If You Feel Like You Are a Voice Crying in the Wilderness, You Are!
I heard a very simple phrase today, “If you feel like you are a voice crying in the wilderness, you are.”
( I know this is for someone. You have become discouraged — but read on! )
I have noticed that people get very offended with the truth lately, whether it be something spiritual or natural.
They want to believe what they want to believe. I think it has to do a lot with the internet.
When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, we formed our own beliefs and thoughts through reading books based on facts not theories, reading the Bible, listening to our elders, making trips to see and listen to various teachers and preachers.
There was no internet, no AI, no copy and paste.
Now, it is so different. With social media platforms and artificial intelligence, people seem to believe anything and everything.
Many have not had parents who taught them right from wrong, or that it is okay to be different and to believe differently than others, to do your own research and also to seek The LORD and His word for yourself.
We could agree to disagree with no animosity.
I have noticed how people now attack one another for their beliefs, without engaging in conversation or exchange of ideas, with no respect for one another.
This is the opposite of what Paul preached and what God said even in the Old Testament.
The Apostle Paul explained that while he was free from all people, he made himself a servant to everyone to win as many as possible.
Purpose: The goal was not to blend in or compromise, but to find common ground, display humility and kindness, and in this way, save some.
God says to the prophet Isaiah “Let Us reason together….”
Isn’t it wonderful. We too should reason with one another in love.
If you get attacked for speaking the truth about anything, turn the other cheek.
Do not react. God will work on their hearts as only He can do.
Pray for them. Always treat others as you would have them treat you.
So if you feel you are a voice crying in the wilderness, YOU ARE. And that’s a GOOD thing.
Beloved, “If you feel like you are a voice crying in the wilderness…
it is because you are.
You are living in a time where truth is no longer received as a gift,
but often rejected as an offense.
Where people gather voices that agree with them,
but resist the ones that challenge them in love.
Where information is everywhere,
but true wisdom and understanding is rare.
In former days, many learned by seeking
reading, listening, weighing, and discerning.
They were taught to think, to search, to ask,
and to anchor themselves in truth.
But now, many are formed not by truth,
but by repetition.
Not by seeking,
but by scrolling.
And so hearts have become quick to react,
but slow to understand.
Quick to speak,
but slow to listen.
Did not Paul say
though he was free from all,
he made himself a servant to all,
that he might win more?
Yes, My Child. This is My Way.
For Truth always wins in the end.
And Love never fails.
Anger will fail.
Grace and Love will not.
Paul did not argue to be right.
He loved to reveal truth.
He did not force agreement.
He found common ground.
He walked in humility,
in patience,
in kindness
in Love and Grace
so that some might be saved.
Beloved, this is your assignment.
Not to win arguments, but to win hearts.
Not to tear down, but to build up.
Not to copy the crowd, but to carry a different Sound.
A voice in the wilderness is clear, cutting through the lies.
You are not alone, My Child.
I have always had a Remnant
who stand in the quiet places,
who speak truth without fear,
and love without compromise.
So do not shrink back
when you feel set apart.
Do not question your place
when others do not understand you.
The wilderness of this present age
is where My voice is heard.
Just as John was a voice sent forth into the wilderness,
so I send you.
And those who are searching for truth
will find you there, Dear One.
So stand, speak, and love
In Grace and Truth.
For you are not just a voice crying in the wilderness,
you are a voice preparing the way of The LORD.”
“Come now, let Us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like bright wool.” Isaiah 1:18.
“For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not provoked, takes not account of evil; rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
But whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I am fully known.
But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is LOVE.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (Whole Chapter).
~ Deborah Waldron Fry
Amen!!!
I would like to tell you something interesting happening in Korea. And I ask for your prayers. BTS, the world-famous Korean K-pop group, will perform in front of the Joseon Dynasty Royal Palace in the middle of Seoul for 60 minutes from 8 to 9 p.m. tomorrow, March 21st, Korean time. The stage is shaped like a black cube, and they plan to perform a ritual from inside the palace to the outside. When I went and checked today, the organizer was preparing to show a series of graphic images of black dragons appearing swiftly on the main gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace. It felt like images of death. The performance will be broadcast worldwide during the time. Please pray that the altars and rituals of Baal and the evil schemes of Jezebel will be destroyed by the blood of Jesus.
Praying for Korea and the concert
Thank you so much, JG ♡
Beautiful..
This mantle. Oh this blessed mantle. Give us strength, help us endure, keep us from fear and running to hide in the cave. Keep us in the consecrated space where we refuse the noise of world so we can hear You. Oh God, the cost is so high to us, but nothing compared to what You paid! Remind us that we are being conformed to Your very being as we suffer for You. Lord Jesus, push us to the finish line. We are nothing without You. Bless these words and let them reach those who are weary like me. If it be Your will, allow us to find one another for fellowship soon. If not, help us to cherish our time alone out here with You. Amen.