Bill Yount: Obeying God Will Not Always Give You Goose Bumps!

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

When the disciples cried out to Jesus during the storm, while in the boat—Jesus got up, calmed the sea with a few words and then asked, "Where is your faith?"

Why didn't HE ask, "Where are your FEELINGS?"

Read on...and here are also a couple of great prophetic resources from Bill Yount:

I Heard Heaven Proclaim by Bill Yount Hard Copy or E-Book in PDF format $8.99 $6.99

 

There Is No Plan B...You Are God's Plan A by Bill Yount $4.99 Audio Teaching Download

Blessings,

Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
The Elijah List & Breaking Christian News
http://www.elijahlist.com

I am learning that many things I do are not because I "feel" led to do them...but because it is the right thing to do. Most of the "right" things I know to do take faith instead of feelings. It's the prayer of faith that saves the sick, not the prayer of feeling (James 5:15). I have seen more people receive their healing when I didn't even "feel" like praying for them...but I did anyway.

Once I prayed for my sister who had a cyst the size of a golf ball in her ovary. I felt helpless and prayed what seemed like an unanointed, lifeless prayer. But hours later, she woke up with a warm sensation from her waist down, and the next day's x-ray showed the cyst was gone! I think the feeling part was meant for her, not for me.

When We Do Feel Goose Bumps...It's Usually Preparation for What's Coming Next!

For years now, most mornings when I wake up, I soak in the most anointed worship and praise music I can get a hold of. Nothing changes us like being in His presence. I am learning that when God's presence becomes so strong and great, that it is too much for just me alone. Often after being in His presence, I find that something was in the making for me to release it to someone, somehow, somewhere.

For many years, the presence of God in that living room where I soak has released a strong anointing, saturating the walls, ceiling and floor of that room. For many years, I thought this was my secret place just for me to be with Jesus, and He with me. Recently though, through uncontrollable events, my mother who is believing for another touch from the Lord for her health, may be coming to live with us soon. The only room she will be able to make as her own room is the part of the living room that has been soaked with the presence of God for years. God is amazing how He goes ahead of us and prepares us and even our homes to be used for His Kingdom purposes. God has been preparing my wife and I that the next great move of the Spirit will challenge us to be willing to do some practical deeds of love, which will release supernatural healings and events.

Matthew 25:35,36 For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I (was) naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

I Am Going to Redeem the Times
that You Said "NO!" to Me

I believe we all have missed one of those golden opportunities that we said "no" to by being led by feelings instead of faith. Can our disobedience ever be redeemed?

Recently, I blew a silver trumpet to open up a meeting. The Lord showed me that "silver" represents "redemption." When I blew that silver trumpet, I sensed the Lord saying: "I am going to redeem the times that you said, 'No!' to Me! I am going to give you other opportunities! Other opportunities that are going to cause you to forget your regrets. When I look at you, I see no regrets, for there are other opportunities I am bringing your way. And if you will say 'yes' to these opportunities and follow through, it will produce a hundred-fold firstfruits today, more than they would have yesterday or years gone by!

The Lord says, "This is a turn-around day! This is your turn-around day! I am going to turn things around for you. I am going to turn many of you around who have said 'NO' to Me to say 'YES!' I am going to turn things around and cause you to say 'yes' with joy. For you are now going to delight to do My will. Forget the past. Your past is not your present. The winter is over and gone. And what has been working against you in the past is now going to work for you! Rejoice, for I have greater and better opportunities coming now than ever before! Opportunities that will restore to you the years the cankerworm and palmerworm have eaten from you."

Worshiping God through daily obedience is perhaps our greatest challenge. Obeying God will not always give us goose bumps but will often cost us something. Have you ever obeyed the Lord and you felt like you didn't get anything out of it? Do you know why? It is because God got it all! Our life is not for us. It is all for Him. "Sacrificial" worship, perhaps Heaven's greatest attention-getter, is when we don't feel like obeying or praising the Lord but we do anyway. But when we do, God's heart skips a beat to be with us, whatever the problem.

I am pretty sure Paul and Silas didn't "feel" led to praise the Lord at midnight in prison. Their backs were against the wall as a result of their obedience in preaching the Gospel. But they had learned by experience that the midnight hour was perfect timing to worship in their perfect storm. They knew God could not resist praise and worship. His foot was bound to tap on the earth again for them, and you know the rest of the story! The jailor got the "goose bumps" as he witnessed his whole household receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior!

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com