Lord had given to him to share.

Now notice this, the IMMITATOR of hearing the VOICE of the Spirit, another evil spirit is there to counteract what God desires.  Something we have all encountered and what I call the devil’s scarecrow in God’s corn field.  This spirit attempts to mimic the Holy Spirit…hear it…Acts 16:17 “the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, “these men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation.”

You wonder, “What’s wrong with what she said?”  Nothing wrong with what she said, only the channel that she received it.  You hear it today, those in this so-called New Age saying some beautiful things.  It’s not the sayings but the source and the intent behind that source; the intent being possession requiring exorcism as Paul performed that day.

 It is June 21, 2009, and I have to deal with such a thing happening right now to a dear couple whose son has gotten into what is expressed in this text in Acts.  This is still going on, individual listening to the wrong VOICE.  Yet, without the assistance of the Voice of God today, I would stand helpless in assisting them as I hope to do.  I was warned of their situation weeks before they brought it to my attention, thus the Holy Spirit prepared me, and now I to them, to set their son free.

Notice, this woman in the book of Acts, who was possessed of this false spirit, kept doing this for days.  Paul, being grieved, turns and says to the spirit, “I command you in the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST to come out of her.”  Well, the spirit is cast out which didn’t make those happy who were dependent upon this woman’s spirit for gain in the market, causing Paul and Silas problems.

That’s one situation, now let me share another I am sure we have all heard concerning John the Baptist doubting.  John is in prison, and he is shaken by the whole ordeal, and doubts creep into his mind.  You read it in Matt. 11:3  “And said unto him (Jesus), are you He that should come, or do we look for another?” One wonders, had could John not have known; why would he doubt it?  You don’t need to go far to understand John’s doubts, just go and look in the mirror.  We all have had these doubts.  We have read the word of God and still doubt it at times wondering if it’s really true.  I know, speaking for myself, apart from God’s confirming to me the truth of His word as He did that day to John with the reply from Jesus to John’s disciples, Matt. 11:4,5,6,…I would be in confusion and toss to and fro by every wind of doctrine that has come down the pike.  I wonder how some make it in this world today without this confirming voice; this day and its massive flood of information that can over whelm us all, ending as Pilate so well expressed, “What is truth?”

This is my introduction and I feel is vital to our staying in touch with God; a God who is there, and is not silent.  I understand your fears; fears I believe true Love will cast out.  Will we make mistakes, yes, we all will make mistakes; mistakes that are covered through what the Grace of God has established; a grace that can work even our mistakes to His Good.  The biggest mistake is to spend a life time not hearing one on One that which God would have said to us, simply because evil has placed a scarecrow in God’s corn field.   

   

FOREWORD

BEYOND CONFUSION…Jumbled message

Things have been intentionally jumbled so that any guessing on our part will be off; thus we would be put into a position where if we don’t acquire the ability to hear His voice, we will not know.  By jumbled I am not implying “confusion.”  We know it is said that Satan is the author of confusion, so this matter of jumbling is not to confuse, but as it is written to “hide from the wise and the prudent.” What do I mean by hide?   I wouldn’t be suggesting something unknowable, but rather it would only mean that those that acquire and desire to hear will hear.  This is not to suggesting a secret society or elite group of individuals; all are welcome to hear if they only desire to know.

Think of the many views of dates and conflicts of calendars, so much so that one cannot say that the dates we might want to set are 100% accurate.  How then can we know with some degree of certainty?   Again, I see this done with deliberate intention; not with ill intent, but to our well being. (Don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing).   Think of the time period we are living in, 2010, the general consensus is “what is truth?”  Who do you trust to give you the real scoop on matters?  We have had lies exposed, those whom we have trusted revealed to be untruthful. 

Well, what about this claim of hearing from the Lord?  We have seen and heard of those who have made such a claim and were shown to not have heard from the Lord.  Believe it or not, this works to a good rather than an evil.  How so you might ask?  We have been warned, “Let every man be a liar, but God true.”   This “all” is just that, “ALL.”  This includes me and everyone reading this book. 

Now you might be even more confused and ask, “Then who can be trusted in such a world?”  The answer has already been given, NO ONE, other than God Himself, and for this to happen you would have to acquire the ability to hear Him.  Is this possible?  If it isn’t, then you are as it says, “In the world without God and without hope.”

We are told we aren’t without hope, yet that hope is not in the seen but comes from that unseen.  As for confirmation that we are hearing from this unseen source, we are promised that it would be confirmed.  Of course we are instructed to “test” the spirits, from any unseen source, whether it is from God or not from Him.  I John 4:1, I Thess. 5:21, Gal. 6:4    We are told we do have a “more sure word that reveals how others before us received words from this unseen source and that we should pay attention to these words, “as a light that shines in this dark place, until the DAY DAWNS and the Day Star rises in our hearts; II Peter 1:19… heart implying something beyond the natural mind’s ability to know matters.  Until such a time that is designated of the Father, we are under tutors and guides as Paul states in Gal. 4:2.    Yet note this, a true tutor and guide would lead us to the only TRUE teacher and guide that Jesus Himself promised in John 16:13, John 23:9,10,11.  He, the Holy Spirit would teach, lead and guide us unto all truth.  Heb. 3:7, Heb. 3:15, Heb. 4:7, Rev. 3:20

In our opening chapter of this book the question, “Can we hear God’s voice today,” is addressed.  I believe that we can come to hear His voice.  So, adventure with me and do not allow the devil’s scarecrow to keep you out of God’s corn field.  

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