tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post6393512311975237889..comments2023-10-21T04:32:31.262-05:00Comments on Following Judah's Lion: The Tabernacle in the WildernessRick Fruehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879848568892457571noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-67294112658496278542013-06-15T18:58:14.554-05:002013-06-15T18:58:14.554-05:00Thank you, Reine. And Thank you, Father!
Victoria...Thank you, Reine. And Thank you, Father!<br />VictoriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-8457577533966138662013-06-15T16:24:45.084-05:002013-06-15T16:24:45.084-05:00Friends, a consecrated life isn't a "lone...<br />Friends, a consecrated life isn't a "lonely" life in the LORD, for God is joyful and blesses those who love Him with joy. <br /><br />God commands us to rejoice in the LORD. We are to rejoice hour by hour in our justice and joy-bringing LORD.<br /><br />Friends, God doesn't call us out of fellowship but into fellowship. Where God's saints are is where true believers ought to desire to be.<br /><br /> Truly companionship doesn't lead us into loneliness but an abundant joy-filled life. It is a life full of challenges and difficulties to surmount, yet one that brings us joy and totally fulfills us.<br /><br />If someone has gotten so used to being alone they ought to start resisting that way of thinking and behaving because living like that isn't God's perfect will for anyone.<br /><br /> Precious readers, are you finding it very difficult to go back to a lot of human contact? Do you feel guilty about it sometimes, that you've gotten too independent and proud or intolerant or whatever? <br /><br />Precious readers, do you know how wonderful the Good Shepherd, lord Jesus Christ is?<br /><br /> Do you know that if you are currently not in fellowship He can restore you to a right understanding? What should you do?<br /><br /> You should refocus on Jesus and His words and the teachings in the Bible and desire to deepen your prayer life and to live more purely before Your pure LORD. <br /><br />Yes, it will be hard to readjust but let's remember to whom we are accountable- it is to Almighty God. Put your trust in Him as the great restorer. <br /><br />Truly He is able to restore your trust in human companionship and fellowship! <br /><br />Be encouraged for the LORD will bless your sincere efforts to honour Him!<br /><br />Reine GnadeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-17788057244868091012013-06-15T16:18:52.533-05:002013-06-15T16:18:52.533-05:00But we love you Victoria, no strings atrached.
Lo...But we love you Victoria, no strings atrached.<br /><br />Love you too Bill.<br /><br />Hi Julie!<br /><br />your sister in Christ Jesus,<br /><br />Cherie c.Cherie c.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-33688817521053509682013-06-15T12:57:57.741-05:002013-06-15T12:57:57.741-05:00It is difficult for those who've had much comm...It is difficult for those who've had much community (or at least a feeling of community) to come out into a "lonely" place with the Lord. For others like me, I've gotten so used to being alone that I find it very difficult to go back to a lot of human contact. I feel guilty about it sometimes, that I've gotten too independent and proud or intolerant or whatever.<br /><br />We started out our life in the Lord in intense fellowship and community. It got destroyed; we got used to doing without; now it could be hard to readjust to making lots of room for and accountability to others. Oh how wonderful to have a Good Shepherd in spite of it all.<br />VictoriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-67411189298808481252013-06-15T00:18:49.260-05:002013-06-15T00:18:49.260-05:00:
We no longer tabernacle in the wilderness, for G...:<br />We no longer tabernacle in the wilderness, for God has shepherded His saints into the Promised Land. He has shepherded those who trust and obey Him wholeheartedly into the land of His promises! <br /><br />Thanks to all glorious Lord Jesus the Spirit of truth now tabernacles with true believes and they are being conformed to the image of Christ Jesus. <br /><br />We no longer wander in the wilderness but walk gratefully and humbly with the author and finisher of our faith.<br /><br />Reine GnadeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-62290449685911978902013-06-14T09:50:10.323-05:002013-06-14T09:50:10.323-05:00Truly, the wilderness is dark and gloomy. Thanks a...Truly, the wilderness is dark and gloomy. Thanks and praise to the Lord of heaven and earth who has brought us into the Light, Jesus Christ, and that we have brothers and sisters in many other lands!<br />Thank you Rick, for the much needed encouragement. I'm very thankful to be able to have fellowship with one another here.Lorenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-47055337412725099972013-06-14T09:23:58.947-05:002013-06-14T09:23:58.947-05:00I'm back. Just shared the story about my dad ...I'm back. Just shared the story about my dad and aunt having the loner genes. <br /><br />I forgot to mention that it's hard for those who are used to depending on community for such a long time, to suddenly have to adjust to being alone in a wildnerness, and for those christians, it also be a big adjustment to try to go into a place of spiritual wilderness. <br /><br />So here we are, most, if not all, trying to make those adjustments and some find it easier, and some less. I pray that I can press in with the Lord more than I ever have, now that I have to rely solely on myself. I'm like the apostles who couldn't pray for an hour and would fall asleep. I need a physical boost in these times, as I've always had that weird 'fatigue syndrome' and insomnia intermixed so I sometimes feel like a zombie and this isn't a good mix for being any kind of prayer warrior. <br /><br />I pray we all find the strength and supernatural ability (from the Lord) to press in like we've never done before!! <br /><br />J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-17281886533599030852013-06-14T09:14:17.169-05:002013-06-14T09:14:17.169-05:00Amen!
