2024 not abandoned: a new spiritual journey

How may we hear God and understand Him more accurately? Last night while praying my heart purposed to start afresh the unfinished journey over the uncharted spiritual rough waters of Bible words. It is not a time to ask why. It is a time to ask how. How may this be done consistently and persistently? I believe the Lord has put this desire in my heart and will help me get going…

I have put a link to my Sound Mind Journal blog in this watchman’s menu, labelled: “A New Spiritual Journey 2013-2024”. The first 2024 post (from alphabet A) shortly to be posted will be on a word that caught my eye on the top of the list, a word that digs deep into my heart. The original series started on March 16, 2013 and paused for many years, suddenly revived over a short period during the last 20 days of the year 2021 (six chapters posted on 12/12, 13/12, 14/12, 15,12, 18/12, 19/12, 21/12) and remained silent since then. What happened? Why December and those dates? Only now I see the significance. Exactly two years after that, a sudden personal loss (death) took place.

What better time is there than now to start catching up with Jesus as He walks towards the cross 2000 years ago? (This year’s Good Friday falls on 29th March.)

καινός 2024-03-07

Wed, Feb 14, 2024 – Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Note: Lent lasts 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, excluding Sundays, is the six-week period leading up to Easter. It starts on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 14, 2024) and either ends on Maundy Thursday (March 28, 2024) or Holy Saturday (March 30, 2024), depending on the denomination. Palm Sunday, the final Sunday before Easter is celebrated by Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox traditions. 

an early poetic eulogy five days before he passed on

beloved, this day you shall not fly alone (updated)

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Billy Graham

A famous Christian evangelist who lived for 99 years and is known to perhaps millions in this world died on 21st February 2018 . This poem was written and posted on my Soundmind blog on the 16th of February, (five days before the announced official date of his death) while fasting for Lent.
I didn’t know who it was meant for but I knew it was a conversation between a man and God. And It seemed that the man was leaving this world and God was assuring him not to be afraid. How awesome!

Note on hearing God:
I have been listening to the teaching from Andrew Wommack for over ten years. I have learned how to hear God’s voice from him. I am still learning and practicing. Please read the following article if you are interested. Listen to his free MP3 audio teachings. You will find what you seek. http://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/gods_voice/

Sound Mind Journey

this day I shall not fly alone
with new hope and not forlorn

living
dreaming
planning
parting

leaving behind
my depressed mind

stepping ahead
as my spirit heard you said

do not fear
for I have wiped away your every tear
go forth
as I have come forth

behold
here is My heart
as always of old
ever
never
leave

beloved
you are loved
so deep

so Sweet
this day you will not fly alone

Note added: a famous Christian man who lived for 99 years and is known to perhaps millions in this world died on 21st February 2018 . This poem was written and posted on the 16th five days before that day while fasting for Lent.

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Journey to see God: what God really wants from your fasting

Many Christians are fasting for Lent right now. Here is the appropriate message for all who seek God diligently during this utmost crucial time. The watchman prays that many more will see and understand the signs of the time just as Jesus has warned! 

(Luke 12:56 (ESV) You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?)

FASTING OPENS YOUR SPIRITUAL EYES THAT YOU MAY SEE WHAT GOD REALLY WANTS. YOU WILL SHARPEN YOUR SPIRITUAL EARS AND UNDERSTANDING AS YOU READ AND PRAY HIS WORDS. YOU WILL LEARN WHAT OVERCOMING REALLY MEANS IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM. YOU WILL HAVE A FORETASTE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, LIVING THE LIFE OF THE SON OF GOD!

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Isaiah 58

English Standard Version (ESV)

True and False Fasting

58 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
    lift up your voice like a trumpet;
declare to my people their transgression,
    to the house of Jacob their sins.
² Yet they seek me daily
    and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
    and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
    they delight to draw near to God.
³ ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
    Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
    and oppress all your workers.
⁴ Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
    and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
    will not make your voice to be heard on high.
⁵ Is such the fast that I choose,
    a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
    and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
    and a day acceptable to the Lord?

⁶ “Is not this the fast that I choose:
    to loose the bonds of wickedness,
    to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
    and to break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
    and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
    and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
⁸ Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing shall spring up speedily;
your righteousness shall go before you;
    the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
    you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you take away the yoke from your midst,
    the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
¹⁰ if you pour yourself out for the hungry
    and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
then shall your light rise in the darkness
    and your gloom be as the noonday.
¹¹ And the Lord will guide you continually
    and satisfy your desire in scorched places
    and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
    like a spring of water,
    whose waters do not fail.
¹² And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
    you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
you shall be called the repairer of the breach,
    the restorer of streets to dwell in.

¹³ “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
    from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
    and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
    or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
¹⁴ then you shall take delight in the Lord,
    and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
    for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

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