Hearing Rhema Pieces as God’s Signs
HEARING RHEMA PIECES AS GOD’S SIGNS – A NOW WORD
THE WINDOW OF TIME
For 3 decades I have been called away as a scribe to see and hear what God is saying and doing in His own. It was very hard the first decade because I did not understand I was hearing years in advance. I was looking through a telescope lens, but when I took the lens off and tried to apply it to that time, it just didn’t fit. This was very hard on my faith.
As years passed, more and more of what I heard and saw came to pass in my own life and the lives around me, so I started getting a clue of how to fit in… You hear and then you wait, see and wait! Smile. Throughout the years I experienced a shortening of that waiting time and then for almost a decade I held the Words in chronological order 3-6 months in advance. They were saved on the email service, holding them on pending, until the date they were set to automatically be sent out via email. Those years were incredible to my faith. The Words were always a surprise to me, I had no idea what Word was coming in the email and I was just amazed to see how the Word absolutely fit my life in a completely different set of circumstances than when I had first heard it months prior. It was like living in Psalm 139 bubble, where we were completely beset/ surrounded by His Words, His thoughts encircling us before, during and following after our lives. I had so many responses from people experiencing the same thing, even though the Words were coming out 3-6 months after I heard them.
Psalms 139:1-6 O LORD, you have searched me, and known me. 2 You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off. 3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5 You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psalms 139:17-18 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
I still marvel at how God and the angels could arrange so many lives to live in synch with His Words, and how they could apply so perfectly but in such diverse ways. To live in the world of His Word, is a wondrous place.
In the last few years I have watched that window of time draw closer and closer, even as the days of acceleration have narrowed. The fullness of that time is when a spiritual seed is planted and comes to pass so fast, that those who sow the seeds cannot stay ahead of the reaping of those seeds. This means no wait at all – you receive the seed from God, dispatch it and it comes to pass before you can dispatch the next seed!
Amos 9:13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.
Throughout these years, I have had 2 different kinds of rhema, where about 90% of what I hear and see is private and 10% is public and given as a sacrifice for others. Since December 2012 I have experienced a different walk in my private rhema where the window time of what I am hearing is 1 week to 1 day in advance and then I experience it come to pass in my personal life. I have been really scrambling to keep up and digest all that Lord is doing because of this! But this has been a true joy filled time as my faith has been increasing and increasing.
UNDERSTANDING HIS NOW WORDS
Often times I will be given a snip-it of 1 or 2 sentences that are like road signs. If I were to read those a year later, if I didn’t explain in my journal what took place or where I was at that time, it wouldn’t make any sense. But at the time, that little Word was life to me, very quickened and relevant to that time. It gave me direction, courage, reassurance.
Road signs are like that. They might tell you there is a bend in the road ahead and so you slow down and prepare to maneuver carefully through it. That is like a caution or a warning from the Lord of what is coming. But if you read about the road sign a couple years later, unless you recorded where you were, that sign would have no relevance to now.
Maybe the sign says, gas stop coming up. If you are praying and crying out for gas, then you are going to keep your eyes peeled for the next gas stop. But if you are not needful, or planning ahead, you might totally ignore the gas sign and whizz right by it.
In the now, a road sign is meant to give you assurance – it says, “You are here.” Sometimes all the Lord wants to do is let you know that He is keeping a very careful eye on you, and reassuring you that He knows before you think it, say it, live it, He already has seen it and gone ahead of you to prepare your way. This validates and confirms your walk in His way, the righteous way and with Him.
Other signs are like stop signs. I am reminded of Moses and the burning bush. It was only after Moses noticed the unusualness of a bush that was burning and not consumed, that he drew aside to ponder it. And it was only after Moses drew aside, did the Lord speak to him. Some signs are so supernatural and quickened have no meaning, except you know it is God. We learn to draw aside to pray over them and seek Him about what He is saying.
Sometimes His sign might say, “Leaving the city limits” and He circles around you for a brief moment to tell you what you had just lived through and it is behind you now.
What I have just described is a journey of learning to walk in the Spirit, where you learn to live and breathe and abide in His encircling Words. Along the journey are highlighted signs that He wants you to notice and this is His road map prepared for you. Learn to listen to His Word, follow it and walk in His surrounding bubble of before, during and after.
Psalms 25:4-5 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.
Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
SIGNS – INDICATION, MIRACLE, SIGN, TOKEN, WONDER
Strong’s Greek Dictionary
4592. σημειον semeion
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σημειον semeion say-mi’-on
neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of 4591; an indication, especially ceremonially or supernaturally:—miracle, sign, token, wonder.
FROM 4591 – A MARK, TO INDICATE, SIGNIFY
Strong’s Greek Dictionary
4591. σημαινω semaino
Search for G4591 in KJVSL
σημαινω semaino say-mah’-ee-no
from sema (a mark; of uncertain derivation); to indicate:—signify.
