tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post1992799765099620227..comments2024-03-12T10:35:54.578-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: Dilemmas Of A ProphetMichael Boldea Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09695469447648193872noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-21374317587318010932008-02-02T04:12:00.000-06:002008-02-02T04:12:00.000-06:00Hi Amy - sometimes the Lord just wants us to be st...Hi Amy - sometimes the Lord just wants us to be still, and He can easily do something radical to make us stay where He wants us!! I relate to your experience.<BR/>True words of encouragement to persevere, Brother Andrew, thanks.<BR/>Thank you Michael. If we look at the world around, where things are coming to a close at breakneck speed, there are still times to ask "Lord, will you bring about justice soon?" We feel pain when the Lord is mocked and blasphemed. We feel shame when the false church lives in blatant sin and error before the world....how long Lord? But He is faithful and He will fulfil His Word.<BR/>God bless Michael.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-80126181998875220092008-01-26T21:40:00.000-06:002008-01-26T21:40:00.000-06:00Chris - I am in Wyoming and yes, I do have a warm ...Chris - I am in Wyoming and yes, I do have a warm place and food. :) My neighbor (a mile away) bought me a new battery and put it in for me today. Provision to pay half my propane bill also just came from several sources, and there are a couple more weeks for the rest to come, before I'll need to order the tank filled again. If not, I have wood. God is good!Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12165608079884776359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-67433484943934782402008-01-25T23:18:00.000-06:002008-01-25T23:18:00.000-06:00Amy:I don't know who you are or where, but I'm tha...Amy:<BR/><BR/>I don't know who you are or where, but I'm thankful that you have a warm place, and I assume something to eat, while your battery thaws! You are not alone, and you know that, and that's awesome.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14845269510796236100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-40004552834906913852008-01-25T00:31:00.000-06:002008-01-25T00:31:00.000-06:00I don't know if anyone will come back here to read...I don't know if anyone will come back here to read this, but I just wanted to thank whoever may have prayed for me regarding the dilemma I described above and give you something to laugh at. The Father answered me when I went out to my Jeep and the battery was dead and I could not get anyone to help me until today. That was fine for last night, but this morning, in case I wasn't sure it was okay to stay home again, the Father made sure when it turned out my Jeep's battery was literally frozen - as in frost on the top of the cells and the sides of the battery literally bulging out - so that it was impossible to even jump start or charge it. This battery has not had trouble starting even at 25 below a few days ago (brother Michael, when you talked about it being cold and huddling by the wood stove, waiting for the Internet to work and the power to come back, I know exactly what that is about... along with deep snow and wind to knock you off your feet). My neighbor pulled the battery out for me and set it in my mudroom next to the baseboard heater, which I cranked up, I guess just in case. In case!? In case what?! I called both the NAPA store and Jeep dealership in town (town being 25 miles away) to find out if it was worth thawing it and trying to charge it, and they had never heard of such a thing happening in real life and both places told me if I tried to charge it I should be as far away from it as possible when I plug the charger in, either that or put it back under the hood and close the hood and stand back. (Can you see that scenario?) It is now 12 hours later, and that battery is still frozen, in fact when I put my hand near it, I can feel a cold draft coming off it despite the fact that that little room feels like a sauna at 72 degrees. This may only be obvious to me, but I knew very well that I was not supposed to try something like rebuke the enemy off my battery and then risk exploding it, but that it could only be the Lord's sense of humor and clear way of not only telling me the door wasn't open for me to go anywhere yesterday, today, and probably tomorrow and the weekend, but yes, I'm free to cease and desist. :) Because there will be no new battery unless He provides it. I have $8. Anyway, I hope this made someone laugh with me, because sometimes I feel very alone in winter and wonder what in the world is being produced by it - winter physically and spiritually. Please pray that I will keep believing and not doubt the Lord's promise to provide for my daily needs and a large propane bill that's overdue. And that I will stay where He has me until His purpose is fully accomplished no matter how bad the cabin fever gets! :) Thank you again for praying.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12165608079884776359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-6312747135587243952008-01-24T20:39:00.000-06:002008-01-24T20:39:00.000-06:00Hi Michael,Welcome back.When I read that line "the...Hi Michael,<BR/>Welcome back.<BR/>When I read that line "the jsut shall live by faith" it translated in my mind that "I will just have to trust Him". How true. Faith is being able to trust that God is who He says He is and will do that which He says He will do.<BR/><BR/>In His Grace,<BR/>joyceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-23994499113790442132008-01-24T01:28:00.000-06:002008-01-24T01:28:00.000-06:00Brother Michael,I think we have all found ourselve...Brother Michael,<BR/><BR/>I think we have all found ourselves in Habakkuk's shoes asking these questions at one time or another. God's response is succinct and it would do us all well to meditate on His words.