Coronavirus was like a nuclear explosion over the entire world, changing lives completely. Things in the future will be very different.
When we step out of our houses after Coronavirus ends, safety for us, will be in our seeking God and following that which God shows us. For it will be very different.
It sort of reminds me of the pictures we have seen of bombings of cities in WWII. People are shut up inside during the bombings. When they come out after the "all clear" signal, they are shocked to see many of the buildings they once knew are gone. It is a completely different world and requires a different way of life to survive in the rubble.
If you know how to follow God and you do "that", you should be fine even in the changes.
There is no reason to waste energy complaining over the difference, for it will be different from before. Just seek God and go that way!
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Dream: (4-9-2020)
In this dream, I went out of my house and so many things were different and everything was hard to do out there in the world.
In the dream, I started out driving my car ... and ended up trying to get home by walking.
I went into a super-market grocery and it was completely changed. It was a large room but no shelves as we once had. Three sides of the room were counters with only open area in the center of the store.
When I awoke, and considered this dream, it reminded me of the scripture in Amos 5.
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14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren,
I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those
things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Proverbs 4
God says:
10 Hear, O my son, and receive My sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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The only thing safe for us is prayer over everything ... and knowing the "voice of God" ... and following the direction given us by God.
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1. Prayer over everything:
Proverbs 3
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
(The LORD is The Word given you by God. Only that way shown us by God is safe for us. Our own plans may not be the right way for us to go. So we have to start over, unless we are sure God has told us to do that which we are planning to do. Put plans on hold and pray over those plans and let God establish your thoughts concerning that which you are to planning do as you go out from your houses after the "all clear" sounds.)
6 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
(To be safe, we must reevaluate all our plans by praying again over that which we are planning to do. And then we must be able to recognize which ideas are from the Holy Spirit of God.)
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
(To be safe, we must reevaluate all our plans by praying again over that which we are planning to do. And then we must be able to recognize which ideas are from the Holy Spirit of God.)
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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2. Knowing the voice of God:
The primary ways God speaks to us by HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit, are by bringing HIS thoughts to our minds ... and by dreams ... and God could send us HIS word by an angel of God.
(On this Podcast, examples of each of the following are given.)
* The most often way God speaks to me is by thoughts brought to my mind to show me what to do or to show me what not to do.
* Dreams often confirm the way to go or show me to focus on something else.
* An angel spoke to me one time that I know of to show me what to do.
* There have been times God has given me a very strong interest in something to cause me to go that way.
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3. How do I know it is God giving me that thought or idea?
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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I Timothy 6:20-21 O
Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane
and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
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