Always ever present in the back of my mind is Pastor Rory's vision....going door to door spreading the Gospel. And Aaron saying that the JW's are reaching millions....but my mind still stuck on, that is not for me!
So,I began to read James and it seems as if God is speaking to me because it does not seem to matter what I read in the Bible lately, whether it be Matthew or wherever, I see this : James 1:22 "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." Yes, there is more before and after, and yes, it is just as important but lately, God is saying to me, "Now! Now is the time Nikki, Now be a doer!"
As many of my fellow brothers and sisters in the Bible, I always hear the discouragements raging on...."You cant do it...you do not know your Bible enough....you are to scared....you will fail....you will get hurt...you wont reach anyone...what a waste of time....you could be doing something else......”
But, funny thing....James 1:5 (fitting, it comes right before being doers!) "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him." Again, more to that one...but the point is....I have all I need! I have the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ever present with me. What else could I possilby need?
I am a visual person, I am a photographer so I see things and I love it when God speaks to me in pictures....I wish I could draw because then I could maybe jot down a glimpse of what I saw but I worked with what I had.
So, as i looked over the bluff....I saw first, a beautiful, quiet city. Details...I need to look deeper....so I did...I saw ridgelines...I could imagine water filling this up and that is when I saw Living Water filling up our town...Amazingly, beautiful Living Water, overflowing, neverending!!!! I saw Jesus walking over our town on that Water....I remembered Peter in Matthew 14:22-33 when Jesus walked out to them and Peter said, vs 28 "Lord, if it's you, " Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water." vs 29 "Come," He said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus. vs 30, But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord save me!"
I then looked at what was infront of me....this town, that could be that picture, was filled with smoke, smog....pollution seeping in the crevacies and basically suffocating people. It was almost sneakly like too. Not like water would gush all over, smoke sort of lurks and seeps.
I am not lying, do you know what happened? A JW came and knocked on my truck window.....they gave me a flier and shared their web page with me. Seeing I had my Bible out, she asked me only a few questions about what I was reading and what my purpose in reading was. I told her I wanted to share the Gospel with people and that was that Jesus died, rose again, giving us hope of heaven forever with Him. She didn't argue but she did leave fairly quickly.
The analyzer that I am said....you didn't really do any good there Nikki. But then GOd said, "that was not for her, that was for you! Pollution is moving very quickly here....What are you gonna do about it?”
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