AMEN Australia 2019 Conference: Witnesses Unto Me

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network Australia

David Haupt

Trevor Hurlow

Edwin Nebblett

Friday Q and A

The question is, how can you tell the difference between God's voice?

1 of the things that I have done over the years is, first of all, I studied the men in the Bible to see how to be a better father, what to do and what not to do.

First of all, when whatever voice you hear, nothing audible, calls to your heart to do something and you really want to do it, I have learned to distrust that voice.

Because my selfish heart, I don't even know my own heart, okay?

But when that spirit calls to my heart to do something, I go, you have got to be kidding.

That's the voice that I have come to appreciate.

You see, because my example immediately comes to my mind is Moses.

That's what I learned with studying Moses.

When Moses did it in his own strength, disaster.

When Moses said, I can't do that, God even said, I'll get your brother to talk for you, but you're going to do it.

When Moses did everything that he knew, Moses was amazing!

Under the authority of God, called the most humble man.

So for me, I have come to distrust when I jump at that idea I go that's the wrong voice Because all it's doing is feeding this boy's self, but when it's something like you I you want Lord can we have a conversation about this?

Now mind you I'm not doing any kind of active debating.

But you get that still small voice and it says, you really need to do such and such.

I've come to appreciate that I am doing it.

And if anything works, to God be the glory.

So yes, so for me over the years I've come to appreciate, this is my own experience, I've just come to appreciate that when the Lord asks me to do the impossible, I am very clear that if the possible occurred, it has nothing to do with me, but just me surrendering myself.

Okay, Lord, if that's what you want me to do, I'm not going to look good here.

I don't know what I'm doing, but it's not about me.

I have done some things that were way out of my comfort zone, but we don't have time for that tonight.

I think that's a really interesting question.

But My own experience is it's as much about moving as it is about stopping.

I've never been 1 for sitting and contemplating and waiting for voices.

It's about Oswald Chambers, who I'm quite keen on, he says, trust God and do the next thing.

And for me, it's about that daily relationship and then doing what comes naturally, doing the next thing, rather than standing and rather than sitting and waiting for direction.

And it will be consistent with the law and the testimony.

And it's also very important to me that I have a community of people who I'm answerable to and responsible to.

And they'll say to me, no, that's wacky, that's weird, that's not appropriate.

My wife's the first 1 that'll tell me that.

But yeah, there's a whole pile of things and it's my daily relationship with God and ongoing relationship with God.

The reality is that We have constant voices speaking in the recess of our mind.

And how do you, between all of that, work out which is God.

So I agree with what has been said so far.

I also want to suggest that as you go on to a journey with God, that you will eventually come to the point where you start to recognise his voice.

As in any relationship, I can recognise my wife's voice or my kid's voice even if there's major noise around me.

So I would like to recommend, God will always speak through his word.

He will impress you, especially as you read his word.

Ask him to speak through his word to you as well.

You know, a verse comes to mind and I think it kind of summarizes this and it's in Proverbs and it says, trust in the Lord with all your heart.

And in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your path.

And I think, you know, some people seem to have, let's say, a clearer connection or whatever, But that has really been a theme in my own life, is just to trust God, to submit to him and allow him.

And when you look back, often then you can just see how amazingly the Lord has led, despite mistakes you've made and maybe wrong moves and times when we should have spoken up and we didn't or we did things.

It's amazing as we turn to him and humble ourselves before the Lord, how the Lord is still willing to use us and make us a blessing.

Neblett, I'm just keen on hearing a little bit more about your Bible memorization, and in particular that you use some system, Did you call it scripture typing or something?

BibleMemory.com, I believe is their new name, but it's called Scripture Typer.

I've learned from my children, and they spoke of scripture for years.

I know I need to take it with me wherever I go.

And it's available on your iPad or your iPhone, your Android, your whatever, your computer.

But the bottom line is, you put in there scriptures that you wish to memorize, and you can put it in in whatever version you wish.

And I prefer King James, but I've also liked New King James.

And so the Lord called to my heart 1 day, my favorite book in the Bible is James.

I'm pleased not to be careful how I say this, but the Lord put it in my heart that I needed to memorize the entire book of James.

I don't memorize very well, but I've memorized the book of James in both King James and New King James.

And so I spend, I spend an hour a day scripture, and I just love it.

I just never thought I would love memorizing scripture.

I think 1 of my role models, to be very honest with you, is Pastor Randy Skeet.

But you can also memorize passages in Spirit of Prophecy.

It's quite, I would encourage you to look at it, scripturetyper or biblememory.com, that's the same way.

And I thoroughly enjoy spending time in the Word.

When you were describing all that you were doing when you were working full time and doing all those evangelisms.

Can you please explain to me what your day looked like?

Because how can you fit all of that into 1 life?

And do everything else that you're supposed to be doing outside of work.

To everything there is a season, a time to be born, a time to die.

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