WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS #914/ EMBRACING THE FATHERS HEART WITH DR GEORGE WATKINS

WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS
A few days ago, I had lunch with two pastor friends at the mill city Café in Longview, Washington. After lunch, I decided to stroll down Main Street and take in the sights. I have been in and out of Longview most of my life, with some connection to ministry and churches in town.
My earliest memories of this small northwestern town were when dad and mother preached in one of the pioneer churches in town. Later, I came as a single evangelist and returned later as a married one. I held my most protracted revival meeting in this town for six weeks of powerful encounters with God.
However, even though I had all this history, I had never walked down Main Street and taken in the town's atmosphere. It wasn't long before I came upon an iconic past memorial.
As I began to read the history of this town, I noticed I was standing in front of an enormous steam whistle. As the story unfolded, I found that this steam whistle was on top of the largest sawmill in the nation in the 1930s. I also discovered that a man named R A Long had financed and built the only entire city in the 20th century in the United States, and they called it Longview.
I was impressed; then I read about the whistle I was looking at.
This whistle was powered by steam and was so loud it could be heard for 25 miles.
The sound of this monster whistle signaled when each shift of the largest saw Mill in the nation would change. And when it did, everyone within a range of 25 miles knew it.
Standing in front of that iconic whistle, I suddenly felt small compared to the history whirling around me. I was standing in the middle of the town; most people didn't know it was there, yet it changed the course of history for this entire region and generations of families that worked in its great sawmill.
And in the middle of it all was this larger-than-life brass steam whistle that controlled at all.
As I stood there, I was reminded of the Holy Spirit's witness in each of us. God has a whistle that goes off at various times in our daily life, telling us it's time for a shift change.
Now here's a secret most people don't understand about that whistle; when it goes off, everybody around us knows it. 
When it's time for a change, it affects everyone around us.
Stay sensitive, my friends; God is blowing his whistle inside your spirits.

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