Page 150 - Evidence of Things Unseen

dog her steps and continually speak words to her that are intended to turn her back from
following the course the Shepherd is leading her down. The Lord reminded me that nearly
two years earlier He had prophesied through my daughter with the words "You must learn
to listen to My voice, and My voice alone. Put behind you all foolish thoughts of doubt and
unbelief, for great is My reward to those who trust in Me." My way had been made much
more difficult because I had allowed the voice of fear to continually resound in my heart.
I had continued to follow where my Shepherd led, but I did so in fear and trembling.
Much-Afraid finally determines to no longer listen to these voices, and at first she
stops up her ears, but she is not able to hear anything at all. She later learns that an even
more effectual solution is to begin singing praises to God whenever the voices of fear,
anxiety and evil forebodings begin to speak to her. The Spirit had been speaking the same
message to me for some time. He had been calling me to praise and worship Him in the
midst of trials, and I knew that while we were at this house in Byron that Yahweh desired
to bring me to complete victory in this matter.
When we moved to this house I noticed that the house number was 2440, which is
commonly pronounced “twenty-four forty.” I had felt there was a significance to these
numbers, but I did not immediately know what it was. After we had been in this house a few
weeks, the Spirit revealed to me the meaning. The Spirit showed me that the significance
relates to worshiping Him in the midst of trials and tests. The number twenty-four only
occurs in reference to two things in Scripture, and the verses the Spirit led me to were in the
book of Revelation.

Revelation 4:9-10
And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on
the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down
before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and
ever...

Revelation 5:8-9
When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders
fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense,
which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song...

Revelation 11:16
And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces
and worshiped God...

Revelation 19:4-5
And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped
God who sits on the throne saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" And a voice came from the
throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear
Him, the small and the great."

We see here that the number twenty-four is consistently linked to God's creation
worshiping Him. Wherever the twenty-four elders are mentioned, praise and worship of
God is also present. The number forty is a number associated with trials and testing, for
example the Israelites were tested by God for forty years in the wilderness, Yahshua was