As always, I am not your leader. For some of you, I am your elder, which means that I don’t tell you what to do or what to think. I can only offer my personal experience, and encourage you to find your own path. I can help you discover who God is, but only He can tell you what He wants from you.
It’s a big ripple in the fabric of reality. My world crossed one of those invisible boundaries, where my prophetic sense tells me that reality has shifted again. It’s a decision point for which there is no going back. The trigger of recognition was my post on the other blog about Google Chrome Browser. It doesn’t matter too much about the humans involved; you will best understand it as things moving in the Spirit Realm. Sure, there are people involved making decisions, but that’s not what triggers my soul. This is a message from God.
And a message from God is always personal. It’s not about the facts, though it will surely result in temporal changes. In this case, I’ve been warned to back off from the Internet. Not because it’s either good or bad, but it’s now less pertinent in many ways. Nor is it completely useless, but it’s an incremental change. It’s less important to my mission. It remains a critical means of communication, but not in the same ways as before.
Keep using my email addresses, and the forum, etc. However, I want to encourage you to text me or call me more (405-503-1692), especially if it’s something time sensitive. If possible, it’s probably smart to text first to arrange a voice call, since I can’t predict what I’ll be doing at any given time of day right now. It’s not about my personal preferences; it’s a matter of how God wants me to do it. I’ll be trying once more to switch to a flip phone in the near future. Depending on what device I end up with, the chances I’ll be able to keep track of email by phone are shrinking. And there is a growing sense that I won’t be near a computer quite so much any more. I’ll be sure to let you folks know either way.
There is a powerful drive in my heart to be ready for changes yet unseen. Granted, in the past, this kind of thing has had a surprisingly long lead time. It has taught me patience, a lesson I still need to learn better. I’m getting better at waiting until my convictions tell me, “Okay, go!” It has to come from my heart.
If there is anything we can impart to our fellow believers, that would be it. Radix Fidem is not an organization, but an approach to faith. Nobody has to know the name for it, just this one key thing: convictions trump reason. People who are spiritually born cannot argue with that. It’s a simple thing we can say, but there are a ton of things we can use to make it real for them. If we can get that one message across, and it catches fire in their hearts, then we have done way more to change the moral landscape than any discrete teaching of our covenant could do.
And it’s the one lesson you all must get for yourselves. Don’t depend on me; I could disappear from the Net at any moment for reasons none of us could predict. I’m not expecting it to happen, but my point is that you should stand on your own faith. I’ve known for several years that the nature and focus of my ministry would shift, and I believe it’s getting pretty close. I crave your fellowship, but God has plans for this thing that we cannot envision.
You have a mission and calling, too. Dig into it. Take charge of the things God has placed in your hands.
In many ways, not an easy message to hear, if things come to pass you as expect. 🙂
And my personal decisions have already been changed again, as noted in a later post on the other blog. The underlying reasons remain the same, but the particulars of how to respond have shifted.