Think About Your Future

Today I came back here and read things I had written about God.

I’ll tell you something funny. When you write things under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and then you come back and read them again, it’s as powerful as reading scripture. After all, the Bible was written by men, inspired by the Holy Spirit. God didn’t come down and pick up a quill and write Acts and Hebrews.

Anything God says is “the word of the Lord,” even if he says it today. Does that sound like blasphemy? Well, let me ask you this: does God wear a gag?

Can God still speak? If so, then the word of God can continue flowing, and if it can continue flowing, it can be written down.

I’ll wait now and see if lightning hits me.

No; I’m good. We can continue.

If you have Spirit-given discernment, you will be able to tell revelation from nonsense. You should be able to look at the Koran and The Book of Mormon and realize they’re hoaxes. You should be able to look at books by people like Larry Huch and T.D. Jakes and realize they’re wrong. On the other hand, you should be able to tell when something is correct. So don’t be afraid of new revelation. Unless you’re also blind and deaf. Which is probably the case at the moment. Very few people have built themselves up.

I’m not saying you should print out my blog and call it scripture. Think of all the crazy things I’ve said. But there are some useful things here.

The Bible talks about “meditating” on the word of God. That refers to repetition. Yes, Jesus said not to engage in vain repetition, but not all repetition is vain. If you repeat phrases and sentences from the Bible, and you have Holy Spirit perception, you will feel things changing inside you. New understanding and power will come.

This works when you repeat stuff you see in the Bible, and it also works when you repeat things God has told you privately.

Okay, yes, the Bible cautions us about private interpretation. Arggh. That doesn’t mean God doesn’t tell you things in private. If you ask God to tell you where your keys are, do you think he has to tell everyone on the planet? Come on.

I can almost feel the misguided nitpicking start when I write a sentence.

People who aren’t Spirit-led need to be quiet. One of the purposes of hell is to silence them forever. You can’t have peace while you’re contending with puffed-up people who think they know more than they do. And heaven is peaceful.

Try this. The next time a word from God makes an impression on you, sit quietly and repeat it to yourself 40 or 50 times. See what happens. Look for things like new understanding or changes in the way you feel. It will happen, unless you’re spiritually dead.

When I come back here and go back over things God told me to write, it’s like looking at something someone else wrote. Part of that is age, but even if I remember writing it, it still has new life, just like the passages I re-read in the Bible.

You can’t be Spirit-led if God can’t tell you things outside of the printed page, and he can’t tell you things if you don’t listen. You can’t listen if no one speaks, so speak to yourself.

God tells me useful stuff. A lot of it is highly disturbing. A day or two back, he moved me to ask him to show me how I was fighting him.

How do you react to a thing like that? You think you’re on God’s side, or at least you tell yourself that, and then he tells you to ask him to list the areas where you’re fighting him.

I don’t want to think about that. It’s intimidating, because it could be discouraging. It’s a serious jolt to my pride. And part of me thinks, “Do I really want to change all these things? Do I have to be that good? Do I have to give up so much?” Will I have to get rid of cable TV and the Internet and go live in a hut in the wilderness?

I gave in and asked him, though. I hate the devil, and I am disgusted with the flesh, and I want to see them put in their place. I am tired of being undermined and attacked from behind. I don’t care what I have to give to God; I want to see my enemies suffer instead of me.

A friend came over for a prayer session today, and we talked about the big increase in revelation we’re seeing. We both had the same feeling about it: it suggests that something is about to happen.

The normal response to increased revelation from God would be gratitude and maybe amazement, and we felt those things, but the thing that made the biggest impression on us was the sense of portent.

If God is suddenly releasing information, and that information is of a type highly suited to the needs of people who will face persecution combined with destabilization of nations, it would seem to imply that things are coming to a head.

You could argue that God’s revelation has been available since the crucifixion, but who has been paying attention for the last two millennia? Almost no one has received anything. The mainstream churches have done a thorough job of killing the power of Christianity. They have substituted fantasies and guesses for useful information about God. They prevented people from receiving revelation.

