Hello everyone! I just wanted to share that my mom, Liz Adleta, has begun posting regularly on Substack as she works towards getting her book “Dancing On Raindrops” published soon. It’s a book telling the story of her life. I’ve read her book and it is amazing, well-written, and full of encouraging stories from the mission field around the world.

Here is a bit of her latest post for you to enjoy:

“…After sharing my welcome message, I found myself thinking about the many storms that marked my life, perhaps your life too? Some troubles we brought on ourselves, we may blame others for some, and perhaps even blame God. If you’ve lived long enough, you know that joy isn’t always obvious in any of these. Sometimes it hides behind disappointment, heartache, betrayal, or simple exhaustion. And yet, again and again through the years, I’m learning that joy is not something we chase through circumstances or even through other people. Joy is something, or Someone, rather, that we fix our eyes upon. The Scriptures say that Jesus endured the cross “for the joy set before Him” (Hebrews 12:2). It wasn’t the people, or the nails or the cruelty or the injustice that held Him there. It was joy — the joy of rescuing us, redeeming us, restoring us to fellowship with Himself and with the Father. The joy of knowing us, loving us, and bringing many sons and daughters home…” – Liz Adleta

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Book Description: “The Ninth Witness Testament” is the telling of the continuing journey of Benjamin Potéxaná Kareth. This book chronicles Benjamin’s journey from a farm in nowhere Texas to a little town somewhere in the middle of the United States of America in obedience to the Lord. Benjamin’s journey into deep solitude continues deeper and deeper with all the mystery and loneliness that comes along with it.

A Glimpse Inside:

Chapter 9: Hidden Away, Small-Town America

June 12th, 2023 – 6:17pm – In Solitude, Abiding In Obscurity:

How to catch you up? Let me back up and try to tell the full story of the journey from there to here.

One week ago, in obedience to the Lord, I boarded an airplane leaving Dallas, TX. I landed in a city and had an overnight layover and then flew to another city. In that city I boarded an Amtrak train. I traveled for two days aboard that train and then took another train. Halfway through that train trip I disembarked and boarded two buses and an Uber ride to finally land in a small town in a state I have never lived in before. The population of this city is small. It is quaint… homey. The people here so far are very friendly. God provided a place to stay. A small room in a small motel. It is cozy.

Along the journey here I met many people and had some crazy adventures for sure. Never a dull moment serving the Lord. I got food poisoning along the way and spent my first day in this town in bed unable to move. Today I am finally feeling better.

I began to work on the books again today. And that is going well. There is a clearness to the air here spiritually. God has me right where He wants me. I feel that this will be the place I am while I finish this book series. I’ll write 72 books in this small town. This is where I’ll complete The Book Of Benjamin Kareth.

What an amazing God we serve! I left behind everything I owned so I need many things financially. I need a laptop to work on and clothes and food. But God will provide one day at a time.

My responsibility is to complete this book series. It is to be my sole focus for the next four years. I considered getting a job here to provide for myself, but God has clearly said that isn’t what He wants for me. I am to continue the Seven 7s schedule and complete this book series. So, I will trust Him to provide for me day by day. I am praying that He will raise up supporters to support the journey until it’s complete. I am unable to post anything to the blog or reach out to anyone for help. So, I am alone here with the Lord. It’s just me and Him… for the next four years.

I reflect that He has prepared me every step of the way the past 5 years. Moment-by-moment He has been preparing me for this. That’s what He does… He truly is a good, good Father!

I can feel it you know. I can feel His great love for me. I can sense and feel the flowing of the Holy Spirit in and around me here. I see what He has planned and trust that He has everything in His hands. I am so overwhelmed with gratitude to Him for this calling that is on my life. I get to be alone with Him and share what He tells me with you along the way. Who could want anything else as a calling from the Lord? The high cost of everything and everyone is so worth it! Every year I cry from loneliness is worth it… why? Because of you, my friend. I get to die so that you can have something from the Lord.

If you look throughout the scriptures, you can see it… how God works in and through His prophets. This is nothing new. Just God once again offering life to people through someone who has offered their life to Him.

I am humbled to be so called. What is God calling you to? Are you ready to give it all to Him? Are you ready to be sent to the ends of the earth to accomplish God’s purposes? Are you willing to die so that God can be known? It’s time to say Yes. What does tomorrow hold for me here in small town America? I do not know. But I do know the One who holds all my tomorrows.

