A question:

For those who participated in the Operation Global Rain, I was wondering if anyone has started to Dream? Or, has anyone started to experience the working of the Holy Spirit in new and pronounced ways?

One in the Body, which is Jesus Christ.

How about you, dear Brother Jim T?

Perhaps you have had a dream? Has God placed a dream in your heart recently? Or perhaps long ago?

Have you experienced the guidance of the ever sanctifying and cleansing Spirit of God in your life “in new and pronounced ways?”

Perhaps you have? Perhaps God has given you a burden for sharing an important message with all of us?

Perhaps you are only waiting for someone to ask what God has told you?

Perhaps God’s message to His people is not a very flattering message? Perhaps you hesitate to share it with the rest of us lest anyone really requires it from you?

No doubt you remember Samuel? How when he was yet a boy he was called in the midst of the night? How at first he thought it was the voice of Eli, his master and foster parent? How he was given a message important to all of
Israel - and most specifically touching upon Eli and his family?

Yet, perhaps most importantly it was a message directed first and foremost to Samuel himself? It should have alerted Samuel from an early age to learn from the mistakes of Eli his master such that he would not himself repeat the same mistakes in his own life and in his own family.

Did Samuel learn the right lesson such that he could implement it effectively in his own life? Did Samuel do his part in carrying the message to Eli and to the people? He became a great prophet, did he not? One of the greatest! Did he bring the message to Eli and to the
Israel? Most assuredly! Read 1 Sam 3:4-18!

Yet, did he effectively learn and apply the message of God in his own life and family?

Unfortunately Samuel apparently learned the wrong lessons from his master and teacher Eli, didn’t he? Or didn’t Samuel repeat the same mistakes as Eli did in re to bringing up his own sons? Read 1 Sam 8:3!

What were the results of Samuel not fully realizing and accepting God’s message as a message directed first and foremost to himself?

Can we, I and you, perceive the consequences of Samuel’s family life in the rest of 1 Sam 8? Can we, I and you, perceive the extended consequences of Samuel’s failures as a parent in how it affected all of Israel and
Judah, as recorded throughout the rest of the Old Testament?

Can we perceive the consequences of Samuel’s failures as a father in our own lives and our own society today? Does it do us any good to blame Samuel for what he did or didn’t do? It doesn’t, does it? But can we learn something of great value by considering the failures of Eli and Samuel as the fathers and husbands of each their own families? I say; Most assuredly we can!

How important are these issues to me and to you? Am I taking to heart those very words of God, as directed to me through Samuel and through each page of the Scriptures? Or am I only able to perceive how they apply in the lives of others around me? Am I unable or unwilling to see and realize how they apply to me, myself and I?

Am I willing to accept that still small voice of God as it applies first and foremost to me? Am I willing to be transformed by the Holy Spirit? Cf. Rom 12:2 and 1 Cor 15:51-52!

Am I willing to change my ways and my habits as those have been taught me by my society? Am I willing to be the odd one? The one sticking my cheek out? The first one in my peer group willing to change? One among God’s peculiar people?

Or am I opting to take the easy way out and defer it all until such a time in the indefinite future when God will force His love and His ways of living upon all of us “at the time when Jesus comes back to bring us all to heaven?”

Am I willing to be a a head and a leader in verity? One who dares to take a stand towards something better?

Or do I prefer to be a tail who does the popular thing, even to the point of being elected among the most popular “masters” and “leaders” of men exactly because they are masters in turning their coats in accord with the going thing?

But wait a minute! Will God ever force any of us to volunteer for doing anything that we are not willing to do right now - in the ever present point in time that we call “now?”

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Yes, I have a dream - it is still there:

As a little child I dreamt twice very vividly of the Second coming. The first time I had the dream, it was a very lovely, heart warming, beautiful experience. Something greatly to be desired. The second time I had the dream it was all about technical advancements and about things. It was impressive… but the warmth and love wasn’t there in the same way. The contrast between the dream impressed me even in those tender years of mine.

A few years later, while in primary school, I dreamt that a nuclear bomb came down on top of the gas station right across the street from our school.

I had no fear. I felt secure in my relationship to God and to both of my parents. I remember climbing up some stairs on the outside of the falling nuclear bomb towards a door in the very wall of the bomb… Then I woke up. The bomb never hit the ground, nor did it explode… I woke up feeling safe and sound.

Sometimes I’ve been wondering about those dreams. What do they mean? What am I supposed to have learnt from those dreams? Have I learnt my lessons? Am I learning from that still small voice whispering to me at all times throughout my every experience in life? Am I attentive to it? Am I ignoring such thoughts while thinking that what happens around me is only natural, nothing worth considering, what is is?

Am I waking up in time? Will I wake up in time before it is too late to do anything about it? Whatever it may be…

I am being reminded of some of those dreams as I see things happening around me today…

And also as I do my best to learn and implement such things as affects my own relationships, my own physical health, my own habits, my life.

I pray that the Lord may make me ever more willing to be willing to change whatever I must change in order to receive - not only for myself, but for my loved ones and for others touching our lives - the consequential blessings and the conditional promises of God.

May God’s sweet peace, joy, love, and happiness be with you and yours for ever!

