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Be Still (revisited)

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  1. Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

  2. Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

  3. with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. Last week I shared

  4. that I was going to bring a very special message tonight,

  5. and so I am, and I would like you to

  6. just be still, be quiet, and listen. Now you'll be

  7. listening with your natural ears, but I'm asking you to

  8. ask the Holy Spirit to help you listen with your

  9. spiritual ears so that you will fully get everything I'm

  10. about to say this evening, Amen. I have titled this

  11. message be Still Revisited. Six months ago, on January fifteenth

  12. of this year, twenty twenty four, I shared on this

  13. broadcast a prophetic word that the Lord gave me for

  14. the body of Christ for twenty twenty four and beyond.

  15. I now know why he spoke that to me. It

  16. was from Psalm forty six ten. Be still and know

  17. that I am God. And if you remember, I did

  18. a three part series on it. I said back then

  19. that I had never had so many confirmations, and now

  20. the crazy thing is that I'm still getting confirmations of

  21. that scripture, which tells me that the Lord is really

  22. really trying to get the attention of his church. So church,

  23. listen up. But it will only be for those who

  24. have an ear to hear. So if you're not hearing

  25. by the spirit, you won't hear what I'm really really saying.

  26. In part one, back on January fifteenth, I said, this

  27. scripture be still and know that I am God is

  28. carrying the weightiness of the Lord's glory. And what did

  29. I mean by waiting? I said, for this season of time,

  30. this scripture will carry you into the most profound piece

  31. you've ever experienced. I continued. It's weighty because of its

  32. importance pertaining to circumstances that will unfold this year and beyond.

  33. It's not a scary word, I said, And you shouldn't

  34. fear what's coming because here's the key. The weightiness of

  35. this word. In other words, the importance and spiritual value

  36. that this scripture carries will shift you into your secret

  37. place that will keep you and strengthen you for the

  38. days ahead. Remember that I just said back in January

  39. that these circumstances will unfold this year and beyond, So

  40. this scripture is going to help keep you and strengthen

  41. you for the days ahead, and not only that, it

  42. will cause you to experience an unprecedented moment of God's glory.

  43. The Hebrew word for glory is the word covode kavod covode,

  44. which has many meanings, one of which means weight or heavy.

  45. It's the heavy, weighty presence of the Lord that I'm

  46. talking about. That glory and the glory can be tangibly felt,

  47. as it was felt in the temple when the glory

  48. of the Lord filled the tabernacle and the priests could

  49. not stand to minister because of the cloud, And that

  50. is found in Second Chronicles, chapter five, verse fourteen. Now

  51. let's go back and look at the word still. We

  52. are given a directive by the Lord to be still.

  53. In Hebrew, the word still means a resting place, quiet, peaceful, silent, undisturbed, cessation.

  54. Most of us know that we cannot hear God without

  55. being quiet, silent, and undisturbed. When when any of us

  56. are in the midst of a lot of clamor or

  57. a lot of chatter, or a lot of voices, or

  58. a lot of noise, you will find that it's near

  59. impossible to hear the voice of the Lord. Now, on

  60. occasion he you know, he can speak through anything, right,

  61. He spoke through a donkey tabaylik and or tabalim rather,

  62. and so God can do anything. But typically if we

  63. are trying to hear the Lord, if we're trying to

  64. to receive information from him, we're not going to be

  65. able to do that unless we are in a quiet place,

  66. a resting place, a peaceful place, a silent place. And

  67. that's why it really sounds crazy, but it is a good.

  68. If you have a closet big enough, if you can

  69. just go in your closet and shut the door. It's

  70. dark in there and it's quiet, and you'll really hear

  71. the Lord. I know because I've done it many, many,

  72. many times. So I'm encouraging you to pay attention to

  73. this word or words. Be still now. It's in that stillness.

  74. It's in that place of quiet, an undisturbed space, that

  75. we get to know God. It's in the stillness with

  76. him that we get to know him. As we worship him,

  77. talk to him and wait on him, we come closer.

