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Are you listening to
God? Or are His words to you like the blanks above? Meaningless? Hard to
comprehend? Or too much effort to decipher?
If you draw a blank when He speaks, you’re in for Proverbs 1 treatment.
If you don’t know what I mean by “Proverbs 1 treatment” read the chapter
and take an honest look at yourself. Are you one who truly loves and
fears God or do you not care that much and therefore treat lightly what
He says?
If so, this will be the treatment meted
out to you:
Because I have called and you
refused, I have stretched out My hand and no one regarded, because
you disdained all My counsel, and would have none of My rebuke, I
also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes
(Prov 1:24-26).
Terror is certainly coming! God has
warned about that in dreams, too.
God Speaks In Dreams
On 8th September 2006, Mila was given
this dream:
The Voice and The Writing
I saw a big River flowing through a
beautiful green area. The deep waters of the river were clear and it
was flowing slowly and quietly.
Then I saw some writing on a white
sheet above the River. I tried to read it, but somehow I could not
get beyond the first sentence. I also heard a Voice repeating what
was written on the sheet. It said:
What do people think they are
doing, and where do they think they are going when they do
what’s NOT My will?
I didn’t wake up, but suddenly I
realised that I had had this same dream before. Yet I had forgotten
it completely. After that, through the rest of the night I kept
repeating the words I had heard (in order not to forget them), while
simultaneously having some other dreams.
Here is the meaning of the dream.
Mila was placed in the position of most Christians, whose
appreciation of God and His Word are shallow:
I saw a big River flowing through
a beautiful green area. The deep waters of the river were clear and
it was flowing slowly and quietly.
This is the spiritual River of Life
that flows from God’s throne (Rev 22), bringing God’s truth and love
to people. God’s Spirit comes quietly, but its effects are seen as
in the allegory of the beautiful green area it creates in people’s
lives.
Then I saw writing on a white
sheet above the River. I tried to read it, but somehow I could not
get beyond the first sentence.
This depicts the widespread lack of
comprehension of God’s pure truth. Most Christians have not
progressed beyond the basics of spiritual learning. Because they
don’t want more, they cannot understand more.
I also heard a Voice repeating
what was written on the sheet. It said:
What do people think they
are doing, and where do they think they are going when they do
what’s NOT My will?
This is the crux of the problem.
People don’t under- stand because they don’t want to obey. When
people are ready to obey, then God opens up their minds to
understand.
I didn’t wake up, but suddenly I
realised that I had had this same dream before. Yet I had forgotten
it completely.
This is also allegoric. It
illustrates that God has tried to reach many Christians with further
truth, but they haven’t listened to Him. They rejected the one who
brought truth.
After that, through the rest of
the night I kept repeating the words I had heard (in order not to
forget them).
Likewise, if you want to retain
God’s truth, you have to keep it in mind and not let things slip.
God Speaks Through Prophets
When a person is ready (humble enough) to
receive God’s truths, God can unlock the mind. Quite often, desperation
has to precede this revealing.
Unfortunately, most believers are
satisfied with what they have and where they are already, spiritually.
They don’t want any more, epitomised by the allegory of Laodicean
lukewarmness (Rev 3:15-18).
In Mila’s dream analogy above, God didn’t
say how His River comes, other than imperceptibly and quietly. Truth is
brought in various ways. One way is a via a prophet. Where the Church is
lulled to sleep by men who lead her, that’s the prophet’s occasion.
On 5th December 1999, Stephen W Morris
wrote this prophetic word of warning:
I am sending My messengers. I have given
them a message for this time and for this hour and I am sending them
forth into the body of Christ to deliver the message that I have given
unto them. Look for those I have sent into your midst, those who
speak My oracles...
Do you know why it was phrased that way?
When God warns people to look for something it’s because they
WON’T naturally look for it. The people of God DO NOT LOOK FOR GOD’S
PROPHETS and DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM THEM. His prophetic word
continued:
For it is a message for this hour...
I had contact with Stephen Morris at that
time. That’s why God said it was a message for this hour. He was meant
to recognise the message we brought, but he didn’t. He dismissed me
along with the oracles I brought as of no relevance. And the whole
Church does the same thing, except very few.
I am no one, but the message which God
has given me and which I have written in MM publications is everything
at this time. Is it not a grievous sin to dismiss, ignore and reject the
oracles of God?!
For there are priorities on earth and
priorities in heaven. Many of the priorities on earth are dictated by
the demands of the flesh...
Such is the case even amidst believers,
and corporate churches. Hence, corporate churches don’t listen to the
prophets and miss most of what God is saying for the benefit of His
people.
