He chose ME!! =)

Our church has been doing the Bible Study… The Power of a Whisper by Bill Hybels, I done a few posts about it.

Well, I have been waiting and I haven’t really heard anything, but I do tend to have a hard time listening and my mind never shuts off! I don’t get a chance to really be ALONE with my Father like I need to.  I am going to have to sit down and have a talk with hubby and see if I can just leave the house to find somewhere quiet to go….

See.. I just go off on anything…sorry about that… anyways…

Sunday Bro. Tom was reading a passage Jesus the True Vine I love this passage too.   While he was reading, he got through almost the whole thing but once he got to verse 16, that part just jumped out at me, it was so loud and drowned out Tom for a bit.  So, since I am still fairly new at hearing His whispers, I would like to say that was one of them.  When it is something that is so loud in your head and drowns out everything else.  It is from Him!  and what a great whisper it was.

You didn’t choose Me, I chose you! 


WOW!  I love that!  He chose me, from the beginning I was His!  Sorry Daddy that it took me so long to understand that.  I just really loved that whisper I got and now, when things are going bad, which they sometimes do.  I can go back to that beautiful stake I have, that powerful whisper from my Daddy!! 

Jesus, the True Vine

“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.  You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.  Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in Me.

“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in Me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.  Anyone who does not remain in Me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.  But if you remain in Me and My words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!  When you produce much fruit, you are My true disciples. This brings great glory to  My Father.

“I have loved you even as the Father has loved Me. Remain in My love.  When you obey My commandments, you remain in My love, just as I obey My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.  I have told you these things so that you will be filled with My joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!  This is My commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.  There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  You are My friends if you do what I command.  I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are My friends, since I have told you everything the Father told Me. You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using My name.  This is my command: Love each other.

more on this passage tomorrow…

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What are your stakes?

Today during our Bible Study from “The Power of a Whisper” by Bill Hybels, there was a lady he had on his DVD, that we watched before our we went and discussed it, that was talking about whispers from God being like stakes.  Something that you can go back to as your ‘stake’ in your walk with our Father.  I thought it was pretty neat and I loved the idea of putting it like that!

The whispers you hear from God are our stakes, the ones that you can go back to time and again when you need that extra boost, when you don’t think He is talking to you as much anymore, you can go back to those ‘stakes’ and remember and relish in those times to give you that reassurance you need!  Our ‘stakes’ are our ties to our Father!!

What are your stakes?  What can you go back to that is that stake in your faith, that constant that you can always go back to?

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The Power of a Whisper

Our church is doing a new Bible Study this month about The Power of a Whisper by Bill Hybels.  It’s pretty exciting and very powerful.  We just started it this past Sunday but what I have read so far it is so inspiring!!  We had to read 3 chapters before last Sunday and then we have to read 2 chapters before next Sunday.  They are very easy to read and, like I said before, very inspiring!

Here’s what they had on Amazon about it.

From Publishers Weekly

Hybels, founding pastor of the globally influential Willow Creek Community Church, writes about learning to hear the "communicating God." Describing his life as a 50-year whisper-fueled odyssey, he says he waited nearly four decades to write this book because of controversy surrounding claims of hearing divine messages. In contrast to those who are certain they have heard God speak, Hybels points readers to the Holy Spirit's subtle "Wind Words," saying the problem is not God's silence but whether Christians have ears to hear. Hybels weaves personal stories, biblical principles, and global stories of others, saying no goal is more critical than keeping a "pliable heart before God." He writes that his suburban Chicago megachurch and its worldwide associated network of churches exist today because at low points in Hybels's life, God "graciously whispered to me."
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I really encourage anyone that wants to hear His whispers to check it out!!

Here’s a link to Zondervan’s site about the book too.

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