Sunday, October 20, 2013

VOICES

Since the mid 1980s I've been hearing in my ear the following:

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; I ordained you a prophet to (my church).  For you shall go to all to whom I send you.  And whatever I command you, you shall speak.

Do not be afraid of their faces,  For I am with you to deliver you."  "Do not be afraid of their faces lest I confound thee before them.  I have made you this day a defensed city and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land.  They shall fight against you but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to deliver you."

"See, this day I have set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant."  
Are you speaking to me Lord?  I'm just a woman, a nobody.  No one will listen to me!

"I have made you a watchman over (my church) hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.  Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house."

"Clean the rubble off my foundation and BUILD MY HOUSE!"
Who am I Lord?  Are you really calling me to serve you as you did the prophets of old?  No one will believe me.  The last pastor you sent me to sent out emails implying that I was delusional------------gifted, but delusional.  

"A voice crying out in the wilderness, 'Make a straight path to the Lord!'"
If John the Baptist was here today he wouldn't be welcomed in any of our churches.  
Three times I've been asked to leave and just recently I was secretly voted out the church without the congregation's knowledge---"religious" leaders fear me, lay people hear me and seek God.

This morning as I thought about these things in prayer I heard the following phrase from a song-------
"God has spoken, let the church say, Amen"