HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY December 12–18, 2022

Post on 19 December, 2022 by Dallin Malmgren

Decem­ber 12, 2022
I got this Mon­day’s March­ing Order from my par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Stephen Min­istry at my local church. We direct it toward our care receivers, but it works for anybody…
#407 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sun­day, Octo­ber 9, 2022 *Be quick­er to lis­ten than to speak–this is the key to build­ing relationships.

Decem­ber 13, 2022
God and golf–you can’t go wrong…
#408 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednes­day, Octo­ber 5, 2022 I was read­ing a book on spir­i­tu­al dis­ci­plines a few years back, and so I took a vow of silence for a day. I thought it was spir­i­tu­al­ly enrich­ing, but it did annoy my wife and Aunt Faith. Now I have a new wrin­kle on it, which I will test tomor­row. I am not going to com­ment on any shot I hit on the golf course. Pos­i­tive or neg­a­tive. If golf is a spir­i­tu­al exer­cise, then this is a spir­i­tu­al dis­ci­pline for me. (I don’t think my golf bud­dies will find it annoy­ing at all.) One of the fruits of the Spir­it is self-control.
Post­script: I did okay…I think I had about sev­en utter­ances, but most of them were grunts.

Decem­ber 14, 2022
#409 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Octo­ber 18, 2022 Hav­ing renounced my ego, I’ve resolved not to wor­ry about what peo­ple think of me. But of course I want peo­ple to like me–that cre­ates such a bet­ter vibe. God has shown me the key: the fruit of the Spir­it. Love, joy, peace, patience, kind­ness, good­ness, faith­ful­ness, gen­tle­ness, self-control–if I active­ly prac­tice these qual­i­ties in my inter­ac­tions, there’s not a soul on the plan­et who is not going to respond pos­i­tive­ly to me.

Decem­ber 15, 2022
#410 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sun­day, Novem­ber 6, 2022 Main­tain­ing this writ­ing project is a won­der­ful cre­ative expe­ri­ence for me. This is def­i­nite­ly not stenog­ra­phy. Every day I get to lis­ten, and in the evening I get to won­der about what I heard. I also get to do a lot of the interpreting–which is fun. That is why I only speak for myself. And God.

Decem­ber 16, 2022
Ear­ly release day…
#411 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Novem­ber 18, 2022 I have tried to fig­ure out what pre­vents peo­ple (espe­cial­ly peo­ple I love) from enter­ing into a warm rela­tion­ship with God. My best guess is ego. I do not mean nar­cis­sism. My ego can bask in my feel­ing bad about myself. My ego wants to be in charge, good or bad. I can’t be in a rela­tion­ship with God and be in charge–that would be like my dog walk­ing me, a mil­lion times over. I have to let go of myself–give up the throne. But it is such a joy to wake up in the morn­ing and say, “What do you have in store for us today, Lord?”

Decem­ber 17, 2022
#412 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 15, 2022 Even as a com­mit­ted sojourn­er, it is easy for me to get caught up in the tem­po­rary res­i­dence and lose sight of the eter­nal per­spec­tive. Thank God that He nev­er los­es sight of me!

Decem­ber 18, 2022

#413 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Octo­ber 27, 2022 I sud­den­ly imag­ined what it would be like not to believe in God–to believe there was no God. It was a shock­ing and dis­turb­ing expe­ri­ence. I felt very alone–the world seemed cold and distant–and sur­vival was the ulti­mate goal. Look­ing inward, my ego seemed my final strong­hold. I would hate to have to take my stand there. Remem­ber the North Wall in Game of Thrones–it felt like that place. Return me to the light, Lord Jesus.

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