Hearing God’s
voice necessitate us to have a personal intimate relationship and experience
with God. Obedience to God’s word is our highest level of pleasing Him.
Has God really
spoken to you about that thing you are pursuing? If it has not been spoken it
cannot be believed. However, note that other times trusting God is generally on
His immutable character.
Significance
In Genesis 1, God spoke words of Faith; words
which had power to create. He spoke and it came to being. Romans 10:17, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the (spoken)
word of God.” On the other hand, faith is released primarily by the words of
our mouth. Mark 11:23-24 “Truly
I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the
sea,’ and does not doubt ...but believes.., it will be done....” Romans 10:8-10 “The word is near you,
in your mouth and in your hearts i.e. the word of faith...”
Taking God at His word
Genesis 12:1, “Now
Yahweh said to Abram, leave your country...to the land I will show you.” Vs 4 says, “...so Abram went as the
Lord had told him.” Truly, God blessed him Romans
4:18.
Genesis 26: 2 The
Lord
appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I
tell you to live. 3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you
and will bless you....” Isaac acted on God’s word; he stayed in the land
and though there was famine, he planted crops and the same year reaped a
hundredfold.
In
Genesis 6, Noah acted on God’s word;
built an ark just as the Lord had directed him and so he was saved from the
flood.
Caleb took God
at His word. Joshua 14:12 “Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day (40yrs ago). You yourself heard then that the
Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
Joshua 6:3
“The Lord said to Joshua, ‘...march around the city (Jericho)....’” Joshua
together with the people did as the Lord commanded and in vs. 20 we see that the walls of Jericho tumbled down.
Mathew 2: 13-23, God spoke to Joseph in a dream saying, “Get up, take
the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you...”
14 So he got up, took the child and his mother...left
for Egypt, 15 where
he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said
through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
As Joseph acted on God’s word, scripture was fulfilled and also
Jesus’ life was safe.
Dear child of God it’s of paramount important that
you HEAR and OBEY God’s word. Before you endeavour to do anything, seek to hear
the voice of God. Cultivate an intimate relationship with Him and let your
heart and ears be inclined to hear Him give you direction.
With Luv,
Kachel
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