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Todd Curry & Focus Are Not Playing Any Games With the
Release Of Their Second Album "Quit Playin' Church"
Curry Takes Gospel Off the Playground Back to the Familiar Church Ground
(April 20, 2011- Washington, DC) Todd Curry and Focus composed of 18 dynamic vocalists seeks to breathe life back into the Gospel Music industry. The Gospel group based in Greensboro, North Carolina is set to release its second album "Quit Playin' Church" digitally through Trevino Music Group and Universal Music Group. This CD is more than the music, it's a movement.
The "Quit Playin' Church" movement encourages people to "move on from childish games" and begin to take worship more seriously. This is what the industry has been waiting for! In a time in which the Gospel Music industry has seemingly lost its edge, Todd Curry & Focus are dedicated to raising the bar for the fans and igniting the spark that the industry needs to reconnect with its dwindling fan base.
Elder Todd Curry, being reared in the church, knows the ins and outs of church rules, statutes, and the idiosyncrasies of the church community. With this new revitalizing project, it will change the church protocols putting the focus back on our creator and veering away from man's calamity. This impact will rock the Gospel Music industry as we know it as the Quit Playin' Church movement sweeps the nation.
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ARE YOU GONNA GO TO A LEXUS DEALER LOOKING FOR A HONDA? THEN WHY IS SOMEONE LOOKING FOR A GOSPEL ARTISTS GOING TO GO TO A SECULAR SITE? DOESN’T MAKE SENSE? WE ALL KNOW YOU WANNA REACH THE SECULAR WORLD WITH THE GOSPEL WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO, BUT THE SECULAR WORLD WILL ONLY GO TO YOU FOR THE WRONG REASONS, WHICH MEANS YOUR PROMOTING YOURSELVES ON THE WRONG SITES SUCH AS REVERBNATION & SONICBIDS, CHURCHES WILL NOT GO THERE LOOKING FOR YOU. THINK ABOUT IT? ARE YOU SPREADING YOURSELF EVERYWHERE BUT ARE YOU BEING SEEN BY THE RIGHT PEOPLE? MAYBE? MAYBE NOT?
THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? PROMOTE, MARKET & MANAGE ALL YOUR GOSPEL MUSIC & MINISTRY NEEDS ALL IN ONE PLACE! HOLY JAMZ URBAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE SOCIAL NETWORK SITE IS SET UP WITH ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED!! UPLOAD YOUR MUSIC, VIDEOS, PICTURES, EVENTS, GROUPS, FORUMS, BLOGS, MARKETPLACE TO SELL YOUR MUSIC; LINK TO YOUR FACEBOOK, ECT ALL YOUR NEEDS IN ONE PLACE AND MORE! Reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ AND CONNECT AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS ACROSS THE GLOBE! HOLY JAMZ IS NOT JUST FOR MUSIC ARTISTS BUT FOR DJ'S, MEDIA, CHURCHES, OUTREACH MINISTRIES, PASTORS AND BEYOND!! SOWING INTO YOUR MINISTRY STARTS WITH YOU! THE SITE IS A TOOL & A PLACE SPECIALIZED & CREATED FOR YOU!! UNITING & SUPPORTING THE SAINTS IN ONE PLACE TO CONNECT TO REACH THE OUTSIDE WORLD TOGETHER!
HOLY JAMZ SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMUNITY IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU!!
IT IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED YOU JOIN HOLY JAMZ FOR ALL YOUR PROMOTIONAL & MARKETING NEEDS! YOUR IN CONTROL.
ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING YOUR MINISTRY OUT THERE? ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT KINGDOM BISINESS? ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT REACHING THE LOST AT ALL COST? THEN WHY NOT GET CONNECTED ON A NETWORK THAT FOCUSES ON YOUR NEEDS?
