Be Still and know I am God! Psalms 46:10
As I remain sick, although much better. I still remain very much under a deep teaching session with the Lord. For example yesterday because it was easter, my wife and kids went with her family for the entire day. So I was home alone the entire day. And it is amazing how much time you have to think and let the Lord speak into your mind without any noise of family or TVs music… I watched maybe 30 minutes of financial stuff on youtube, and nothing more. The rest is just time soaking things in. So if I was going to say it all, this would be much longer than yesterday’s, and what he is showing me is not necessarily the point anyways for this message. The point is we all need to “be still and know God!”
Most of what he showed me was things of what is happening in the world and how to be prepared, because it is not getting better before it gets much worse if it can even rebound back. Although God does not tell me if this is the end, so no prophesies here to hear. And sometimes you can go down these rabbit holes of what if this or that happens, how do I protect myself and family???
And at the end of this debate in my head, I hear one simple little thing, “be still and know I am God!” He is the same God who took care of Joseph all through his time in Egypt. Feed the Israelites and Moses in the desert, took care of the prophet Elijah when there was no food or water, including the widow and her son. I just read the book of Ruth, and how God showed her favor and provided for Ruth and the mother in law.
And many other stories including Yeshua who never died from hunger but never worked to make money to buy food. But the point he makes to me is stop trying to figure it out and be still and know I am God.
In doing this, it does not mean I sit around and do nothing. But also do not do things when you know it is not right. As I have written before we are putting final touches on a home in south Mexico, a small “ranchito” totally off grid. God gave me a dream (many dreams actually about what looks like the end of times, or at minimum a very difficult and dark time). And part of it I knew was to have a property further south. We know people from the south, our cleaning lady who we have total confidence in as she watches our kids the few times we spend nights away from them. She is from Oaxaca and speaks of how most of the people in that area do not use money often. They do not need to, they live like the Amish basically completely off the land. A simple and healthy life.
So for a few years we did vacations to different parts of Mexico, looking at the options. Nothing felt right until this place, and then God confirmed it with reminding me of some dreams and visions I had been given. So we bought it and built it and if we need to we live there and let God give us further instructions. And in the meantime try to not over think it all and what to do! Part of it however is about the assets God has given us, and how to invest them the best way. Something I wrote about yesterday because of the wisdom he gives his children.
So there is a part that needs to be meditated on, and a part we must stop thinking about because of one of two things. Either it is the future and it is not time to give me that wisdom and answer yet, so he tests my patients. Or second because I am just way over thinking something simple and has not even happened yet and might not happen. Worry for today, not tomorrow. We cannot do anything about what happens tomorrow or next year until we get there. I have found in all my “planning” that the plans never turned out how I expected them to. Yet over and over I try to figure out the future instead of just living in the day. And when I stop and let it happen, as long as I am in God’s perfect will, it always works out. Everytime and with two caveats. One is always last minute. I cannot tell you how many times I was broke wondering how I was going to keep a job going like the one we are doing now. It sucks when you have assets but no cash at the moment. In the US it is easy, you stop by a bank and take out a loan, here it does not work like that.
And second thing is when it all settles it is always better than I thought it would be. It always takes a lot longer, always with problems to deal with. But in the end it is amazing.
So now I sit around and have a lot of free time to “be still and God is God!” And I use it, and God appreciates it almost as much as I do. I know somewhere in this world there are others like me, who know God and love him like I do, but I do not know them. I know many people who are religious and know of a god and maybe even hear him speak. But they keep him at a distance, visiting from time to time and spend most of their time socializing or on social media. The tv is on or Alexa is playing music, and their friends or family are over for dinner… When they drive in the car the radio is always on. I have not listened to a radio in a car for many years it is never on when I drive. It used to be, but not more. Window time is God’s time.
A few points on this, first is so many people argue with me that no one is perfect and never will be. I argue against it, and make the points like this. If you stop having all the noise on all the time, tying your mind up with noise so you are “Still” then you can know God. And when you know God and obey God, then you will see that what you are saying is the opposite. That a man who is committed will be perfect and there is no way he cannot be. Just like John wrote in 1 John 3.
Instead people give a few moments here and there, go and listen to people tell them about a god (who actually does not even exist the way they teach about him). And they think it is good, they are good with the real God who will judge them. But in there judgment day they will hear the Lord say “away from me you who practiced lawlessness, I did not know you!” Look at how this is said, you who practiced sin, and why did you practice sin? Because you did not know the Lord. Because if you knew him like I do, then you would know you cannot practice sin or lawlessness.
On the other side is once you come to know the Lord, either you will turn and walk away like the rich young ruler because his commands are tough. Like how do you tell a wealthy man to sell it all and give it to the poor and follow him? That does not sound just or righteous at all, even to me.
