A continuation of thought from the last post…
I once had a respected leader tell me that God is always speaking, but are we always listening? I have tucked that away over the years and ponder it often. I spoke last time about the living power of the Word of God but today I want to personalize it a bit.
What Word, what Truth is the Lord speaking personally to you currently? What revelation is He working in you? Jeremiah 1:12 teaches us that the Lord is watching over His word to perform it. And as we read last time in Isaiah 55:11, the Word of the Lord will accomplish what He has purposed it to. This includes the word He speaks personally to you.
What has God told you about you? What has He called you to do? To be? To say? To go? What instruction has He given you? Are you aligning your own words and actions with the Word of the Lord? Are you being careful to speak life and truth about the word the Lord has spoken to you? Have you not been so careful? Have you spoken doubt or negativity about God’s word in you? God’s word through you? God’s word for you?
Let us take heed to these powerful reminders in the Book:
Revelation 12:10-11 “And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of the brethren has been cast down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.”
Let’s not join in the enemy with accusations. Let’s be conquerors and over-comers by the word of our testimony, by the blood of the Lamb!
James 1:22 reminds us to “be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves.” Whatever the Lord has spoken to us personally, we are obligated to act on it. Self-deception is powerful. Let’s not fall prey to it.
Always remember “the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things” (James 3:5). Let’s always keep our tongue under submission to the Holy Spirit and speak Truth.
Last reminder: “for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45b & Matthew 12:34b).
Let us be sure that what we are speaking about ourselves aligns with what God is speaking about us.