TOO MUCH TALKING AND NOT ENOUGH WALKING 5/06/09

A member of our QW class shared that she kept hearing the phrase, “Everybody's talking about a new way of walking.”

As I read her statement I thought of a phrase the Lord once told me: “There's too much talkin and not enough walkin it out."

Perhaps the reason we are stuck between the old and the new is that we are not walking or moving past our past. We have a closet and drawer principle in our home. If we don't have enough room to buy the new thing, then we have to get rid of the old thing first. It's pretty hard to walk in the old and new wine skin at the same time.

Luke 5:36-39

Then He spoke a parable to them: "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. 39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"

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8/1/98 GOD HAS A PURPOSE FOR EVERY SHAKING

HEARD: Expectation. Opened eyes. Higher level of faith. Level of faith. Shake, rattle and roll. He has a purpose for each step. From end to end I will fulfill all My promises. Too much talking, not enough walking it out.

APPLICATION: When things shake around us, God uses it to draw us to Him and take us higher in our levels of faith. Sometimes we just have to walk through things for our faith to grow.

Heb 12:25-29 NKJV

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven." 27 Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken , as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken , let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

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WORDS TO PONDER ABOUT LEARNING THROUGH EXPERIENCE

THE LONG WAY AROUND 9/17/97

Sometimes you become frustrated by laboriously walking through a series of circumstances before you find My heart in a matter, when you think the simplest way would have been to hear My “yes” or “no.” I have specialized training for everything that happens in your life. In this instance, what I want you to learn needs to be deeper than head knowledge, or facts that you can call up from some data base of information. When you learn by experience, it slows down the process so that you will not skip necessary steps, otherwise unlearned. You are better able to learn about the issues on a deeper level. When you learn slower, it keeps you from making accidents in your conclusions and choices, and you become more responsible for having walked through the steps involved. So perhaps you think that you may have walked a needless circle of events, but I see them as training for days to come.

“Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren…” (Deut 4:9-10 NKJV)

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ADOPTIVE PARENTS 9/30/03

I am raising up godly teachers who will be like adoptive parents. There will be a huge demand for their teaching gifts when the fish net is full of new believers and is emptied out. You have heard the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and he has food for a day. Teach a person to fish, and he has food for a lifetime.” This is My heart.

This teaching concept is the opposite of lectures and theories. Instead it is “how to learning,” by being teaching examples and letting the students learn by having their own similar experiences. The young will learn My ways and voice by watching these parents model their own relationship with Me, then they will mimic it themselves until they develop their own skills. My precious fish will learn quickly and be able to maneuver in fast waters.

I will bond the adoptive parents with their children and visa versa. There will be great nurturing and appreciation sent straight from My own heart and living through My own ones.

“Listen, my child, to what your father teaches you. Don't neglect your mother's teaching. What you learn from them will crown you with grace and clothe you with honor.” (Prov 1:8-9 NLT)