<BR/><BR/>If we live by faith, being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see, we also know from Scripture that the Lord has appointed a day to judge the world in righteousness. At the moment, we see with our natural eyes, the wheat and the tares growing up together, but if we look by faith with our spiritual eyes, we see Him who is coming and who will not delay until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. The great day of the harvest is yet to come when the wheat will be separated from the tares and the sheep from the goats.<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, we are not to let our hearts envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 23:17). This should not be too difficult, since we know by faith, what the plight of the sinners will be. And if the righteous scarcely be save where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (1 Peter 4:18)<BR/><BR/>It seems that the prophet Malachi and the people of his day also wrestled with this same dilemma. Malachi 3:14-18 reads, "You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.' "<BR/><BR/>Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name. <BR/><BR/>"They will be mine," says the LORD Almighty, "in the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.<BR/><BR/>Let us all pray that we may be found in God's book of remembrance. The day of reckoning is coming very soon upon all who live in the earth. As Paul admonised the Philippian believers, "Do all things wthout murmurings and disputings; that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." (Philippians 3:14-16)<BR/><BR/>Father, help us not to be slothful or envious, but as others that have gone before us, let us inherit your promises through faith and patience, enduring until the end.<BR/><BR/>Grace and peace in Jesus Name,<BR/><BR/>Brother AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-68175297210691613162008-01-23T13:09:00.000-06:002008-01-23T13:09:00.000-06:00This book of Habakkuk has spoken to me so much ove...This book of Habakkuk has spoken to me so much over the years, along with Psalm 18. Please pray for me to know whether the Lord is telling me in my life right now today to stand up and fight or stand down and wait for Him. I think I am supposed to cease striving and stand down, but then I am also hearing that I should not stop fighting and I should be speaking and declaring these promises before the enemy, which I know is sometimes exactly right, but I have become confused and very discouraged. In fact I could describe it like 2Cor 1:8, that I am so pressed it is beyond my ability to endure and I am despairing to think this might go on another day. Please don't anybody else give me some word or advice or something... that is the problem. Just pray that the Father will take away this confusion and reveal the truth I need to know to get through. Thank you brother Mike and Body.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12165608079884776359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-65429209581240190932008-01-22T13:32:00.000-06:002008-01-22T13:32:00.000-06:00Michael, glad your back!Truer words were never spo...Michael, glad your back!<BR/>Truer words were never spoken. Of course the understanding of this requires that people believe that they can converse with God. That they have acquired ears to hear, that they are just before God so that they can "live" by their faith that believes what they heard. “The just shall live by faith", doesn't "just" happen. Those who are just do the will of God. Know the voice of God. Worship in Spirit and in truth who God really is, Holy and Righteous. And have exercised their faith to the point of being able to rely completely, in fact, on God, by every word that proceeds out of His mouth. Many people say I believe, but at the first sign of trouble their "faith" takes a vacation, their hearing goes with their faith, and doesn't come back to town until the storm is over.<BR/><BR/>God has not changed. His message is always consistent to a dying, perverse and fruitless generation. Come up, come out, be separate, be holy, do not partake of the wrath to come, to those who He finds worthy. Two types of people will read this message, those who will and those who won't hear. It's life to those who will eat it and take it to heart, it is food, nourishment, spirit. It is cause for judgment to those who cannot see or cannot hear for it has no positive effect, no fruit, they remain unchanged. <BR/>L,J,P&HGElm Street Chapelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13359537439685803006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-67182408437818538802008-01-22T07:27:00.000-06:002008-01-22T07:27:00.000-06:00Praise God, with as little faith as a mustard seed...Praise God, with as little faith as a mustard seed we can move mountains, that little seed can be planted anywhere and will overtake everything around it,no wonder the Lord used the mustard seed to tell us if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. Now thats powerful, and thats what we have as children of the King,and in the Name of Jesus, you shall cast out devils, heal the sick, Praise the Lord Jesus for all the power he has left us by the shedding of his Blood to continue his work, and no weapon formed against us shall prosper. Blessingsdeannaslaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978012789495411905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-91386339001431379432008-01-21T18:41:00.000-06:002008-01-21T18:41:00.000-06:00Beautifully written.Thank you.Beautifully written.<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-55092371767394519842008-01-21T16:23:00.000-06:002008-01-21T16:23:00.000-06:00Thank you so much Brother Michael for the words of...Thank you so much Brother Michael for the words of encouragement regarding the day we are living in. Truly, I feel we in America are living as in the midst of the days of old when the Prophets wept, cried, and begged Israel to repent. Your words confirm and encourage those who seek righteousness; the righteousness from God, not man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-40503189847577904382008-01-21T09:51:00.000-06:002008-01-21T09:51:00.000-06:00That was beautiful.. thank you.MaryThat was beautiful.. thank you.<BR/><BR/>MaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com