ALL YOUR PROMOTING, BOOKING, MARKETING AND MINISTRY SOCIAL NETWORKING NEEDS IN THE URBAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE WORLDWIDE ALL IN ONE PLACE! YOU CAN ADD YOUR MUSIC, UPLOAD YOUR VIDEOS, PICTURES AND SO MUCH MORE! GET CONNECTED WITH THE WORLD! HOLY JAMZ IS AN OFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION.
HOLY JAMZ is a Worldwide Urban Christian Culture organization that also coordinates Conferences and Events while offering services such as, booking and promoting Urban Holy Hip Hop and Urban Gospel Music and Ministries that are not in the mainstream through its online social network. Our goal is to reach, teach, and touch the secular world with the Gospel through music. Spreading the Word of God through music is a very powerful tool in reaching lost souls and saving lives. HOLY JAMZ engages the Urban Holy Hip Hop Community and Culture in open honest conversation with audiences and congregations bringing encouragement and sharing knowledge and testimonies of the struggles of daily life as well as providing tools for personal development and spiritual enrichment.
HOLY JAMZ website is a productive tool which unites Urban Gospel artists, Urban Gospel organizations, Ministries, DJ’s, Urban Christian Clothing, Christian Clubs, Outreaches, Music labels, Music Studios, Promoters, Non-Profits, Radio Stations, Churches, Pastors, Media, businesses and beyond together in one location to promote the Urban Christian Culture as well and bring artists together with organizations who are looking to book artists for various events and conferences, labels looking to sign independent artists, and artists looking to promote their music and reach the outside world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. HOLY JAMZ Urban Christian Culture is a unique social networking tool which caters to a worldwide audience within the Urban Christian Culture arena. Unlike other websites HOLY JAMZ is a complete one stop location to accommodate everyone’s needs in the Urban Christian Community worldwide.
Whether a Music Ministry, Band or Solo Artist Holy Jamz will become a major part of your booking, marketing and online promotional efforts. One of the most important factors to consider when spending time on your booking and promotional efforts is that you don't spend too much time on it!! The site will do the work for you!!!! There are people out there looking for YOU! At Holy Jamz the focus is on providing as much booking and promotional help for artists so that they can focus on doing what they do best, playing, ministering and performing music!
HOLY JAMZ is an online URBAN GOSPEL music and ministry community marketing/promoting/booking platform used by artists, managers, record labels, Ministries, Churches and venues specifically within the URBAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE arena to grow and reach, influence, outreach, and expand in business and ministry throughout the world uniting in CHRIST.
Unlike Reverbantion or Sonicbids which is a FREE application but with limited features unless you upgrade to premium services, HOLY JAMZ caters to only the URBAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE & URBAN GOSPEL community and industry worldwide and our mission is in developing Unity for Christ and spreading the Gospel through music that integrate a wide array of distribution, marketing, booking and promotional functions used by the Urban Gospel music industry and ministries into one comprehensive and easy-to-use application and database giving the artists and organizations total control, helping virtually any artist grow in their ministries as well as revenues, and providing a marketing and promoting tool as well as resources to connect with others within the Urban Gospel community. There are so many benefits of being a Holy Jamz member; you have full access at your fingertips of Urban Christian Culture worldwide assessable to you as well as many incentives all in one very small reasonable membership fee. Holy Jamz goal is to assist anyone and everyone in the Urban Christian Culture to grow and expand their ministry and reaching the lost at all cost and having the right tools, resources and connections is important to prosper in your vision God has called you too. In order to be successful it takes Unity in the body of Christ, working together to grow. Another very important aspect that many artists DO NOT know is that sending EPK’s from website’s like Reverbnation or Sonicbids are not at all professional and Promoters, Record Labels, Producers, Media Companies or Organizations will not look at those or have the time to look through those. They want professionalism, and that is something so many artists do not even know how to go about doing, that is where they go wrong and wonder why they don’t get booked and so forth. Holy Jamz along with other professionals in ministry and industry are working on teaching on that subject as well in the near future. So you have to stay tuned in to Holy Jamz! You gotta Join! Holy Jamz put GOD first but we do handle GOD’s business GOD’s way professionally!
