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I guess many of you know how bad you feel when you said something of which you immediately realized that it was the wrong thing to do. Even if what you uttered was the truth, either the timing was not right or the statement was not spoken in love. Recently the Lord made me aware of certain Scriptures regarding this. Maybe, I will mention some of them further below. What He taught me in practical terms, instead, appeared to be a bit unusual at first.
One of the first lessons He taught me was the following. Imagine you see Susanne riding her bike along the Europe Channel on her way home. On that day it was pretty empty and I enjoyed my time alone with the Lord. Suddenly I got aware that ‘someone’ was behind me on another bike. He could have passed me by as I heard he had been faster before he started following me. Although no bikes or walkers approached us from the opposite direction, he kept riding behind me. Hmm… 🙄 That made me somehow suspicious as I also felt an immediate check in my spirit. I kept riding while praying, waiting for ‘something’ to happen.
It seemed this person had forced the pace since, out of the blue, this man appeared on my left side. He looked at me and kept my pace. As he started to talk, I began to feel bad as I perceived an evil spirit approaching me, even violently. The words this man uttered might have sounded like innocuous compliments to a casual observer. If I had been another person, maybe, I would have gladly said, “Thank you”. However, I sensed that by doing so, I would have opened up to an evil spirit pressing in on me. So I asked the Lord about how to behave as this guy kept talking, looking into my face, seemingly not willing to speed up or to leave at all. Jesus simply told me to ignore him. Therefore I neither looked in his direction, nor did I answer him a word.
Such a ‘non-behavior’ is anything but easy for the flesh as the old nature says, ‘Well, you could have said this or that and then his mouth would have been stuffed.’ Yes, the choice between walking by the flesh or by His Spirit, this can be a trying struggle sometimes. It seems to me that we always need to decide to either follow our old habits or to embark on a completely new journey which might turn out demanding to the flesh. As this man did not leave, I felt a sort of anger and fear welling up inside me. Automatically, I accelerated as I wanted to escape him. But Jesus warned me to not do it, “Slow down instead!”. I obeyed and, believe it or not, as I had almost come to a standstill, this guy left without any additional remarks. 🙄 It seems to me that this experience was a vivid example of the following Scripture I quoted before in my latest posts.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (Js 4:7 ESV)
What I want to share with you now is what had been happening inside me while I did not utter any word on the outside. It was only a very short time as I felt fear and anger coming to the surface. However, as soon as I obeyed our Lord again, these negative feelings disappeared at once. In the past as I had felt so weak whenever I was confronted with evil spirits, I was used to having mental reruns of such occurrences for days and weeks, even months – if not years. 
The negative feelings in my soul that had their origin in the work of demons kept tormenting me again and again.
But this time a peculiar thing had taken place. As I was still wondering why I did not bother about this guy’s behavior anymore, even only shortly afterwards, I felt a deep and calming silence inside me that seemed to expand tenderly. It was as if Jesus had taken my hand, leading me to a deeper level of knowing Him. I was amazed at this wonderful silence, finding myself deeply at rest. Alas, spiritual experiences are so difficult to describe. 😦 I can only say that I somehow ‘stood’ in awe about God’s wisdom which is often times the opposite of what we have been taught to believe to be correct.
My takeaway on this specific lesson is that I will try to avoid reacting after the flesh in the days ahead. I know I need His help to do so and I know I will certainly make mistakes. However, I saw that reacting after the flesh keeps us at our habitual soul level which can never ever touch the spirit’s realm as the kingdom of God is located much deeper inside us. After this event I had some other experiences where Jesus told me to not immediately answer others, but rather to listen to them and, while doing so, Jesus shared His wisdom with me. If I had automatically answered as I used to, I am afraid I would not even heard Him talk to me. 🙄
Out of such a God-given silence His wisdom is flowing forth. As the natural soulish realm has been quieted, His peace and life follow immediately. Knowing this, as I assume, James wrote,
19 “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (Js 1:19-27 ESV)
Looking at verse 19, I realized that anger only wells up in me if I have not heeded this important advice to quickly listen first. Instead, if I talk before listening, I know I get angry quickly. Once being really angry, I know how difficult it is to get rid of my thoughts and bad feelings again. It might be even impossible to rid ourselves of anger as we cannot fight the flesh with fleshly weapons. The last verse 27 ends with another advice, telling us to keep ourselves ‘unstained from the world’. After my strange bike adventure, it seems to me I know now what that means. When we open up to worldly spirits, we submit to them, whether we want it or not. Thus we become a pawn in the hands of the evil spiritual powers. But if we LISTEN TO GOD FIRST, He tells us what to do. Perhaps, this behavior makes us look like idiots in the eyes of the world at times. Yet our Lord is pleased and lets us feel His pleasure immediately. Obedience to Christ is really liberty! 🙂 It is the liberty from false yokes of bondage and freedom from the dictatorship of our fallen nature.
