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by Vicki Campbell 

Have you ever felt you couldn’t get through to God . . . Or felt you weren’t hearing from him, or that He wasn’t hearing you?  Have you ever had a hard time in relationships with other people?  It could be that you’ve got congested pipelines – that your plumbing is all stopped up.  When you feel like this, you need to shine the Holy Spirit’s spotlight into your pipeline to see what’s clogging it up.

Many years ago, long before I ever heard Pastor Tom mention it in his preaching, the Lord gave me a personal revelation in the form of a parable.  He showed me that I have two pipes – like plumbing pipes – coming out of my heart.  One of these pipes extends upward to God, which is the passageway for our relationship and communication with Him; the other pipe extends outward horizontally, and is the means by which I relate to other people.

He showed me that our pipeline to Him is the main, and the most important one.  He told me that if His pipeline is clogged up, and not free and clear, it automatically affects our other pipeline reaching out to others.  The only way we can have proper Read the rest of this entry »