HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY January 8–14, 2024

Post on 22 January, 2024 by Dallin Malmgren

Jan­u­ary 8, 2024
#837 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber, 2023 I died in my dream last night–first time that has hap­pened. We were dri­ving down an extreme­ly steep and nar­row moun­tain road. The dri­ver was a for­mer stu­dent, I was rid­ing shot­gun, and my sis­ter was in the back. He drove too near the edge and my wheel went over and I yelled “We’re dead!” Then I woke up. Any­one who dreams must believe in a spir­i­tu­al world. Though the dream stunned me, I don’t wor­ry about it much. As real as they seem, dream worlds don’t oper­ate like our world does, and mine have nev­er been par­tic­u­lar­ly pre­scient. I’m con­tent to trust in the Lord for the time of my death.

Jan­u­ary 9, 2024
Golf Tues­day, the men­tal game…
#838 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber, 2023 A spiritual/psychological conun­drum: My friend changes his ball from a Titleist to a Kirk­land when he has to hit his dri­ve over two dif­fi­cult water holes. Does chang­ing to a less valu­able ball increase or dimin­ish his chances of hit­ting it suc­cess­ful­ly over the water? Two view­points: 1) It increas­es his chances because he will be more relaxed because he’s not as wor­ried about los­ing his ball. 2) It decreas­es his chances because you have to have con­fi­dence every shot. Glass half emp­ty or half full? I asked my friend and he said it made no dif­fer­ence whatsoever–he is an engineer.

Jan­u­ary 10, 2024
#839 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber, 2023 I just got hit with a $6.5K auto repair bill for a car worth $7K. Ouch. There was a time when that news would have sent me reel­ing for days. No longer. This is what God com­mu­ni­cat­ed to me as I prayed about it: Don’t wor­ry. I got this. There are things you can learn from this and it will all work out. I expect you to be a good stew­ard, a sen­si­ble con­sumer, and a gen­er­ous giv­er. Keep fol­low­ing Me.

Jan­u­ary 11, 2024
Wrote this a month ago, but it’s appro­pri­ate tonight…
#840 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Decem­ber, 2023 Win­ter is com­ing. My affec­tion for win­ter grows as I age. Avoid­ing win­ters was one of my moti­va­tions for mov­ing to Texas forty years ago. I don’t har­bor any desire for a real winter–in Texas it means a few more days indoors, an extra blan­ket at night, an occa­sion­al fire, a few less golfers in the group. Win­ter encour­ages me to focus on the inward jour­ney to the Lord, some­thing I too often neglect.

Jan­u­ary 12, 2024
#841 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Novem­ber, 2023 Change or be changed? That is mys­ti­cal ter­ri­to­ry I am walk­ing into. I know there are cor­rec­tive mea­sures I could make in my lifestyle–physical and emo­tion­al and men­tal and spiritual–that would have a ben­e­fi­cial effect on my well-being. I find I am unable to will myself there, and God refus­es to use force. So I often find myself tread­ing water. I have learned the two-fold step to mov­ing for­ward: pray and believe.

Jan­u­ary 13, 2024
#842 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Octo­ber, 2023 I some­times get so caught up in my per­son­al rela­tion­ship with the Lord that I for­get that He is part of every oth­er rela­tion­ship I have. From wife to friend to stranger to my dog, He is active in every one. God speaks to me through peo­ple more than any oth­er way. Not in some astral voice way…people move my heart and God wants my heart to be moved. Teach me to lis­ten, Lord Jesus.

Jan­u­ary 14, 2024
Rest­ing on Fam­i­ly Sunday…
#843 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sep­tem­ber, 2023 Sab­bath. Rest. I am start­ing to set­tle into the idea. For most of my life, Sun­day was anoth­er day (except that I had to teach Mon­day, which added stress). Now I want to lay down my fee­ble labors, my goals, my concerns–and rest. I have noticed one Catch 22–it is hard­er to rest on the Sab­bath if I don’t feel good about what has tak­en place the six pre­vi­ous days. God did.

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