All images by Susanne Schuberth 2021
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Dear Susanne, I have read this passage from the epistle of James, but never got it like you did… “let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger…” Quick to hear. Quick to hear the Spirit in each situation! Not quick to hear the devil and how he uses people to tempt us… Duh!
I shared with you what happened to me about a year ago when this man was screaming at me in my face over a perceived offense I had done. It was hard to hear the Spirit with this screaming demon in my face, but I kept praying and asking Jesus what I should do. All I could think of was, “A soft answer turns away wrath..”. (Prov 15:1, ESV2011) I was able to walk away without elevating the situation, but it would have been much better if I had been slower to speak instead of apologizing and of trying to make excuses for my mistake. I was of the wrong frame of mind in the first place and was angry that so many people were crowded in the place at the lake where I usually found solace. So, yes, quick to hear the Spirit’s voice, slow to speak in reply to demons and slow to be angry… that has taken on a whole new light. Thank you for sharing your latest experience in the Spirit.
As for the final picture you included above… the final result of your listening and obedience to the Spirit was “JOY.” You truly are a joy to be in fellowship with, dear sister! ❤
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You also wrote, “Out of such a God-given silence His wisdom is flowing forth. As the natural soulish realm has been quieted, His peace and life follow immediately.” I am reminded of a proverb that says,
“A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards.” (Prov 29:11, KJ2000)
A spiritually wise person doesn’t let their soul speak, but they wait till they hear the Spirit as to either be silent of to speak the words as the Spirit directs which is exactly what you did. 🙂
“But if we LISTEN TO GOD FIRST, He tells us what to do. Perhaps, this behavior makes us look like idiots in the eyes of the world at times. Yet our Lord is pleased and lets us feel His pleasure immediately. Obedience to Christ is really liberty!”
Amen, dear sister!
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Thank you very much for your encouraging words and biblical confirmation, Michael. Much appreciated! 🙂
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Dear Michael,
In fact, I never got this verse from James like I did this time ever before, either. It seems to me that this verse also means we should let other people finish with what they have to say instead of interrupting them. I also know I have been guilty of being quick to speak, too. As I myself once asked someone who often interrupts me why they rarely hear me out, their simple answer was, “If I do not tell you right now, I might forget about it.”
Some people simply follow their need to share what has been on their own heart with someone else who quietly and understandingly listens to them. As for me, I can say when I have listened to several people before without being able to share my heart with them, I eventually need someone to listen to me also. First of all God and then, of course, someone who understands my problems on a spiritual level. Most of the times you have been the one who listened to my ‘crowded’ heart, Michael. Thank you for being the one you are! 🙂
I remember this experience you shared with me and I believe it was the Holy Spirit who strengthened you by giving you this particular Scripture and the patience to endure this demonic attack. I recall you had peace afterwards as well. However, our spirit inside us cringes whenever we are confronted with evil spirits. If we did not FEEL these spiritual attacks, we would be an easy prey for the devil and his minions. It seems to me that God warns us thus to not submit to the wrong spirits as He somehow shares His own heart with us. We might call it suffering with Christ as well, I would say.
