Hearing from the Holy Spirit (Part 7 of 7)

The Badge
Like many retail businesses, the place where I work has a “work uniform”, which in my case is a simple vest and a clip-on name badge. That badge however is not merely for my name; on its back is a magnetic stripe (like a credit card) which allows me to easily clock in and out of my shift. (Contrasted to using either a computer in the employee training room or the employee app on my phone, both of which require multiple steps.)

One day as I was working at a particular location in the store, I discovered my badge was missing, having somehow become dislodged from my vest. At that time I had somewhat recently returned from a break, so I retraced my steps back to the break room, carefully eyeing the floor, particularly along the bottom shelves, trying to spot my badge. Without success, I went again from the break room back to my assigned work area, hoping to spot my badge from the “other direction”.

No good. So I went over to Customer Service to see if anyone turned in a badge. No, no-one had. I returned to my work area, resigning myself (as I was on an evening shift that day) to have to see someone the next day about getting a replacement badge.

It was at that moment I received the faintest suggestion from the Ruach to check my vest pocket. I initially dismissed this, as it seemed laughable that my badge would fall into the pocket while I was walking around. But I received a second gentle nudge, so I slipped my hand into the pocket … and there was my badge. However it was that the badge became unclipped from my vest, Abba Yehovah caused it to slide directly into that pocket.

If you haven’t yet made Jesus your personal Savior, today – right now – is the best time to do so. You can ask Him in your own words, or use some version of the Sinner’s Prayer. Remember, Jesus – Yeshua – turns no-one away. And if you do this, it’s guaranteed not only that you will hear from Ruach haKodesh, but also that you will learn to recognize it when it happens.

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Hearing from the Holy Spirit (Part 5 of 7)

You may note that this 5-part series is now a 7-part series. That’s because of two recent experiences I must share with you.

After all, five is great; yet seven is perfect.

(Yes, that’s a tease of a forth-coming lesson.)

The Title
I had purchased a truck, and needed to sell my sedan. Eventually a fellow student in the Vocational class I was taking agreed to buy it, and we settled on a time and location to make the transfer.

It was now the day before that transfer, and I still hadn’t set out the sedan’s title; so I went to the location where I (thought I) had put it – and it wasn’t there. So I checked another location. No good. Now a mild panic started to set in.

Almost immediately I heard the gently-whispered phrase, Check the drawer. Along with that phrase came the understanding of which drawer. I happen to be a nerd and geek, and like many nerds and geeks I collect memorabilia. My mother had bought for me a China cabinet so I could display some of my items. The bottom section was storage, and just inside the main door was a “hidden” drawer, about 15” square but only about an inch deep. It was meant, I presumed, for holding provenance of one’s collectibles. In other words, flat paper documents. Yet my internal response to Ruach’s prompt was, No, I wouldn’t have put it there, that would be foolish.

So I checked this file and that stack of papers and this cabinet and that other location, each time failing to find the title; each time getting more and more panicked; each time hearing that gentle prompt and each time rejecting it.

So I finally looked in that China drawer, and there was my sedan’s title, right on top of everything else. Had I listened to Ruach haKodesh immediately, I would’ve saved myself time and a great deal of emotional distress.

[FYI: It’s entirely possible I received such help from Ruach prior to this. This incident is the earliest I recall having explicitly heard a specific phrase.]

If you haven’t yet made Jesus your personal Savior, today – right now – is the best time to do so. You can ask Him in your own words, or use some version of the Sinner’s Prayer. Remember, Jesus – Yeshua – turns no-one away.

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Hearing from the Holy Spirit (Part 4 of 5)

The Text
Like many businesses, my current employer offers a free smartphone app to employees to check schedules, request time off, and do other basic administrative tasks. However, at the time I was hired I had only a flip phone which could not download apps. So I used the company’s employee website via my laptop.

A few months into my employment, my carrier made the switch to 5G, and I had to get a smartphone. Of course, this meant I could now use the app, so I installed it. The app requires a code texted to the phone to proceed beyond a certain point. I clicked the “Send text” button, and …nothing. My phone didn’t receive a text. I went through the log-in procedure again. Still nothing.

It occurred to me that maybe this was a built-in security feature, that perhaps my phone didn’t accept texts from numbers not already in my Contacts list. So, I entered my company’s main number.

Again, nothing. At this point I began to panic. Despite being a nerd and geek, especially regarding tech stuff, I had early on developed a dislike for smartphones as a concept. Now I owned one, essentially without choice, and the wretched thing wasn’t even doing something as basic as receive a text.

As my panic and frustration grew, I heard the gentle message, Check the text. This referred to texts from my employer received on my old flip phone. I went through that phone’s text records, and found three types of entries: texts from our main number; texts from the Hiring Manager… and the security codes for the employee website, listed under a number I had rather generically labeled “Text”.

I entered that number in my smartphone’s Contacts, went into the employee app again – and received a texted code which allowed me to fully log-in and use the app.

(By the way, this entry is itself a gift from Ruach haKodesh. As I was jotting down notes for this series, Ruach reminded me of this event so I could include it.)

If you haven’t yet made Jesus your personal Savior, today – right now – is the best time to do so. You can ask Him in your own words, or use some version of the Sinner’s Prayer. Remember, Jesus – Yeshua – turns no-one away.

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