The things that are about to take place,
the things that shall happen soon, and very soon, that will cause
empires to crumble, cause economic chaos and provoke military conflict,
those things, says the Lord, will occur because many have hearkened to
the messengers who have proclaimed messages that have originated from
desires to satisfy the flesh.
My messengers shall bring you a message,
which if you choose to receive it, will satisfy your spirit and
will strengthen you and encourage you for the battle which is ahead of
you. I will be with you, and those who receive the message from My
messengers will be strengthened and they will walk in the power of My
Holy Spirit... (www.angelfire.com/in/HisName/message.html.)
Most don’t receive the message
from God’s human messengers. Most are self-willed, self-centred,
self-orientated. So, most are not strengthened. They still seek after
the things of the flesh. Their hearts are not desirous enough of the
things of the Spirit.
The few words underlined – “if you choose
to receive it” – are the root of the problem for most.
Two Messages Of This Messenger
Notice what God said in the following
dream:
30th August 2006. M. MM clearing
the oversite
I was clearing the oversite (the rough ground prior to
constructing a new building). Two skips had been filled. They were
very neatly done. The soil was pushed down tight and levelled off
neatly. One skip was large. The other was small. A Man had done this
with His machine.
The next job, which I was just about
to begin, was to dig the foundations for the new dwelling. The site
was in a garden alongside a larger property (which I didn’t see),
using an area of the lawn. It was slightly sloping.
The skips were ready to be taken
away, but it had just started raining, so the lorry driver waited.
Trying to get them out uphill, on slippery ground could prove
difficult. I wondered whether we would have to wait for a long time,
because rain is forecast for the next few days.
The Driver was the Man who had also
done the work (even though I knew that I was doing the work, too).
As I walked uphill, He was watching
me. I dropped my box of matches on the ground and it went rolling
downhill. I caught up with it and picked it up. As I was walking,
not looking where I was going (God guides us; we don’t go by human
sight or planning), I was about 30 feet away from the area where the
building was to be built. I thought I was only about 10 feet away,
but when I looked up I noticed the distance and moved back closer.
Meaning:
Clearing the oversite
depicts the present work of MM, preparing for the new Building of
God.
The two skips.
Yesterday I was writing an article about the influences of demons. I
didn’t know what the dream meant until God pointed out to me a slip
of paper on which I had made a note of what He had prompted me to
write. It was the lead article title for Newsletter 37, about the
dead coming back, identifying many of them. Then He dropped it into
my mind that the large skip represents the article on demons – which
have to be cleared away. (DEMONS... was too big to include in
N37. It is a separate article.) The smaller skip represents the lead
article (on p1).
They were very neatly done. A Man
had done this with His machine.
What Jesus does, He does well. This
is another indication to other people that Jesus is behind what I
write. He moves and inspires; gives thoughts, ideas and the
guidance.
The next job,
which I was just about to begin, was to dig the foundations for
the new dwelling. More work is ahead for us. MM is preparing for
God’s Building like the New Jerusalem analogy in Revelation 21:2,
which is the glorious spiritual dwelling of God amidst His people.
The site was in a garden
alongside a larger property using an area of the lawn.
MM’s work is part of the Universal Church, but separate from the
existing. It is a new development.
It was slightly sloping.
It is an uphill struggle for us.
The skips were ready to be taken
away. What is written is
ready for people to learn from.
It had just started raining.
Revival has started. The outpouring of the Spirit has begun.
The lorry driver waited.
Jesus is waiting for His people to get ready.
Trying to get them out uphill, on
slippery ground could prove difficult.
The task of MM IS difficult. But it is what we are assigned to do
for Him.
I wondered whether we would have
to wait for a long time, because rain is forecast for the next few
days. The revival is
going to intensify. More outpouring is to come. It takes time,
patience and perseverance to get the job done.
The Driver was the Man who had
also done the work (even though I knew that I was doing the work,
too). Jesus is the One
who is really doing the work of MM. We are merely His human
instruments.
As I walked uphill, He was
watching me. Praise God
that He is watching over us.
I dropped my box of matches on
the ground and it went
rolling downhill. I caught up with it and picked it up. We are
to ignite a fire of God. This depicts the power surge that will be
sparked by the dead coming to life, and the subsequent fire that
will erupt.
I noticed the distance and moved
back closer. For a while
we will be taken away from immediate closeness with Him because of
circumstances (meddling from civil authorities and their demonic
interference), but we will be able to come back closer to Him and
get on with the job.
What a wonderful dream! Reminding us
that He is with us always, and constantly watching over us, to
complete the task He has begun.
If God takes the trouble to give such a
detailed dream, do you not think He is trying to get across something
important? What do you think His reaction is when most people simply
don’t care?! He is angry.
