{"id":999,"date":"2026-11-07T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.findgod.help\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-11-07T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T22:49:28","slug":"mining-on-a-hill-stirring-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.findgod.help\/ja\/mining-on-a-hill-stirring-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining on a Hill: Stirring the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

03 August 2025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u5922<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dreamed of mining on a hill. Experts had to come and assess the site and give certification for the mining work, even though we were not actually there for mining. There was also a property I owned that required paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened a few days later<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On my first day at a new job, I sat down with new colleagues. They started talking about our boss. He has a swimming pool on a hill that he hardly uses. One colleague said he was digging a hole on his hill to build a carpark. Another mentioned that gardens on hills need a barrier to prevent landslides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question that came before the dream<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days before this dream I had been praying and asking what it really means when the Bible says the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus. I wanted to understand what that stirring actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I now understand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lord stirred the spirit of Cyrus so that he made a proclamation and put it in writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing.\u201d
(Ezra 1:1 ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He also stirred the spirits of the people who returned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThen rose up the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.\u201d
(Ezra 1:5 ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The same God who named Cyrus long before he was born and moved his spirit to release the captives and rebuild the temple (Isaiah 44:28; 45:1, 13) is the one who moves ordinary situations. The king\u2019s heart is in the Lord\u2019s hand (Proverbs 21:1). Stirring the spirit is not a vague feeling. It is God turning a person\u2019s inner direction so that something specific gets done \u2014 a proclamation written down, a people set in motion, a work that had been promised finally beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God can inject ideas into people as He pleases. He can also harden hearts. He hardened Pharaoh\u2019s heart so that the signs and wonders would be displayed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBut I will harden Pharaoh\u2019s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you.\u201d
(Exodus 7:3\u20134 ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSo then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.\u201d
(Romans 9:18 ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He also hardened the hearts of many among the Jews so that they did not perceive or turn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhat then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written, \u2018God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.\u2019\u201d
(Romans 11:7\u20138 ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBut their minds were hardened.\u201d
(2 Corinthians 3:14 ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The same sovereignty that hardens is the sovereignty that stirs. In the dream there was mining on a hill, work that required experts and certification, and a property that needed paperwork, even though mining was not the real purpose. A few days later the conversation at work was about a hill, a swimming pool, a colleague digging a hole for a carpark, and the need for a barrier on a hillside garden to prevent landslides. The details lined up closely enough that the earlier question about stirring became clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dream and its fulfillment show that God can change people\u2019s minds or direct their thoughts and words. The colleagues were simply talking about their boss and about digging on his hill on my first day. Yet what they said matched the picture that had already come. God can move ordinary conversation so that the right details surface at the right time. That is consistent with the biblical picture of the Lord turning hearts and stirring spirits so that what He intends becomes visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has made me question the concept of free will. Perhaps it is better described as directed free will. People still choose and speak, yet God can turn those choices and words so that His purpose is carried out. The colleagues chose what to talk about. God directed the timing and the details so that the conversation answered the question I had asked days earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dream and the conversation sat close together. The hill, the digging, and the property work appeared in both. I take the dream as a picture that arrived ahead of the ordinary details that confirmed it, and as part of the answer to what it means when the Lord stirs a spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, this dream was fulfilled. At least, I think it was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a demonstration of the power of the true, living God. And the true way<\/a>, only through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more studies, https:\/\/findgod.help\/<\/a> https:\/\/findgod.help\/en\/Seeking%20God.html<\/a> https:\/\/findgod.help\/en\/FaithObedienceGrace.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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