Yes, His joy has been a divine gift for obedience regardless of circumstances. Thanks a bunch for listening to His Spirit and sharing what He has given you with me and all of us on here, my brother! ❤
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You are so welcome, Susanne. I can look back on the fifty plus years I have been in the school of Christ’s Spirit and see that without every step of it and all the trials I have had to go through, I would not be the person I am today. We would never have had such communications we now enjoy. By nature, I am not a good listener, but one who can’t wait to spill “all my mind.” He has prepared me to listen to you and wait for what the Spirit would have me say, for a soulish reply would never have worked and we would never have gained what we have, being ONE in the Spirit and in His love for one another.
I also have seen great changes in you over the last 8 plus years. When we first met you had so many fears, but now you have confidence in the Spirit and wait upon Him (slow to speak and slow to wrath) as well as being quick to hear not only the person speaking, but what the Spirit is saying in each situation. ⭐ I have learned so much from you. Yes, my sister, YOU are a rare find and our Daddy arranged it so that we might find one another and knit us together in His Spirit as well as deal with our souls by dividing soul from spirit so His Spirit could speak and act through us instead of our flesh. Oh, how many times at first I said things that were not of Him but of a religious or soulish nature and how much confusion it caused. But He gave us the patience to work through these things. In Proverbs we read of this very thing,
“Iron sharpens iron; so a man [or woman] sharpens the countenance of his [her] friend. Whosoever keeps the fig tree shall eat its fruit: so he that waits on his master shall be honored.” (Prov 27:17-18, KJ2000)
May our Father be honored by the fruit of our lips as we are slow to speak out from ourselves, but quick to hear what the Spirit is saying in each situation,
Michael
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“Iron sharpening iron”.. I recall I heard that for the first time about two years before we met on the net. Actually, I feared this process of ‘being sharpened’ by another human being, particularly due to my many old wounds from different kinds of abuse in the past. I did not want to feel all this pain again! 😦 But God made it possible to endure the suffering and eventually healed me more and more. Yet it was not a fun process, so to say. I understand everyone who fears the light and hides in the dark instead. Without experiencing God’s love, nobody would be able and willing to endure suffering of any kind, I am afraid.
Michael, I am very thankful for our precious, God-given fellowship which has been a great help for me, esp. in difficult times. ❤
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Yes, we need the whole body of Christ and their prayers, for sure. I am sorry if I made what we have sound exclusive. Thanks to you all for your prayers and comments.
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.” (Matt 13:47, ESV2011)
A net is made up of many squares and hundreds of knots or it would not work. May we always remember that we are all members of one another and need one another.
Love to you all,
Michael
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I don’t think you sounded exclusive, Michael. But seeing how often Louise and Anna like our comments, I know they have prayed for me/us as well. In particular, when my family went through these hard times with Sarah in the past, they prayed. Furthermore, I remember that Ken Dawson, who like Wayne Ropers seems to be with the Lord already, promised to pray. And Pat Orr who disappeared from our blogs for some reason. 🤔🙏🏼
The body of Christ, truly, has many different members, each one with its own specific and important function. I also appreciate the encouragement by all commenters, esp. when they let us know that our writings spoke to them. It is one thing to sense God’s inspiration while writing and another thing to really see that His words had an effect on all of us. Also, I highly appreciate even the tiniest contribution from our brothers and sisters who heard from our Lord what they should comment! 🙏🏼❤️😇
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Amén Susanne. You said, “let the other speak without interrupting him.” But, with active listening and not wandering in our mind and thinking how to respond to him, I think that has been my mistake for years, letting the other speak, but thinking how to interrupt him or thinking that I should finish quickly to be able to say what I want tell.
I am one of those who speak like a parrot and find it difficult to listen, it has really been the Lord’s job in my life to teach me not to respond immediately, although I keep making mistakes about it. When someone says something that I don’t like or that I know is wrong, my anger rises to my head and I start to sweat and turn red hahahaha.
May the Lord help me to listen to others and to hear His voice to respond. Someone recently sent me an email that I didn’t like and it brought disgust to my heart and the Lord told me “don’t reply yet.”
And when the anger passed, He guided me in the way that I should respond to Him and in the right tone and I had His peace and His joy. God is good and merciful.
