{"id":4455,"date":"2012-01-14T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2012-01-14T00:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T00:06:56","slug":"tuning-in-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Tuning In to God……"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you tuned to the right station? \u00a0When I’m out driving around in my car I love to listen to a variety of kinds of music and talk radio, but if I’m tuned to a rock station I won’t hear the nice soft jazz I was expecting. \u00a0If you want to develop a relationship with our Heavenly Father, you need to be tuned to His station. \u00a0O.K. pilgrim, cute picture, nice tie in, but I need more specifics!<\/p>\n

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No problem, Just as we wouldn’t expect to receive light Jazz from the rock station, we can’t expect to hear from and be guided by God if our antennae is aimed in the wrong direction. \u00a0I can tell you some places you will have a hard time tuning into God; a casino, a bar, a street corner where drugs are being sold. \u00a0How about a night club, or exotic dancing joint. \u00a0Shocked that I knew about those!!?? In a past, that I don’t want to discuss, I have seen and done things I know better than to have anything to do with now! \u00a0God can certainly be in the most unexpected places ministering to the lost, but it’s not a good idea to go there to fellowship with Him. \u00a0Truthfully, \u00a0those are pretty radical places, try this list; an x-rated movie, a TV show that is counter to what you believe, being in a conversation that is filled with gossip, or \u00a0how about telling or listening to a dirty joke. \u00a0Truth be told, almost all of us have been someplace we knew we should not have been. \u00a0But where do you tune into God? \u00a0How about church, or in prayer, in reading the Word. \u00a0How about fellow-shipping with other brothers and sisters in Christ. \u00a0How about meditating on His Word, maybe even finding a quiet place to listen for His voice.<\/p>\n

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The world desires to drown out His voice, to offer other things to fill our time rather than to seek Him. \u00a0Over the Christmas season I feasted on far too much football, I should have been reading and studying, \u00a0more than watching a mindless game I wasn’t even interested in! \u00a0I don’t like the word discipline, because I don’t have a great deal, but to successfully walk with Him you need to discipline yourself to stay on your knees, in the Word, and in contact with him. \u00a0Im thankful for Sherelene, Chuck Summers, and \u00a0Jim Begley for keeping me steered in the right direction. \u00a0Jim Haverstock, and Carl Turner do their part as well. \u00a0If you wonder if you have friends, look to see who is helping you keep it on the straight and narrow! \u00a0Those are the keepers!<\/p>\n

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Try to remind yourself to ask constantly, am I tuning You in my Lord, or tuning You out……………….<\/p>\n

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  Are you tuned to the right station? \u00a0When I’m out driving around in my car I love to listen to a variety of kinds of music and talk radio, but if I’m tuned to a rock station I won’t hear the nice soft jazz I was expecting. \u00a0If you want to develop a relationship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}