But then we are not to question the toughness of Yeshua and his commands. He knows what he is doing and we are to have faith in his instructions that no matter what he puts us through, it will turn out for my good and for the glory of God. He has told me many crazy things to do, including selling all I had (although not much in my case as I was not a rich young man nor ruler). But he told me to sell what I had and give a chunk to the poor. He told me to move from Iowa and my family and friends to Mexico where I knew no one. And a few other tough decisions I made.
That is the point, religious people do not do these things, because they do not let the Lord get into their lives like this, and then live according to what he says to do. To the normal man of religion this all seems crazy, but then again the things of God are foolishness to those who are perishing. Which most ‘christians’ will use this verse and believe it is not about them, but it is. If you call that judging it shows I am writing, because anyone who knows what I know from God will know this is the judgment. Did you know God or not?
So the last thing to tell about my conversation is an ongoing delima in me. Which is he keeps teaching me all this wisdom, and I want everyone to know the Lord like I do so they can have this amazing life also and salvation. Yet no one listens and believes. And many laugh behind my back and call the way I live non christian. Which is actually a compliment even though they meant it as a negative.
So God reminded me of all his servants and how they went through things before they were ready. Moses spent 40 years in the desert, Joseph 10 years in jail. David 8 years living in caves. Even the disciples went through sentence training with Yeshua which included seeing him put to death, then waiting for the sending of the Holy Spirit before they started. And when Paul came along he spent 3 years alone in the desert being taught.
And many others. But note this, they were taught by God himself alone. No where is it telling us to be taught by another man. Yet instead of doing what these men did and what I have done, almost everyone does it their own way by using other teachers.
Which brings up another problem, which is technology and lies. It is so easy to make videos of things that never happened and push it off as if it did. I have seen some people push some of the bombing of Iran as using nuclear weapons. Yesterday I heard a short part of a video from a guy who was trying to say the Jews were the problem and invading all of Europe and Hitler was trying to stop them and should be a hero. Kind of hard to believe, but one of those stories is a lie, or maybe both are. But the point is when a man teaches you, or a combination of men. You are going to be lied to, even if the person teaching really believes in the lie they tell.
Only Yeshua is the truth, so we must get out truth from him. Keep in mind when I write never am I asking for anything. I specifically tell everyone to not trust me and go find out from Yeshua himself. He is to be our Lord not a man talking about their version of the Lord, which never ends up being the Lord Yeshua. Normally it is this lord jesus, and always different versions of him, the catholic version, lutheran, evangelical, presbeterian…. Versions. They are all a little different version of the Lord spoken about in the bible, and even the bibles are all a little different in their translations. Of course the one which is the most radical is Jehovah Witness because how can they deny Yeshua is a God being the son of God? But I degrees.
The point that keeps coming up in my mind over and over, not only today but all days is, everyone who hears me disagrees in favor of their version of Jesus. The only ones who will agree are those who also know Yeshua personally. And they will be the ones who are like me telling others to know him and obey him and stop following men teachers and get rid of all the noise in your life. Social media, music, tv… Spend time with God, not those things. To God it shows him clearly what you love most. Him or those things. Because whatever you love the most is where you will spend your time. It does not mean you never do them. Just because I love God more than my family does not mean I never spend time with my family. But I do spend a lot of time with him.
One last point or follow point. I do not know how many years I have to wait before people start asking me about the Lord and wanting to know him like I do. I know there will be a day, which will probably be sometime when the real problems start. They have started, you can see them. But not like they will be. They started in 2020 with covid, homelessness skyrocketed at least in So California. And prices have gone up a lot to where now people are choosing between eating, paying rent, buying meds…
But with all the things the Lord reminded me of from the past few years, and even things happening right now. Food prices are really going to go up. We have had numerous food processing plants around the US mysteriously catch on fire, and are no longer producing food. Millions of acres of farm land was mysteriously burnt across Texas and into Nebraska. We have had bird issues and killed many chickens. Now the fertilizer issues with Iran, and much higher shipping cost because of oil and Iran. So basically we have removed about 25% of the food chain, maybe more. And with water issues especially in the south west and lake Mead, we could be out of water by the end of this year, which makes for a lot of thirsty people, but also how to water the food grown in the valleys?
On top of it, China is preparing for war with the US. And the cost associated with what we’re doing in Iran, plus losing the petrodollar quickly now and debt rising faster, and people losing jobs to problems we will never regain because of AI and robots… A few other items but we are going through some things we have never seen before and from what I see there is no easy way out.
And why again in the post. Because in the end we need to “be still and know God is God!” And simply hear him and obey him. Because with all these coming problems, I see the only solution, which does not sound so good at first glance. But the more I digest it, the better it sounds. Which is to just go back to the good old days, a little land, a garden, a well, raise some chickens, maybe rabbits. Maybe even sheep, goats and cows? And not worry about counting your bank digits, but instead live a simple fulfilling life where you spend time in the garden alone without music and listening to God teach you his wisdom. To me that sounds pretty nice.