10/07/2022
GOD STILL SPEAKS - ALWAYS! YOU ONLY NEED TO LISTEN..!!!
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This is meant for teaching/encouragement only! No intention, whatsoever, to display my prayer life, or anything of the sort!
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For some time, I have asked myself, plus others; ‘Does God really speak nowadays?’ Perhaps you must have asked the same question too, or at least heard such from a friend.
In the Bible we see God speaking to people - people who believed in Him. But why the silence these days? That seeming silence has led many people to desperately depend on ‘men of God’ for the voice of God. Noticing the desperation, self made men of God, in excess of them, have flooded everywhere. The people’s despair has escalated so much so that they cannot distinguish between false and true men of God. But the truth is that God does speak. All the time, always! He does speak to anyone who believes in Him. The only thing everyone who believes in Him needs to do is to open up their spiritual senses! That’s it!
So I went for a 5days prayer camp. That means I left home last Monday morning came back that Saturday. The prayer centre was located 5km from home. Apart from the church’s corporate prayer agendas, each one was encouraged to first bring their individual and personal prayer items and requests to God. I loved the fact that the church’s leadership recognized the importance of the people bringing their personal burdens to God before they could bring the entire church’s. I was not left out. I had my own issues to lay before God’s throne of mercy.
Several mysterious and wonderful things happened on each of the five days I spent at the centre, but to cut the long story short, on the fourth day of prayers, whatever led me to ask God to show me the true picture of my family, that is my wife, my kids, and I, is a story for another day. You might be aware of this already, but many people, families, and entities are not what they physically look like. This is again another topic for another day.
Well, concerning my prayer to God to show me what exactly my family looked like, nothing happened until I was back home. My family was expecting me that Saturday morning. Having no much money to spend on this extra activity, they opted for the readily available printing papers that were in the house, picked some fresh flowers from the thicket nearby the house, to make me a surprise welcome back home. These were carefully and neatly arranged on our sleeping mattress which laid carefully spread on the floor. I loved it! These were accompanied with a ready breakfast that my wife had intentionally prepared. I felt triple times hungry when my eyes landed on the breakfast, perfectly arranged on the floor besides our sleeping mattress.
After taking a shower, I sat down to have a look at what was on the carefully trimmed and ink decorated pieces of paper. It was all dominated by the four letter word - LOVE! Well it might look and sound so simple and obvious, and indeed it was, but this one struck me hard. As I was going through each one’s message to me, that’s when three lines struck my head. That small still voice that I, you, and everyone else normally ignores. Yes that very one that you and I always brushed off saying it is just my brain roaming about and playing tricks on me. “This is the true picture of your family. This is how your family looks like. Full of Love.” It calmly whispered into my inner ears.
It was as easy as felling a drunkard to simply push away that thought because this was not the first time our kids decorated our small room with bush flowers and written notes to us whenever my wife and I, or any of us, were out. However, this was the first time that my wife also secured her portion in it all and had her own note for me. I never got a single prompt in my head, let alone my heart, during any of those previous surprises, and instead, I just liked it and said to myself that it was every kid’s practice appreciating their mom and dad. The truth is my spiritual senses, the sense to see, the sense to hear, and the sense to feel were all dead on! None of them worked a single bit!
We normally get so busy that we don’t allow our ears, eyes, bodies, minds, and hearts to hear, see, feel, sense, or even perceive from God. One of my old saying goes like; God is too small you cannot miss Him. He is yet so big that you can miss Him. Yes you read that right!
Whenever we expect God to come with lightening and thunder in response to our queries and prayers, He does exactly the opposite. It is important that we fixed our senses, spiritual senses, and keep them absolutely functional and we will always, all the time, hear God shouting. Answers from God will start to be almost immediate, and we will notice that He answers everything we ask Him - everything!
Many teachings have been developed about response from God. The most common one of them is that God always answers with Yes, No, or Wait. They then tend to encourage you that the reason you have not received what you prayed for, is because God has said wait. Thereafter comes tons of motivational speech. This is very contrary to Isaiah 59:1 (You May read on for a more contextual insight).
You will be surprised to learn that such teachings as these are simply the ideologies of men. 100% of people in the Bible who called God for a response, God honored them and gave them answers according to their prayer. To make it even more precise, Moses had a number of one on one conversations with God. You could say Moses was was quite high in the hierarchy of leadership. Well, how about Joseph the husband to Mary the mother of Jesus? And if you have further contrary debate about Joseph, then I refer you to a pr******te called Rahab. Was it Satan who gave her the forehand information of God having given His children the city of Jericho? God Himself promises to answer prayers in Jeremiah 33:3. James sheds more light on prayer and answers in his letter in James 1:3.
What am I saying? God speaks! Yes He does! More often than not! He answers prayers too! All of them! In most cases He does them almost immediately. All we need to do is open up our spiritual senses. All the Five of them. And who can help us do that? The Holy Spirit! Invite Him to be your friend!
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