No Shadow of Turning in Him

By David Raudman

The Apostle John wrote in 1 John 1:1-4 (message), “ God’s living and powerful word: The very first day, we were there taking it all in, we heard it with our own ears, saw it with our own eyes. Verified it with our own hands. The word of life appeared right before our eyes; we saw it happen! And now we’re telling you in most sob

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781643454856

Book preview

Intro

In this book, my goal is to lift us off the natural runway of life and put us in a place where the Spirit of God can minister and embrace us from heaven.

Whatever it takes to reunite family and friends, allowing Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to reign in our lives, and to bring back the gift of joy. Lovingly, God’s Spirit created mankind with a blast of His breath into a man molded from dust. That blast from His breath and His spirit has brought forth billions of who have lived, and hopefully glorified, our one true God, Papa, and Daddy who shows His depth of love as Abba.

As Jehovah, even when we feel faithless, He stands faithful: always there, always willing, and most of all, always able. I love my Heavenly Father, so my hope is that in these pages both the mixture of His most powerful and living Word and the words I believe He has inspired in me to write, you will find page after page of delight in Him.

I pray that these pages call to each of us to read over and over, again and again and to find mysteries that God have hidden as we learn to soar higher and higher. If nothing else, I pray that these words woven together will paint small masterpieces to visually sharpen our clarity, so we can file certain Bible parables into our minds. I pray that those pictures allow us to call on the Healer and the Holy Spirit to illuminate where there once was darkness. Darkness that tried to hide beautiful truths that God have for us.

This can only be revealed by Jesus, the Light of Men, so that we can share in the great glory that exposes any and all darkness. God’s Word speaks of mysteries that were hidden until now. I believe now is a time for clarity that brings distinction between dark and light; there is to be no more gray area. The light of Jesus in us will be unmistakable, but we must recognize and acknowledge the discernment of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth at work within us.

So get comfortable and sit back in your favorite chair. Now, it’s time take into heart this mixture of words that are all God-inspired, woven together, and entitled No Shadow of Turning in Him. I pray that together we soar without boundaries where the sky is not the limit, and God brings out a hunger for His love, His grace, His peace, and His comfort while liberally giving out rivers of His wisdom. Just as only He can. God bless you, page to page. Amen.

Paul spoke about speaking with tongues of angels. He said, I brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech, or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

When words are written that are to reach out and represent God Almighty, there is a responsibility. Yet when God Almighty is who truly is the inspiration, that allows a freedom. God has made Himself so accessible and so easy to hear from and talk to. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Every word before it is written, is prayed for. It is presented to the Lord for His approval and His blessing, clearly showing His grace, and promise.

Draw near to Him and He will draw near to us. When He knocks and we open the door, the relationship begins. It’s up to each of us on how long, how deep, how wide, and how high our friendship becomes. Jesus is not only our Lord and Savior, He’s our friend who is willing to share all things, all truth, and all revelation. His friendship is truly eternal, unending, and unconditional. So these words are part of the beginning of our journey. When our temporal journey on earth ends, remember, the beginning of a new, and glorious phase begins.

Jesus stays the same, our friend forever. Just think if all of mankind could understand what Agape Love means: God’s tremendous, unconditional love, a love that bears all things. God is not restricted by time or space. He knows the beginning and the end and any time in between. His thoughts are so much higher than ours. So amazing that, if he speaks it, it is. He is not a man who can lie. His word becomes an instant manifestation. Wow!

Back to His love. Just think, if your child was about to make a decision that would affect their life forever in a bad way or if it were to harm them in anyway emotionally, physically or even spiritually, we as parents know it but couldn’t stop it. But, oh yes, we’ve promised our children free will to choose as they wish no matter what. The love to allow that free will without stepping in is truly unconditional.

Now think how God knows every person on this planet and their life from beginning to end. God is who breathed his Spirit of Life into each one of us. If mankind could understand His love and just how amazing it is to allow us free will, they will know that God is not a dictator. If we learned to believe in loving our neighbor, and to look to Jesus, God’s Son who was sent to us, not to condemn us, but to show us the way, the truth, and the life to the full, in abundance, till it overflows.

In the pages of this book, I won’t pretend that those who know the Lord and give their lives to Him will live without struggles. That would be a fallacy. The book of James, chapter one, verses two and four says, Count it all joy when we fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of our faith produces patience, but let the patience have it’s perfect work that we may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing All mankind at birth are given a measure of faith, so we all can apply this scripture. Amen.

Somewhat close to my house, there is a major freeway interchanging. On the mountain alongside the roadway is a very large and long, man-made waterfall. Sometimes the city lights it up and it can be seen from miles. This waterfall is a small section of the California aqueduct shaped similar to a slight S. It has walls on the sides that makes it like a trough waterfall. It has large rocks covered in course concrete and a large reservoir at the bottom.

The significance of this, and why I’ve shared in such detail this waterfall, is because in the natural, this is a water purification system. As the water works its way down, splashing against each rock, it’s being purified. By the time it explodes into the reservoir with mist everywhere, the water is pure. Remember, this is in the natural and it paints a perfect picture in the spirit. Where each obstacle we face through life, is building character, while stretching our faith, and enriching every fiber of our relationship with the Lord. It brings about the upward call of perfection. Praise be to God, the Creator of all.

This world, all of God’s creation, and even every star in Heaven, He calls by name. We, the human race, think very highly of ourselves. The scientific community, because of the Hubble telescope, have discovered that there are more stars in the skies than grains of sand on the seashores. The Bible reveals so much about our world. I know that most of us know the promise to Abram, who became Abraham, the father of many nations, and whose descendants would be as numerous as the sand on the seashores or as many as the stars in the heavens. Either way, until the Hubble, the scientific world was hard-pressed to believe that our Milky Way is minuscule in proportion to our universe.

God is great. His Word is great. His way is righteous and His thoughts are so much more than we can begin to know. The thought of trying to figure out tomorrow is fruitless. We can cut open an apple and count how many seeds are in it, but we can’t count how many apples are in one seed. The thought of that is beyond us. Yet in life, seedtime and harvest time on this earth will remain.

God loves it when His children search for the truth and when we hunger for a deeper connection where Father, Son, and Holy Spirit or the Trinity, become our points of navigation in life.

Being a Pastor, I ask the Lord to ensure that I’m on track with each message. It’s extremely important to me to be sure that our church family