Chapter 51: Unto Death

August 24th, 2023 – 9:26pm – In Solitude, Abiding In Obscurity in Small-town America:

God has asked me to write everything I experience down as best I can in these pages for you to have and to hold and to read or listen to. The good and the bad and everything in between. The difficulties and the journey and the obedience and the loneliness.

What does it all add up to in the end? Simply this… my journey has been, is, and will continue to be about Knowing Him and making Him known. Isn’t that love? Isn’t that what being a true follower of Jesus all about? Loving God and loving people.

Tonight, I lay in bed… pondering the past 5 years. Listening and speaking with God. Oh, how living He is toward me. How gentle He is with my heart!

I am so tired and weary and drained from this journey. The endless miles traveled. The loneliness that seems ever present. The not understanding that seems prevalent. But the one thing that remains my solid God is His voice. His still, small voice… urging me onward.

Tonight, He showed me again all the people that my life has impacted over these past five years. All the people I have met and talked to and shared Him with. Each and every single one of them and the ripples outward of God’s love pouring through me… through all my broken cracks… through this clay jar.

He is teaching me what humility is. What a hard lesson that. It is sadly a lesson that many never come to experience or learn in their lives. I see it new now… humility. What I once thought it was… wasn’t it at all. The truth of it is this… humility is being devoid of self-righteousness… it is the “unto death” that is the journey of taking up our cross, whatever that be, and wearily step-by-step walking down the path that leads us to our deaths. Do you see it? Can you see it? Don’t turn away now. Don’t shut the book. Don’t turn off the audio book. Just listen. Just open your eyes and see what God is trying to say to your heart of hearts.

I have this broken voice and these fumbling words with which to try to show you WHO God is… who He really is. My feeble attempts to tell you that God loves you and that He has your very best in His mind. Keep walking forward. Keep on going. Keep on listening and obeying Him. The prize is Him. That’s the message I was given by Him to speak into this world. It is not a message that I have ever heard in all my life before. But it is a message that you can’t really hear or see before you really experience Him for yourself. His world is not this world. His ways are not our ways. His will is not our will. His love is beyond anything we can or will ever experience here. All we can have are glimpses… but those glimpses should urge us onward unto death.

God is so much more than love. He is beyond love. Unitary in His being. He is… all. I could write a thousand books speaking of Him and still never get close to even touching WHO He is. But what I can say… is that He IS the prize. All came from Him. All is in Him. All will return to Him. All in all. He is. And because He is, we are.

The truth is that I am more broken than I have ever been before. I am weaker than I have ever been before. I am less than I have ever been. I am not more known. I am not wealthy. But… I have all. I have Him. In Jesus I have all things. Why? Because I have the One who is all. There is nothing that God would not give me… not one thing. I see that now so clearly. But my prayer has been that He would use my life to point to Him. And so… He has crushed me under the weights of suffering and loneliness. He has taken my lifetime and time again and stripped it bare of the things of this world. I didn’t understand it along the way… how could I have! I was blind. But now I see. I was lost but now I am found. I won’t be known on this earth in my lifetime, but I am known completely by Him.

Like a spoiled child I have clung to many things that I thought I needed to be happy. I held onto things thinking that some who they held the meaning of my life. That somehow, they gave me identity and purpose. But they were empty and ended in death.

I cannot walk your journey with God for you. I cannot make your choices for you. I can only tell you what I have come to know and hope that somehow God opens your ears and eyes to see Him as I do. To come to understand and to know Him personally as I do.

There will come a day when your life ends. It will either be sudden, or you will see it coming. In that moment all the things you held so tightly to will be nothing. Have you ever considered this? Have you ever thought of this? Have you ever sat and really weighed your life? Homeless or rich. Fed or hungry. Fat or thin. All of these things will be stripped away, and you will stand before God alone. No one will stand with you that day. You will face Him. And He will ask you what you did in your life to love. To love Him and to love others. What will your answer be?

If you’ve traveled the pages of my books and come to this chapter, then you’ve read of my journey. With all its ups and downs… ins and outs. One thing I am confident of is that these books speak of Him. And that is all I can hope for with the days I have left. That in every moment my smile, and laughter, and kindness, and words, point to the God who first loved me.

