Month: September 2023

I AM or AM I

A good friend of mine, Al Watson, and I were working on my old Volkswagen bug a number of years ago. There was a drive-shaft nut that takes 250 foot pounds of torque. It wouldn’t come loose, so we took a 5 foot breaker bar and a socket and tried to break it loose. Al was pushing on the bar as hard as he could but, no use. So I said in a moderate to loud voice, “Thank you Jesus”, Of course Al was not a Christian yet, so all that caught him by surprise. The nut popped loose, the bar went flying, Al lunged forward. He turned, looked at me and said, “What did you say”? I said, ‘Thank you Jesus”. You see, Al, (I AM) at that time weighed between 270 and 300 pounds and thought he could do anything, just like we all do until revelation comes. When I thanked Jesus, the real I AM showed up. Nothing to it. Al was shocked, Jesus and I laughed, Al got born again a few weeks later and became AM I (Al). What God got out of this, was a new son, I got a glorious brother and Al got Jesus the Great “I AM”.

When God told Moses to go into Egypt to bring His people out, they were ignorant of God, Pharaoh was too. God said, If they ask you who sent you tell them, “I AM sent you”. The only way we have any credibility is for I AM to send us.

My wife and I watched one one of our favorite movies the other night, “The Shepherd of the Hills” with John Wayne. Granny Becky was born blind and lived in a milky white haze all of her life. The Shepard (Harry Carey) paid to have her cataracts removed. They had an unveiling gathering, to take the bandages off. As she picked up a hand full of dirt she said, “I bear witness of the color of God’s good earth”. I know it’s just a movie, but this is how revelation is. She saw partially, but when the complete and perfect came, she saw completely perfect. The thing that was many times more than anything she had seen or ever thought she would. She saw the work of the Great I AM. We become a greater witness every time we experience a new revelation from God.

Balaam, in the old testament, didn’t see the angel of God with his sword drawn, but his ass (donkey) did. His ass was trying to save his life. His ass saw I AM before Balaam did. When his ass spoke to him, now that was a great revelation and then he saw the big sword. What a revelation! Then Balaam made this statement, “ I saw the vision of the almighty, falling into a trance with my eyes wide open. Sometimes we think that a vision comes only in our prayer time. It certainly can, but it can and does happen with our eyes wide open. It can happen at home, work, play and every aspect of our daily lives.

In a court of law, the judge will ask the witness, “What did you see”? If you just read about it, or heard about it, you are not a valid witness. A witness is someone that has experienced seeing something. I hear all the time, you have to go out into the world and witness for the Lord. What have you seen? You have to experience a thing to be a valid witness of it. Seeing God heal a sick person is being a witness of that fact. When God reveals something through revelation, we are also a witness. A thing can have a certain property in the natural, whether it is thought or physical properties. When revelation about this comes, we see it as He does and it illuminates. I call this illuminate revelation because it gets bigger than life. Revelation or God revealing a thing or a matter to us, lets us see from His viewpoint. Wisdom comes more and more every time He reveals more to us. We become a greater witness the more we see.

When Samuel, in the old testament, as a child heard God calling to him, he said this, “here AM I”. Our world is full of I AM here. I can do this, I can do that, I don’t need any help, I AM the strongest, etc. Television is full of superhero preaching, causing people to think, I AM the greatest. There was a popular boxer that described himself that way years ago. When I was young, my mother said, “Pride goes before a fall”, I found out personally that she was right. She must have gotten that somewhere other than from this world. Saying, “I am,” is not wrong in itself if it includes God first, like, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. I AM, without honoring God as first, is destructive. It’s pride in one’s own strength and abilities that blinds us to the larger picture. There are many things that God wants us to see in this life. Our small picture is certainly not all there is.

My brother Charlie wrote down this revelation of a song on his way home from work one day. By the way, it was not in his quiet time at home. This revelation came with his eyes wide open. If driving, they had better be open. God spoke these words to Charley.

Listen, can you hear it in the wind.
I say, listen can you hear it in the wind.
I hear sorrow, I hear pain and misery.
Listen, can you hear it in the wind.

Listen, can you hear it in the wind.
I say, listen, can you hear it in the wind.
It’s the heart cry of your brothers, your sisters or a friend.
Listen, can you hear it in the wind.

