Fireside chats with Michael Van Vlymen and Dr. Bruce Allen

good morning everybody good morning this is our friend this is our first broadcast that we're gonna try and put out maybe one a week to um just visit with everybody especially during this trying season we're in and my name is bruce allen most of you know that this is michael van blehm and he does all of our translation by faith schools with us with resham and i so we're just gonna we're just gonna visit and talk about the word of god and what god's saying to us so mike i think i'll start off today i'm going to bring up the scripture the lord has been dealing with me about it it's a theme that's been going on for a year but this one just jumped out the other day it's proverbs 4 25 says let your eyes look right on and let your eyelids look straight before you or in other words keep your focus don't be so distracted by the concerns and the things of this life that you lose sight of the promises of god because it's only in looking at the lord and these promises that we prevail and overcome what sage yeah especially now i think because there's so much so many voices clamoring for your attention that you really have to stay focused on the truth a lot of people they don't even know what the truth is but if they're focused on the word then i think they can have a greater discernment about concerning the voices they do here yeah i'm reminded of um when i was i was four or five years ago i really began to see in the gospels how jesus communicated to his disciples and laid down principles of life not just ministry one of my favorite stories is when jesus was walking on the water and peter and the disciples are in the boat and peter said lord if that you bid me come and so jesus said well come on out peter and so he began to walk and he was doing fine now here's the picture most people think of jesus walking on the water that it's just calm and glassy smooth but no it said there was a storm raging so you've got waves and wind now it's one thing to walk on a flat surface it's another to walk on a surface that's going like this that's pretty incredible and so he's the scripture says he's doing fine but then he began to notice the wind and the waves he his distraction started he stopped looking at jesus and began to look at the circumstance and the word says he began to sing and so it's the same theme the moment we take our eyes off the promise of god and the god of the promise we begin to sink into the quagmire of the circumstance or whatever is going on around us until we eventually drown yeah the uh that really is a word for today because so many people are living in fear of the circumstances and i don't just mean people in the world going crazy with this i mean people in the church they they it seems like they don't know right from wrong right from left anymore they just uh they're caught up in all the drama uh i've seen many churches kind of like embrace what the world is doing instead of being salt and light and speaking to the situations as they come they just kind of get embroiled in the whole thing because i believe they've taken their eyes off of the lord jesus they're getting their information from somewhere else they're getting their lack of peace from a different place because that fear is not coming from the lord well i think part of the responsibility goes back to the shepherds they have never taught their people to cling tightly to jesus they it's been more of an entertainment or a the expression i've used in america anyway we used to have baby food that came in jars that was called pablum so i called it pablum peddling preaching because all you're doing is keeping a group of people dependent upon you to ingest the word of god or hear from the voice of god i hear the voice of god and and it's so it's it's shallow at best and so most christians are not grounded on the word have never been taught that it is their responsibility to stay in the word and so they don't have the strength or the ability to stand on their own to spiritual feet they're always running to men or or prophets or whatever you want to call it [Music] to get a solution rather than running to god in his word no foundation none yeah so so they haven't been directed to have their own foundation and they do people do they depend on someone else to to tell them what they need to think what they need to believe uh what they need to do in any given moment when i think we're all called to hear god's voice for ourselves and very often if you do get a prophetic word it should just be a confirmation of what god's already speaking to you because the bible says my sheep hear my voice and we that's something that we really need to lay hold of isn't that interesting that the word clearly teaches jesus spoke my sheep know my voice and yet so many christians are confused about that well i don't hear his voice how come i don't hear his voice well it's obvious because he like right no the word of god is truth and see that's not been settled in our heart if it contradicts our our momentary situation then we think no my my experience right now is more relevant and more truthful than what the word says that's not that's not how that works god's word is truth period so if you're having confusion about what the voice of god is then you have too many distractions in your life that are fogging or obscuring that communication see and to say you've never you've never heard the voice of god that proves to me right there you've never been saved you can't be saved without hearing the voice of god according to the word well you can't well it was a conviction that's the voice of god yeah exactly well it was an impression god can speak any way he wants but you you're confused about what the voice of god is you think it's words that come forth that like like we're communicating now but god speaks any way he wants and you've got to stop limiting him to your concept of what communication is he speaks in dreams and visions he speaks in impressions he speaks so many ways you have to learn how god communicates with you but you've got to get them give them a foundation or a basis on which to work and the best way to do that is to put the word of god in you because the scripture says he confirms his word so if the words in you he can confirm what he's speaking to you by that what you have placed within you right and you know i like the the saying that says don't tell me god's not speaking if your bible is closed a lot a lot of people they get focused especially now on what you just said about keeping your your focus on the lord and hearing his voice and listening to his voice in this time there's so many people that are focused on what the news is saying or what their friends are saying or what they heard from someone and there's a there's so many voices speaking i think that is why there's such a culture of fear even in the church now what do we do what do we do and we've been to churches where they've actually kind of flip-flopped from teaching the principles of the word and teaching out of the word and delivering the word now they're teaching some kind of social