COME JOIN & FELLOWSHIP IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE URBAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE WORLDWIDE!
(the us stands for “uniting saints”)
Artists are able to manage their own booking and promotions through the website. Example: If there is a ministry who is must also me a Holy Jamz Member searching for a certain artist or group for an event if that ministry can directly contact the artists and book them directly for their event through the site as well as promote their event as the artist also promotes their music on the site as well. The site is a tool for everyone within the Urban Christian Culture to come together in one place From Gospel R&B to Holy Hip Hop to Choirs to ministries ect to book, market and promote themselves Worldwide catering just to the Urban Christian Culture. I have been handling a lot of the bookings, coordinating events for many artists for years by myself and now things have grown so much and the demand is so high I had to make some changes that will better benefit the artists and the ministries looking for artists. The site just doesn’t care to artist and ministries it caters to the entire Urban Christian Culture, from Clothing lines, Christian businesses who want to market and promote their urban Christian merchandise. There are so many advantages and more features and benefits are coming to the site as we continue to grow. Now is the time to Unite, reach and teach the Youth and spread the Gospel worldwide outside the box and without limitations.
*Please keep in mind that the site is new and that we are still growing, building and adding to the site, so you gotta watch as we bring much more to the site to assist in all your ministry and gospel music promotion needs. As the site grows so will your connections. There is still so much more to come!
Any songs submitted will be forwarded to Holy Jamz Radio Host DJ Chillz for rotation on The Redemption Show if chosen. Artists who want radio on play on a major radio stations must be registered with ASCAP or BMI before tracks can be chosen for rotation per FCC regulations.
PROMOTE, MARKET & MANAGE ALL UR GOSPEL MUSIC & MINISTRY NEEDS ALL IN ONE PLACE! HOLY JAMZ URBAN CHRISTIAN CULTURE SOCIAL NETWORK SITE IS SET UP WITH ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED!! UPLOAD UR MUSIC, VIDS, PICS, EVENTS, GROUPS, FORUMS, BLOGS, MARKETPLACE, LINK TO UR FACEBOOK, ECT ALL UR NEEDS IN ONE PLACE! Reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and CONNECT WITH OTHERS! HOLY JAMZ IS NOT JUST FOR MUSIC ARTISTS BUT FOR DJ'S, MEDIA, CHURCHES, OUTREACH MINISTRIES AND BEYOND!! THE SITE IS A TOOL AND A PLACE SPECIALIZED AND CREATED FOR YOU!! UNITING THE SAINTS IN ONE PLACE TO CONNECT TO REACH THE WORLD TOGETHER!
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? YOU HAVE TO SOW IN ORDER TO GROW.
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High Heels & God's Will Culture
“Long Over Due For The Perfect Time & Season”
I hope this email finds you in good health and receiving all God's best for you. HHGWC Tour had a very successful launch in Tacoma, WA. We are super excited and we are waiting for pictures and video to post which would be out soon. Our Praise and worship leader Trishelle Ruiz and I wait in anticipation to bring you what God has given us in the blend of praise and worship and hip hop. We know that the community will be blessed and would love to see representatives for neighboring churches as well as ministries representatives so that we can come together in the unity and celebration of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ and have a Holy Ghost time. We would love to bring the Tour to your church and speak what God has given us in our hearts and to touch the young ladies and women hearts in your church or ministry. Feel free to contact us Crystal Sherie of C~Rob Music at 619-630-8537 or Cindy Valencia of Holy Jamz at 559-790-1832.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYo_siA6AGk&feature=fvsr (promo video)
The vision of High Heels & God's Will Culture is to speak the heart of God concerning women and embrace all that he has called us to be in Christ. What scriptures reveals to us is (1 Peter 2:9 & Revelations 5:10) He has made us kings and priests unto our God. Most of us function in our priesthood, our daily service our devotional to the Lord but few of us function in the kingly anointing God has also given us. This position "in Christ" simply stated is that we have gained back our authority to be able to do what God commanded us to do in Genesis which is to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth, have dominion. (Genesis 1:27-31) John the Baptist preached the message to repent because the kingdom of God is near(John 3:1), but when Jesus came he manifested the kingdom of God. (Matthew 12:25-28) It appears that in our generation very few of us know that the kingdom was given to us to be released from within us.(Acts 1:8) The songs, “Not The Same Chick" by C~RoB aka Crystal Sherie introduces the audience to this concept and is a declaration that the kingdom is here!" High heels speaks to woman-hood that God has called us to be in every area of our life. I praise God for the opportunity to introduce to some and present to others a "fresh" move of God in High Heels & God's Will Tour, women embracing and celebrating all that God has called them to be in Christ.
