LISTEN FOR THE SHOUT

November 26 2007

Prophetic fulfillment often comes in waves, or in clusters.

This week past and in particular this day, we have seen a mighty wave of fulfillment crash upon this generation.

Many peoples will tell you that there is no way that we can know when the time is near, yet our Savior has commanded us to watch and to know that the time is at hand.

Any student of scripture that is honest within himself and has no motive other than the truth will find it difficult to deny the facts that we discuss in this letter.

It is near even at the door. (Matthew 24:33)

First let us take a short look at some scripture that is very pertinent to today’s news headlines.

Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshophat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Revelation 16:12 And the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

This is a very short list of scripture that details what we are about to see.

Today in our nations capitol the leaders or their hand picked representatives of forty six nations began to gather under the hopes of coming to some sort of a path to proceed to divide up the nation of Israel, in order to allow a type of peace to come to the middle east.

In 1948, the nation of Israel was born overnight by the words on a document that granted the Jews their very own homeland.

Since that day the world has struggled over the question of how to wrestle that homeland away from them once and for all.

The gathering at Annapolis Maryland will not answer that question, yet will reveal to the world once and for all, just how difficult this process will be.

There will be no permanent answer there will only be more questions that are to be resolved.

This meeting will open the door for the appearance upon the world stage of the one who has the answers and the ability to guarantee for a time, the peace, safety and security of the entire middle east.

Daniel 9:27

The biggest question to be answered will be what to do with Jerusalem, it is holy to Jews, to Muslims, to Christians, and more importantly to God himself.

Jerusalem is the city of David, the home of the past and future temples of Judaism, and the city from which the Lamb that was slain will rule in righteousness.

It must be divided in the opinion of those who hate the Jews, and yet it must not be divided by those who are Jews, and those who have been grafted into the vine that supports the Jews.

It is the one large glaring problem that the world faces. Zechariah 12:3

The world has decided that the nation of Israel must return its covenant lands to its enemies and be divided both geographically and socially. Matthew 24:32

God has insisted that He detests the idea and judgments will fall when it is done.

Joel 3:2

Today’s news declares that the Asiatic countries are determined to survive and to be conquerors of the coming apocalypse.

They are in covenant with each other and the bond is unbreakable.

A remarkable fact of what the Bible calls the “kings of the east” is that all of these nations The Peoples Republic of China, Pakistan, India, and North Korea all declared their independence in 1947, only one year before the key to fulfillment of prophecy (Israel) was established. Revelation 16:12,16,21

Several other items of a wave of prophecy were being fulfilled with these, following immediately after the kings of the east were established.

The World Trade Organization was created; out of which was spawned The International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

The World Council of Churches, along with the electronic transistor which was patented in 1948 and gave birth to the computer age, making total centralized control of all humanity possible.

The Revived Roman Empire was born from the 1948 Benelux Treaty, the United Nations Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of Civil and Political Rights.

All of these evident in Revelation ch 13, “the beast, the prophet and the mark.”

The worlds weather is in turmoil, continents are both burning and drowning at the same time, there is political unrest, and treason as never before. Not only here but in many nations.

The global economy is racing toward the need for one financial system, and it will not be a failing American dollar, which was strong for thirty five years based only on Saudi oil.

On every continent the lords of terror are having a field day, murdering, destroying, and overthrowing the freedoms that many have sacrificed for.

In our country the news breaks daily of embedded terror cells that await only on the right signal to begin their war on the ground in our own back yard.

Today’s news broke the story of a pending attack upon Fort Huachuca in Arizona, that was foiled only because of the diligence of heroes who recognize that a storm is coming.

There are at least sixty terror cells, made up of Afghanistan and Iraqi citizens in the state of Texas, who are here because the border is open and almost anyone can cross if the price is right. According to Fox News they have been heavily armed by Mexican Drug Cartels who control tunnels that cross a relatively unguarded border.

We live in truly perilous times 2 Timothy 3:1

Friends this has been a very short list of the wave of prophetic fulfillment that is occurring within our view and in our generation.

The time for His return is very near, in your generation, not that of another.

If you have never accepted Jesus as Lord or have lived as if you did not, then now is the time to ask Him to forgive you and wash you in His precious blood.

Pray for your loved ones, and for all of humanity, (John 4:35) that the Holy Spirit of God would use someone to tell them the truth, for if the Holy Spirit convicts them then they will accept the free gift of salvation.

