6/11/24 Lord, we remember it’s only you that has provided for us. ❤️

Thank you for your continued dedication to prayer and in leading us on this journey. I've been mulling over and listening to a few times now, the last few days of prayer time, especially as it regards listening to the voice of the Lord and how imperative it is.

Then came a test!

Last evening my best friend from Illinois who lost her son to drugs a few months ago, called me and was telling me she was making preparations for the burial service for her son within the next week. My emotions began to be stirred and I told my husband I really wanted to go be with her during this time. As I hung up the phone from her I began to search for airline tickets to make preparations to go. I was so moved because I have been with this friend for years believing for her son, who did in fact come to know Christ and get baptized, but had a relapse and wound up dying.

My husband agreed I should probably go support my friend but I never even stopped to pray about it or consult the Lord, now this is a big mistake and I knew better. But I was so overcome by my emotions in the moment that I let them get the best of me and I went ahead and booked my airline ticket to go be with her for several days. She was overjoyed that I was coming to be with her and her family during this time.

I went on to bed and at 3:00 a.m. this morning the Lord woke me up and I had the worst pain in the pit of my stomach, it was anxiety like nothing I have known and I got up out of bed to come into the living room to pray and seek the Lord. I knew I had quenched the holy Spirit.

He began to share with me that I was so overcome with my emotions and I let that take me on this decision-making process without seeking him, and that was a grave mistake. For he has told me many times "Do not be led by your emotions but in everything by prayer and seeking him, listening to his voice he would direct my path."

It was as if I was in direct disobedience and I did not realize it.

As I continuef to pray I repented and I knew what I had to do.

The morning came around and I called the airlines and canceled my flight and called my friend to inform her that I did not consult the Lord and I had jumped ahead of God without consulting him and was led by my emotions because I loved her so. That I was not supposed to go unless he told me to go, and he had not.

I apologized profusely and of course her being my good friend and knowing the lord, she totally understood.

Oh that we would obey the Lord in all things, even when we believe we are doing the right thing. That we would listen only for his voice and move only when he says move.

I went back to listen to prayer time again to again be reminded how critical it is.

God bless all of you I love you so much

Susan

Deuteronomy 8
Keep and live out the entire commandment that I’m commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that GOD promised to your ancestors. Remember every road that GOD led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from GOD’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that GOD disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.
So it’s paramount that you keep the commandments of GOD, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him. GOD is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It’s a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It’s land where you’ll never go hungry—always food on the table and a roof over your head. It’s a land where you’ll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills.
After a meal, satisfied, bless GOD, your God, for the good land he has given you.
Make sure you don’t forget GOD, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don’t become so full of yourself and your things that you forget GOD, your God,
the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery;
the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness, those desolate, arid badlands crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions;
the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock;
the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you.
If you start thinking to yourselves, “I did all this. And all by myself. I’m rich. It’s all mine!”—well, think again. Remember that GOD, your God, gave you the strength to produce all this wealth so as to confirm the covenant that he promised to your ancestors—as it is today.
If you forget, forget GOD, your God, and start taking up with other gods, serving and worshiping them, I’m on record right now as giving you firm warning: that will be the end of you; I mean it—destruction. You’ll go to your doom—the same as the nations GOD is destroying before you; doom because you wouldn’t obey the Voice of GOD, your God.
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