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Saturday,
December 19, 2009
God Speaks
God speaks a language that reaches and
touches the heart. His language is sharper than any two-edged sword; and it
is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. It ministers
grace unto the hearers. It is Spirit and it is life.
If you remember in Acts chapter 2 it
gives the account of when the Holy Spirit was given. How those who were
ready to receive it began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave
them utterance. Not only that, but when this was spoken of abroad, the
multitude came together, and were confounded, because every man heard them
speak in his own language (Acts 2:4-6).
Now think about that…They heard in their
own language. Who was the interpreter? Who was speaking, man or God? Those
who had accepted the gift of the Holy Spirit were speaking the language of
the Spirit, God’s language. Many who came were amazed at this event, yet some
doubted and others mocked them saying they were full of new wine (sound
familiar?); but in the end, can they really deny what they heard, the
wonderful works of God? The way I see it, they were now without excuse.
Are you familiar with God’s language? You
should be if you are one of His. Daily you should be exercising your
Spiritual senses, so that you become more familiar with His language and
able hear what He would have you to say and then to speak on His behalf as
the Spirit gives utterance; so that whomever He has you minister to, they will
hear in their own language, and understand because they are hearing in the
heart, not the ears. God bypasses the mind and goes straight to the heart,
not giving the mind a moment of influence on what He desires to speak. It
cuts right to the chase and doesn’t pussyfoot around does it?
If you recall, it says that God’s Word
prospers where He sends it; that it will not return void. Even if in our
own minds (leaning to our own understanding) we think that it should
prosper as soon as we speak it; but, to every thing there is a season, and
a time to every purpose under the heaven. So let patience have its perfect
work.
Last, the language of the Spirit is universal
and of no private interpretation.
John 12:49-50 For I have not spoken of
myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I
should say, and what I should speak. (50) And I know that his commandment
is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said
unto me, so I speak. (KJV)
As you see in the above verses that Jesus
Christ confessed that it was not His own private interpretation but what
was spoken was of the Father who had sent Him. How many can say that of
themselves?
2 Peter 1:20-21 Knowing this first, that
no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. (21) For the
prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God
spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (KJV)
God does speak a language that reaches
and touches the heart.
John 6:63-64 It is the spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto
you, they are spirit, and they are life. (KJV)
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