I am not the man I was five years ago. I am not the man I was yesterday. I am not the man I will be tomorrow. God is at work in my life to will and to do His good pleasure. One day at a time. From glory to glory. From goodness to goodness. Suffering and loneliness have been His tools to mold my heart and mind into His likeness… into the likeness of Christ. I am misunderstood. I am rejected. I am alone. Outcast. Far from friends and family. He is at work in me to do what He alone wants. This is the journey. This is the path. This is the way of the cross of Christ. Broad is the way that leads to destruction and death, but narrow is the way that leads to life.

My righteousness isn’t my own, but my right-standing with God is through Christ. My merit is Jesus. He is my salvation. And it is through Him alone that I live and breathe and have my being. This is active now… and has been active since I accepted Him as my savior. Heaven has come to bear on my life. I see it… now more than ever before.

So, seek Him and you’ll discover what I have discovered. He is the prize. It’s what Jesus said in all He said over and over again. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me. What does tomorrow hold? I don’t know. But I know who holds my tomorrows. I know the One… and He has sent me to the one. This is my testimony. This is my faith. This is all mine because I belong to Him. Do you?

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Book Description: What does it mean to be Holy (set apart) from the world? How do you become distinguished from those who are living for this world as ones who love and serve God? What does it look like to travel the lonely roads of obedience to God? What does it mean to truly require God as an absolute necessity?

This book is an exploration of holiness and distinction. By the end of this book my hope is that you will have a clearer picture of what is required of you as a follower of Jesus Christ. My hope is that God will open your eyes to see the apostasy and hypocrisy in your own life and learn how-to walk-in holiness and faithfulness to God in this dark world. My prayer is that God would fill you with understanding and wisdom in how to be faithful to Him alone.

A Glimpse Inside:

Chapter 9: Fear Of Being Alone

The fear of being alone in this world is about as powerful as the fear of man over our hearts. It is a deceitful fear, a subtle fear that can work in us without us being aware of its working. It is a poison that is fed to us by this world and the people that live in this world. For those of us who have accepted Jesus Christ into our heart we are never alone for He has said:

“Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble in dread before them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”” – Deuteronomy 31:6 AMP As we step out and choose to serve God we will face being alone. We must because it is part of our training and spiritual growth in our walk with God. God is spirit and those who come to Him must believe that He is. This cannot be learned among people… it can only be learned when we are alone with Him.

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Book Description: In our modern world we give little thought to our lifestyle, how we live our daily lives, or the thought patterns that govern our minds and our hearts as we go about our days.

How often do we check in on our attitudes? How often do we take a good hard look at our inner world and see if our thoughts and attitudes are lining up with what pleases God?

This book is an exploration of a Lifestyle Of Waiting on God. It is an exploration on how to foster and grow in that Lifestyle Of Waiting on God.

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Chapter 10: Recognizing The Empty Places

Embracing a lifestyle of Waiting on God requires us to examine ourselves and find all the empty places within us. These empty places, the places we strive to fill with all the pleasures of this world, are the places that God wants to fill in us. He wants to come and give us life and life more abundantly. He is the answer to every question we have and the One who fills all our lack. In Him we have no lack.

It is in the place of waiting on Him that all our empty places are filled by His Holy Spirit. Are you lonely? Draw near to the Lord and let Him fill You with His Holy Spirit. Let Him wrap His arms around you and hold you close to Himself. Listen for His still small voice in the quiet places to be renewed and strengthened in His love. He is THE priceless treasure. He is the living waters that fill us to overflowing! He is life and He is life more abundant.

God is not like anything on this earth. The things of this world do not satisfy our hearts, only God can satisfy us if we allow Him to. All our endless searching ends in Him. It is harder to come to this final conclusion as we battle our flesh in this world. The flesh, our fallen nature in us, that wages a war against the Holy Spirit of God. This is the conflict we will have until we are finally resurrected into eternal life in heaven with God and made new.

Chapter 18: Waiting In Want

Today, I am sitting in a mostly empty apartment on the floor of an empty room writing this chapter. A Lifestyle Of Waiting will always find us on our knees before the Lord and it will train us that whether we have or do not have we still depend on the Lord. He is our all. He is our all when we have nothing, and He is our all when we have everything. Our life circumstances do not change our need to wait on God. We owe all we have to Him and so we must learn to continue to wait on Him as we journey through this life. This is part of our personal preparation for how life will be eternally with God, when all we are flows from Him.

