Be Patient - I'm Working

Below is a message concerning difficult people on your job, in your family and yes, the Body of Christ too. Since none of us are perfect we all have those people who seem impossible to love unless we see them as God sees them. In this message I share about the road I have walked down for thirty six years with the Lord. Looking back over my life I am realizing that it wasn't the easy road that blessed me. It was the broken road that blessed my life. Most of those bumps in the road came from difficult people that God brought into my life to ultimately bless and promote me.

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Blessings,

Bill Yount

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)

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Blessings,

Bill Yount