And if He highlights two particular
messages by allegorising them as skips (containers for rubbish), is He
not saying that there is rubbish in the Church that needs clearing away,
and that I have done the necessary to enable that garbage to be removed
by what He had me put in those two articles?
1) Raising the dead should enable people
to see that their church or ministry hasn’t got all it needs, and that
they need to listen to the messenger God has sent with the sign to
verify his authenticity.
2) And the article on demons points to
the fact that there is still so much demonic false teaching in churches
that needs to be thrown out.
He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says [is
saying] to the churches (Rev
3:22).
In another dream, God said this:
5th September 2006. M. Our
vegetable garden
The vegetable patch in our garden was chock full of lovely
vegetables!
Meaning:
Vegetables are nourishing food. They contain lots of minerals and
vitamins for good health. So is MM lit for the spiritual man. As in
the dream of 30th August, this material is ready to feed people.
Prophetic Correction Is Abrupt
God gives us directions and ‘nudges’ to
write to various people. Much of this contact is corrective, to try and
wake them up. That can be pretty abrupt, even offensive.
Some years ago, God told us to write to a
lady and tell her that she was backsliding. She didn’t think so, of
course. When she got the letter she burst into tears. But it had the
desired effect, and God woke her up. She has been listening ever since.
Another man I wrote to similarly
responded positively. All that is encouraging. However, correction is
not naturally welcomed. Our natural prideful sense of independence and
self-sufficiency balks at it. So, most people reject correction, and get
offended. Some turn hostile. Others slink away and hide.
Proverbs 1 tells them (if they would
listen) how they have offended God by their response.
They should remember what Paul said:
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of
God, by which you were sealed for the Day of Redemption (Eph 4:30).
Young’s literal version translates this
as:
Make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit
of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
So many break that seal! By so doing,
they open themselves up to the spiritual enemy (Eph 4:27).
Mila was given a dream about a relative
of hers who did this. He began to obey God, but then shut the
door on Him through self-will and disobedience. God spoke to Mila about
it. As she was praying on 12th September He put this in her spirit:
We have the flow of God’s Holy Spirit,
coming from His very throne – powerful, pure, and clear. All that feeds
from Him is beautiful. But outside of it is darkness, lies, deceit and
doubt.
Sadly, people tend to choose the darkness
and lies. Ironically, it is more appealing than pure truth.
Therefore, He says: Awake, you who
sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light (Eph
5:14).
Do not be unwise, but understand
what the will of the Lord is (Eph 5:17).
They won’t understand what God’s will is
if they don’t listen to what He says. And He’s speaking to His prophets
in dreams. But who’s listening? Few.
God Speaks In Riddle Or Allegory
God, in His ingenuity, ‘hides’ what He is
saying in riddle or allegory. Those who truly seek Him – which means
they are willing to obey Him from the heart – will understand. He grants
this to the few:
The secret of the Lord is with
those who fear Him (Ps 25:14).
Remember the reference to foundations
being prepared by MM in the dream of 30th August above?
Those from among you shall build
the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations of many
generations. And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the
Restorer of Paths to Dwell In (Is 58:12).
The main fulfilment of that prophecy is
in Jesus after He returns. But He is preparing the Way now, just
as John the Baptist prepared the Way prior to His first coming.
Also, remember Mila’s dream of the River
and the beautiful green places it produced?
You shall be like a watered garden
(Is 58:11).
For the Church today, the fulfilment of
that promise is predicated upon people doing what God adjures them in
verse 13 to do – keep His Sabbaths holy. Most will not do it! So He
speaks in riddle:
That they might go and fall
backward, and be broken and snared and caught (Is 28:13).
For with stammering lips and
another tongue He will speak to this people, to whom He said, ‘This
is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest,’ and ‘This
is the refreshing.’ Yet they would not hear (Is 28:11,12).
Just as in Israel of old, today’s Church
does not listen to God. Isaiah prophesied about it:
...this is a rebellious people,
lying children; children who will not hear the Law of the Lord; who
say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not
prophesy to us right things; speak to us smooth things, prophesy
deceits.’ (Is 30:9,10.)
You don’t believe me that the above
refers to a large portion of the body of Christ today? Who was the Bible
written for, then? And why would God say?:
Now go, write it before them...
that it may be for a time to come, forever and ever (Is 30:9).
“Forever and ever” means
“from age to age”.
Just as those words applied to God’s
people in that age, so they apply now in this Church Age.
‘Divide’ The Word To Listen To Him
There is another way God speaks that many
should heed. You know He speaks through Jesus (Heb 1:2) who is also
called the Word of God (Jn 1:1, 14). And you know that God has inspired
His written word to give us guidance.
