This book grabs your attention because it’s personal.  As I typed God’s words to me in December 2009 I was blown away by how much He cares about us and He used language and clichés’ common to my era.  At first I thought it was just me getting in the way of His words, but He would clarify and do or say something so profound that I would know immediately it was Him.  Keep typing He’d say.  So on we’d go.

By the end of the book, I just sat back and had no words to explain what I felt.  The book had been done from start to finish in less than 15 days and in plenty of time for Christmas.  We moved at a pace beyond my own ability.  Many of His words would strike me so personally, that I would just sit and stare at the page.  There are others writing similar books and recording His words to us, and they feel the same way.  God is real and He really does love us and wants us.  He’s not mad at us or waiting to bring the hammer down.  The hammer and nails were worn by Jesus for all of us forever.

What still is awesome and amazes me is that it’s been almost 4 years now and when I read a daily entry in the book, it always has fresh new meaning for where my life is right now.  When God speaks to us, His words have life and health in them, according to Proverbs chapter 4.  God is God and knows ALL there is to know.  So He can speak out words of life on to the page as I type for Him, that will still speak 20 years from now at the precise moment needed.  No matter how many years pass, this book has great value.  The book God Calling was written by two listeners almost 2 centuries ago.  It is just as poignant today as when they penned His words to them.

He told me to always have people read their Birth date first; so that is stated in the beginning of the book.  It usually gets people excited and motivated to want to hear more of what He has to say to them.  My hope and prayer is that it excites people to sit down with their own journal and listen, hear, and write what He tells them.

One particularly funny entry for me is March 5.  I heard Him say, “popcorn!”  I thought I was hearing things, but He repeated it and I could almost hear Him laughing and smiling at my reaction.  Here is the excerpt from “When God Speaks…He Says Amazing Things!”

March 5

Popcorn is a pleasure I created for your fun.  Do you like it?  Then enjoy it.  Yes.  Go make popcorn today and have some fun.  You are too serious most days.  Too busy, not My plan.  I love you and love others, yes.  I seek My own, but your life becomes too busy and you wind up like a spool too tight, bound up.  I call you to let go today.  I would often go off alone to be free for moments with Father.  The world has such a vice grip.  Run to Me.  Stay clear.  You can be in the world with Me, but not of it.  There is a huge difference.  I will lead you.  Come follow Me.

His words continue to hit the bulls eye of my heart, mind, will, and emotions.  He knows all there is to know about me and you.  He made us and says that He knows our thoughts BEFORE we think them.  Therefore, HE KNOWS and can speak exactly what is needed; encouragement, strength, love, correction, etc.  July 29 is another example of how much He cares and is looking out for us.

He has a plan and no matter how traumatic life gets, HE is there in the middle of it with us.

July 29

Help is on the way!  Be assured.  I do not leave you orphans.  I supply all your needs according to My riches in glory.  I own all the cows in the earth and they bring great supply.  Unlimited resources are Mine.  So do not fret or cry this day.  Come and find your rest in Me.  I will take care of you.  I have promised and I cannot lie.  My supply is on the way.  Look and listen!  Wait and See!  Be able to receive from Me what I will do for you!  Don’t doubt, only Believe!

All I can say is get the book, keep it where you can grab it for a quick snack for your soul.  He will speak to you. He KNOWS you completely.

Why is daily prayer and reflection time important to a human being, to me?

I guess if God needed it, then I surely do. Jesus said, “follow Me!”  That’s what I’m trying to do with His help.  So I study the Word and spend time listening and journaling, walking and being alert to His signs and wonders all about me.
In the bible Hebrews 5:7 declares that during the days of Jesus life on the earth he cried out to His Father in heaven with loud tears and cries continually for help to make it through—endure.  This blew my mind the first time I read it.  Jesus was God come down in the flesh, Immanuel, who knew all things and created all things before the foundations of the world were laid.  Yet here it declares that He needed His Father’s help, cried out daily, continually for help. Holy Spirit was in Him and helping Him and He still prayed, talked to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

Throughout the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John who chronicled the life of Jesus from living with Him, they stated over and over that He would go off for time alone with His Father, to sit, reflect, and listen. When Jesus was up on the mountain with Peter and John, talking to Elijah and Moses, Peter got excited and enamored with seeing these patriarchs.  However, God the Father, spoke loudly from heaven declaring to him “THIS is My Beloved Son—Hear Him!”  That tells me that no one’s voice is more important than Jesus’.  Most people are so busy they never give Him the time of day, let alone sit quietly listening and enjoying “being still in His presence and letting Him be God and Father to them!”  For me it’s the most important thing in life.

I’m a wife, a daughter, a mother, and a “Nana!”  I also have a full-time job; which is demanding.  I’m a very task oriented person who has trouble sitting still for very long without noticing something else that needs to be done no matter where I’m at.  So it has been amazing to grow in my friendship with Jesus to the point that I look forward to time set aside to be with Him.  In fact this past weekend, after chores were done I spent time on our sun porch enjoying the wind in the trees, reading His words and letting Him expound on them while I journaling His fresh input. I take my Bible and journal everywhere I go in case I have time to listen.

He calmed the storms in my soul.  He promised to feed His sheep and many don’t know how to think in spiritual terms, not natural.  We are spirit beings.  If you don’t think so, watch someone take their last breath, as I did recently with my Daddy who went home to Jesus in March.  There’s no doubt the person is gone and the body is still there—an empty shell.  Where’d they go?  Their spirit went home to the Lord if they were a believer in Jesus Christ. If not to torment, darkness, and separation as Jesus explained in the story of Lazarus and the rich man.  Jesus said “My Kingdom is not of this world—it’s spirit to Spirit—right now until He returns.  So He calls to my soul and spirit to come and let Him prepare a table, dinner, feast with Him daily. He knows everything coming in my day ahead and can prepare spiritual nourishment for the day ahead and to share with those that will be in my path.

He received what He needed from His Father in heaven through prayer and reflection time alone and so I know that I need it too.  It is absolutely the most important thing in my life beyond all those that I love so dearly, and that is saying a lot more than you can even know.

I challenge you to sit quietly and ask Him to speak to you.  He will.  He is the only God that exists.  He is alive, real, made you and everything else.  He will reveal Himself to you His precious child.  He loves us more than our human hearts can contain.  Seek Him and you will find Him.  Just stop the rat race long enough to listen!  Enjoy!