I love you in Christ. Patricia
Tú dijiste, “dejar hablar al otro sin interrumpirlo”. Pero, con una escucha activa y no divagar en nuestra mente y estar pensando cómo responderle, creo que ese ha sido mi error por años, dejar que el otro hable, pero pensando cómo interrumpirlo o pensando que debería terminar rápido para poder decir lo que quiero decir.
Yo soy de las que habla como loro y me cuesta escuchar, realmente ha sido un trabajo del Señor en mi vida el enseñarme a no responder inmediatamente, aunque sigo cometiendo errores al respecto. Cuando alguien habla algo que no me gusta o que sé que está en lo incorrecto, se me sube el enojo a la cabeza y yo comienzo a sudar y me pongo roja hahahaha.
Que el Señor me ayude a escuchar a los demás y a escuchar Su voz para responder. Hace poco alguien me envió un correo que no me gustó y trajo disgusto a mi corazón y el Señor me dijo “no respondas aún”.
Y cuando el enojo pasó, Él me guio en la manera que debía responderle y en el tono adecuado y tuve Su paz y Su alegría. Dios es bueno y misericordioso.
Los amo en Cristo. Patricia
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Oh Patricia,
I also know all these negative emotions bubbling up when I want to speak up or to correct others as I see fit. But whenever the Lord has helped me to stay in His presence, instead, I can somehow look at others from another (His) perspective. I do know that prejudice makes me blind to really see others the way Jesus sees them. Looking with His eyes seems to be more restful to my soul than saying or doing what my emotions tell me to. Nonetheless, there are people with whom we should quit talking when He commands us to although that might turn out to be not that easy at times…
Btw, I like your English translation, my sister! 😍👍🏼
Love you, too,
Susanne 💞
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This is Susanne, that is my prayer, that I can see others with His eyes, although in some moments God has disturbed me that I distance myself from certain people, we must not allow people to steal our peace and that the voice of the enemy use their voices to hurt our hearts. Only the Lord will guide us in these matters.
And when it comes to translation, google got it right this time, thank goodness.
A giant hug my sister. XOXOXOXOXOXO
Así es Susanne, esa es mi oración, que yo pueda ver a los demás con Sus ojos, aunque en algunos momentos Dios me ha inquietado que me aleje de ciertas personas, no debemos permitir que las personas nos roben la paz y que la voz del enemigo use sus voces para dañar nuestro corazón. Solo el Señor nos guiará en esos asuntos.
Y con respecto a la traducción, google lo hizo bien esta vez, gracias a Dios.
Un abrazo gigante mi hermana.
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Yes, dear Patricia, if the Lord leads us in these matters, we will share His peace. It appears to me that anger often comes up when the soul wants to extinguish the Spirit’s subtle voice. Yet His peace does not protect us from feeling the wrong spirits in others. That seems to be part of suffering with Christ… 💔
I saw that Google translator has some grammar problems, esp. with personal pronouns. He, she, they… Google confuses them when translating from Spanish into the English language or into other languages. That is the main reason why I do not translate replies from other languages on here anymore as it needs quite some time to correct Google’s translations. It also seems to me that the less a language is spoken in the world, the worse the translations Google has to offer.
Abrazos, mi hermana in Cristo,
Susanne 🙏🏼🕊️💞
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Patricia, I relate! One time the Lord took me to this verse in the Bible while dealing with me over this same issue,
“A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards.” (Prov 29:11, KJ2000)
I said, “Lord, what is the ‘afterwards’ here?” and He answered, “A wise man does not try to compete with their chatter. He only prayerfully speaks afterwards.” Patricia, I think that is what He is teaching you, too, my sister. 🙂
It is good to hear from you again,
Michael
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Michael, as I prepared this particular blog post, I browsed several Scriptures and commentaries on the issue of ‘chatter’, too.
One of the things I found out is that there is a danger for us in trying to engage in ‘religious chatter’, so to say. Even if what we share with others is the truth, if God has not told us to open up, we ourselves might be drawn into a not-Spirit-led discussion that even leads us away from the Holy Spirit guidance and protection.