If you do not understand the gift of salvation or if you want to know more, please contact us at D2lifeministries we will do our best to explain it to you and to show you how you can escape the trouble that is about to come upon the earth.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

One final thought;

Whenever prophetic waves begin crashing and are recognized as such, there comes a silence for those who hear the truly prophetic. It becomes a time of seeking and of searching for the meaning of the occurrences. There will be a time when the Church will no longer see the waves nor hear their crashing, as the Church will have been called away, to be with the Lord of the Harvest.

The voice has been silent for a while now as the waves crash.

The time has come to no longer watch for the signs, there need be no more to prove in our hearts that the writers of the scripture were correct in their hearing of the voice of the Spirit.

NOW COMES THE TIME TO LISTEN FOR THE SHOUT

“Come up hither” Revelation ch 4

PURER MORE ABUNDANT WATER

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewn them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13

I recently visited with a gentleman from my area that I know to be successful in all that he is involved with. Much of his success is found in the knowledge that he has garnered by being involved in the day to day work of his endeavors.

We talked some about water, the most common of all elements.

The most common of all, yet the most precious element in creation.

He explained to me that in our geographic local, there are two layers of water, the first in an aquifer that once was relatively easy to attain.

It is still attainable it just is not of the quantity or quality that it once was, as there are too many that have acquired it and then used it without regard to its value.

The water flows through the aquifer at varying depths and in varying media with sand being the most common. The sand becomes a contaminant that must be filtered out before the water is truly clean.

As pollutants leach through the soil and light rock they eventually get closer to the aquifer and if in ample quantity will taint the precious flow of water, making it something that while still desirable must be filtered to ever increasing degrees to become fit for humanity.

He told me also of a deeper reservoir of water, an ancient water, cleaner and purer with less sand and contaminants than the more easily accessible water, that is rarely tapped, and if tapped, precautions must be taken to avoid cross contamination with the shallower reservoir and the more prevalent contaminants found in the shallow water.

Oddly enough the separating barrier is a rock. A rock that separates the good from the better. A rock that must be penetrated by more work, more diligence, more desire, more hunger for a thirst quenching medium that is sweeter and cooler than any other.

The Christ is compared to a rock, In Exodus 33:21-22, He is the rock that holds us firmly as the glory of our God is revealed.

In the book of Luke 6:48, He is the rock that is the foundation of all that we build, toward His kingdom.

Romans 9:33 declares that; He is the rock of offense to those who will not believe, yet in His might those who believe will not be ashamed.

1 Corinthians 10:4 “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”

We need the ancient water that the saints of old knew of.

We need the ancient water that is covered by the Rock.

We need the water that can only be tasted and experienced when all else will no longer satisfy and we are willing to fall on our faces and dig through the Rock by repentance, and prayer by seeking the deeper fuller purer things that are only found in the Rock.

The Rock that is Christ , the rock that separates the good from the better.

We need to overturn the broken dry cisterns that have been polluted for so long by doctrines of man and of demons and can no longer hold the refreshing water of the Spirit.

There are two layers of water in the apostate church age that we now see, one is easy to reach yet never satisfies for long. It sets above the rock, with many impurities.

The other is more difficult to attain yet those who truly find it will never thirst again.

John 4:11 “The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?”

Vs. 12 and 13 Paraphrase; Dig deeper lady, if you settle for the water that is easily available, then you will need the same water continually. The man who dug this well did not know of the Rock.

Vs. 14 “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

The ancient water is available, it will require commitment to the Rock, it will take diligence and understanding.

Dig! Dig! Dig! just one taste of the ancient and we will never thirst again.

A TALE OF THREE CITIES

In the middle 1800s, Charles Dickens authored a novel entitled “A Tale of Two Cities.”

It is a story of corruption, of abuse, of the desires of men. It is a tale that ends in one of the main characters standing trial for the deeds done in his life.

Today we will examine a story of three different cities that have touched the hearts of God and man alike.

City one. “He beheld the city, and wept over it.” Luke 19:41

City two. “His spirit was stirred when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.” Acts 17:16

City three. “I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.”

Revelation 21:2

Here in these verses are three distinctly different cities.

The first is Jerusalem. The second is Athens, Greece. The third is a city “whose Builder and Maker is God.”

Why did Jesus weep over the Jerusalem of his day?

Jesus said in Luke 13:34-35 “I would…ye would not…ye shall not.”

Jesus wept over it because it was a city that knew the truth yet wanted none of it.

What stirred Paul to weep over the ancient city of Athens?