  78. That's just how it works. It's very simple. This is

  79. not complicated. If you just sit or kneel and just

  80. wait on the Lord and just begin to worship him,

  81. and really you don't have to say anything, just wait

  82. on him for his presence to come in your midst

  83. So we are drawing near to him, and it's a journey.

  84. It's a journey of a lifetime because once you have

  85. had this deep and lasting encounter with the Lord, you

  86. actually want to be with him more and more. Okay,

  87. let me go back to the word glory. Remember I

  88. said that the Lord is still speaking to me about

  89. this scripture. Now I have to say, this is odd. Okay.

  90. In all the years that I have received prophetic words

  91. for the following year, then the Lord always seems to

  92. begin in the month of November. That's when he really

  93. ramps it up, when I begin to hear the word

  94. in November for the following or the coming year. So

  95. for me to keep hearing this, be stilled and know

  96. that I am God. And we're six months well actually

  97. more than six months after the fact, because I heard

  98. that word before I shared it with you in January.

  99. So it's unusual, is I'm trying to get that across

  100. to you. It's unusual for me to hear that prophetic

  101. word continually like it has never stopped. But it's actually

  102. kind of ramped up in the last month, and it,

  103. you know, it finally got my attention. The Holy Spirit

  104. finally got my attention about hearing that word again. Okay,

  105. so several days ago I was watching a program on

  106. TV and it was talking about the Feast of Tabernacles.

  107. I have talked to you pretty much yearly about the

  108. Feast of Tabernacles, one of the three Great Feasts, one

  109. of the feasts that we will be celebrating forever and

  110. ever and ever. Scripture says, but it's a fall feast,

  111. so it'll be coming sometime September October, and it's a

  112. fall feast where the Lord told the children of Israel

  113. to build booths and rejoice before him for seven days,

  114. for one whole week. And so they would build that

  115. booth out of trees, you know, they would cut down trees,

  116. and they would cut down deciduous trees and pine trees,

  117. and they would actually make a space a place where

  118. they would go to meet the Lord every day. And

  119. they were invited to ask people to join them. Family

  120. members would come, even gentiles were invited to come, Foreigners

  121. were invited to come. So that place, that booth in

  122. Hebrew is called a suka, sukk ah a suka, and

  123. that word suka means booth, but it also means a

  124. place of protection and shelter, and it also means a covering,

  125. which kind of makes sense, you could think when you

  126. think about that booth and they're gathered in this well

  127. rather small area, and you know it's covered and protected.

  128. But when the children of Israel were in the wilderness,

  129. scripture says that the cloud, the cloud covered them by

  130. day as it protected them from the scorching desert heat

  131. and snakes and scorpions. And so the cloud or the

  132. glory was a suka. It was a place where they

  133. were sheltered and protected as they traveled during the day.

  134. So when you and I are still and when we're

  135. quiet and when we're undisturbed in the secret place, we

  136. are in God's suka. We are in that place, in

  137. that covering by the presence of the Lord. We are

  138. in that place that is divinely protected by the Lord.

  139. And if you read Psalm ninety one, which I would

  140. say during COVID, probably every Christian read Psalm ninety one

  141. during COVID, during the COVID days and years, and probably

  142. many who even who were not even Christian read Psalm

  143. ninety one, and of course it's talking about dwelling in

  144. the secret place under the shadow of the Most High God.

  145. Another in other words, it's a it's a suka, it's

  146. a place. It's a place of protection and shelter from

  147. the enemy, from the difficulties. Well, I won't say from

  148. the difficulties of life. That doesn't protect you, but but

  149. you're protected from the enemy. Then, So that happened just

  150. a couple days ago. Then I heard a message preached

  151. by my pastor yesterday, and in that very long message,

  152. one of the points he was addressing was about Obed Eaedam.