There is a difference between need and want. Want in this chapter is not speaking of needs, those vital things we must have for life, but it is speaking of wants, the things we want to have or think we need to have to be happy. The truth is that nothing in this world can make us happy or satisfy us. Only God can truly satisfy our deepest desires. But you can’t just one day understand this… you must walk the path of the cross. You must die to your own ways and your own will. You must listen and obey Him. As you do these things, He will lead you down the path He has uniquely planned for your life. And it is a path that only You and He can walk together. You cannot walk it alone. Not for one moment can you run ahead of Him or fall behind Him. You must remain in His presence to fulfill all He has planned for your life. So, when you want something, consider if that thing will bring you closer to God or push you further away. Is it of His kingdom or of the kingdom of this world? Does it glorify Him and build up your body and mind? Most often when we want something we find that once we have gained it, we are right where we were before we had it. This is the truth. Think about this and ponder it. Ask God to show you the truth of all this and to lead you in the way you should go.

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Book Description: What does it mean to “Listen And Obey”? How do we listen to what God would say to us and then how do we obey what He is asking us to do? This book attempts to help us answer these questions.

The purpose of recording my journey in this book series is so that you can see both the steps of obedience taken and not taken as well as see the results of that obedience and the results of the disobedience.

I can tell you of my own journey as I’ve listened to and obeyed what God has asked me to do as I’ve walked with Him. I can tell you the results of that obedience or the consequences of my disobedience, but it is up to God to use what I share to encourage your journey with Him.

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Chapter 10: Obedience, As Spiritual Maturity

In this modern world of ours we want everything yesterday. We want everything now and seek to have it all now. But the truth is that nothing in this world worth having is given instantly, except salvation through Jesus Christ.

Obedience is the catalyst for the development of spiritual maturity in our lives. Without obedience we cannot grow, we cannot mature in our walk with God, and we cannot become who God created us to be.

Spiritual maturity is not instant, but it is developed moment-by-moment, hour-by-hour, and day-by-day through our experiences as we obey God and see the results of that obedience play out in our lives and hearts and in the lives and hearts of those around us. When we choose to obey God, we are laying our lives in His hands and then He is able to lead us through circumstances and experiences that develop godly character in us. Without obedience spiritual maturity is impossible.

The enemies of obedience are selfishness and pride. Pride must be broken in our hearts, and it must be continually broken in our hearts. As long as we are alive in this sin-filled world we are easy prey for our selfish and prideful hearts without the continual mercy and grace of God at work in us.

Six months ago, God instructed me to begin to write in a new schedule, the Seven 7s, as I call it. I write 7 times a day: 7am, 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm. He also instructed me to pray at each of these times and with this instruction came the knowledge of how I was to pray: on my face before Him. I must say this was very weird and strange in the beginning. I would close the curtains and get on my knees and plant my face on the ground. It was… humbling. And the moment I realized it was humbling to my pride and heart I knew why God instructed me this way. I obeyed God in this and what an incredible difference it has made in my life.

The Word of God says:

“Humble yourselves [with an attitude of repentance and insignificance] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up, He will give you purpose].” – James 4:10 AMP

Meditate on this scripture for a few moments. Do you see it? Do you see the hidden treasure it contains?

This book series God has asked me to write is not mine. These books are not building my kingdom. They are not for my glory. They are for the building of God’s kingdom and for the instruction of His children. It is through me planting my face on the ground that this truth really sinks in. As I bow before the Lord, I feel the pride in my heart being crushed. It is amazing and also wonderfully freeing. The tyranny of my rebellious heart is humbled and forced into submission to the Lord.

Oh, please hear this! If I had not continued to obey the Lord, I would not have experienced any of this, I would not have grown in my spiritual walk with Him. My spiritual maturity would have been stunted. But because I continue to listen and continue to obey, God is raising me up like a child in the way I should go.

The most amazing thing about this whole journey is that when I complete this book series, I get to lay it all down at His feet and walk on. Do you see it? I will be able to say, “What I was asked to do I did.” Then I can lay all this work down at His feet as an offering to Him and walk onward toward whatever He has for me next.

This must be the attitude of all of our hearts as we walk forward in obedience to Him. Everything, absolutely everything is from Him, done through Him, and returns to Him. Nothing is ours and yet we have it all through Christ. Can you see it yet?