As hard as it is for our old nature to wait on God and His timing, I think we need to “run” (to Him) as soon as such controversies come up. Just two days ago I had a similar experience with a Pentecostal person who, out of the blue, started to speak about false biblical concepts. Although I know these concepts to be wrong, I remember when I tried to correct this person in the past, it never worked out well and I left with a disappointed and angry heart. I believe one of the reasons God did not want me to share the truth at that time was that this person was not yet made fit by Him to receive it.
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There is a proverb that says, “answer not a fool according to his folly.” I think that means don’t engage in their foolishness. Yes this is a steep learning curve. Thanks for sharing your hard-earned wisdom with us dear sister.
Michael 😇
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You’re welcome, Michael. 🙂
As you quoted this verse, I was reminded of the other that seems to contradict it. Proverbs 26:4-5 (ESV) tell us,
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”
To me, it seems to depend on how God leads us at a given time whether to speak up or to shut up. Barnes’ Notes on the Bible says,
Two sides of a truth. To “answer a fool according to his folly” is in Proverbs 26:4 to bandy words with him, to descend to his level of coarse anger and vile abuse; in Proverbs 26:5 it is to say the right word at the right time, to expose his unwisdom and untruth to others and to himself, not by a teaching beyond his reach, but by words that he is just able to apprehend. The apparent contradiction between the two verses led some of the rabbis to question the canonical authority of this book. The Pythagoreans had maxims expressing a truth in precepts seemingly contradictory.
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/barnes/proverbs/26.htm
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Once again the truth is found in following the Holy Spirit in each situation for He is the Spirit of Truth.👍🤗
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Amen, Michael! Well put! ⭐
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In this passage from Solomon’s writings it is easy to see how we can easily be misled if we rely totally on our will and intellect. Jesus did not say that he was going to send us a book and we would find the truth we need there. The Bible is a wonderful thing but unless we are led by the spirit and taught by the spirit our enemy can use it to mislead by appealing to our fleshly understandings. Oh how necessary it is to have a crucified Life in Christ so that we can be taught by the spirit in every situation.
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So true, Michael. Whether it is our intellect, our will, or our emotions, as long as our soul has not submitted to His guidance, we are in great danger to be led astray. God’s family and Christ’s brothers and sisters are those who do the will of God as they follow His lead (Rom 8:14 KJV).
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
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This is true Susanne, a few days ago, I was talking to a believer who is supposedly on the way of the cross, but he started saying things that I knew were wrong.
I was upset and the Lord led me to see that I was right and that what he told me was wrong, but that I should have left that conversation so that my heart would not get upset. The Lord spoke clearly to my life today and told me not to waste any more time with that person, that there are many Cornelians waiting to hear about the things of God and not to share with people who took things for granted and who were blind. in their mistakes.
Lesson learned.
Esto es verdad Susanne, hace unos días, estaba hablando con un creyente que supuestamente está en el camino de la cruz, pero comenzó a decir cosas que yo sabía que no estaban bien.
Yo quedé molesta y el Señor me llevó a ver que yo tenía razón y que lo que él me decía era incorrecto, pero que debí salirme de esa conversación para que mi corazón no se molestara. El Señor habló claro hoy a mi vida y me dijo que no le perdiera más tiempo a esa persona, que hay muchos Cornelios esperando oír de las cosas de Dios y que no volviera a compartir con gente que daba por sentado las cosas y que estaban ciegos en sus errores.
Lección aprendida.
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Yes, Patricia, this has been the same lesson He taught me. 😇🕊️👍🏼 It might sound harsh to some, but our Lord put it quite bluntly as He said,
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.” (Mt 7:6 ESV)
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Es verdad Susan, no dar las perlas a los cerdos, siempre que el Señor pone en mi corazón escribir un libro, le pido a Él que sus preciosas palabras no sean pisoteadas por los cerdos, antes regalaba mis libros y compartía los artículos tuyos y de Michael, y los libros de Michael indiscriminadamente, hasta que el Señor me dio este versículo y comprendí que no se puede compartir este mensaje con todo el mundo. Siempre es necesario la guía de Su Espíritu para este asunto. Hay gente con hambre y sed del Señor, como aquel etíope deseoso de saber y Felipe fue enviado allí justo a tiempo.