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Tim Tebow
In a recent email, I read about a woman named Pam, who knows the pain of considering abortion. More than 24 years ago, she and her husband Bob were serving as missionaries to the Philippines and praying for a fifth child.
Pam contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in contaminated food or drink. She went into a coma and was treated with strong antibiotics before they discovered she was pregnant.
Doctors urged her to abort the baby for her own safety and told her that the medicines had caused irreversible damage to her baby. She refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.
Pam said the doctors didn’t think of it as a life, they thought of it as a mass of fetal tissue.
While pregnant, Pam nearly lost their baby four times but refused to consider abortion. She recalled making a pledge to God with her husband: If you will give us a son, we’ll name him Timothy and we’ll make him a preacher.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and eventually gave birth to a healthy baby boy August 14, 1987. Pam’s youngest son is indeed a preacher. He preaches in prisons, makes hospital visits, and serves with his father’s ministry in the Philippines . He also plays football.
Pam’s son is Tim Tebow
Is Tim Tebow Playing Football Or Bringing Revival?
Something is happening in the Mile High city of Denver
The NFL has not seen anyone like Tim Tebow before, and he makes a lot of people, including Christians, nervous
Tim Tebow is a lot of things. He is a football star, he is a son, he is a virgin, but most importantly he is not ashamed of the testimony of a life lived for Jesus Christ, his Saviour. He is a Christian in the biblical sense of the word. Not paying mere lip service, but backing up his words with the actions of a life being lived for God. He has brought the Lord he has served all his life along with him to the 50 yard line, and the world all of a sudden is getting a dose of the old-fashioned Gospel. God can be funny like that.
Tebow Preached Proverbs 27:17 To Team Night Before Big OT Win
The Mile High Miracle
Tim Tebow's game plan: Trusting the Lord Jesus Christ to work and move in him in a mighty way
“As iron sharpens iron, men sharpen men,” Tebow told the group, loosely quoting Proverbs 27:17.
Do Tebow’s constant references to his Christianity still bother you? Maybe they do. And that’s your prerogative. For what it’s worth, linebacker Von Miller, the havoc-wreaking rookie with 10.5 sacks who is among the biggest reasons for Tebow’s recent success, was inspired by that quote.
