Look Who’s Talking

If you search the scriptures, you will discover individuals of many different nationalities (and even an animal) that either received (or gave) a message from God.

Here are my favorites: Adam (and Eve), Job, Noah, Abraham (and Sarah), Balaam’s donkey, Moses, Queen Esther, Paul, Joseph (and Mary), Elizabeth, and Pontius Pilot’s wife.

In my existence, I have had hundreds of “nudges” from my loving Heavenly Father to do the right (or needed) action at the time. I can remember only a few experiences when I was involved in communicating (or being the recipient of) a Heavenly message. (See What’s a Girl to Do? and Uncomfortable, but Needed)

In 2005 (four years before my cancer showed up),the Kinker family was attending a small Southern Baptist church (close to the neighborhood library). I was in my early forties. 

During a particular church service on an ordinary Sunday morning, I had chosen to go to the prayer room to get some peace on a life challenge I was stressed about. In walked my good friend “Jim Barkin,” (see Walk the Talk?) God had told him exactly what I was struggling with. (I’d never spoken to him at any time about what it was.) When we prayed together (about it), emotionally it felt like the weight of the world had been lifted from my shoulders.

The most recent time I received an unexpected utterance from God’s mouth came from my twenty year-old daughter in her dormitory room in Circleville, OH (via text). It happened on Monday, September 12, 2016, at around 9:45pm. Here’s how our correspondence went.

Allena: My friend said you’re “made whole.” He gets words from God, and that was for you.

Me: Ask your friend to explain that a bit more. Tell him thanks though.

Allena: That’s all he got.

Me: Tell him I appreciate it. Suggest my blog as he might find that inspiring. Can you tell me anything about this friend? Have you been discussing me lately?

Allena: Nope, not talking about you at all to be honest.

It’s typical of the Almighty (in many of my life issues) to leave the interpretation of His message entirely up to my own fertile imagination.

I have so many complications in my world that I try to work on (in my own power) that it seems at times like I’m paddling (and scooping out water) in a boat full of holes. I Feel many times like I’m in sinking mode.

When will I learn to give it all over to my Heavenly Father? My shoulders are just not broad enough to take on the entire world, but His are.

Hebrews 4:12-13 (MSG) makes provides this lesson. “God means what He says. What He says goes. His powerful word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is [resistant] to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it – no matter what.”

Don’t fight God in wanting to use you. In the end, His request is all that matters. Either He can choose you to fulfill His need, or find another eager servant that is capable to carry out His duty.

Who knows what blessings await you (or may be bypassed)? For someone you could be the difference between life and death (or hope and despair). Do you really want to pass up on such a sweet deal (of the divine kind)?