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“The Eighth Witness Testament” is Part 26 of The Book Of Benjamin Kareth. This part of The Book Of Benjamin Kareth covers the period between January 30th, 2023, and April 29th, 2023. This book tells how the audio books for The Book Of Benjamin Kareth came to be. It tells of Benjamin’s entering Obscurity and Solitude. It tells of walking a narrow road separated from people and the world. It is the continuing of Benjamin’s witness testament to the journey God has him on.
A Glimpse Inside:
Chapter 1: A Season Of Parables Begins
January 30th, 2023 – 3:23am – The Farm, near Meridian, Texas:
The date and time and location above are important to these works I am writing for the Lord. These books of mine are His story told through the lens of my life. God at work in fallen man to bring Himself glory and honor and praise.
As I begin this new season, I find myself again on the Farm in the middle of nowhere Texas. I am in obscurity and isolation and solitude. There are people here, my very dear friends, but most of the time I am alone in my small trailer. I have a living room, which is also my office, and a kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom. It is small but perfect for a single man of 40 years.
Last year was such an adventure that started in Redding, CA, brought me to Texas and then to South Korea and on to Israel and then back again to this Farm in Texas.
God broke me last year, broke down my pride and my restlessness. He taught me and matured me in my faith. He gave me so many wonderful gifts in the form of the people I met all around the world. I miss them all.
This is looking to be a season of parables, of new stories told to me by the Lord. And so, I am excited to sit and listen to Him and write down what He will tell me.
I say this prayer as I step into this new season with the Lord: Father, thank you for always listening to me because you are always with me. Thank you for salvation and for your Son Jesus. Thank you for the wonderful gift of the Holy Spirit who is my ability to do. I give you all that has happened up until this day and I give you all that I am. Please take every part of me and use it to point people upward toward you. Please shine your bright and consuming light into my heart and let me reflect who you are to those around me. Take my hand and write what you will write through me each day. Teach me your ways and allow me to teach others. In Jesus name I say thank you and Amen!
Chapter 17: Hidden Place
February 14th, 2023 – 3:18am – The Farm, near Meridian, Texas:
“God has put me in a place where:
I can no longer live on my work.
I can no longer live with my family.
I can no longer live on my friends.
I can no longer live on my pleasures.
I can no longer live on my ministry.
I must live on God, who is invisible.”
– John Bunyan
Hidden away with God, what more could anyone ever want? I am in perfect peace here alone with Him. I know He will send me out again one day… but He will do it for others.
God is having me post The End Sights on my blog for seven days in a row. And so, I am obeying. It holds all the message, and the warning God is sending the world. Will they hear? Will they listen?
Parables, prophetic words, people rising from the dead… no… none of these things will get their attention. Mostly I think people have made their choice already. But God is patient. And He desires all to come to repentance. And I think I’m the end when they stand before Him, they will know that He gave them time and time again to humble themselves… but they didn’t.
Lord, help us all be humble before you!
Chapter 19: Broken And Humbled
February 16th, 2023 – 3:17am – The Farm, near Meridian, Texas:
I sit here in the darkness of the morning writing books for the Lord. And I’m being broken and humbled…
I look out and see people being married and having children and going to revival meetings and my heart breaks. I long to be with them. To be with my family and my friends. To talk with people… to talk to anyone. And yet…
I bow before the Lord and listen, and He asks again for me to offer up this loneliness to Him as an offering. So, I let my tears fall and I bow to Him and say, “Yes! Yes! Whatever you want for me!”
There are many people who scramble to be seen and heard. And it does sound nice… but if God hasn’t called me to it then I don’t want it. For me it would be not God’s will and so it would be death.
God wants me here in this place with Him. In solitude and in obscurity. Hidden away from the world. Protected and preserved from the coming storms. I am to listen and write. This is my assignment… and it requires a setting apart, a holiness (which is to be set apart for God’s purposes). So, I cry and let my self-righteousness and pride die. I throw myself on the altar before the Lord saying, “Here I am Lord. Do whatever you will.”
Be encouraged wherever you are. If you’re alone, you’re not alone. God is with you. He is the author and finisher of your faith. Trust Him. He will do as He pleases with your life and oh what rewards wait for those who obey.
““Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.” – Matthew 7:13-14 AMP
God loves to do new things. Will you be one who He does a new thing in?
Sometimes I just stop and look back at the past four and half years and consider all that God has done in me and through me. All the people I’ve met and affected for Him. All the books I’ve written that speak and point to Him. Every time I obeyed Him, I found myself broken before Him. The twice giving all my earthly possessions away and watching what that did in my heart of hearts.
Trust Him. Just trust Him. He is faithful! Day after day after day… He is faithful. That’s who He is… faithful and true.
God allowed me to feel what He felt the moment He pulled me out of my old life. He screamed, that’s the only word that fits His cry, “This is finished. Now you are going to listen and obey.” And the power He released in that cry was tremendous. His love and breaking heart over what my life had become was incredible. That He felt such anger at my torment and pain was amazing to me. That He would be so completely done with it all that He stepped in and said, “Enough!” Wow.
To me it was such a contrast. My parents watched as I was being sexually abused as a child and said they didn’t know what to do so they did nothing. And to be so claimed and protected by God Himself my whole life and to see Him step in and change everything. At the right time and the right moment.
I belong to Him. That I have zero doubt about. He has made that so very clear. There was a moment when I was homeless in Kansas City when I had just given away my coat and shoes and was walking through the pouring rain in the water and goose poop. And I saw the heavens opened and Jesus was standing in front of His throne, and He was pointing to me and announcing to everyone there, “This one is mine! This one is mine!” Tears burn my face even now as I remember that vision. Jesus claimed me as His.
So many times, when I’ve obeyed Him in the face of the opposition of everyone I know and without any understanding I have felt His immense pleasure over my obedience. How He loves His children… all of them… and you.
I always joke that I’m God’s most stubborn and obstinate child. I wrestle with Him daily. And yet He loves me and claims me as His own. And why? So that:
“But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us spreads and makes evident everywhere the sweet fragrance of the knowledge of Him. For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which ascends] to God, [discernible both] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the latter one an aroma from death to death [a fatal, offensive odor], but to the other an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is adequate and sufficiently qualified for these things? For we are not like many, [acting like merchants] peddling God’s word [shortchanging and adulterating God’s message]; but from pure [uncompromised] motives, as [commissioned and sent] from God, we speak [His message] in Christ in the sight of God.” – 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 AMP “For I [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I replenish every languishing and sorrowful person.”” – Jeremiah 31:25 AMP
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