Listen, can you hear it in the wind.
I say, listen, can you hear it in the wind.
I hear Jesus , He’s your Father, He’s your friend
Saying, take me to your brother, sister or a friend.
It’s the heart cry of Jesus, to bring life to every man.
Saying, take me to your brother, sisters or a friend.
For it’s the heart cry of Jesus to bring life to every man.
Saying take me to your brothers, sisters or a friend.
Listen, can you hear it in the wind.

This revelation came from I AM. My brother Charlie was in an AM I, listening mode and heard the the heart cry of Jesus for his people. In order to hear and see an illuminate revelation like this, we must realize our inabilities and His greatness, our weakness and His strength.

Samuel said,” Here AM I.” He became a witness, as we do, to our Father, designer and creator. Revelation is not just for a few, we are all His handy work. From this day forward let’s all use this term, Here AM I and listen to, I AM He.

David McClary
avoicefromthemountain.com

“Tracks and Marks”

The Things we leave behind.

Everything leaves it’s mark. As a hunter, I look for the tracks of what I’m hunting. A good tracker can tell immediately what has passed through. All leave a different track. There are track leavings and there is feces also. I can tell if it’s what I’m hunting for by it’s leavings. The leavings tell me what is ahead. Every living thing leaves its own personal mark. Looking out our window, I can see our chicken pen. We bought 20 baby chicks. We got select ones to ensure we got mostly hens for eggs. Well we wanted one rooster but got four. I might add, the roosters are leaving their marks. They are all saying, I am the boss of these hens. The one that winds up the boss, is going to leave some blood and the biggest track-marks behind. In life, we all leave our tracks and marks behind. All marks left by humans are different. They may seem alike, but they are different. Everyone’s mark is unique to himself. If we copy someone else, it may look similar but on looking closer, they are not the same. There is only one you. I have an identical twin brother, his name is Charlie. When we were in the military our fingerprints were so similar that they could not tell them apart. There was a master sergeant who had so much trouble telling us apart that he called us by our last name and added the first initial of our first name afterwards, thus McClary-C and McClary-D, in one phrase. We are very similar but not the same. Charlie has left his track-marks behind him and I have left mine. Today, there are those who leave a confusing track behind and are hard to follow. The tracker might say, this track is not normal and doesn’t look like anything I have ever seen before. Deer leave a certain track and a rabbit leaves a different one. The two are easily tracked. If a deer had two rabbit feet and two deer feet, he would leave an impossible track or mark to follow. No one could follow its trail. All animals and every living thing were created after its own kind. A rabbit looks like a rabbit and a deer looks like a deer. We are told by some, that you can be the rabbit if you were born a deer and visa versa. Of course that is impossible and we all know it. There are those telling us that we can be the opposite sex of the the way we were born if we choose. How confused a track is that? I would only say, if you choose to go in another’s hen house, watch for the rooster, there could be some blood left behind. Our tracks are our marks we leave behind. They are our legacy, we are known by it. Others know what we are by what we leave behind. Do we leave confusing tracks and marks for our children to follow? Do our track-marks match the character and the person we are? Do those who follow us know what they will find when they see us? When we are born we start out leaving hard and confusing tracks to follow. Others wonder what kind of thing left these track-marks. When man left his Father-God and His track-marks and followed another’s, they immediately began to leave confusing tracks that only a fool would follow. He no longer followed tracks of his own kind. The word fool is interpreted a play actor. An actor is one who plays someone else. He also leaves mixed tracks with that of others. Vanity, is to be vain, to look and act like something we are not. Our worldly teachers want us all to be vain, foolish, and leave their track-marks, so others will do the same. This is what satan teaches our so called politically correct instructors, so we can leave confusing marks for others to follow. What track-marks are we following and what will it be when we catch up to it? God’s tracks and marks are easily distinguished between His and another’s. We know His tracks and will not follow those of another’s.

PS: What we leave behind, is who we are. Never follow a fool, great discouragement is found, when caught up with him. This is how we can know if we are on the right track, God is the same as His tracks and marks. The more you hunt, the better tracker you will become.