The truth I know now with all my heart is that I have everything because I have Jesus Christ. I own everything. God withholds no good thing from me. Wisdom. Knowledge. Skill. Talent. Understanding. Wealth. Glory. Absolutely everything is truly available to me as God sees fit to grant it. But I do not need any of it… I have Him. And with Him I have all things. Oh, if only you could see it and understand it. Grasp this one thing: He is the prize. He is the pearl of great price. He is the treasure hidden in the field. Sell everything you have to buy Him. Give up your life in this world to gain what you can never lose. Seek Him and keep on seeking Him.

Obedience is the key to His heart. I can say this with absolute certainty through my experiences with Him. I obey Him because I love Him because He first loved me. He is my good Father and I trust that what He is asking me to do is for His glory and for my greatest good both on this earth and in the eternities of eternity to come. This is spiritual maturity: To know God through personal experience. Anything good I have God gave to me and I give it back to Him. I have both everything and nothing all at once. If you really open your eyes and behold Jesus Christ, then you will know Him too.

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Book Description: This book is a celebration of the King of Heaven, the Ruler Of The Universe. Within are a collection of poems and writings celebrating God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. They are my book of Psalms. They are my Selah, the fragrant Shalom, my hands raised high in adoration of the only One who is worthy of any praise or worship.

They are meant to be read as encouragement and to aid people in their own personal discovery and worship of God. This book contains 60 poems and short writings of celebration.

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Chapter 10: Until Then I Bow

With hands and face to the earth,

I bow,

With created heart and mind,

I bow,

Before you Lord,

Before you Lord!

I hear the cry of the ages!

I see the glory from your throne!

I bow!

I bow down!

I bow low!

Holy! Holy! Holy!

High and lifted up!

You are high and lifted up!

Let all the earth praise You!

Let writers write of You!

Let singers sing of You!

Let everyone give what they have and cast their crowns at your feet!

I wonder! And awe!

Brilliant and radiant light spills from you!

Holy One! I bow!

Chapter 29: Today With You

I thought adventure was out there,

Among the crowds,

Along the highways,

Under the lights,

But I found You,

And now,

I found the Creator of adventure,

In the stillness,

In the quiet place,

In the closet,

Shutting out the world,

All the noise,

And I find You waiting,

You whisper,

And I draw nearer,

And You draw nearer.

And your wings cover over me,

And your shield rises before me,

And your strong arms surround me,

And I’m safe,

And loved,

And held,

And I belong,

And your eyes say you’ll never leave,

And your voice sounds like laughter,

And your joy is infectious,

Infecting me with laughter,

Hidden away with You,

I find You.

And today with You is all I want.

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I woke this morning into the early morning hours to glance at the phone screen that read 2:20am. Ugh! This is the time I’ve been waking for the past month and half in this apartment. I go to bed between 7pm-8pm. I know I’m getting enough sleep but it never quite FEELS like it.

As I sat on the edge of my bed trying to wake up, God softly spoke to me and said, “Write about faith and feelings.”

My first reaction to His words was, of course, “Ugh, I don’t FEEL like doing that.”

I proceeded to make coffee, take a hot shower, and get myself ready for a new day. While I was going about my morning routing I was thinking about what God had asked me. I was processing my FEELINGS about His request and realized then that I was processing my processing of my reactions to my FEELINGS. I had to laugh at myself a few times this morning… I knew that I would OBEY His request despite how I FELT about it. And that line of thinking led me down the paths of this journey far back beyond when God rescued me and into the hell I was living in before. Then my thoughts traveled further back into my college years. Then my thoughts traveled even further back into my chaotic teens… then finally my thoughts settled into the years of my childhood.

I began to travel the paths of the journey of my life from the perspective of FEELINGS, FAITH, and OBEDIENCE… and what a journey of discovery that was.

FAITH is not a FEELING we FEEL.

And of course we must revisit the definition of FAITH here, as given in the Word of God:

“Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].” – Hebrews 11:1

I love the Amplified Version of the Word of God for this passage. Listen to this part here: FAITH comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.

So, to further explore the topics of FEELINGS, FAITH, AND OBEDIENCE… we next must explore what FEELINGS are.

FEELINGS are described as an emotional state or reaction, a belief, especially a vague or irrational one, or a sensitivity to or intuitive understanding of.

If you explore the Word of God, the disobedience of people can almost always be linked with their choosing to listen to their “FEELINGS” instead of the voice, commands, and character of God. Or, if you prefer, they chose to listen to their physical senses instead of having FAITH in God. Of course it is no different today.

