Is 1:2 "Listen, O heavens, and hear O earth; For the Lord speaks
We are told to listen to the Lord, because He does speak to us. I fact it is the that commandment is the foremost command!
Mark 12:28,29 ... What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, HEAR, O ISRAEL!... (I quoted from a red-letter Bible, but thought it made the point well)
So if we are keeping the foremost commandment, we are doing to be desiring to listen to the Lord. And What does He tell us???
The specific thing He tells me the most is "I love you". But He tells me lots more than that. He gives me instructions, and teachings, and the type of things that only God can tell me. Some of the more common things are words of wisdom and knowledge. So if I am ministering, what do you think He tells me then. It's similar.
He has me in a healing ministry, but I don't just pray for people to be healed, I work for the Lord and follow His instructions. That is what I try to do. And He often tells me someone has a problem that they haven't told us about.
So perhaps I will (and I have) hear Him tell me the person has a problem with their knee. So I usually say something like "You have a problem with your knee.?" It is a statement, but I kind of put it out like a question. People get sensitive, and the Lord can be strange, so I have found it is sometimes good to be a bit cautious. The person usually starts to get amazed. Yeah, they have heard about the healing ministry but now they really start to think this is incredible that I know about their problem when they had never brought it up.
It really is not that incredible at all!! The incredible part is that they came to a healing ministry and didn't bring it up. God had to. That's incredible. Still, God of course knows, and Still God Speaks. And we don't normally get random people off the streets, we normally get Christians. Normally they attend our specific church. We have about 10,000 people that attend the church. But we get a lot from other churches, because most don't have a healing ministry.
The point I am trying to make is that we Christians do not desire the gifts of the Spirit like we should, Which is another way of saying that we are not desiring to seek the Lord our God like we should! We do not consider, rightly, that He speaks and we need to listen. Other wise we would have words of knowledge and wisdom. If we did we would see a lot more people helped, and God glorified more.
Is there any reason God could not tell you at work that someone has a need they should have prayer for. Of course that might cause problems with the principalities there. Persecution is guaranteed. But what is the wise thing to do?
The Lord once told me, "Karl, we hear wisdom but is it hearing or acting upon it that makes a man wise?"
So be wise. Listen to the Lord our God who speaks and act upon what He tells you. Desire that!
We are told to listen to the Lord, because He does speak to us. I fact it is the that commandment is the foremost command!
Mark 12:28,29 ... What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, HEAR, O ISRAEL!... (I quoted from a red-letter Bible, but thought it made the point well)
So if we are keeping the foremost commandment, we are doing to be desiring to listen to the Lord. And What does He tell us???
The specific thing He tells me the most is "I love you". But He tells me lots more than that. He gives me instructions, and teachings, and the type of things that only God can tell me. Some of the more common things are words of wisdom and knowledge. So if I am ministering, what do you think He tells me then. It's similar.
He has me in a healing ministry, but I don't just pray for people to be healed, I work for the Lord and follow His instructions. That is what I try to do. And He often tells me someone has a problem that they haven't told us about.
So perhaps I will (and I have) hear Him tell me the person has a problem with their knee. So I usually say something like "You have a problem with your knee.?" It is a statement, but I kind of put it out like a question. People get sensitive, and the Lord can be strange, so I have found it is sometimes good to be a bit cautious. The person usually starts to get amazed. Yeah, they have heard about the healing ministry but now they really start to think this is incredible that I know about their problem when they had never brought it up.
It really is not that incredible at all!! The incredible part is that they came to a healing ministry and didn't bring it up. God had to. That's incredible. Still, God of course knows, and Still God Speaks. And we don't normally get random people off the streets, we normally get Christians. Normally they attend our specific church. We have about 10,000 people that attend the church. But we get a lot from other churches, because most don't have a healing ministry.
The point I am trying to make is that we Christians do not desire the gifts of the Spirit like we should, Which is another way of saying that we are not desiring to seek the Lord our God like we should! We do not consider, rightly, that He speaks and we need to listen. Other wise we would have words of knowledge and wisdom. If we did we would see a lot more people helped, and God glorified more.
Is there any reason God could not tell you at work that someone has a need they should have prayer for. Of course that might cause problems with the principalities there. Persecution is guaranteed. But what is the wise thing to do?
The Lord once told me, "Karl, we hear wisdom but is it hearing or acting upon it that makes a man wise?"
So be wise. Listen to the Lord our God who speaks and act upon what He tells you. Desire that!