Our deafness left us feeble and unprepared. Fifty years ago, we were headed for two possible outcomes: total destruction caused by ignorance, and a helpful jump start from God. He gave us the jump start.

I don’t want to get ahead of God. That’s for cultists. They panic and decide the world will end on a certain day, and the first thing you know, they’re drinking poisoned grape drink in the jungle. That’s not good. But if you’re a Christian, you have to believe the world will have an end. It had a beginning, and the enterprise will some day conclude. Eventually, someone will say the world is ending, and instead of an embarrassing continuation of the status quo, we will see the apocalypse unfold. So I can’t discount what I feel, especially as my connection with the Holy Spirit improves.

I feel increasingly disconnected with the human world. It’s starting to look sort of unimportant. The things that get us stirred up appear increasingly silly.

I am losing respect for human institutions like government. I feel like my involvement with them should be aimed principally at placating them and keeping them from bothering me. I don’t want to get sucked back into the mosh pit. The world reminds me of Black Friday at Wal-Mart.

I don’t want to contribute to political campaigns or join blog crusades. I want to think about permanent, important things. I want to think about my future, which is not on this earth.

This is a healthy outlook. One of the most crippling symptoms of immaturity is an irrational obsession with remaining alive.

Everyone dies. If I manage to get another 35 years, I’ll be doing great, but 35 years ago seems like a minute, and that means I have a minute or less left. Less, because time passes faster now. It’s a mistake to invest myself in it.

I don’t want to end up like Madonna or Cher, paying doctors to paste me together and dressing in age-inappropriate clothes while I pretend to be young. At its best, this life was not that great. When I’m 85 and my memory, eyesight, hands, and teeth are failing, it will be like a dirty paper towel I really want to throw away.

You’re going to die, too. Everything you build on this earth is going to be destroyed. No one will care about your accomplishments a thousand years from now. If you get too caught up in earthly affairs, you’ll be like Peaked in High School Rob Lowe.

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I’ve often thought Satan was like a person who peaked in high school. He loves trinkets and costume jewelry. He has the values of a two-year-old. He wrote the Koran; no wonder the Muslim afterlife looks like a high school boy designed it. Stuff yourself, stay drunk, have sex with women and young boys…you might as well go to Thailand. Why go to heaven if you remain immature?

I remember watching a “Christian” seminar salesman named Brian Klemmer, claiming he had a 500-year plan for his life. He was trying to convince a crowd of churchgoers to buy expensive Werner Erhard-style seminars. It was just sales talk, and when he died shortly thereafter from a torn neck artery, I doubt he gave the plan a thought. I thought he was foolish, and I don’t want to sound like him. I am not claiming I have a plan for the afterlife. But God has given me some clues on how to get ready, so I am using them.

Klemmer actually fooled a lot of Christians. Check out the prices on his seminars, if they’re still available. Ask yourself if God sent someone here to teach EST instead of Christianity, for that kind of money, when Jesus and the Apostles taught the real thing for nothing.

If Klemmer had not used classic Scientology-style tiered pricing for his seminars (It’s free! Did you like it? The next one costs $300!), I might be able to treat him with some respect.

You’re going to die. It’s going to happen sooner than you think. Your life here is as good as over, and if you’re a Christian, there’s a fair chance you will be required to give up your life voluntarily.

The God-haters will get more power. Today they’re happy if you bake a wedding cake. Tomorrow, they’ll tell you to renounce God or die. You’ll need to improve yourself substantially if you want to pass that test. You really don’t want the consequences of giving in.

Among gays, there is a widespread preoccupation with youth. It was one of the things that drove gay mass shooter Vester Flanagan to kill. He was infuriated because he had gotten fat and dumpy, and other men no longer looked at him with lust or paid attention to him.

Interesting.

Keep praying in the Spirit. Keep listening. Ask God to help you love correction.

It’s the mature thing to do.