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How about you, dear Brother Jim T?

Perhaps you have had a dream? Has God placed a dream in your heart recently? Or perhaps long ago?

Have you experienced the guidance of the ever sanctifying and cleansing Spirit of God in your life “in new and pronounced ways?”

Perhaps you have? Perhaps God has given you a burden for sharing an important message with all of us?

Perhaps you are only waiting for someone to ask what God has told you?

Perhaps God’s message to His people is not a very flattering message? Perhaps you hesitate to share it with the rest of us lest anyone really requires it from you?

No doubt you remember Samuel? How when he was yet a boy he was called in the midst of the night? How at first he thought it was the voice of Eli, his master and foster parent? How he was given a message important to all of Israel - and most specifically touching upon Eli and his family?

Yet, perhaps most importantly it was a message directed first and foremost to Samuel himself? It should have alerted Samuel from an early age to learn from the mistakes of Eli his master such that he would not himself repeat the same mistakes in his own life and in his own family.

Did Samuel learn the right lesson such that he could implement it effectively in his own life? Did Samuel do his part in carrying the message to Eli and to the people? He became a great prophet, did he not? One of the greatest! Did he bring the message to Eli and to
Israel? Most assuredly! Read 1 Sam 3:4-18!

Yet, did he effectively learn and apply the message of God in his own life and family?

Unfortunately Samuel apparently learned the wrong lessons from his master and teacher Eli, didn’t he? Or didn’t Samuel repeat the same mistakes as Eli did in re to bringing up his own sons? Read 1 Sam 8:3!

What were the results of Samuel not fully realizing and accepting God’s message as a message directed first and foremost to himself?

Can we, I and you, perceive the consequences of Samuel’s family life in the rest of 1 Sam 8? Can we, I and you, perceive the extended consequences of Samuel’s failures as a parent in how it affected all of Israel and Judah, as recorded throughout the rest of the Old Testament?

Can we perceive the consequences of Samuel’s failures as a father in our own lives and our own society today? Does it do us any good to blame Samuel for what he did or didn’t do? It doesn’t, does it? But can we learn something of great value by considering the failures of Eli and Samuel as the fathers and husbands of each their own families? I say; Most assuredly we can!

How important are these issues to me and to you? Am I taking to heart those very words of God, as directed to me through Samuel and through each page of the Scriptures? Or am I only able to perceive how they apply in the lives of others around me? Am I unable or unwilling to see and realize how they apply to me, myself and I?

Am I willing to accept that still small voice of God as it applies first and foremost to me? Am I willing to be transformed by the Holy Spirit? Cf. Rom 12:2 and 1 Cor 15:51-52!

Am I willing to change my ways and my habits as those have been taught me by my society? Am I willing to be the odd one? The one sticking my cheek out? The first one in my peer group willing to change? One among God’s peculiar people?

Or am I opting to take the easy way out and defer it all until such a time in the indefinite future when God will force His love and His ways of living upon all of us “at the time when Jesus comes back to bring us all to heaven?”

Am I willing to be a head and a leader in verity? One who dares to take a stand towards something better?

Or do I prefer to be a tail who does the popular thing, even to the point of being elected among the most popular “masters” and “leaders” of men exactly because they are masters in turning their coats in accord with the going thing?

But wait a minute! Will God ever force any of us to volunteer for doing anything that we are not willing to do right now - in the ever present point in time that we call “now?”

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Yes, I have a dream - it is still there:

As a little child I dreamt twice very vividly of the Second coming. The first time I had the dream, it was a very lovely, heart warming, beautiful experience. Something greatly to be desired. The second time I had the dream it was all about technical advancements and about things. It was impressive… but the warmth and love wasn’t there in the same way. The contrast between the dreams impressed me even in those tender years of mine.

A few years later, while in primary school, I dreamt that a nuclear bomb came down on top of the gas station right across the street from our school.

I had no fear. I felt secure in my relationship to God and to both of my parents. I remember climbing up some stairs on the outside of the falling nuclear bomb towards a door in the very wall of the bomb… Then I woke up. The bomb never hit the ground, nor did it explode… I woke up feeling safe and sound – and yet wondering about what happened to the bomb that was so close to hitting the ground just as I woke up.

Sometimes I’ve been wondering about those dreams. What do they mean? What am I supposed to have learnt from those dreams? Have I learnt my lessons? Am I learning from that still small voice whispering to me at all times throughout my every experience in life? Am I attentive to it? Am I ignoring such thoughts while thinking that what happens around me is only natural, nothing worth considering, what is is?

Am I waking up in time? Will I wake up in time before it is too late to do anything about it? Whatever it may be…

I am being reminded of some of those dreams as I see things happening around me today… [Cf. treeoflife.wan.io/ThreeAngelsMessages/WTC/DisPaterVsWTC.htm]

And also as I do my best to learn and implement such things as affects my own relationships, my own physical health, my own habits, my life [cf. treeoflife.lan.io/lt.htm]

I pray that the Lord may make me ever more willing to be willing to change whatever I must change in order to receive - not only for myself, but for my loved ones and for others touching our lives - the consequential blessings and the conditional promises of God.

May God’s sweet peace, joy, love, and happiness be with you and yours for ever!

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