Kurt Warner Tells Tim Tebow To Stop Talking About Jesus
Bad Advice
 The Tim Tebow story is truly that of a man on a mission! |
Talking about Jesus makes people nervous. It even makes other Christians nervous sometimes, too. Such is the case with ex-Cardinal QB Kurt Warner, who recently had some advice to give to up and coming Jesus-loving, Denver quarterback Tim Tebow. His advice to the mighty man of God? Stop talking about Jesus. Isn’t it funny that when you really, truly stand for Jesus, the people who attack you? My advice to you, Kurt, is to be quiet yourself and remember the beatdown that the Steelers gave you last time you met in the Super Bowl. And my advice to you, Tim Tebow, is to keep talking about Jesus EXACTLY the way you have been. Don’t change one, single thing. SHOUT IT FROM THE TOP OF THE ASTRODOME that Jesus is coming back soon!! |
Tebow to Plummer: I’ll take every opportunity to praise the Lord
Putting Jesus First
“I look at it as a relationship I have with him, I want to give him the honor and glory every time I get the opportunity,” Tebow said. “And then after I give him the honor and glory I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory, and that’s how it works. Because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates. I respect Jake’s opinion, and I really appreciate his compliment of calling me a winner, but I feel like every time I get the opportunity to give the Lord some praise he is due for it because what he did for me, and what he did on the cross for all of us. I really appreciate his opinion and I respect him, but I still will give all the honor and glory to the Lord because he deserves it.”
Tracking Tim Tebow - this page is dedicated to showing how one NFL quarterback, Tim Tebow, is standing for Jesus Christ in a way that no other professional sports player ever has.
Good grooming should be not only making sure the outside is clean, but should also include internal cleansing by the Holy Spirit to rid us of any negativity that can cloud the path toward our destiny.
“Let It Drive You to Greatness” details how Denver Bronco quarterback, Tim Tebow, used negative comments about him as fuel to catapult him into his destiny. Read this article to find out how you can do the same thing in your life.
“Sagging (Pants) – A Flash From the Past” outlines what I believe is the concept behind why some youth wear sagging pants. Read it and let me know what you think.
In “Instant Mom,” Kim Washington shares how she is raising her nephews since her sister died from cancer earlier this year. And I share how I deal with a personality trait that I’ve battled all my life in “The Voice of an Introvert.”
Holidays are the worst for those of you like me, who have suffered a loss (loved one, job, relationship, etc). For me, it was battling depression after my sister died. Therefore, I decided to reprint the article, “Get Yourself Together,” that appeared in the Summer 2008 issue in hopes that it will encourage you to move forward. I dedicate this issue in loving memory to my sister, Anna and included her photo with the article.
These are just a few highlights of the attached Winter 2011 issue of Press On! Webzine, www.pressonwebzine.com.
By Phenola Moore
I developed earlier than most girls my age. In the 5th grade, I was 5’2” and had the adult physique to go along with the height. Don’t worry, my parents kept a watchful eye on me to make sure my womanly body didn’t rob me of my childhood innocence. :>) Eventually, I would reach 5’8”and my body continued to develop with my height.
Needless to say, children aren’t too kind to others who look outside what they perceive as normal. The taunting and isolation from the popular groups played a toll on my self-esteem that made an indelible mark on my soul. But I didn’t realize the depth of it until I reached adulthood.
In order to release this pain, I wrote down my experiences and how I felt through writing. First, I was inspired to write articles and poems that developed into an online magazine, Press On! Webzine, www.pressonwebzine.com.
And later, I compiled my poems in Reveal the Real You Poetry Collection. There it was in black and white, my internal struggles expressed in poems.
Poems like “Can You Handle the New Me?“ reflects me embracing my self worth as I learned to accept the internal and external me. “A Conversation With Survival,” addressed the inner war I went through after my eldest sister suddenly passed away. “Destiny” reminds us that we are on a journey. And when we think we can’t go any further, “Strength” reminds us of the inner force that pushes us forward. These are just a few of the poems that will inspire you to look within yourself to reveal the real you.
Oprah said during the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” that everybody has a calling and our job is to find out what it is and get to doing it. Writing is my calling and I hope these poems in Reveal the Real You Poetry Collection,” encourage you to push past any obstacles and walk in yours.
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Visit the author website http://www.pressonwebzine.com.
Poetry reading from \”Reveal and Real Poetry Collection\” titled \”A Conversation With Survival\”
Like a blind man who walks the earth so fufilling
he walk strong and stand tall
With God willing.
