Want to know how to hear the Lord and His voice?  Of course, we all need to know if what we hear is Him, us or darkness speaking.  When we understand how to recognize Him and His voice we then become much more secure in our decisions.  We know we have heard His encouragement to proceed or to stop.  We still have the decision to obey or ignore Him and His desires. 
Let me share a testimony from one student in class.  She said, " The local shootings of five individuals in our rural community was really close to my oldest daughter and grandkids.  The capture and shooting last night was one block away from their home.  God showed me when I was praying in the Spirit a hedge of protection and the blood of Jesus over them.  It was like a mother hen as she wraps her wings around her chicks and nothing (no weapons formed) can see them--the wings are for protection.  Praise God for protection."  This learning to hear the Lord gave her great peace in a horrible situation.  She said normally I would get in the car and go there immediately, but I knew that all was well because I saw the picture the Lord sent to me.  This is how we can live daily.  We don't know the next situation that will come our way but we do know that the love of our Father is what we need to make it through.

One of the most wonderful things about the prophetic is that it can see through things.  I love it when are real seerer speaks out a word to me that just brings clarity and confirmation.  We are not to follow after the prophetic to get words but when we do get them we need to write them down, read over and over, and pray about how this will proceed in your life. 
I recently read a great book that helped give clearer vision to what the Lord is doing right now.  "From Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship" by Jack Frost.  What a NOW TIME book!  When we get it we will see harvest as never before.  I encourage you to order it and be surprised by the breakthroughs you will see.

Have you felt lately that things are just too confusing?  Is all the change coming too fast and life seems to be caving in on you?  Well keep your head up as things are begining to move forward.  Whenever it seems that you feel like quiting it is just when the very things you have been praying for are at the door.  Never quit or stop moving forward in Jesus.  His Kingdom is advancing and those who are religious and cold are dropping away daily.  Keep the passion for the Lord hot and watch Him work in ways you have never seen before.

Such a time of turmoil!  On every side people are self destructing.  In the political world, church world, family world, etc., it seems that those who pretend to be something that they are not are having a difficult time holding the lies together.  When you pretend to love the Lord, but it is only a front that you put on, your sweetness starts to turn bitter as you cannot continue to keep the phony into position.  It seems it is rampant at this time as if the tornadoes in the midwest are just a natural picture of the tornadoes in peoples hearts.  Keep your eyes open as destruction is soon behind their decisions.  Broken dreams, broken marriages, broken health, etc. as the shame that is deep within begins to manifest in the natural.  
But those of the Truth, the ones with real joy and pure hearts will see greater abundance, fruitfulness, and peace while destruction lays all around.  Keep your hearts pure with blessing those that harm you and giving forgiveness quickly.  Live in the light of His love, at the altitude of mercy, in the landscape of "He maketh me to lay down in green pastures".  Love to all and see yourself wrapped in His Love!  

Do you question so much today? Do you wonder am I doing the right thing?  What is the best decision?  Well today we have a vast need for confidence.  Many are questioning why am I going through this situation.  I would encourage you to check out the following books.  I have heard this author speak in person and he has much to give.  The Confidence Makeover is an excellent book as I read it when I was launching out in a new endeavor.  I started my own company at the age of 58 years old.  I needed confidence to make the day to day decisions in order to develop the agency I had dreamed of.

Sometimes we get so involved with trying to be a Christian that we forget the wonder of the cross.  We are to be in Him rather than become consumed by doing for Him.  Yes doing His will is wonderful and His will is to be His, be in Him, love Him, rest in Him, and "to obey is better than sacrifice".  His love for us is so consuming that sometimes we have feel like we have to earn it, but not so.  How could anyone love us this much!! It is amazing but true!!

How about just believing for your relatives, this season, to come out of blindness and deafness of the spirit.  We serve an awesome God who is able to save to the utmost.

Everyone is wanting to get back to the environmental way of life.  A healthy living style with simple basics.  Let's apply that same desire to the truth of this season.  This season of giving was put into place by the remembrance of the greatest gift given, Jesus.  Many try to steal this season with their own decorations, songs and stories.  They then try to push the nativity out of the way, take Merry Christmas out of our language, and now even remove red and green colors from schools.  They want to put their decor on the court house lawns and stop the nativity.  So do that but pick another day out of the 365 instead of grabbing Christmas and then shouting "foul, we want diversity".  Diversify on another day, we don't care but stop trying to push our original celebration out of  the way.  We are givers and we will gladly give you room to express, but why is it that you want our original day of celebration.  Let's go back to the basics of Bethlehem and let's clean up our spiritual environment to keep this season healthy in it's original intent.  One group wanted their "Tree of Knowledge" put up in the displays but I have not ever seen anyone of the tree of knowledge group be givers and celebrators just parasitical on our giving celebration of heaven's gift.  So let's all encourage our neighbors and family to be "green" and environmentally basic to the history of this season and celebration.  Jesus is King and Lord of ALL!