agenda because you know they want to show well we love people too we're going to do exactly what the world's doing because we care and it makes no sense to me they've just started listening to other voices when we need at this time more than ever to hear god's voice stay in the word preach the word teach the words to give people that foundation of christ that they need and so we've got to stay away from distraction you know a good friend of mine said some years ago that a steady diet of all these network news agencies is is like junk food and it will build fear death and corruption within you and that's the truth but a steady diet of the word of god builds faith and life and peace and his health and healing to all your flesh is what the word says so depending upon what you're feeding yourself what you're allowing in that's what's going to sustain you and and mike you had a neat experience where an angel came and talked about why you couldn't see explain that one yeah well this was this was uh you know a pretty uh solemn experience for me because i've been really seeking uh the lord for greater spiritual vision and clarity and understanding and all these things and and and i mean seeking i'm not you know i've got to be honest with you um my seeking is not just well wouldn't it be nice if it happened i'm passionate that i walk in the things that the bible talks about and that's a key for somebody but so i was in my prayer chair praying and all of a sudden i saw an angel appearing kind of in the distance but you know i thought okay i see him i've kind of caught him i'm going to yell out to him and ask him something so i called out to him and he came over to where i was there in my prayer room and he said what can i do for you i said i really want to see better than i do and when i said that his eyes turned and they looked different they blood began to run down his face from his eyes and it really looked very strange it was unsettlingly scary scary yeah it was it looked almost demonic actually and i said what are you doing i know you're an angel of the lord and then his eyes became normal again and then he explained he said your eyes have been injured from all the garbage you've put into them over the years but the lord can heal them now he didn't reach out and minister healing to my eyes but what he did was he delivered the key that the lord had for me you know that we can't put garbage in our eyes and expect to see with clarity expect to discern we're feasting on the wisdom of the world and then we expect to have discernment and clarity it just doesn't happen so revelations talks about an eye cell we can get that can bring healing to our eyes amen and many of you now see remember vision is part of the asp an aspect of the voice of god because one-third of your bible came through dreams and visions so if you're not walking in a seeing capacity to any extent that to that extent your ability to hear the voice of god is hindered so it is permissible to ask god to heal your vision even your ears because we allow all sorts of junk in our ears too so that we can get that salve and white put it on our eyes and our ears and bring healing to those the damaged areas of our spiritual capacities and then walk in in fullness of what is ours by birthright in the kingdom yeah and the great thing about that is is if you will purposely do that you know draw near to me and i will draw near to you is what the scripture says if you will purposely pursue god for these things that he has given us by like dr bruce said by birthright it allows you to discern what you're hearing nowadays a lot of people are very upset with the prophets because you know we we depended on the prophets to give us the word and who do we listen to now well maybe we should listen to the lord's voice if you're going to be upset with anybody maybe you should just listen to the lord's voice and hear what he's saying and see what the father is doing then you know i'm not really dependent on on people to give me a word except as confirmation for the most part now and you don't even go looking for that i don't even go looking for that that uh you've given me words before but it's and other people have as well other prophets have as well but very often it's a confirmation of something god has been nudging me about or speaking to me about and and even if that's not the case the lord confirms his word either through scriptures or through someone else bringing something um a lot of people are they're listening to all these different voices and then they're upset because well who do i believe so you know i get emails all the time i'm sure you do too that who do we listen to this is what so-and-so says why did he say that i don't know why he said that ask the guy that said it you know don't don't lay that at my feet but because my uh advice is listen to the lord's voice get in the word i had somebody recently asked me well what does so-and-so say about this and i said i really don't care what so-and-so says if you want to know that go to him but you know what he's going to tell you the same thing i am right now if you want to know what's happening go to the source god stop chasing a man pursue the lord yeah that's i think that's why there's so many people that are in fear now there's so many people in confusion now because we really need to get our focus back where the focus should be get in the word get in the prayer closet and quit depending you know i think you've talked about the problem yeah and preaching telling preachers it's like okay let's get beyond milk because you know i've only i've said this for a long time because i've seen the way the world is going but we as believers are not supposed to be the ones hiding in closets and ringing our hands along with the world we're supposed to be light and so when the darkness comes and the confusion comes we need to have a clear word to give people and point them to the lord jesus christ yes we we can't be seen as just some other group that's also fearful that is not your place god has not given us a spirit of fear so we need to really get in the word and get in the in communion with the lord until any fear that is in us is removed and and we walk with boldness the bible says the righteous are bold as a lion and you need to be lions that's what that's what the world needs this time amen that's a good place to close this little visit today so you want to pray mike sure father in jesus name we just ask for your presence and your power and your peace to come upon your people father we ask you to lead them by your spirit to grow in the things of the spirit to grow in maturity to receive that strong meat and walk in those things for the glory of the lord and for the benefit of the world around them father let us be salt and light and give us that spirit of might and counsel in my father that that wisdom and revelation in the spirit of the fear of the lord and we pray these things in jesus name amen amen god bless you bless you you

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Length: 16min 37sec (997 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021