David McClary

A voice From From The Mountain

“THE GOLDEN KEY”

There are many locked things in this life, the front door, the back door, the front gate, the safe, the business down the street and such. All have one thing in common, they prevent wrong entry and allow legal access. The things inside have great value to its owner. Some are material things, and some are secret things, as in government or military. In every case only certain people have the right to enter. It is our right to protect what is ours from those that it is not. Some go to great lengths to protect a thing or a matter. What we have built or conceived in our minds are ours and not someone else’s. Years ago, I asked a thief why he stole, and this was his answer, “God made everything, you have too much and I deserve some of it”. That’s why we lock things and hide the key. Most of us are generous and would gladly share some of our locked items if the other person’s attitude toward us and our possessions was correct, otherwise he deserves nothing. There are some locked up things that have little value to it’s owner and some that have great value. One such item might be your grandmothers’ old letters from her husband while in the army, these would have little value to the thief. On the other hand, documents written describing an invention or a military weapon, would have. All valuable things have this in common, they change the future of the owner and the thief. Another such things are military secrets; they are closely protected. Information is guarded stringently, with codes and encryption. The more important the information the greater it’s protected. Some have different classifications according to its importance, some are top secret, only certain people will ever be allowed to see it. Thieves are continually attempting to steal things that will bring them the greatest reward and owners are increasingly building better locks. All keys are made different for a reason, so the key cannot open any other locks. The owner planned it that way. Man builds many locks to secure many important things and so does the God of creation. There are some things that are common knowledge to man and some things that are hidden. Some that can be known are created things we see all around us, such as trees, the sky, waters, mountains, wondrous things that man could never make. Every seen thing has its hidden things and cannot be known without the key to the locked box. We will call this ’The Wisdom Box’. A thief can never open it, only those who have the key. There is only one key, and not many, as some presume. Only highly trusted people are qualified to see what is in the box. Wisdom and hidden matters of God are very valuable to Him and to us. To us, because they change us forever. In man’s fallen, rebellious nature he can never know God’s secrets, only if he is given the key can he know. There are many books and movies about the mystery of man and his creation. All may be curious but all end in frustration. Man is not trustworthy until he is born of spirit. Jesus left us a way to communicate with God in spirit. The spirit is the language of God, whether in a language we understand or not. He understands both.  We were born in the flesh and understand nothing about the deeper things of God and His creation. The world sat in this rebellious, unbelieving, ignorant state and God knew that for his people to love Him, either all mankind would have to die and start all over again, or one would die for all. So, Jesus, His son, died for us all. When we say to Him we believe that and tell Him so, He forgives us of our rebellion and gives us a Key. This Key is one of a kind and cannot be duplicated. The Key is stamped with Gold, saying “The Spirit Of Truth”, He is how we communicate with God. The Key is a free gift, it cannot be earned. It is given through forgiveness. We hear God and speak with God through the Person of the Holy Spirit. We read the written word and hear his spoken word through the interpreter, the Holy Spirit, which is the “Key”.

 A word of Warning: It is extremely important that we hear correctly. God’s very word to us says that faith comes by hearing Him and if we hear Him, He will reward us with wisdom that produces every kind of substance for our lives while here on earth. There are many distractions while trying to hear. I have ringing in my ears from years of loud machinery and loud music when I was young. My wife will say something to me, and I will miss the first few words, only hearing the last few. I need to hear completely what she said, so I ask her to repeat it again, and you know I would think she would get irritated with me, but she never does, and God doesn’t either. He, like my wife just wants me to hear correctly. The ringing in my ears is like the thief in our lives trying to steal the most important things from us the most important thing of them all is the Key stamped in gold “Spirit Of Truth”, the only communication device there is. In summation, our most valued possession is the ability to communicate with our father who birthed us. The Key is the spirit of God which leads us to the truth in all matters of wisdom. The Key opens our spirit to hear God. God is spirit and man is flesh. The spirit of God is all wise and we must communicate in spirit, not flesh. To know Him in the mind only, is to know of Him. To know Him in the spirit, is to know Him.

 Wisdom is hidden from fleshly man, or the soulish man, or as us southerners would say, the spirit speaks. It tells the mind what to do and the mind tells the body how to do it and it gets done, so there you have it, nothing to it. Normal Christianity was birthed many years ago as recorded in the 2nd chapter of Acts, where men heard in the spirit and responded to what God said and their lives and the world was changed forever. Today, the Key is still available to those who seek it.