Think on your life for a moment. Travel the paths that you’ve walked since birth. I think you’ll find that when you trusted your FEELINGS, your physical senses, over trusting the Word of God, you were walking away from God, and when you chose to trust God, choosing to live by FAITH (trusting in the character and word of God) and not by sight (trusting your physical senses, FEELINGS), you were walking towards God.

FEELINGS = walking away from God.

FAITH = walking toward God.

Any kind of decision making that holds the word “I” in it will lead us away from God.

Any kind of decision making that holds the word “God” in it will lead us toward God.

The distinction here is between the “I FEEL…” statements vs the “God says…” statements.

What is “Eternal Life“?

At some point we will all have to come face-to-face with our FAITH.

So, what better time is there than right now?…

Listen to what Jesus Christ said:

“Now this is ETERNAL LIFE: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.” – John 17:3

Jesus explain it in a parable for us later… the one where He would say, “Get away from Me I never knew you.” or He will say, “Enter into paradise, good and faithful servant.”

Do you know God the Father and do you know His Son who He sent as your Messiah?

If you do, you already have “Eternal Life“, and if you don’t, well… you have whatever the opposite of “Eternal Life” is.

Living FAITH produces OBEDIENCE to God leading to ETERNAL LIFE. FEELINGS lead us to sin and ultimately death.

We humans have this amazing ability to deceive ourselves, to rationalize our FEELINGS, to set aside our FAITH for later, perhaps at some future point in time when we FEEL more like obeying God. After all, aren’t we still living? Haven’t we lived this long? Won’t we wake tomorrow? So, there is always time to obey God tomorrow… when we FEEL like it.

The narrow gate is there for us to choose to enter in by it and travel the narrow paths of obedience to God’s Word… but few are they that travel that path.

If you managed to read this far… and not clicked away… perhaps there is hope for you yet.

God rescued me in my darkest day. He broke into the horrible mess I had made with my life, following my feelings, and pulled me out of that place I had led myself into. He placed me on the narrow path of OBEDIENCE to His Word.

People have called my journey obeying God as “radical”, “crazy”, or whatever else that they come up with… but the truth is… my journey is just the normal journey of FAITH in God’s Word and obedience to Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God Himself, the God you profess to know and follow, said this:

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake will find it [that is, life with Me for all eternity]. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” – Matthew 16:24

On the darkest day of my life, God broke in and said, “Now you are going to LISTEN and OBEY.”

His instruction were clear, His command undeniable.

I was to LISTEN to His Words and by FAITH walk in OBEDIENCE to Him.

It’s funny how He didn’t mention my FEELINGS once.

I have a little over two years left of this journey. I plan to LISTEN and walk in OBEDIENCE to God’s voice the best that I can until I have cross the finish line of this race that God has assigned me to.

What’s your plan?

I’ll leave you with this verse:

“But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication]. For we [believers] have become partakers of Christ [sharing in all that the Messiah has for us], if only we hold firm our newborn confidence [which originally led us to Him] until the end, while it is said, “TODAY [while there is still opportunity] IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEART, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME [in the rebellion in the desert at Meribah].” – Hebrews 3:13-15

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Book Description: This is the second collection of parables given to me by the Holy Spirit. They are presented here in the order in which they were given. This book contains 60 parables (short stories).

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Chapter 13: The Storyteller

Once in a particular and very peculiar kingdom there lived a storyteller. He was very old, no one knew how old, and he was very wise. He would, each morning, rise and go outside his house and sit on an old wooden chair. And as people passed by, he would tell them stories. Stories of great victories and stories of defeats. Stories of loves found and of loves lost. Stories of great gain and stories of great loss. And the people as they passed by would stop and listen to the storyteller’s stories. Sometimes there were only a few people listening and then some other times there were many. The sun would rise to the sound of the storyteller’s voice and the sun would set to the sound of the storyteller’s voice. Those of the peoples of the kingdom that listened would give the storyteller food to eat and water to drink.

And so, the days passed.

The people passed.

The storyteller told his stories.

The people listened.

The people gave him food and water.

The sun set.

And a new day began. Until one day the storyteller didn’t rise from his bed. And the people passed by and wondered what had happened to the old man. But life was busy in that kingdom. And the storyteller was forgotten.

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