“God Speaks in Many Ways”
Steve Martin
July 25, 2019
Greetings friends of Love For His People ministry,
We all want to hear from the Lord, whether
we actively seek Him daily or call upon His Name when the going gets tough.
Hopefully, we don’t just wait until those times.
When I wrote this following “Now Think
On This” message in November of 2017, I had just “retired” from an accounting job
I had held for the previous five years and was ready for the new adventure I believed
the Lord had in store for me.
A taste of what I wrote, back then, which holds just as true today for you and me.
“I give thanks that the
Lord speaks to us. I rejoice that each of us can hear, see and feel His
presence in the way that we can best relate to Him.
The Lord God Almighty,
Creator of the Universe, choses to show Himself to us, individually and also
collectively (see those signs in the heavens lately???) in ways that we can
know for certain that He is living, He is active, and He wants us to know Him
personally, being the Father that He is.
Need a word from the
Lord? Ask Him even now. And be prepared to receive His unique way of speaking
to your heart, your spirit, even your body, in a way that you can know for
certain of His love for you. Trust me, He will.”
As an update, the one who had been hired
to take my place left the position, actually walked off the job with no notice,
after a year and a half being there. And as of a month ago, I am back working in
uptown Charlotte to give much-appreciated assistance to my former boss. (I also am maintaining my account's position at Antioch International Church in Fort Mill, SC two days a week.)
Not only is it helping them at a critical
time in their accounting year, with the annual audit coming up, but it is just another
way the Lord is providing for my bi-annual trips to Israel!
Yes, Lord!
Read below and be encouraged again. Or after
reading for the first time.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People ministry
Charlotte, NC USA
He Speaks In Many Ways
Steve Martin
“Give
ear and hear my voice, listen and hear my speech.” (Isaiah 28:23, NKJV)
The Lord didn’t stop
creating after the first seven days of creation. In fact, He likes being
creative in how He speaks with us. He chooses to do that in many ways.
Each one of us hears
differently. Each one receives from others in ways that may not be the same to
the others.
There was a book written
several years ago describing how each person receives love by unique methods,
unlike what another may prefer. That is because we are all specially created.
Each one of us has been put together and gifted with special receptions through
our senses. Because of His amazing mind, and His continuing loving thoughts
toward us, they come our way as such.
I can say that is how
the Lord ministers to us as individuals, in His speaking to us. One of His
delights in His relationship with us, as an individual, is through Him using
creative ways. And each one of us will hear and respond accordingly.
Ever hear the story of
the spider web in the corner of the red barn? (Having been raised in the center
of America in the Midwest, in Iowa no less, I did!) When three different people
looked at the insect hanging high above in the rafters, one person said
immediately, “Kill the spider.” Another grabbed a camera and took different
shots from different angles, noting the symmetry and beauty of the spun web.
And yet another said to leave it alone, for it was catching bugs that we don’t
want around anyway.
Each one perceived and
responded differently to what they saw, because each of us have unique
qualities about and within us. The Lord, the One who created these in us, has
even chosen to share His thoughts to us in ways that we can relate to, based on
our makeup.
For me, I like numbers.
I guess I always have, even when I would go buy a candy bar as a little kid and
base the choice purchase on the weight of the bar, getting more for the money,
rather than if I really liked one better than another. I know, I know. But
that’s the way I have been created.
Because of this numbers
thing, here is a true story that occurred the day I retired from my
Accountant’s job (surprised?!) on October 31, 2017. It reveals how the Lord
loves to speak to me in a way that I fully comprehend.
As I drove that early
Tuesday morning (6:00 am) north on I77 interstate in North Carolina, from my
home in Pineville to my job in center city Charlotte, I knew that my odometer
would hit “8888” on the way. That in itself meant something to me. Here the
Lord was going to have my car, a Hyundai Elantra, turn the mileage reading over
to that specific number on my last day before my retirement. (I turn 63 on
Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2017.)
Knowing that the number
“8” in the Judeo-Christian Bible represents “new beginnings”, I was so looking
forward to this day, this month, this year in my life’s journey. He knows that
numbers are a big thing in my life - clocks, spreadsheets, calendars – you get
the point. And that is how He was speaking to me.
What made this extra
special was the fact that at Exit 8, Remount Road to be exact on the
interstate, was the one I came up to when the odometer turned over to “8888.”
Now isn’t that something! I can’t make this stuff up!
The fact that my Lord
Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, chose to speak to me in this way was even more
extra special. With four eights, “8888”, in front of my eyes on the dashboard
when the odometer turned over at Exit 8, now there were “5” eights. This said
to me that this day marked a new season of my life, and that the five eights
represented the extra grace (5 means grace) that would start me off in this new
beginning. And not only to begin afreash, but complete, the full purpose and
calling on my life.
The Lord God Almighty, Creator of the Universe,
choses to show Himself to us, individually and also collectively (see those
signs in the heavens lately???) in ways that we can know for certain that He is
living, He is active, and He wants us to know Him personally, being the Father
that He is.
Need a word from the Lord? Ask Him even now. And
be prepared to receive His unique way of speaking to your heart, your spirit,
even your body, in a way that you can know for certain of His love for you.
Trust me, He will.
Shalom
and ahava (peace and love in Hebrew).
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People,
Inc.
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