Lightness of being #38 When God calls (16th Mar 2014)
Dear...
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:23
It has been close to 14 years since the bursting of the dotcom bubble. It has also been about that time since our good Lord sanctified my very being and realigned my wandering heart back to His. It has been a wonderful adventure and the only constant was the joy and peace of experiencing the love of our Sovereign God upon my life, and that of others He placed in my path as fellow sojourners.
Proverbs 1:23 is a stranger to me. This is the first time that this verse captured my attention. Yet it is a very special verse, as if God is drawing me back to the still vivid memories of the night 14 years back when He brought me across the chasm of doubt and gave me the faith that was always just beyond my grasp.
And I said, This is my infirmity:
but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
I will remember the works of the Lord:
surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalms 77:10-11
Proverbs 1:23 in all precision describes the defining moment in my life, when the Spirit of God fell upon me that one wee morning in Bangkok. God woke me up at 4am to reproof me for my lack of faith. Alway being thankful after the fact, and even then only fleetingly. "Why can't I thank Him even before I see the conclusion?" He asked.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
His Spirit fell upon me twice that fateful night. The first was one of deep cleansing the moment I repented and decided to entrust my all to Him. The second was this indescribable joy and peace that brought my very being into this intimate communion with my Abba Father.
There was no longer any doubt about the truth of God's omnipresence.
Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 1:24
The word God gave me after He lifted the veil upon my heart was a simple rebuke from the Book of Psalms "stop questioning and start following."
Thanks be to God, His Spirit imbued in me that night the great love of God for me that by His grace and empowerment, I have and continue to grow in desire to respond to His leading,
主告诉我如何献上我的生命，带希望入人群中
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew 10:1
As I closed this segment, was I missing something. Twelve Apostles I am not, and neither did I cast out demons, nor did I partake in any physical healing.
But our good Lord impressed upon me that as His faithful servants, He has and will continue to use us to bring about spiritual healing. Physical and emotional ailments are but the manifestation of lives lived in misalignment from the will of God. With agape love, the Spirit of God empowers us to cast out the oppressive and delusive evil spirits encapsulating the very being of many.
God blesses
Eng Hieang
16th Mar 2014
An afterthought - 'Allo, 'Allo !
And he said, Draw not nigh hither:put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Exodus 3:5
Borrowed from the title of an old British sitcom set in occupied France in World War 2, it did strike me that when it comes to communion with God, many erroneously assumed that God will engage in a spoken conversation with me when I tell them that He spoke to me.
God spoke to Moses through a burning bush. And God told him that he was standing on holy ground. Did God speak to Moses via the audio senses or was it through the heart?
God has and continues to speak to me not via the audio route that humans are well acquainted with but through
- His Words in the times I immerse myself in His living word
- people and circumstances that clarifies or affirms the thoughts in my heart
- visions though I prefer to call them dreams because it happens in my non waking hours
- impressions upon my heart. A conviction by the indwelling Holy Spirit
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God?
Psalms 77:13
直到我在祭坛哪里得着命定，无怨无悔我在这里
This was a line from a worship song in Mandarin. It expresses an unqualified willingness to wait upon our Lord in His sanctuary till God shows us His will.
Indeed, the Bible exhorts all to seek God with our all, to be still and know His will.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:18
God will and in fact is speaking to all of us this very moment. But truth is, most if not all only tune in when they find themselves in humbling circumstances, and even then, God's communion with us has greatest resonance when our hearts are truly contrite.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found:
surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psalms 32:6
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