Loren's Aunt "If you are going to tramp through life living off charity, with religion as an excuse, I am through with you"
Life as a missionary, perspective.
Loren's Aunt " Think of all the help you could give them if you had thousands of dollars at your disposal" Loren said "I hated letting her down, but I knew I had to put this test behind me.
Loren's Aunt " Think of all the help you could give them if you had thousands of dollars at your disposal" Loren said "I hated letting her down, but I knew I had to put this test behind me.
Loren's mother's teaching, as referred to him as family inheritance. (Mother Cunningham) "We can hear a confirming voice through another person. But If God has something important to tell you, He will speak to you directly."
He started to realize a pattern: God would give him a distinct call, then a testing would come.
Loren to his wife when she was struggling finding her calling in the position she was in.
"This is something you're going to have to get for yourself directly from God. I'm sorry, but I can't help you"
Darlene's ministry: The Lord spoke to her from the story of David and Abigail. Abigail said she would wash the feet of her husband's servants. "That's my ministry. I'm to be a servant - a footwasher"
"These were the two sides of the same Gospel: Loving God and loving our neighbor. The two should be almost indistinguishable - so linked that it would be hard to tell them apart."
In New Zealand, Loren learned a guidance practice. In their minds, they would be "given" a chapter and verse without knowing what the reference said.Then they would consider whether or not that reading was a special guidance for whatever they were facing. They Key was being totally submitted to the Spirit of Jesus; if he wanted to speak, He would choose any tool he chose.
Loren's soul surgery, God gave him memories from his Mother saying "son, if you get proud, God can't use you. As each sin came into his mind, he confessed it. "We can hear the Lord more clearly if we come to him with a clean heart. The process of confession was an ongoing one, to be sure.
The Danger of Success
"The Lord will lead us to victory, but success itself is the most dangerous obstacle to properly hearing the voice of God"
The biggest failure of their part was pride. "We saw down into the deceit of our own hearts, and it was disgusting. For the first time, I glimpsed something of what it will be like to stand before God on Judgement Day.
Three Steps to Hearing God
"First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited ... believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.
Duncan said "We momentarily lose our axheads - our best cutting-edge tool for ministry, which is the clear voice of God. It helps to go back to the place where we last knew we had heard the sharp edge of God's voice.
Asked himself "Loren, have you checked your life lately against your original call?"
"Divine guidance is so heady, so spectacular, that there is the risk of glory attaching itself to the work rather than to the Lord". "Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide. The first goal of guidance is to lead us into a closer relationship with Jesus. All other goals should be subservient to that. We have to especially watchful when He is leading us toward tools, such as a ship or university. There is nothing wrong with tools. But it's a sad day if the tools ever supersede the Lord Himself.
Overcrowded refugee camps. Doesn't anyone care? This is the world's question to the Body of Christ. That's how God must feel about these people. He's sobbing... doesn't anyone care?
Link between prayer and fasting, guidance, and a good harvest. Jesus, after all, began His incredibly fruitful ministry after the wilderness fast.
"Put your dreams on the alter. They will be resurrected into something even grander."
Darlene to Loren "This is what hearing God is all about, isn't it, Loren? Getting to know Him better."
Loren to his wife when she was struggling finding her calling in the position she was in.
"This is something you're going to have to get for yourself directly from God. I'm sorry, but I can't help you"
Darlene's ministry: The Lord spoke to her from the story of David and Abigail. Abigail said she would wash the feet of her husband's servants. "That's my ministry. I'm to be a servant - a footwasher"
"These were the two sides of the same Gospel: Loving God and loving our neighbor. The two should be almost indistinguishable - so linked that it would be hard to tell them apart."
In New Zealand, Loren learned a guidance practice. In their minds, they would be "given" a chapter and verse without knowing what the reference said.Then they would consider whether or not that reading was a special guidance for whatever they were facing. They Key was being totally submitted to the Spirit of Jesus; if he wanted to speak, He would choose any tool he chose.
Loren's soul surgery, God gave him memories from his Mother saying "son, if you get proud, God can't use you. As each sin came into his mind, he confessed it. "We can hear the Lord more clearly if we come to him with a clean heart. The process of confession was an ongoing one, to be sure.
The Danger of Success
"The Lord will lead us to victory, but success itself is the most dangerous obstacle to properly hearing the voice of God"
The biggest failure of their part was pride. "We saw down into the deceit of our own hearts, and it was disgusting. For the first time, I glimpsed something of what it will be like to stand before God on Judgement Day.
Three Steps to Hearing God
"First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited ... believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.
Duncan said "We momentarily lose our axheads - our best cutting-edge tool for ministry, which is the clear voice of God. It helps to go back to the place where we last knew we had heard the sharp edge of God's voice.
Asked himself "Loren, have you checked your life lately against your original call?"
"Divine guidance is so heady, so spectacular, that there is the risk of glory attaching itself to the work rather than to the Lord". "Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide. The first goal of guidance is to lead us into a closer relationship with Jesus. All other goals should be subservient to that. We have to especially watchful when He is leading us toward tools, such as a ship or university. There is nothing wrong with tools. But it's a sad day if the tools ever supersede the Lord Himself.
Overcrowded refugee camps. Doesn't anyone care? This is the world's question to the Body of Christ. That's how God must feel about these people. He's sobbing... doesn't anyone care?
Link between prayer and fasting, guidance, and a good harvest. Jesus, after all, began His incredibly fruitful ministry after the wilderness fast.
"Put your dreams on the alter. They will be resurrected into something even grander."
Darlene to Loren "This is what hearing God is all about, isn't it, Loren? Getting to know Him better."