In Acts 17:22-23 we find the answer, it was a city that wanted the truth, it knew the truth was available, yet did not have the truth.

Modern Christendom is full of cities that have the truth but do not want it.

The non-Christian areas of the world are full of cities that want the truth but do not know it.

Jesus wept openly over the former and the Apostle was “stirred” painfully by the latter.

Have you and I shed tears over the cities of Christendom, that shun the truth for a fable, have we even shed tears for our own city that has the truth yet discards it as inconvenient.

Have we ever had a heart rending compassion for those cities which want the truth but do not know of it?

Have we ever envisioned the multitudes upon multitudes of peoples in the cities that have never and may never hear the truth because of our unmoved hearts.

Have you ever shared the gospel in your own city?

I can say with absolute certainty that there are many in your city and inmine who have never heard the truth.

The third city is perfect as it contains no pride, no lust, no lies, no selfish motives.

It is the city that we will enter into as part of reward for our service to the King.

Will we go in alone or will we be wise enough to take others with us?

No one will enter the third city unless they have accepted the truth, and they cannot accept unless some one tells them.

If not you , then pray tell who.

Oh, for more broken hearts and stirred spirits and the tears that flow from them!

When our tears begin to flow, we begin to do some remarkable things.

We begin in a new way to pray, to give, to go, to help, to sacrifice.

Some how we must interpenetrate the first two types of cities with the saving truth, the truth that is Christ Jesus.

Often it is far from inviting. Sometimes it can be frightening.

But it is always rewarding, in the present and in the Kingdom to come.

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End note:

I have been fortunate enough to know men and women who go to the cities in many nations, who will preach the gospel of salvation in Christ, to those who inhabit the cities that know and deny, and to those cities whose inhabitants have never been presented the truth.

If your heart leads you to help, I will gladly introduce you to one of them. Just contact me and with your help we can change a city, a nation, and perhaps a world.

REPENT TO BE FREE

I have never met a man who did not want to be totally free.

Have you?

There is something in man that always causes him to fall short of experiencing the totality of happiness and personal fulfillment that he believes should be his.

A friend of mine drove this point home to me as we sat together and I was able to hear him speak of what he perceived as a feeling of total dejection.

He had recently gone through the final stages of his third divorce and with a sense of helplessness he stated, “Somewhere it is written, that I will never be happy; as nothing ever works out for me.”

I attempted to assure him, that, his life could be happy, and full, and good, and that God was waiting to set him at liberty, and to give him a life worth living.

My friend was so down that even as I shared the possibility that there was hope for his future, his depression noticeably deepened.

And something spiritually strange was occurring.

Each time the name of God, was mentioned, he would become uncomfortable and change the subject, or would attempt to create a god that was powerless and blind.

Even so, it appeared that he truly was looking for help.

He expressed a desire to be free of the endless cycle of bondage he found himself in, yet he was not willing to turn to God to find this freedom.

How strange to have such a marvelous gift offered, to want it so badly, yet reject it so soundly.

Could it mean that my friend understood something about Gods message that is so often missed, regarding the need to repent.

He felt very uncomfortable about his sin and what God thought about him.

He could not grasp the fact that it was possible to have a brand-new start in life with God.

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Christ stated in John 10:10 “ I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

How does a man attain this new life? Only by making things right with God. The answer is found in Acts 3:19 “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.”

Any one who has repented and believed in Christ and what He did on the Cross of Calvary, can have everlasting life with God.

Acts 17:30 “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.”

There is a word in the preceding statement and that word is “ALL” that includes you and I.

The same command is repeated in 2 Peter 3:9 where God states that He is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

Please understand that “we are saved by grace and that through faith” in which Christ has done for us.

But there can be no saving faith without true repentance.

What then is repentance? It means to change ones mind or purpose.

In this case, it refers to a man and his sinful relationship before a holy God.

A man must be able to acknowledge Gods view of him as stated in Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”

There are three essential elements regarding repentance that we should be aware of.

1. A man must exhibit a genuine sorrow towards God because of the sins that have been committed by that man against the holiness of God.

A king named David repented before God and stated, “Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight.” Psalms 51:1-4

Have you grieved over your sin knowing that God knows and awaits your admission of guilt, before the miracle of forgiveness occurs?

2. There must be an inward repugnance to sin, followed by the actual willingness to forsake it.

The Apostle Paul in Acts 26:20, stressed the need for us to see our sin as it really is, and also our need to express our willingness to leave our sin, when he wrote, “That they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.”

