Alarms In The Midst Of Familiar Settings! by Chuck Pierce and Penny Jackson

Dear Vigilant Ones:
God doesn’t do anything without first telling His prophets. When you read the instance below, you will immediately see that the Lord is telling us to heed the warnings. Don’t let distractions and the familiar keep you from hearing the Lord and receiving warnings of activity around you. Watch for unusual changes around you!
Penny Jackson in Houston sent me the following:
Notice Alarms in the Midst of Familiar Settings!
I wanted to write about something that happened yesterday because I feel there is a message in it for all of us. I need to start by saying that I live in an older house with many of the original appliances.
The oven that came with the house is older. Since I have lived there for these past 10+ years, I have never set the clock or used the timer on it. Yesterday I arrived home, talking on my cell phone, only to find the oven alarm blaring. I immediately (while still on the phone) began pushing buttons and just trying to make the noise stop. It took some time to get to stop the alarm. Again, this morning I woke up to that same sound. I repeated my same remedy for the sound by pushing buttons. I finally got the alarm to stop resounding.
Now I know I will probably discover more that this means, but when I sat down with the Lord to question Him, I immediately got some insights that I believe are for all of us. Let’s look at some things:
This was something that had never happened before, despite the fact that the oven had been there for at least ten years and was a very familiar object to me. I was distracted, on the phone and not giving the situation my full attention. I immediately started reacting out of my flesh to make it stop without looking at the situation to look for things I should notice.
Here is what I sense the Lord saying: We are entering into a season that is new to us, but notice that the oven itself was old and had always been there. Notice everything, even those things familiar to you. We can’t let distractions keep us from giving our full attention to those things around us. We can’t react, just because we want something to stop. We must look at it and ask the Lord what He is saying through the situation.
Finally, it’s “Not by might, not by power, but by MY spirit” that we prevail. We must get the mind of the Lord on these things.
The Lord is so good to us and gives us alarms and warnings when there are things HE needs for us to know. We must take the time to evaluate these things He shows us.

Chuck Pierce and Penny Jackson
www.gloryofzion.org