  153. Now Obed Eaedam was a man who had the Arc

  154. of the Covenant in his house for three months. He

  155. was not a Hebrew, he was a get tight. He

  156. was a foreigner or a gentile. And because the Ark

  157. of the Covenant was in his home, he had this protection.

  158. He had you know, provision, he had multiplication. He was

  159. being blessed over and over and over because of the ark.

  160. The Ark of the Covenant represented the actual presence of God.

  161. So I listened last week and heard about Asuka and

  162. the cloud. And yesterday I hear about the Ark of

  163. the Covenant, which represents the presence of the Lord. And

  164. I'm putting this all together, and I'm saying, Hm, the

  165. Lord is continuing to highlight information to me regarding protection,

  166. the protection we receive from his presence. Now you have

  167. to you have to get this. You have to get this.

  168. It's the protection that we receive from his presence. So

  169. in your home, you create your own so to speak,

  170. Ark of the Covenant, that that glory place, that abiding place,

  171. that secret place, that dwelling place with the Holy Spirit

  172. and the Lord. And you make that place a very

  173. special place. And that's where, in that moment of being

  174. still and quiet and undisturbed, where you come into his

  175. presence and you begin to meet him and talk with

  176. him or just be quiet and listen to what he

  177. has to say. First. Then what's going to happen. Is

  178. the glory's going to come. I assure you. I assure

  179. you it will come. You have to be intentional every day,

  180. every day you meet the Lord. Every day you set

  181. up an altar in your home somewhere a special place

  182. where you go to meet the Lord. And that's where

  183. you'll experience that glory. It will come and you'll be

  184. overwhelmed by it. Now we're going to see why this

  185. is all important. So, in the last month, I heard

  186. three prophets talk about the coming economic crash. Two of

  187. the prophets I was on familiar with these people, these men,

  188. and so their word didn't hold much weight with me

  189. because I don't know them. They're unproven, untested with me.

  190. I've been around prophets and the prophetic for twenty five years,

  191. so I haven't heard of these people, so I'm not

  192. gonna necessarily jump on what they say. But the third

  193. prophet I knew of, and I valued his strong belief

  194. in God's word and his prophetic words being backed by

  195. God's word. And I value that ministers who are aligned

  196. with him were ministers that I respected. So the ministers

  197. that I am personally aligned with and the ones that

  198. I follow, these are people of great integrity in all

  199. aspects of their lives. Okay, these aren't people that you're

  200. going to hear of all of a sudden the church closed,

  201. closing down and you know, all kind of crazy stuff. No, no, no,

  202. So this prophet has a very good track record, and

  203. he's a very very humble man. That's important. Here's what

  204. the Lord showed him that after the November election, regardless

  205. of whether President Trump wins or whether Kamala Harris wins,

  206. there will be a great economic downturn, very severe, and

  207. it will really shake things up, and it's really going

  208. to shake people, and it will last until June July

  209. of twenty twenty five. Now, I just want to go

  210. back and remind you what I said to you back

  211. in January that these It was that what I was

  212. getting giving you was weighty because of its importance pertaining

  213. to circumstances that will unfold this year and beyond. So

  214. that meant it was going to occur in twenty twenty four,

  215. but it was going to go into twenty twenty five.

  216. Is what the Lord told me, And so I'm sharing

  217. what he's now saying. The Lord told him this is

  218. going to last until June July of twenty twenty five.

  219. Then it will begin to smooth out. So if things

  220. aren't already bad to do to high the high inflation

  221. rate and the cost of everything being a great burden

  222. on people, this turn of events will frighten people, even Christians,

  223. and they will wonder how they're going to make ends meet.

  224. Put food on the table, and you might be one

  225. of them. You might be one of those people that

  226. are listening to me evening. Let me read Psalm forty six,

  227. verses one through seven in the amplified version Classic which

  228. I read to you back in January. It says h

  229. Psalm forty six, Verse one. God is our refuge and strength,

  230. mighty and impenetrable to temptation, a very present and well

  231. proved help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though

  232. the earth should change, and though the mountains be shaken

  233. into the midst of the seas, though its waters roar

  234. and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling and

  235. tumult se La, pause and calmly think of that there

  236. is a river whose streams make glad. The City of God,

  237. the holy place of the Tabernacles of the Most High God,

  238. is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved.

