DIVERSE WAYS BY WHICH GOD SPEAKS
HEBREWS 1:1-2
The safest and the best way to know God is through His Word. God loves man so much and He wants to fellowship with us and reveal Himself to us. He does this through different means.
God reveals Himself to different generations in different ways, even though it is the same God.
To Abraham, God revealed Himself as GOD ALMIGHTY(ELSHADDAI), Genesis 17:1. In the time of Moses, He revealed Himself as JEHOVAH(THE LORD), Exodus 6:3
Down the line, in the Old testament God spoke to the fathers through the Prophets but in the new testament He speaks to us through His Son, Jesus, Hebrews 1:2. Hebrews 1:1 revealed to us the fact that God speaks in divers manners.
Having establishes the fact that God's valid way of speaking to us in these last days is through Jesus(our born again spirit), it is important to know that there are conditions that determines how God speaks to us at different times.
There are three conditions that I will be sharing with us now.
1). What God wants to do
2). The level of unbelief
3). The degree of opposition
Many love the spectacular demonstrations of God, they desire it and look for it but it is not God's normal way of communicating with us.
Signs and wonders are not for believers they are for unbelievers so that they can believe. Except unbelievers see signs and wonders they won't believe.
Elijah spoke to the people to chose between God and Baal but the people answered him not a word, until they saw the demonstration of God 's power, 1Kings 18:21,30,39&40.
Demonstration of God's power brought about their change of heart.
However, for a believer, he lives by His faith. Believing the word of God and responding to it positively even when he has not yet seen its manifestation.
1). What God is doing in a particular season in a particular place determines how He manifests Himself.
What God did in the days of Abraham was different in the days of Moses. Same God but revealed Himself differently.
If there is a high degree of idolatry and departure from the true God He brings in the spectacular.
The preaching of Elijah was not enough to convince the people of his day, Proverbs 30:11-14, Matthew 11:16-17.
There must be a demonstration of power for them to believe that there is only one true God and His name is not baal.
To convince people of other religion that Jesus is Lord, they must see demonstration of raw power, words are not enough, 1Corinthians 2:4.
What God wants to do through your life also determines how He reveals Himself to you.
Mary the mother of Jesus needed an encounter, Luke 1:28-35. This doesn't mean this is how God operates every time or His best way but because of how unusual what He was about to do is , He moved this way.
If it was a still small voice that spoke o Mary of the Virgin birth, she would have casted it and taken authority over the devil. Infact she would dismiss that thought totally.
There are times when there is an abberation from a particular truth and people are in error, or God is opening the eyes of His people to a truth they don't know,
God begins to restore that truth back into the body and in order to reinforce what He is saying, He may have to communicate it to who He wants to send to them in spectacular ways like through visions, dreams, encounters and the rest.
This doesn't mean this is the only way God speaks or His best way. Apostle Paul was the one that revealed to us the mystery of the church.
In order to communicate this effectively and because of the degree of opposition and unbelief he was going to encounter, He needed more than words but words supported with visions, trances and encounters to solidify his convinctions, 2Corinthians 12:2.
Without his convinctions being strong he wouldn't have been able to convince others.
The same thing happened on the mount of transfiguration to three of Jesus's disciples, Matthew 17:1-9, 2Peter 1:16-18.
(To be continued)
Anything short of you being born again and living a life of holiness and purity hurt Jesus so much. But you can make things right here and now by saying this simple prayer and mean it genuinely from your heart:
Lord Jesus I come to you today. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. I repent of all my sins and I forsake them. Jesus, I invite you into my life, be my Lord, be my Saviour.
Wash me by your precious blood, forgive my sins and write my name in the book of life. From this day, I promise to follow you all the rest of my life. Help me Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations you are now born again!
PEACE
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