So incredible is His Word that the Bible
is a living Book. When you handle it properly, and have the meekness to
learn from it, it comes alive in your hands. God leads you to see things
in it that directly answer your questions and dilemmas.
That’s because it is anointed by His
Spirit. He speaks to you through it, very directly. As you read it, He’s
right there with you. We all need to be aware of that fact.
You know the injunction to rightly divide
the Word of Truth (2 Tim 2:15), and not abuse it by misappropriating
texts, distorting their true meaning.
There is another way the Word is
‘divided’, or separated out. If you seek God for a solution to an issue
that is unresolved in your mind, or for an answer to some question, it
is not uncommon for you to simply open up the Bible at random and find
the answer staring you in the face somewhere on that page!
Say you are in a fellowship meeting and
you don’t know what God wants you to examine that day. Open the good
Book at random, and start there. He can lead you from then on, if you
are open to His Spirit. If you pray this as David did, God answers:
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous
things from Your Law (Ps 119:18).
One day in our fellowship meeting we were
moved to do that. (We don’t do that very often.) Each person took their
Bible and opened it at random. It was quite amazing how the passage or
book to which they opened was immediately relevant to them! What was
even more amazing, however, was how only a few recognised that
relevance. Some couldn’t see how what they got referred to them.
That’s like a child, who, in immaturity,
doesn’t see beyond the limits of their own experience, ability or
comprehension.
God speaks – in fact, He never fails to
do so – but whether you can hear what He has to say is up to you and
your willingness or spiritual state. So, if you get an answer that you
don’t recognise, let alone understand, don’t dump it. Put it on the
shelf until later; keep seeking God until you do recognise what He’s
trying to say to you. Be like Mary who pondered and communed with God in
her heart (Luke 2:19).
On 9th September 2006, Kassahun was given
this dream:
When I opened my Bible randomly to learn
what God will speak to me, I found a text which said: “Those who
couldn’t see Me will soon see Me.” It was a promise to those who are
hungry and thirsty, that they will see the glory of God.
Indeed. That is the key: hunger and
thirst for the things of God (Matt 5:6).
He has filled the hungry with good
things, and the rich He has sent away empty (Luke 1:53).
Where Listening Begins
The ‘secret’ to listening to God is
receptivity. That’s not a ‘spooky’ peculiar mode into which you
lapse, eyes shut, tuning out everything around you and ‘tuning in’ to
spiritual wavelengths. God can speak to you in any situation, anywhere.
It all depends upon whether your heart is
receptive to what He will say. There’s a word which encompasses all
that: obedience.
Jesus didn’t go into ‘weird mode’ to hear
from God. He was constantly attuned to Him, so He heard from Him
continually. This is what He said about why:
The Father has not left Me alone, for
I always do those things that please Him (Jn 8:29).
These Newsletters are compiled that way.
God gives a title or a subject on which I should write. Often I don’t
know what is to go in each article until I start. Sometimes there’s
nothing in my head at all! But as I get started with the first thing
that comes to mind, and faithfully include it, then the next thought
follows. Thus, God leads the compilation step by step.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that God has
given every detail, nor do I always use the best descriptive terms or
vocabulary, but overall He guides to ensure that the product will feed
people spiritually.
If that is your object in life, He will
guide you, too. He isn’t a God merely of prophets. He’s the God of the
faithful. If you are faithful to Him, He will be faithful to you.
The Truth Is Shocking!
The shocking truth about churches is they
have apostatised. Apostasy is a turning away from truth.
I have mentioned one way most churches
fail to listen to God: they refuse to keep the Sabbath holy. God’s
command in Exodus 20:8-11 was never changed or annulled. A second way is
by rejecting true prophets who bring further truth. A third way is by
rejecting the gifts of the Spirit. A fourth way is by resisting the
correction of the Spirit and the progress of Truth via the Spirit’s
restoration. And a fifth way is because the Spirit’s authority is
replaced in ALL churches by human authority in a masquerade.
By deliberately rejecting – or ignoring –
the restored truths which God is bringing back for His people, the vast
majority of Christians fail to listen to God. They will consign
themselves to Tribulation, as prophesied in the Bible. There is no
secret rapture to ‘evaporate’ all believers. Only a very few will be
privy to such sort of eventuality, and that won’t be the way populist
rapture theorists propose!
God has spoken, and we have laid out His
words in literature that you can either accept or reject. Here are some
titles for starters:
God’s Church – Whose Authority?
Our Sabbath Rest
Apostasy In God’s Church!
Testing The Spirits
A Message To ‘The Charismatic
Church’
GOD TV Is NOT God’s TV
GET READY!
Malcolm B Heap
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