Hearing From God

We love the quietness of the river, and the closeness to nature(and to God) that you feel at the riverhouse. 

Many years ago, we had a pastor(George Waller), that would get away for a few days around the New Year season.  The purpose was to hear from God and get a prophetic word for the church. What was God saying to him personally and to the church?  I had never heard of anyone doing this.

As we grew in our faith, and learned that God really does speak to us, and that we can receive a prophetic word from God, Judy and I began to do this ourselves.

So now, as regularly as we can, we like to go to the riverhouse after Christmas for a few days and set aside some time to hear from God.  The way we do it is to divide our lives into sections. The ones we use are:

     Family
     Church
     Work
     Business
     Personal         
     Relationships
     Ministry

We ask for direction, we ask God what he wants us to do in each area, are there any new things He has for us, what does He want to say to us in each area.  We take the areas one at a time, asking God to speak to us.  When He is through, we move on to the next area.

We always take a writing pad to write down what God is saying.  He usually speaks to Judy in one style and to me in a different way.  When He is finished we have some words from God concerning the New Year.

Over the years, God has been faithful to guide us into what he would have us to do.  What a great God we serve.

We Almost Didn't Find The Place

(Mike Folsom - 1996)

Shortly after mom & dad & Aunt Edie purchased the river house and they had been once, they asked us to go. Dad tried to give directions, but he had only been once, and Aunt Edie didn't know either, but she remembered a big satellite dish as the paved road ended.  All dad could say was "turn left after a bridge and then the pavement ended." He said look for a brown fence.

Well, I knew we could call Julie if we needed to.  We got a little later start than planned and soon it got dark on us and we still had a ways to go.  We turned at Hatchbend, then followed the road around, but no bridge.  We turned right and came down to the bridge, but missed the left turn (we couldn't see the highway marker).  We drove down to the public boat ramp and could have driven into the river!  So we turned around, went back across the bridge and turned right where the pavement ended.  We drove down a ways, but no sign of a brown fence.  So we turned around and stopped at the house at the end of the road to call Julie.  She wasn't home, so we had no idea where to go.  As I was talking to the lady at the house, she mentioned a road to the left after the bridge.  So back we went.  We drove slowly - looking for the road and finally saw it.  We turned left.  As the pavement ended we looked up & saw the big satellite dish.  We turned right & looked to the left for a brown fence.  When we saw it, I got out to see if the key would fit the lock.  It did!  We were here!  What a relief!