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- | + | God is speaking through the spirit. We want to discuss the relationship of the words of | |
+ | God throught the spirit with the words of God through the prophets, the son and | ||
+ | the evangelists and apostles. Is there any difference? Are these different ways? | ||
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+ | I think that God will usually not talk to you by letting you hear a clear voice - except | ||
+ | for the voice of your pastor or preacher on Sunday morning, or the voice of a friend who | ||
+ | is giving you encouragement or advice. | ||
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+ | I think, though, that God IS talking throught the spirit all the time. He is talking through | ||
+ | the spirit when we read the bible. He is talking when we listen to songs or sing songs of | ||
+ | worship. He is talking when we talk to other Christians. He is talking and talking. | ||
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+ | God can point our attention to particular bible verses. He can clarify things. There is | ||
+ | this phenomenon that suddenly things are very clear. You understand passages from the bible | ||
+ | you have never understood before. I think it is God speaking to you, it is the holy spirit | ||
+ | opening the word of God for you, to listen and to guide your path. This can happen in silence. | ||
+ | It can happen throught images which come to your mind. It can happen through you own | ||
+ | thoughts, which get into resonance with God's spirit. | ||
+ | Look at the prayer book of the bible, the psalms. They sing. They listen. They bring all | ||
+ | their trouble to God. And then, they turn. They can hear. They make decisions to walk the | ||
+ | path of trust and faith. God has spoken to David, and to the other authors of the psalms. | ||
+ | And the same way he is talking to us today, when we bring our trouble to him, when we turn | ||
+ | to him to learn from him, to hear him speaking to us. He speaks words of truth, words of | ||
+ | love, words to correct us, words to encourage us and our faith. | ||
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+ | We want to develop ears who hear. We want to be among those who have an ear. Lord, give | ||
+ | us this ear to hear and to follow you! | ||
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