Wednesday, February 14, 2007
GOD'S SPEAKING TO HIS PEOPLE
Pastor Daniel sharing...
- God speaks to every people.
- If a christian doesn't know when God is speaking, he is in trouble.
John 8:47
- He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.
John 10:2-4
- The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
John 10:14
- I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.
- We can recongnize His voice for we are His people.
He spoke through:
- Angels (Genesis 16)
- Vision (Genesis 15)
- Dreams (Genesis 28:10-19)
- A gentle whisper (1Kings 19:12)
- A miraculous signs (Exodus 8:20-25)
- And others
- We need to be more interested in what He is saying than how He does it.
3 important Factor each time God speaks:
1. When God speaks it's unique for that individual.
2. When God speaks, the person was sure that God was speaking.
3. When God spoke, the person will know what God is saying.
God speaks through:
1. Bible
2. Prayer
3. Circumstances
4. Church
The key to knowing God's voice:
1. Not a formula
2. Not a miraculous sign
- When we ask for miraculous sign, it shows a sign of unbelief.
- "Putting out a fleece" like Gideon is often a sign of your unbelief or unwilling-ness on your part to trust God for an answer.
3. Not open Doors/closed Doors
- God uses circumstances that sometimes speaks to us.
- Circumstances done cannot be the determinating factor.
The key to knowing a God's voice is a LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
- God is always doing something and He wants us to do it alongside with Him.
- Bible and prayer comes together.
1) God speaks to us through the Bible.
- "Man does not live by bread alone...but every word from the mouth of God."
2 Timothy 3:16-17
- All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot understand the Bible.
- If the Holy Spirit doesn't teach or speak to us, the Bible will be just another storybook.
1 Corinthians 2:11-13
- For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
1 Corinthians 2:14
- The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:15
- The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment.
- Unaided by the Spirit of God, it will be foolishness to us. Aided by the Spirit, we can understand all things.
- A person cannot understand spiritual truths unless the Holy Spirit guides us.
5 things that you should do to experience Him:
1. You read the word of God. The Bible.
2. The spirit of truth takes the word of God and reveals truth.
3. You adjust your life to the truth of God.
- Moses paid a high price for arguing with God.
- If God speaks to us and we choose not to adjust to the truth, He's not gonna to speak to us.
Amos 8:11-12
- "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
1 Samuel 3:19
- The LORD was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words fall to the ground.
- Don't let a single word drop to the ground.
4. You obey Him.
Luke 8:5-15
- "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that," 'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.' "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.
- Experiencing Him is a thing. Obey Him is another thing!
5. God works in and through us to accomplish His purposes.
2) God speaks through us through Prayer.
- Prayer is a relationship.
- Prayer is a two-way fellowship and communication with God.
- Whatever God says in prayer is far more important than what we say.
- Prayer is designed to adjust you to God than to adjust God to you.
2 things about prayers:
1. Spiritual Concentration.
- When we pray, look out for God to reply immediately.
John 11:1-5
- Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick." When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
- God wants us to know Him more deeper.
- Jesus is not just healer, He is life.
~Yvonne~
Scribbled by: Child of God @3:01 am