Plainly stated, the willingness to repent must allow God to bring about a change through the conversion experience.

3. There must be a humble self-surrender to Gods will and service.

We must be able to turn from our way and begin to walk in Gods way.

We must tell God that we want to turn to Him and then go the way that He leads.

We must say to Him “Here is the life that You gave me, take what is left of it and do with it whatever You will.

Acts 9:6 “Lord what wilt thou have me to do?”

Please understand that repentance is not a condition of salvation.

Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ, but repentance is a condition through which we are able to receive salvation as a free gift.

In other words, there can be no salvation if one is not willing to repent so that God can save him.

What then must be done to have peace with God?

The Holy Spirit must bring you to a place of conviction where you see yourself as God sees you. “Behold the Lords hand is not shortened that it cannot save; neither is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear; But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.” Isaiah 59:1-2

You are separated from God because you are a sinful being.

As you are now, you can never be accepted by God. But there is hope, for God has said that He is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9

Then the Holy Spirit will speak to you and cause you to understand the enormity of the price that God paid through the death of His Son on the cross.

For it was through the cross that Christ took our rightly deserved punishment, that we might be forgiven.

1 Peter 3:18 “For Christ also hath suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.”

Friend:

If you would like to know the freedom to live, to love freely, and to laugh, you must be willing to repent and let God give you a new life.

I had to do this, the young man that I call Pastor had to do this, the very ones that walked with the Christ, two thousand years ago, and all who will inherit eternal life, have all done a similar thing.

Turn to God, and seek His forgiveness, invite Christ into your life, and let Him have His way in you.

OUR OPPORTUNITY SOON WILL END

What are you waiting for?

If you know that God will raise up voices to declare the way, then why not you?

Scripture is full of seemingly unnoticed people who were just going about life waiting on someone else to do what needed to be done.

The church universal is in such a state today.

Praying for God to raise up someone, to be the voice in a wilderness, just so it isn’t them personally.

In the book of Judges ch. 6 the angel came to a man named Gideon, who was going about his business in hiding, waiting for someone else to do what he should do.

The angel declared him to be a mighty man of valour.

HIS LIFE CHANGED.

In 2 Kings ch 9, another seemingly unknown person was just going about his life doing his job, serving in the army of the earthy king.

The prophet declared him as king, his friends jested, and mocked him, yet Jehu believed he could make a difference, and got busy doing just that.

HE TOOK ACTION .

In the book of Isaiah ch 6 the future prophet was thinking only of himself when the Lord appeared to him, and so impressed Isaiah that he was compelled to plead with God with the words “Here am I , Lord send me.”

I ask each of you to say the same “Lord, here am I, use me.”

HE MADE A DIFFERENCE.

Each of you are mighty in His sight, you can be empowered with the Holy Spirit, and fully equipped to make a difference in the only generation that counts,… yours.

PROPHETIC UTTERANCE

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Brothers and sisters, I have been hearing the most devastating news
about what is coming to this country and the judgment coming upon this
land.
The Father has been warning us and I am hearing prophetic
messages from other sources. But I want to say this, and I need you to
listen VERY carefully and hide it in your heart.

The Father has given us promises in Psalm 91 and they apply to us, no
matter the situation, His word is TRUTH.
Terrorist incite terror, we can hear about all these terrible things
that are coming in graphic detail and all it will do is cause great fear
and anxiety. 2 Tim. 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind. God does not give us a fear of man, satan does
that. Fear is our enemy except for the fear of the Lord. Faith is what
we are called to. Faith is where we need to be, fully TRUSTING in Him.

If we are thinking about all the devastation, the evil, we are not
dwelling in the secret place. You cannot do both at the same time. The
Father has said His promises are yea and amen. Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.

I suggest that you memorize Psalm 91, have it be a part of you, do
exactly has it tells you to do, because when judgment begins and terror
strikes your heart you will panic, because you have not been hiding
yourself in the Lord, and having Him on your mind continually. If your
mind is not on the Lord, you will not be listening for His directions.
Fear is paralyzing but you have absolute calm and peace right in the
midst of the storm, when your eyes and heart are fixed on Him. Do not
have your mind on other things, this is a distraction and you will find
it impossible to keep them on the Lord.

Do not forget this word, put it into practice NOW, because if you forget
it will be too late to do you much good.

The Father has been telling us this for a long time, that we must be
abiding in Him constantly, actually 24/7, and now we know why He has
been exhorting us to do this.

