You’ll Never Miss It
Baby Girl,
From the tone of your voice, I feel like there is a reprimand coming.
Is that okay with you?
It's preferable. If I'm off about something, I'd rather know sooner than later. I tend to get myself in less trouble that way.
What were you just doing?
I was looking for the name of a music minister at one of the churches I visited.
Why?
Because when I woke up, my words to that minister were echoing followed by, "How can you know his heart when you don't even fully understand yours?" I thought I should send him a letter apologizing.
Apologizing for complimenting him? What did you say to him?
I stopped him after church to tell him that I was impressed… not necessarily for his voice, although he sang very well, but that he was so joyful and seemed so sincere. I told him it seemed that he was genuinely standing in Your presence and singing for You, not putting on a show on a stage. He thanked me and said it was nice to hear because that's how he feels.
Why did you feel the need to say that to him?
I don't know. I had thought it during the ser...
STOP - there it is. What word am I correcting?
Thought.
What is thought?
My soul.
Finish your sentence.
I had thought it during the service, so I wanted...
“I wanted.” What's that?
My will.
Continue.
I wanted to encourage him.
Did you feel inspired by Me to encourage him? To pretend that you have some sort of supernatural sixth sense to KNOW another man's heart and motivations?
What is the verse that just came to mind?
Proverbs 21:2 "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs his heart."
Little One, are you able to weigh the heart of another man?
As you know, I often get my own wrong. I'm sensing by this conversation that I may have gotten my own heart wrong in my motivation to encourage that man. Was it wrong of me to say that to him?
You started to ask a wrong question and corrected yourself: "Was it wrong of me to encourage him?"
What is the verse that just came to mind?
1 Thessalonians 5:11 "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."
You are to encourage one another and build each other up but that is NOT what that looks like. You spoke from your soul what you witnessed with your senses. You THOUGHT he was sincere in his worship. You FELT based on what you SAW. Natural.
What would a godly encouragement be in that moment if I felt led to encourage him?
Did you?
I truly did, which is where my confusion in this conversation is coming from.
How could you have encouraged what you were sensing without telling him you saw something in him that you have no natural ability to see?
You give us discernment.
Yes, but did you ask Me if your assessment was correct?
Was it not?
Is that ANY of your business at all?
What do You mean?
Is it ANY of your business AT ALL whether or not, on any given Sunday, in any given service, any given individual is or IS NOT praising Me WHOLEHEARTEDLY from the platform? Is it ANY business AT ALL of yours whether or not a pastor you sit under is right with Me at any given time in his life? Is it ANY of your business AT ALL if there is division or discord in a congregation?
Is it ANY of your business AT ALL… analogy. Let's do this with an analogy. Donna,
Oh no, not that again…
Stay with Me. Donna,
Can you please call me Baby Girl or Little One or just talk without calling me Donna?
You're not hidden in Me, so the enemy is seeing and hearing and delighting with you speaking to Me from your natural man, so I thought I'd just address the one who's talking.
May I speak?
By all means.
I get Your point and, although I didn't type it quickly enough, I heard where you were going with the analogy. You started to say, "Let's say you found a wallet in the church parking lot…"
Well, that's not exactly what I was going to say… but let's hear what you're thinking.
Well, if I found a wallet in the parking lot at church, I should take the wallet back inside and give it to the church so they can find the owner. Just because I found it doesn't mean it's any business of mine what's in it. I could find a bank card and imagine there's a million dollars I could get out if I took it to the ATM, but at the ATM I might find out that person is broke as a joke. And just because I see cash in the wallet doesn't mean it belongs to the owner of the wallet. It could be that someone gave them money to pick something up for them or they were in charge of a fundraiser so they had the proceeds in the wallet until they could take it where it belongs. Just because I see with my natural eyes that there is money in that wallet doesn't mean that person actually has money.
Interesting analogy. How do you feel it relates to the man who was singing?
It appeared to me that he was absorbed in worship and that his heart was very sincere. That's like me saying to the owner of the wallet as I hand it to him, "Wow, looks like you're doing pretty well for yourself financially. Good for you. Keep up the good work," when in reality, he is broke and unable to buy groceries for his family.
So, Little One, what could you have said to that man if you were speaking from your spirit rather than your soul?
I was really blessed by the music today. Thank you for using your gift to honor the LORD.
HOW do you know he was honoring ME with his gift?
Was he not?
...LONG PAUSE…
THAT is NONE of my business. I get it. So are we never supposed to call out giftings we see in other people to encourage them to keep doing what they're doing?
Did I ASK you to call anything out?
No.
Then don't. There WILL be times when I will encourage a brother or sister through you and it MIGHT be with the exact words you said to that man on Sunday but, unless I directly ask you to say something like that, your words are simply people-pleasing, carnal flattery - even if you THOUGHT something, FELT something, or WANTED to say something. If you ask Me first, you'll be clear if your motivation is coming from my Baby Girl or Donna.
I LOVE Donna. She's precious to Me but she is EASILY misguided in her attempts to encourage people. My Little One... she keeps her eyes on Me and RARELY misses.
In Christ. Keep learning what that means. In Christ, you'll never miss it.
LOVE you,
Daddy
Colossians 3:3