All this talk about churches and who knew, ...Amen!<br /><br />All this talk about churches and who knew, the Spirit within us can be the tabernacles (church) that isn't made with human hands. I've read these scriptures, but forget so easily, and it's so nice to be reminded, and it's so encouraging. <br /><br />The story of Dick Proenneke moving to the wilderness reminds me of my deceased father. He was an outdoors man, who could live in a cabin for the winter, rely for his food on fishing, hunting. His sister, my aunt, in her 60's and 70's (widow) would camp at her cottage along the St.Lawrence River, where neighboring camps were empty for the summer and she'd stay there alone until the late fall, and sometimes would be stuck there for days when snow storms blocked the roads. Some people are like that and it's in their DNA. Now, others, are created with different traits, where they must rely on people all the time. The wild-man DNA must be in my family, yet that's not a spiritual trait, it's a carnal one. <br /><br />I know we live in the end times, and that we're going to have to suddenly become accustomed to allowing God to work in us and through us, and commune with us in our own tabernacle. And today's church people don't know how to fellowship anymore. This society doesn't allow true fellowship anymore. It's become cliquish, people sitting in the same pews, talking to the same friends, acquaintances, ignoring new people sitting in the back in the corner. How can that be true fellowship? It's not the first church's types of fellowship. They came already having all in common. I expect some people were wearing the hand-me-downs of the people across the aisle and they shared everything they had with each other. I can't imagine this happening in today's churches. It just does not happen. The pastors demand the tithe and use it upon their administrations and church mortgages and such, and the poor are still poor week after week. If a church does create a program to donate unneeded stuff for charity, it's done for established charities, not churchpeople. It's hard for a poor person to walk into church wearing the clothes he knows belongs to those 5 or 6 rich couples that always hang around together and who laugh and share 'vacationcruise' stories. <br /><br />Yes, tabernacles of wilderness are all we can hope for now. God's will was for His 'church' to be like the Acts church, but men transformed it into a manufacturing plant, which produces robotic christians doing the same thing over and over again and never seeing any improved results; and where the clergy are the great mediators between men and God. And even in that horrid atmosphere, Jesus still comes to the hearts of those still in those churches, despite it all, He still has so much mercy and he hears the cry of those who need him, even when they're in the midst of Babylon. <br /><br />We can't lose when we serve Christ Jesus. He is there ready and waiting for all people, those in the chains of man-made religious institutions, and those outside the court. He is awesome and wonderful and the best Father anyone could hope for. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-33817786685818462752013-06-14T08:59:20.980-05:002013-06-14T08:59:20.980-05:00It's a joy to be reassured by others the under...It's a joy to be reassured by others the understanding to press in, to continue on, to not lose hope or give up is the same for all. Later on Paul in Galatians writes this which underscores that the change is generally slow being transformed by the Spirit into the new, putting to death daily old sinful life desires which can rain havoc on the training one into His Righteousness:<br /><br />Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! (Galatians 4:16-19 ESV)<br /><br />The battles we sometimes face and the forces that come against us indeed seem to be bad but with a little or a lot of encouragement at times we look back and see this has always been the Truth:<br /><br />God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. (Psalms 46:1 ESV)<br /><br />That truth? That God has been in the center of it all all the time and while we would want the troubles that beset our flesh to go away, God doesn't. He wants us to come to terms with the truth that He is with us IN the trouble not God get me OUT of the trouble!<br /><br />To the Colossians Paul writes about the HOPE that will carry us through:<br /><br />We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf and has made known to us your love in the Spirit. (Colossians 1:3-8 ESV) ... <br /><br />... And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. (Colossians 1:21-23 ESV)michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01744678277860175675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-71502448466095201332013-06-14T07:43:08.188-05:002013-06-14T07:43:08.188-05:00Hallelujah to the Lamb of God! What an encouragin...Hallelujah to the Lamb of God! What an encouraging word this morning. Thank you, Brother Rick. What joy is flooding my soul.....Julie Wiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11987876340425622095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27942026.post-88336180395423484132013-06-14T06:38:52.756-05:002013-06-14T06:38:52.756-05:00Brother,
Thank you for the words of encouragement ...Brother,<br />Thank you for the words of encouragement as well as the power of conviction from the Holy Spirit. If we would ever slow down and just meditate on His Word our feeble minds could not even fathom the wonderful works, beauty, Love, Grace, long-suffering, and on and on. Because I cannot come up with enough words to describe His patience for me. The quenching and grieving that we all do to the Spirit of the Living God is unimaginable. I pray that the Lord continues to feed you with the words of wisdom, comfort and many times, stinging conviction from the Holy Spirit, for us all who come to the well.<br /><br />God bless to all my brothers and sisters who are on this blog.Bill Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762574175505410807noreply@blogger.com