Bill Yount: Are You Being Convicted Of God's Goodness In Your Life?

From the desk of Steve Shultz:

Convicted of His goodness? That's an interesting thought, ey? But when it comes right down to it – when we reflect on His goodness throughout the years and how He's carried us through everything – how could we not be overwhelming thankful and declare His goodness? That's a good conviction in my book!

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While fasting recently, I was overwhelmingly convicted of God's goodness in my life. I was reminded I was healed of a brain tumor when I was seven years old. I survived a heart attack 10 years ago. My heart stopped three days after the heart attack while taking a heart test and they jumped my heart back to beat again. I owe everything to Him. Why He loves me I can't understand. It makes me weep. Sensing His daily constant goodness is leading me to a life of repentance and to be merciful to others.

How Many of You are Glad to Be Anywhere?

If it had not been for the Lord on my side, where would I be? When I stand up to minister I ask a question that never fails to release an atmospheric anointing of thankfulness into people's hearts: "How many of you are glad to be anywhere?" They laugh, but the anointing of thanksgiving has already begun to fall upon them to start counting their endless blessings. Then I tell them, "I am just glad to be."

Since the attack against my heart I now have a ministry of full-time breathing! Breathing qualifies us to worship! Looking back on my trials and life threatening events, I know now that I could have been thanking the Lord in them instead of afterwards. "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (1 Thessalonians 5:18). When we stop thanking Him, we can take ourselves out of His perfect will.

I am learning what God wants to hear from us when we are in the fiery flame with no strings attached. In our sufferings we often attach strings to our prayers like: "If You heal me or let me live..." I learned quickly in that emergency room what He is after. "Father, I love You!" That's it, period! And when it's from our hearts, I can imagine all of Heaven stopping as He says to the angels, "Stay up here, I have a personal house call. I'm going down for the rescue!"

Have you wondered how saints of old and present could give thanks, breaking into worship, when facing a firing squad or being burned at the stake? Could it be they were not praising God to move Him to do anything more? Instead maybe they were praising Him for what He had already done in their lives, the past miracles and deliverances, and for the fact that they were still here? Each day of their lives was a precious gift and eternity beat in their hearts. They knew they were always one heartbeat away from seeing the bigger picture of God's perfect plan for their lives. Their present fiery trial, stoning, or pointed gun was a reminder, "Absent from the body - present with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8). They were fully convinced God was able to deliver but if He didn't, they would go out in a blaze of glory. "And they overcame him because of the Blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death" (Revelation 12:11).

DL Moody once said, "Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now."

And so will we who put our trust in Jesus Christ. We will be alive when the stars fall from their sockets and this earth is no more. For His goodness and mercy endures forever.

God's Goodness Flowing through His People!

I am also being convicted of the goodness of God that flows through His people. The closer I get to other Believers I find I am not alone in my struggles and battles. Everyone I know is fighting something major. Because of writing articles for this ministry, my name was sent around the world for prayer when my life was hanging in the balance due to my heart condition that morning in the emergency room. I believe many were praying for me. When God chooses to raise up our name to be known to people, it is not because we have it all together; He knows that we will need that many more people to pray us through. There came a moment in that emergency room when I heard the devil's voice whispering to his demons, "There are so many people praying for him, we have to let him go!"

Let's not miss the goodness of God that often flows to us and rescues us through the Body of Christ. I pray even now that you would reflect on His goodness over your own life – the struggles you've been through and what He's currently carrying you through. Let the conviction of His goodness sweep over you even now!

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com

Bill Yount has been a member of Bridge of Life in Hagerstown, Maryland, for the past 33 years where he is now an elder and a home missionary. He is currently an advisor at large for Aglow International. Bill faithfully served in prison ministry at Mount Hope for 23 years and now travels full-time, both in the U.S. and internationally, ministering in churches and Aglow circles. "Humility and Humor" characterize his ministry as he brings forth a fresh word that is "in season," proclaiming the word of the Lord! The shofar (or ram's horn) is often used in his meetings, breaking the powers of darkness over regions, churches and households. The shofar represents God's breath blowing into the nostrils of His people, reviving them and awakening the lost. Many of God's messages, which Bill ministers prophetically, come out of his everyday life with his family and friends.