Y lo que dice Michael es verdad, a veces el Señor nos pone en silencio a su manera, yo he sido parlanchina, pero últimamente, el Señor ha estado tratando esta área en mí.
Y en cuanto a las traducciones de Google, no son perfectas, pero es lo que tengo, espero poder ponerme al día con el inglés, me cuesta, pero como dijo el rey David, no ofreceré a Dios sacrificio que no me cueste nada, esperemos como el Señor me ayuda en esta mi debilidad, el inglés.
Abrazos a los dos, de esta ave parlachina, pero deseosa de escuchar la voz del Señor cada día.
Patricia XOXOXOXOXOXO
It is true Susan, do not give pearls to pigs, whenever the Lord puts it in my heart to write a book, I ask Him that his precious words are not trampled on by pigs, before I gave away my books and shared your and your articles and Michael´s articles, and Michael’s books indiscriminately, until the Lord gave me this verse and I understood that you cannot share this message with everyone. The guidance of His Spirit is always necessary in this matter. There are people hungry and thirsty for the Lord, like that Ethiopian eager to know and Philip was sent there just in time.
And what Michael says is true, sometimes the Lord silences us in His own way, I’ve been talkative, but lately, the Lord has been dealing with this area in me.
And as for the Google translations, they are not perfect, but it is what I have, I hope I can catch up with English, it costs me, but as King David said, I will not offer God a sacrifice that does not cost me anything, hopefully how the Lord helps me in this my weakness, English.
Hugs you both, from this talkative bird, but eager to hear the voice of the Lord every day.
Patricia XOXOXOXOXOXO
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As you and I have both experienced and still observe there is a lot of misleading by flesh using the scriptures without being led by the Spirit of Truth.
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Yes, Michael, alas… 😦
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Michael when I read that verse you shared, my eyes were opened, it was tremendous, I realized, how stupid I was in many conversations, I am always one of those who want them to speak quickly, to summarize the talk, that’s why I like to fast-forward movies and see the end hahahaha. One day a friend told me: “let me talk, you won’t let me talk” and even if the talk is edifying, I want to lead the conversation, I think I am learning silence and listening to others, I know that Jesus in me will this work.
There is so much that God has to deal with with me in this matter, at least I already learned to keep in my heart what the Lord does not want me to count, because everything was told hahahahah, little by little God has been teaching this his daughter.
Thanks for this verse Michael, I already wrote it down in my notebook so I don’t forget it.
Hugs
Michael cuando leí ese versículo que compartiste, mis ojos se abrieron, fue tremendo, me di cuenta, cuán necia fui en muchas conversaciones, siempre soy de las que quiero que hablen rápido, que resuman la charla, por eso me gusta adelantar las películas y ver el final hahahaha. Un día un amigo me dijo: “déjame hablar, tú no dejas hablar” y así sea edificante la charla, yo quiero llevar la batuta de la conversación, creo que estoy aprendiendo el silencio y a escuchar a otros, sé que Jesús en mí, hará esta obra.
Hay tanto que Dios tiene que tratar conmigo en ese asunto, por lo menos ya aprendí a guardar en mi corazón lo que el Señor no quiere que cuente, porque todo lo contaba hahahahah, poco a poco Dios ha ido enseñando a esta su hija.
Gracias por este versículo Michael, ya lo anoté en mi cuaderno para no olvidarlo.
Abrazos
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Patricia, during this period in my life when He gave me that scripture, the Lord was teaching me the value of silence and listening and letting the other person talk. He put me in a situation where I was in the same car with two guys on a road trip, four hours each way. They both talked and talked and neither one stopped the whole trip… not even to let the other one speak. I just sat in the back seat and was dumb-struck the whole time as I watched them override each other. They both were college educated and as far as they were concerned I had nothing to contribute. I learned a lot about myself on that trip. :-p
,
Michael
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Oh boy, what an ordeal!! 😝
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Susanne, when it came to controlling my tongue I was a slow learner so the Lord put me through “advanced training” on many occasions. :-p
“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.” (Rev 3:19, ESV2011)
We have a good Father and though it may hurt, He knows exactly what we need.
”Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his [or her] earnest counsel.” (Prov 27:9, ESV2011)
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