One Mouth, Two Ears!

Last time on 'Quiet Crazy' we left our girl, Netta, laying in bed crying out to God. If you didn't read 'New Year, New Ear'....STOP....read it now! (Go on...this is part 2 of that blog...so we will wait on you to get caught up!)

I got up the next day and went about my business as usual. I was hoping that God would just let me slide with my little temper tantrum from the night before. I did my daily devotions. I read. I studied.  I loved on some friends. I cleaned a little bit. In the back of my mind I was thinking...Whoop whoop, Ima get away with this one! How many of you know that you don't ever get away with anything when it concerns our Father?

First. There was Matthew 6:33-34 at 11 am. Then there was Isaiah 43:18-19 at 2:30. Then there was Matthew 5:45b-47 at 5. Next there was Judges 7:21-22, 1 Samuel 7:8-11 and 14:20, and Micah 7:1-4 around 7:30.

Now if you remember from the previous blog. I cried out to God TWICE. The first time out of pain and loneliness. But the second time was out of anger and frustration. You can search those scriptures yourself and pretty much have a fly on the wall view of my prayers because God covered it all!

(Pictured is a partial cheat sheet for those of you that just will not search your bible for yourselves! Or if you are my friend on Facebook, check my post from Thursday at 3:30 pm.)

I couldn't see or HEAR any of this at the time. I thought God was giving me words to share on Facebook or through my blog. But the words for my blog didn't come because it wasn't a word for someone else..it was a word for ME. And God brought that home to me through an internet sermon at about 10 pm! (Part 1! and  Part 2!)

I've talked to several people and they ask me how do you know when God speaks to you. Well. Let me tell you how I know. Now this may not be true for you. But this is how God deals with me. When I go to the Lord in prayer..especially the ugly face, snotty nose kind..I am at the point where I don't have time to be cute or correct. I am at the point where I need God to be real with me so I am real with Him. When I go to Him with A, B, C and 1, 2, 3..He clearly answers me with A, B, C and 1,2,3. It is indisputably God because I didn't tell anybody else. I didn't ask anybody else. When I fell down on my knees and cried out, there was no body in the room but me, my mess, and God!

And this is what else God told ME...........(and let me add that He did not wait long to tell me. This was less than 24 hours after I had laid in my bed crying my eyes out and praying my heart out!)

The Lord told me that I was exactly where He wanted me to be. He said that it wasn't the quiet calling out to me. He said.."I led you here by my Holy Spirit. You had to be here. You aren't doing anything wrong. This is not a bad thing. I needed you in a position to HEAR me so I shut down the noise. Do not run from this quiet. Stand in this quiet and LISTEN to me. I let that heart break open so my word could fall inside. LISTEN  TO THE QUIET."

The Lord told me that He saw me. That He SAW me and that He was pleased. He said, "Netta, I see you. You are my daughter and I am pleased with you." The Lord said to me that IT was already mine...it was just a matter of time. He told me that I didn't have to bow to anybody, to compromise, or to go back...(Glory to God!)...IT IS ALREADY MINE!

"Now get yourself together and praise me like you got IT...because daughter IT is as good as yours! I don't care what it looks like stick your chest out, walk in faith, operate like IT is already yours! There is no deal to be cut by the devil. He keeps telling you that you got to do something. That you have to make a move. He is a liar, daughter. You just stand on my word. And before the devil can play his last card...my Angels..your help is on the way. He can not give you what it is my good pleasure to give you. IT IS ALREADY YOURS!"

So! My sister, I do not know that thing that has you crying out to God. I do not know the thing that sends you to your knees. I do not know that thing that brings on your quiet. But sister, I do know...yes ma'am..I DO KNOW...that God knows! And He is working that thing out for your good. You just hold on! You just wait on His word for you. And please, when you get it...TELL IT! Lord knows I am!