Are You Being Convicted Of God's Goodness In Your Life?

While fasting recently, I was overwhelmingly convicted of God's goodness in my life. I was reminded I was healed of a brain tumor when I was seven years old. Others weren't healed of that. I survived a heart attack 10 years ago. Others haven't. My heart stopped three days after the heart attack while taking a heart test. They jumped my heart back to beat again. My neighbor, younger than I, died of a heart attack years ago and He loved God too. I just don't understand why I am still here and others aren't. I owe everything to Him. Why He loves me I can't understand. It makes me weep. Sensing his daily constant goodness is leading me to a life of repentance and being merciful to others.

How Many Of You Are Glad To Be Anywhere?

If it had not been for the Lord on my side where would I be? When I stand up to minister I ask a question that never fails to release an atmospheric anointing of thankfrulness into people's hearts. "How many of you are glad to be anywhere?" They laugh, but the annointing of thanksgiving has already begun to fall upon them to start counting their endless blessings. Then I tell them, "I am just glad to be." Since the attack against my heart I now have a ministry of full-time breathing! Breathing qualifies us to worship! Looking back on my trials and life threatening events I know now that I could have been thanking the Lord in them instead of afterwards. "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." (1 Thessalonians 5:18) When we stop thanking Him, we take ourselves out of His perfect will.

I am learning what God wants to hear from us when we are in the fiery flame with no strings attached. In our sufferings we often attach strings to our prayers, like: 'if you heal me or let me live.' I learned quickly in that emergency room what He is after. "Father, I love you!" That's it..period! And when it's from our hearts, I can imagine all of heaven stopping as He says to the angels, "Stay up here, I have a personal house call. I'm going down for the nine count rescue!"

Have you wondered how saints of old and present could give thanks, breaking into worship, when facing a firing squad or being burned at stake? Could it be they were not praising God to move Him to do anything more? They were praising Him for what He had already done in their lives, the past miracles and deliverances and for the fact that they were still here. Each day of their lives was a precious gift and so was this one. Eternity beat in their hearts. They knew they were always one heart beat away from seeing the bigger picture of God's perfect plan for their lives. Their present fiery trial, stoning, or pointed gun was a reminder... "Absent from the body - present with the Lord." (2 Corinthians 5:8) They were fully convinced God was able to deliver but if He didn't, they would go out in a blaze of glory. "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death ..." Rev.12"11

DL Moody once said, "The day will come when you will read in the obituary that D L Moody has died. Don't you believe it. It is a lie. I will be more alive at that moment than I have ever been on earth." And so will we who put our trust in Jesus Christ. We will be alive when the stars fall from their sockets and this earth is no more. For His goodness and mercy endures forever.

Blessings,

Bill Yount

http://www.billyount.com

Many Are Coming In Out Of Left Field Into My Kingdom!

While watching a recent baseball game I noticed that a player who'd dropped a ball in a previous game was playing poorly again. I thought to myself: "Why doesn't the manager take that guy out of the game and replace him?" I sensed the Lord then say to me: "For the same reason I don't take you out of the game. The manager knows that guy is a better player than he appears to be right now." The next time that player got up to bat, he hit a home run!

   Don't Count Yourself Or Anyone Else Out Of The Game Or My Kingdom

Recently, I sensed the Lord saying, "I am bringing many in 'out of left field' to be used in My Kingdom." Heaven's eyes are on left field. The meaning 'out of left field' means: to come from an unexpected place, to be a surprise, unusual or 'didn't see that coming.'

Suddenly, I had a picture of unusual people emerging from unexpected places of gross darkness. This surprised many in the Body of Christ. God was drawing them but we hadn't seen them coming. Then the Lord said, "Who are these I see coming up out of the wilderness ( out of left field ) leaning on her beloved?" Soloman 8:3 (paraphrased) These appeared to be pornography stars, mass murderers, witches, occult practitioners, and followers of Eastern religions; souls who had committed horrendous sins and terrifying crimes. The pointing of their finger was the closest many in the Body of Christ had come to these. But they were being summoned by God's Spirit like a baseball coach waving in a relief pitcher from the bull pen to clinch the final innings of the game.

Most baseball stadiums have their bull pens outside of the outfield fence, some outside the left field wall. Interestingly, one of the meanings of the word bull pen is: 'a barred enclosure in a jail where prisoners are kept together temporarily until facing charges.' Yes, many prisoners of sin are now being freed into God's Kingdom to display His great grace in Heaven's final All Star Game on earth! I saw "Hatfields and McCoys" jumping over the left field fence; leaping the high walls of hatred and historic grudges. I could not believe what I was seeing. God was waving them in.

I was left thinking: Expecting the unexpected makes the unexpected expected and the expected unexpected. ( anonymous)

Feel free to send us your prayer requests and we will agree with you in prayer. There is power in agreement as we pray one for another.

Blessings,

Bill Yount

A Work In Progress - Philippians 1:6 MSG Bible

Philippians 1:6 "There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears."

 Each one of us is a work in progress. God is not through working on any of us. This is one reason we cannot judge one another.

Where we are living there is a construction site near by. You can't escape it. Right when you turn on to the main road there it is. A major four way intersection under construction causing traffic to stand still and people to go crazy. The bank we are customers with is right on the corner of it. Going inside the bank you get to breathe dust for they are remodeling the bank after tearing half of it down to make room for these new sophisticated routes of traveling.

Many Times God Uses A Red Light To Speak To Us

I am not judging the construction workers but I am convinced that my two flat tires within three days on the same tire was caused by pieces of metal debrie picked up from crossing through that intersection.The other day I was waiting again in a line of traffic backed up what seemed to be a mile. The light changed and being in a hurry we began to move slower than I wanted. Finally approaching the intersection the light turned red personally just for me right before I could go through. That did it. Sitting there, I felt like getting out of my car and shouting to every construction worker at the top of my lungs, "Would you please stop working on this intersection? I can't take this anymore!" ( But I didn't because I am a Christian.) Sitting there, waiting for the light to change, there came a moment of stillness and the Lord whispered to me, "But wait till you see when it is finished. Wait til you see when it is finished."

When Things Appear To Be Falling Apart, They Could Be Actually Falling Together!

I believe there are many people right now like me who are a work in progress. The Lord has been working over time in your life although things seem to be falling apart and going crazy. You have been tempted or maybe have said to Him today. "Would you please stop working on me? I can't take it anymore!" But I sense the Lord saying to you, "But wait til you see when I am finished. Wait til you see when I am finished. Things are not falling apart, they are falling together! You are a work in progress."

Blessings,

Bill Yount

http://www.billyount.com