David McClary

A Voice From The Mountain

“Forced March”
A violation of the conscience

I was born in 1941. I still have a vivid picture of Jewish prisoners forced to march to barbed wired prison camps. I can still see their frail, bony bodies with their torn clothes and hollow eyes. Hitler reigned from 1933 to 1945. I remember after the war, the Jewish boat people, trying to find a free land to settle in and being forced to turn away. Being forced to go in a direction against their conscience and will. Being forced to march to others’ wills did not start yesterday, it’s nothing new. In America today so far no one is forced to march to prison for their trust in God. But there are more subtle ways to march us there.

When I was birthed, God had already planted a homing device within my spirit, called a conscience. Sort of like a G.P.S. system, it always points to where Jesus is. Jesus is who I call the voice on my G.P.S. in my conscience. If I make a wrong turn, he always tells me to turn around and get back on the appointed destination. The problem is that there are many signs and people’s voices trying to subtly force me to march to another destination. The destination is the most important thing in our existence. This is not a game. The devil started in the Garden of Eden when he told Adam and Eve that God did not say you couldn’t do whatever you want to. If you eat of the tree of good and evil, you will be as smart as God. This was a subtly forced march for all creation, away from God. Man has been on a forced march, violating his conscience ever since. This world is full of wrong turns against the conscience intended to avert our direction to our ultimate destruction.

I saw a commercial on T.V. this morning; it was for a credit card, “The black card”. The road sign said “Life without limits”. As to say, you can spend all you want or have anything you want. What it doesn’t say is, look for the road sign that says, “Buy this great deal so you can miss some payments and then I can raise your interest rate to 28% and force you to make me rich”. A forced march to bankruptcy. Anything to keep you from your destination. Forced marches always lead us to a different destination. God gave us all a free will. No animal, bird or mammal has a will, only man.

I am reading Joseph Bondarenko’s book, “The KGB’s Most Wanted”. In 1962, he was forced to march into a K.G.B. office in Russia and go to prison, for loving and preaching Jesus. His own conscience would have never forced him there, but his enemies did. By the way, this happened while I was on a troop ship coming back from Germany to America, to be discharged from the army. This was not a hundred years ago. His conscience or his homing device stayed strong and continued to point in the direction of Jesus. He was released many years later and still points to Jesus everyone who will listen.

There is a great forced march happening in America today, called political correctness. This shames people to go in a direction, contrived by hell itself. One point of it is about who will go to Heaven or who will go to hell. I will take one example from many. We all have sons and daughters that we want to grow up straight and true. The creator of them said, no one who willfully practices homosexuality will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. These are His words, not mine. This is a very serious matter for those that we love. Political correctness says this practice is normal, God says it’s not, they were not created that way. The nondiscrimination laws say, you can’t discriminate between good and evil, normal or perverted. These laws, when enacted, may have meant well during the slavery days, but has ballooned out of control. I wonder who put up this road sign and why? If political correctness says it’s ok and God says no, what is the end destination for the ones we birthed and love. God is not willing to see our sons and daughters go to that destination and I’m not either. Our children’s homing device is still pointing in the direction of Jesus. Pray that your son’s and daughter’s conscience would be bright, alive and attentive. The conscience, told enough, that wrong is right will become seared, like a piece of burnt steak, and cannot hear well any longer. To have a part in searing the conscience of another is a very serious matter. The conscience again, is the organ that makes us aware of God and His way. There are many other examples of this sort. Confusion and doubt about what is right or wrong is their goal.

We all have a will, given to us by God. We can be forced to other destinations or we will follow our preprogrammed destination to Jesus. God wrote His way and His law in all mankind’s heart. When we do wrong, we know it immediately and when we do good, we know that too.

The winds of political correctness continues to roar in America. Its’ goal is to destroy the God built foundation. When hurricane Camile roared with winds of 130 miles an hour into the Gulf coast, many houses were gone, but their foundations remained. Many houses are gone in America, but it’s foundation is still solid and God will rebuild on it.

If you find yourself forced to be at the wrong destination, you don’t have to like it or stay there. If your house has been swept away, you still have your foundation that God made, your conscience, not made by human hands. It holds the seed of new direction, new life and a new destination.

PS: The conscience in you, is proof that God made and loves you, for it always points you to Him, your promised destination.

David McClary
“A voice from the Mountain”