  239. God will help her right early at the dawn of

  240. the morning, the nations raged, the kingdoms tottered and were moved.

  241. He uttered his voice, and the earth melted. The Lord

  242. of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is

  243. our refuge, our fortress, and high tower. Selah, pause and

  244. calmly think of that. So things are going to shake.

  245. But Verse one says God is our refuge and strength,

  246. a very present and well proved help in the time

  247. of trouble. I am warning you, trouble is coming. What

  248. will you do? How will you respond? Now? Right now

  249. is the time to draw near to God. You know,

  250. I wish I could see your faces right now, because

  251. I would want to know who of you are drawing

  252. near to God? Who of you are serious about God?

  253. Or are you just a casual Christian or maybe a

  254. carnal Christian or a part time Christian. My friend, you're

  255. going to be in for a big shot if that's

  256. one of the categories you are in currently, and you

  257. will teeter like a drunken sailor, not knowing what to do.

  258. So I'm warning each of you you will see and

  259. it will become clear why I gave you this prophetic

  260. word clear back in January. Why did I give it

  261. to you? Then? It was to prepare you. But I

  262. wonder how many of you took me seriously? Even Donald

  263. Trump just last week, and Donald Trump is not a prophet.

  264. He said we're heading into hard times. Many people who

  265. are not Christian are saying we're heading into hard times.

  266. But the prophet said regardless of who becomes president. So

  267. President Trump kind of makes you think that once, if

  268. he becomes president, the hard times will be over. But

  269. that's not what the prophet said. It doesn't matter who

  270. wins the White House. Those very difficult times are coming

  271. to us period. I mean, we can't get away from that.

  272. It's going to be very difficult. So look, I'm a voice.

  273. I'm a voice crying in the wilderness. That's why this

  274. program is called Voice in the Wilderness. And I'm trying

  275. to get your attention. Rather, the Holy Spirit is trying

  276. to get your attention. Hey, I'm shouting from the rooftops.

  277. I can't make it any clear to you. I hope

  278. you have ears to hear, and I really really want

  279. you to take action. Don't be lasadaisical. Don't wait till

  280. this has come upon you, because then it'll be difficult

  281. for you, because if you don't already have that place

  282. with him, that's still quiet, undisturbed space, and place with

  283. the Lord, it's going to be pretty hard to try

  284. to pull that off. Once this toothpaste is out of

  285. the tube. Now I'm giving you the warning you have

  286. about six months. You have about six months, so spend

  287. time with the Lord. Be still and know that he

  288. is God. I am telling you as sure as I

  289. know my name. I have never had the Lord speak

  290. to me this prophetic word ongoing. Never he would speak

  291. it in November for the coming year, and that would

  292. be it. I wouldn't hear it again. But this has

  293. not stopped. And then when I heard to the program

  294. on Suka and I heard about obit Eatam, I'm like,

  295. oh my goodness, I hope you have ears to hear. Amen. So, Lord,

  296. I ask that you would open every heart tonight to

  297. receive and understand this scripture for themselves. Be still and

  298. know that I am God. Open their spiritual ears to

  299. know what you're speaking, and give them a heart to

  300. obey Father woo and draw them. And as they draw

  301. near to you, your word says you will draw near

  302. to them. I bless each person that's listening to this message.

  303. May you be filled to overflow with the love, mercy,

  304. and grace of the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen. Well,

  305. this is don Noble. You can go to www. Dot

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  310. if you have a prayer need, if you just want

  311. to share what you think about what I said tonight,

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  319. me and this ministry. It means a lot. Well, this

  320. is Don Noble. I hope you enjoyed this message tonight

  321. and I look forward to being with you again next week.

  322. Shall oam, shall oam, Peace be unto you