Physically he stumbles and tumbles
As that virus kill'em
Spiritually he carries on uncontested, weeping and tearing
The sun rises and he feels a strong presence within it.
For no journey gained without hurt or pain is unfulfilling.
The courage to keep moving on
The devil can never steal it.
Destination unknown, no mission given
Forever he walks strong, all sins forgiving.
A child of the lord has been cast aside
Due to a long term secret that she kept inside
The one she once called father crept up inside
Planted his essence (baby girl shushes plz don't cry)
This is all your mothers fault letting out a sigh. (why "O" why)
I will forgive no man is what she screams inside.
Wraps up a blanket and throws it outside. Her pulse now dim and cold. She calls out lord
my existence is TORMENT as the wind blows gentley across her cheek
As though the lord had touched her soul.
For no journey gained without hurt or pain is unfulfilling.
The courage to keep moving on
The devil can never steal it.
Destination unknown, no mission given
Forever she walks strong, all sins forgiving.
There lives a young boy who has no feelings. Aching for a fathers touch, guidance, wisdom.
The understanding of woman or humble never given. All he came to know are hoes and bitches.
Though his mother was around he still became vindictive.
For she can only give a point of view never MANS lesson.
Forced to learn from a uneasy environment.
This young boy soon became a statistic in society.
Only until his mothers passing did he come to understand.
As he cryed to the lord to give his mother back. A tear froze in its tracks.
For no journey gained without hurt or pain is unfulfilling
The courage to keep moving on the devil can never still it.
Destination unknown, no mission given forever he walks strong all sins forgiven
(LORD SPEAKS)
The storm shall pass just you listen
I shall not alter my final decisions. For no journey gained without hurt or pain is unfulfilling.
Neither in him, her or yours existence. But child of the lord plz listen for your serenity is within distance.
By - Roddney Addison
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Hearing from God is something we all want to experience more and more. How do I hear God and how can I hear Him better? Here are some reflections which I hope will be helpful.
Hearing God...recognizing His voice is !he thing we all want to be able to do AND do better. You are not alone! It is the heart cry of the human spirit and a very healthy sign of spiritual life within you. So.....be encouraged!
We must start by going back to the beginning of time and creation.
When God created Adam and Eve He created them in perfection. That means that their sense of knowing and recognising Him was perfect also. The relationship they had together and with the Father was a reflection of the 'Oneness' that He had within the Godhead (God family) of Father, Son (known only as the Christ before He became a man and was ever then to be known as Jesus Christ) and the precious Holy Spirit. The relationship between them was perfect.......no disharmony, no arguments or disagreements, no tension or competition, every person of the Trinity desperately loving each other and ..."in honour preferring one another". Romans 12 tells us this in that He never asks us to do what He doesn't do Himself. The relationship they had with Adam and Eve was perfect too. The relationship between God and man was perfect. Adam heard God clearly, without any misunderstanding or ambiguity because there was nothing between them to mar that communication. They WERE 'one' just as the ! Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit were 'One'. This was what Jesus longs for us to know again today. Jn 17 v 21 and 23 tells us that His heart cry is ..."that we may be one just as He is 'One', He in us and we in Him and we, in relationship as His children, with each other.....complete and utter unity... in the power and spirit of His love.
Then sin came into the world through Adam's disobedience and that relationship was polluted. Adam lost that intuitive 'knowing' of God, of hearing His voice and knowing His ways.
