Friday, September 27, 2013

The Rock

In 2010, I was at the Global Leadership Summit in Chicago at Willow Creek Communtity Church, and something happened there that shook me.  I was staying in a hotel with my Pastor from a church that I used to attend, and as usual, back then I was trying to go to sleep, but, the enemy kept attacking my mind with crazy thoughts.  Finally I got tired of the thoughts and told the devil, "Look, you may have knocked me down, but I am built of a good foundation, and I will get back up."  As soon as I finished saying that, I heard something say to me, "I never said that in My word."  Startled, I said, "What?"  I heard again, "I never said that in my word."  Again, I said, "What?"  then, I heard this, "Turn your bible to Matthew, Chapter 7 and read."  So I began to read and came to verses 24-27 which read, "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and DOETH THEM, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon the house and it FELL NOT: for it was founded upon a rock.  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and DOETH THEM NOT, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house on sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and IT FELL: and great was the fall of it."  After I read this I said, "What are you saying Lord?" and He said to me, "You have always been built on sand."  I thought man that is tough Lord, but it was the TRUTH, you see Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life, and no one can come to the Father but by Him.  I had never continually came to him to hear Him say something, and then do it.  If you look at the beginning of verse 24 in Matthew 7, what he is saying is the rock.  Whosoever heareth His words and DO THEM.  This is the rock that Jesus spoke of in these verses, Luke also records this in Luke 6:46-49.