To Reveal

Dear Worshippers,

Last week I challenged you to be listening because God is speaking. I hope that the Lord has spoken some things into your life over the last week that have greatly encouraged you. I trust that if you were listening He probably also spoke some things that in their application will require some changes in you life. In any event, what God spoke had purpose for God is not careless with His words, and does not waste them. In other words, when God speaks there is a reason, and the first part of that reason is to reveal Himself.

When God speaks, He is always showing us something about Himself, His purpose and His ways. When we hear these things, something happens inside of us. We are given the opportunity to respond. When God speaks He expects that something will happen.

This is in part because when God speaks He is revealing what He is about to do. Amos 3:7 says, “Indeed, the Lord does nothing without revealing His counsel to His servants the prophets.” Did you see that? NOTHING. Before God does anything He tells someone about it. This is in part to draw that person closer to Himself, but also often because He wants to use them to do it.

Are you beginning to see where this is going? As God speaks to you, He is revealing what He is about to do. His revealing it to you is an invitation to join Him in it. When you obey and do, you come to know God better. God does speak just to hear His voice, He speaks to accomplish something, and we know His word never returns void. Isaiah 55:11 “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”

In Isaiah 43:19 we find this word form the Lord.

“See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland.”

Here is my question for the week. What “new” thing is God speaking into your life? Your family? Our church? Will you listen and obey? Quiet yourself before Him in the next day and ask Him to speak that new thing to you. But be careful. Listening to God can be a very danger thing because His words will not return void. They will accomplish what He pleases, that which He has purposed. Make yourself available, then come and ask God to speak to you, to reveal Himself to you, and purpose to listen and obey. You will be changed.

In Christ,

Pastor Scott