I want to share with you Psalm 91 as the Father speaks to you
personally, that you hide it in your heart, it will be your salvation in
the coming days. The word says: Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
judgment:

We are all appointed to die, and then we will be judged, so whether it
is our time to die or not. we can be perfectly calm and at peace. If we
be martyrs for Christ let us do it with joy and peace, if it is not our
time, the Lord through us will do mighty exploits.

If you are dwelling in the secret place of My Presence, you shall live
under the shadow of My protection.

I am your refuge and your fortress, in Me shall you trust. I will
deliver you from the snares and traps of the enemy, and from the
pestilence that is all around.

I shall cover you just as I covered Daniel, Meschach, Shadrach, and
Abendego. You shall trust in me as you remain in Me and My Presence. My
Word shall be your shield and shall cover and protect you round about.
Do not be afraid of the terror by night nor the bullets that fly by day,
nor the pestilence that spreads in the darkness, nor the destruction
that is happening all around you.

A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand,
but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you see the
reward of the wicked. BECAUSE you have made ME, the Lord, the most high,
your habitation, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor any
plague come to your house.

For I shall give my angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways.
They shall bear you up, and keep your from any harm, lest some evil
befalls you.

You shall be given spiritual power over the devil and his angels.

I will do all this because you have placed your love on Me, I am first
inyour life, therefore I will deliver you, I will set you on high,
because you KNOW ME, and know the power of MY NAME.

You shall call on Me, and I will answer you, I will be with you in
trouble, I will deliver you and honor you. With long life I will satisfy
you, and I will give you salvation.

KNOWING HIS PRESENCE

KNOWING AND WALKING WITH HIM DAILY

“If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you, for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” John 14:15-17

There have been times in my life when more that anything else, I wanted to know that I abided in the Lord.

I needed to know that He was with me.

I had heard and read the testimony of mighty men and women who related how near God was to them. How He went with them to work, how He directed every decision no matter how small the matter.

He was a Friend, near and never far away unreachable and detached.

I desired that relationship also.

I began a ritual of setting aside a certain time for prayer for study for seeking Him for honest evaluation of my life and the forgiveness of things that I knew would not be Holy in His sight.

I would end by beseeching God to live in me and through me.

I needed to know for certain that He was taking complete control of my life.

Time after time I kept my appointment with the Lord.

During the day, I would find times to escape and seek His face, with a prayer in my heart and the little pocked Testament that I am rarely without, in my hand.

Always seeking His abiding presence.

Occasionally, I would be seen kneeling, praying, weeping, and seeking, and the question would always come, either sooner or later, the person or persons, who observed such strange behavior in such odd places would ask, “What were you doing when we saw you?” I knew that I could not lie about seeking the fullness of God within me.

My answer was always the same. “I am seeking the infilling of the Holy Spirit.”

They never asked the same question twice. How could they? It is quite likely that none of them had any idea at the time what I had meant.

After quite some time, frustration began to set in.

I questioned why it was that I had to work so hard to know God in His fullness, when the saints of old and those whom I had been privileged to meet over my life and the witness of their testimonies told a different story with better results.

I began to remember those testimonies. They were absolutely beautiful.

They related how God was, especially close---just right there in front of them, beside them, behind them, inside of them.

Why did I struggle so hard to realize the same closeness?

Then and there the God of the universe spoke to me within my heart, I have heard his voice before and realize there is a difference in how He says, what He intends.

The voice spoke “I was there the first time you sought me. Do you not remember? I was there watching as you knelt in the pool of blood at the foot of the cross. You knew my forgiveness and the peace that follows in very real and personal (to you) way. I have always arrived early at the place that I knew you would seek me. I have been faithful to hear your every perceived need. I have longed to live through you in more powerful ways. The urgency that you feel in your innermost being, is what I have placed in you that makes you unique among all of my people.”

It was just as He had said, there has been a splendor of His presence since the first time that I truly desired only Him.

It then occurred to me that I was seeking the experience of others, rather than allowing God to work in me and through me in a way that He deemed, something just between Himself and me.

He had never held me aloof, He had not kept His presence at a distance. He was most faithful and punctual.

From that day until today, I continually thank God for His abiding presence--heart to heart.

When others ask me, “How do I know the presence of the Lord?”

I simply tell them to earnestly ask.

Time after time they relate to me the same results. He was there all along.

He longed to deal with them individually.

God keeps His word.

He promises to abide, if we only ask.