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Oink, Oink
from October 2020
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by Monica Gambrell
When taking our young children out to a Needless to say, we’ve had many happy replays of buffet restaurant, we were always careful that one, but I wonder, do we sometimes hear our to ensure as best we could that our rather Heavenly Father the way Rebekah heard her father? large brood would not embarrass themselves— Luke 8:14: “And that which fell among thorns are or us. One such occasion, when our five children they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are were between the ages of 2 and 10, was especially choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, memorable. Within a few moments of the completion and bring no fruit to perfection.” of my husband’s obligatory “manners” speech to Matthew 13:14-15: “And in them is fulfilled the his speech in my head, but then it hit me. “Rebekah, prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.” 1 John 4:1: “Beloved, do not our gang, we heard Rebekah, the 4-year-old, quietly spirits, whether they are of God; because many false repeating the word “oink.” prophets have gone out into the world.”
When Bear and I looked at one another and then Many things can keep us from hearing with clarity at her, the clatter and chatter at our table had begun the voice of our Father. Have the cares of this world to dim. I didn’t want her to feel as if I were laughing choked it out? Though your relationship remains, has at her, so as calmly as possible, I asked why she was sin separated you from the deep fellowship with your saying that. She must have felt conspicuous because Father? Pray today that your heart, mind, eyes, and she was almost in tears as she replied, “Daddy said, ears are fit for hearing the words of your Father. This ‘Go oink, go oink.’” It took me a moment to replay comes only from living daily in His Word. believe every spirit, but test the honey, daddy said, ‘Don’t point, don’t point.’” Serving God by serving others… Monica 18 // October 2020
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