The great news is....that Jesus by His death and resurrection has regained that relationship for us by making us 'sons and daughters' again. He has 'adopted' us back into His family. We are no longer 'orphans' but true sons and as 'sons and daughters' can learn to hear Him and know Him like Adam again. THERE IS JUST ONE PROBLEM! We still live in an unredeemed creation and a society filled with negative and 'loud' voices that distract and pollute the spiritual airwaves and which does make hearing Him more 'challenging!' (Some would say 'difficult') AND of course there are the ' spiritual authorities in heavenly places' (fallen angles, demon spirits) that we also are battling against. REMEMBER THOUGH... WE DO HAVE THE VICTORY.... however challenging. I prefer to say challenging because with God ..."all things are possible" and He has done all on the cross to restore it all for us. It just takes a little determination and a heart that truly seeks the Lord
The bible tells us..."Seek Me and you will truly find Me". We are also actually told that we can 'see' Him for He says that the "pure in heart shall see God". But there is a dilemma here because the bible says that it is impossible to see God and live. That is true because no flesh can see God and live. BUT if the 'flesh' in a spiritual sense has been " crucified with Christ" Gal 2 v 20 then there is no flesh alive to die. The secret is here! We must lay our all on the altar, no longer living from and for the flesh and seek Him with all our heart. The answer is in our heart response not in our actions or works. Right in the beginning He said we were to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your strength". That alone qualifies us. King David despite His adultery and sin was called "a man after God's own heart" Wow!
So.......What does that mean for us today?
We can be assured that:
1) It is God's desire that we know Him and speak to Him and hear Him talking to us...ideally just like Adam
2) We do live in a hostile environment so there are challenges to this learning process
3) We need to always be seeking Him with all our heart and walking in righteousness, turning from the world and all its persuasive attractions
4) Recognise that God speaks through many different media. Here are some...a) in the quietness of our spirits, our 'heart' the spiritual centre of our being. Learning to meditate and quieten our spirits is so important b) in a spoken voice at rare times heard either outside our being or clearly in our head c) through His Word interpreted to us by His Spirit. The more we learn His Word the more He can remind us of what He has already said etc d) through Christian books we read or songs we hear e) through sermons in church e) through observation of nature/creation...it talks of His power, love, creativity and care f) through conversations with other people, christian and non believers alike.
ITS ALL ABOUT SENSITIVITY and sensitivity is relative to our intimacy with Him.
So, finally...I would encourage you to seek Him from the yearning of your heart, passionately, and IT WILL HAPPEN and your sensitivity will increase. Jesus said "I am the Good Shepherd and I know My sheep and My sheep know My voice". It will become increasingly more easy as you pursue Him! It is the product of intimacy with Him.
Lastly....let me finish by relating a conversation I had with the Lord some time ago.
I was starting to get up very early in the morning in obedience to seek His face. I felt that He was asking me to believe that as I sat at the table before Him I would hear Him speak to me. So I got a empty writing book and pen and sat there waiting. I was going to write down everything!
So many thoughts were going through my mind. Could I actually expect Him to speak to me? Would it be in my mind....Yes... most probably, but how would I know it was Him? How would I discern between what I presumed to be my thoughts and His thoughts? I needed to know!
"Lord" I said " How can I tell?"
Then in my mind I heard Him ask ME a question.
" Do you have the mind of Christ?"
Wow I thought. Yes the bible tells me that that is so if I am His child.
"Have you done what My Word says and made all thought captive to Christ?"
"Yes Lord" I replied
"Well then" He said, "You have no alternative but to believe that 1) the first thought is MY thought so I'm speaking to you 2) the second thought is your own insecurity speaking as you question it and 3) the third thought is the devil trying to unsettle, confuse and deceive you"
IT WAS SIMPLE. Trust your first thought!
So my friend....Trust your own spiritual intuition. He wants it to be simple! You have His Spirit within You. You are His Child but be patient with yourself as you are learning to listen and begin to trust yourself and what you think He is saying. When making a decision for any action trust the first thought, the gut reaction etc!
One rider....If you are still worried about what you think you hear, then check out with His Word (He never contradicts His Word), ask for an opinion from another bible centred Christian, or just wait in case He has more to say over the weeks ahead before you act.
He says " Let the spirit of peace be your judge" So if you have no peace just wait!
Remember however ...What you heard may most probably NOT BE WRONG! It just needed clarifying, enlarging or the timing was just not right.
God bless
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Co Director of TOM
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