foundational text today comes from Habakkuk chapter two verses one through three of a familiar passage of scripture

and I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the watchtower and I will keep watch to see what he will say to me

and how I may reply when I am reprimanded.

And then the Lord answered me and said, write down the vision and inscribe it clearly on tablets

so that one who reads it may run.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time it hurries toward the goal and it will

not fail though it delays wait for it for it will certainly come it will not delay long

I'm speaking today from the subject, write, read, and run. Right, read,

and run. This is at a time when the Lord uses godless people, the Chaldeans, to punish Judah. And now Habakkuk the prophet is wondering what in the

world do we do in a time like this and a season like this. And he's at a place where he needs God.

And he's saying that, God, I believe that you will talk to me, that you have something to say about my situation.

And so he said, I'm going to stand on the watch here

and see what you will say to me.

I believe that God is looking for people who are in a posture of expectation

of God speaking to you.

I don't know about you, but I still believe that God speaks to people.

I don't think that you're crazy if somebody says that God spoke to them.

I do know that there are some crazy people that say that God spoke to you.

But just because you experience a counterfeit

doesn't mean that there's not a genuine. So I believe that God speaks to people who are in a

posture who have made themselves available to say, God, speak to me, speak to me, speak to me. I trust that you will

speak to me so that you can lead me and guide me. God wants to lead us. He wants to guide us. He wants to

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