I’ve shared a few instances of how I’ve seen God move in powerful ways this year.\u00a0 These experiences have caused me to expect that any time I go to church or pray I will have an encounter with Him.\u00a0 I think this is a good position of faith to be in, after all, if you enter into the presence of the most Holy of holies, why shouldn’t you have an experience?\u00a0 However, I realize that people do go through seasons of time when they have difficulty hearing the voice of God or feeling his presence.\u00a0 I don’t know why this is, but I do know that we should be able to operate from a position of faith to carry us through these times; not wither up and die spiritually.<\/p>\n
One of the times in the prayer room I was getting frustrated that I didn\u2019t feel like I was hearing from God.\u00a0 I had been praying for quite a while but just didn\u2019t feel like I was getting anything out of it.\u00a0 Then God spoke to me and said something to the effect of \u201clife with me can\u2019t be about supernatural miracles or revelations all the time, you also need to spend time in the Word and on your knees interceding for others.\u201d<\/p>\n
What can I say?\u00a0 I was put in my place.\u00a0 He\u2019s absolutely right, God has already revealed himself in the Word, and has given us commands on what we are to do be doing in this world.\u00a0 We need to be doing those things all the time, not just on special occasions or times in the prayer room.\u00a0 I received it as someone who was just told no, but knew there was truth in the statement and that it was for my benefit.<\/p>\n
But what\u2019s even more cool was that same week this same message was given to our youth minister and to a young man in our church, who is 18 years old but has the faith of a 40 year old, if that make sense.\u00a0 Both of them shared testimonies about their revelations with the church.\u00a0 The young man added a closely related thought that I thought was very profound and wanted to commit to memory, thus I\u2019m writing it here:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can have faith, but if you don\u2019t have obedience, nothing is going to happen!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n We need to be obedient to do the things we have been taught and called to do, whether we feel like we are being spiritually rewarded at that time or not.\u00a0 This is important Kingdom work and a time for our own development.<\/p>\n And conversely, you can have faith to move mountains, but if you don\u2019t have obedience to act or speak boldly when God calls you to do something, nothing <\/strong>will happen.<\/p>\n Faith and obedience are both critical if you want to see God move in your life.\u00a0 Don\u2019t discount God just because something isn\u2019t happening in your time line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve shared a few instances of how I’ve seen God move in powerful ways this year.\u00a0 These experiences have caused me to expect that any time I go to church or pray I will have an encounter with Him.\u00a0 I think this is a good position of faith to be in, after all, if you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-f3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1857,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/god-gives-good-hugs","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":0},"title":"God gives good hugs","author":"Nate","date":"February 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the last couple of years I\u2019ve been learning that God delights when we come to him with expectation and anticipation.\u00a0 I think our tendency is to come to God with a shallow hope, like a peasant coming to a king hoping the king will grant his request.\u00a0 But the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Faith"","block_context":{"text":"Faith","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/faith"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/testimony.jpg?fit=512%2C341&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":962,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/living-on-the-edge","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":1},"title":"Living on the edge?","author":"Nate","date":"January 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been reading Bill Johnson's \"When Heaven Invades Earth\", which is a great book about the power the Holy Spirit makes available to Christians for the purpose of revealing God's nature and love to the world.\u00a0 One paragraph struck me, challenges me to look at my life, faith,\u00a0and my priorities.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Faith"","block_context":{"text":"Faith","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/faith"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6845,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/a-presence-test","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":2},"title":"A Presence Test","author":"Becca","date":"February 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I posted last week about my focus word for the year, presence. 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