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Voices That Build

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When I first got saved over 30 years ago, I used to have open visions, word pictures that were so clear and when I would share them with whoever I was praying for, that vision would make sense to them and they were greatly encouraged. As we walk with Jesus He speaks to us in so many different ways. His languages are diverse and varied, but His voice is the same. He always builds up the hearer. I tell people even if God is correcting you, He is correcting you up not pushing you down. The voice of God is a builder in our lives and the way He speaks changes.

The changing ways God speaks to us can be challenging if you like routine. Now the Lord does not change the way he speaks “daily” so you are always caught off guard, but rather seasonally. We can have a long seasons of seeing certain numbers, or names, or verses that pop off the page at us. Maybe you have a season fo dreaming, visions or even seeing in the spirit while in worship. But then it stops and often we can feel like we did something wrong, when in actuality, the Holy Spirit is just speaking a different way, but He has not stopped speaking. So, we open our eyes and ears to other ways He may be speaking to us. It keeps the relationship fresh, fun and spontaneous.

The other day I was with a group of people and we were worshipping and one person began laying hands on someone and was just praying, I looked over at her to see if she was hearing anything, she said no, so I went over to pray for the same person and I saw a vision. Then I went to another person and saw another vision and then to a third and saw another vision. Each one was unique to that individual, and finally for one person I got one word. Tears flowed as I shared what I saw, not sadness, but the knowing God was speaking to them. I love the voice of God and sharing it with the people of God for it builds them up and we all need prophetic builders in our life.

Prophetic Warning

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Prophetic Warning!

In prayer this morning the Lord was talking to me about finances and He said, “The sitters are about to become the sowers.” What He showed me was people who sit on money and how it was not given to them to sit on it, but to sow it. The Holy Spirit went on to say, “When we sit on money it becomes stagnant, but when we sow money it remains alive, active and growing.” He said, “The days of sitting on money are over, the days of sowing money is here.” The verse I received was Isaiah 55:10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater.”

The Lord continued to show me that when we sit on our seed, our money, it is not fulfilling the purpose for which it was made and now it is rotten. Seed (money) was made for two purposes: One to become bread to eat; and two to be seed that is sown. it was never created to sit in a storehouse and rot. I then had a vision in which I saw storehouses of seed that has gone rotten and I keep seeing maggots in it. The verse God gave me was Joel 1:17 “The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered.”

I keep seeing maggots. I keep hearing the seed in the storehouses is rotten. “Sitting on the seed rather than sowing the seed has rotted the seed in the storehouses. Maggots have destroyed the seed because it was not created to be sat on, but to be sown”, says the Lord. I cannot get the image of maggots out of my spirit and then the Lord brings me to Exodus 16:17-20 “Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need. And Moses said, “Let no one leave any of it till morning. Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms (maggots) and stank. And Moses was angry with them.”

Those who have been sitting on seed rather than sowing seed, are going to find their storehouses of seed are rotten. Maggots have destroyed the seed because it was given to sown, not to be sat on. For you that have ears to hear, hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. I sense this is both national and individual. Seed was given to be sown not sat on.

Learn HIS Comms

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Understanding the way another is communicating is critical to any relationship. There are a myriad of books on marriage, with the priority subject being communication. Reason being, men and women communicate differently and we need to learn one another’s comms. The military has different comms than civilians do, therefore, to go into the military and be successful, you have to learn their comms. Morse code, Hamm radio, Millennial’s text messages, they all have their own comms and if you do not know their comms you will not understand what they are saying.
 
The same is true with God. Many people have said they can’t hear the voice of God, but I would propose that we can all hear the voice of God, but very few people know HIS comms. God does not speak the way most people think. God’s comms are multilayered, for example, His people, the Hebrews, have a language that is tri-layered. The Hebrew language is letters, numbers and pictures. If you do not realize this, you will never be able to understand Hebrew and may I add, you will never fully comprehend God. You may say, how can you say that, because God created language, all language and there is more being said all the time than people can hear or understand.
 
God speaks in many ways, but three are obvious, He speaks with letters (the Word of God) for Paul says in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work”; He speaks with pictures (images, symbols, visions, dreams) which we find throughout scripture from books like Daniel or Revelation or in Genesis 12 when God tells Abraham to look up and count the stars in order to know how many descendants he will have; and He speaks with numbers as noted in John 21 where it says they caught 153 fish for example. For those that do not understand the comms of God, they relegate pictures and numbers to the “prophetic people”, but God meant all of His comms for all people.
 
In a generation where information is abundant, we do not have an excuse as to why we cannot learn the comms of God. However, I would first get to know God, through His word, before you try to understand God through His comms. The reason being is, until you know the nature and character of God, you will not understand what He is saying through His comms like pictures and numbers. But with that being said, we should be able to build upon the letters, the Words of God, to learn the comms of God which include pictures and numbers.
 
The way to learn God’s comms is to lean in when you sense a nudge, maybe it is a reoccurring number you see, the first step to find out what it means is to go to the Word. I see 44 all the time, it is like my number right now, so I started out with Genesis 44, then went to Isaiah 44, onto Ezekiel 44 and God led me to Matthew 4:4, I do this because as I read these passages it gives me an idea, based on the context in which I saw the number, as to what God might be saying to me and I have scripture to back up my thoughts. In the realm of pictures, I have dreams with pictures that I search out what the picture means, once I know what God is saying, I spare no expense in time or travel to go to where God is showing me to do what He needs done. This takes time to learn, but I believe, He is inviting us to know His comms, for He is speaking, but for many they are not hearing and He wants to be heard, so learn HIS comms.

Listening Precedes Speaking

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Listening Precedes Speaking 4.19.17
 
It is not a new concept to understand that what you hear is what you speak. When we were new born babies, we heard many words, but we could not speak any. So, we had to learn to listen, before we could learn to speak. The same is true in the spiritual as it is in the natural. Until we learn to listen and hear clearly, we will not be able to speak clearly. Paul said, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me” (1 Corinthians 13:11). Our level of hearing, determines our leveling of speaking. I think we can all agree on this.
 
Here is the challenge the body of Christ is facing, whether on Facebook, Instagram, or in pulpits and on platforms all over the world, we have people wanting to speak before they have learned to listen. This is bringing much confusion to the body of Christ and causing many to get their hopes up around what sounds like a prophetic word, but is actually just someone’s vain imagination. Jeremiah 23:16 says, “This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.” This is not just about prosperity prophecies, this is also about gloom and doom, Jesus is returning soon prophecies. People are speaking before they are listening and it is leading the body of Christ astray.
 
When I was 19 years old and newly saved, I had zeal without knowledge. I was ready to preach to anyone who would listen, that Jesus Christ is Lord. I do not think that evangelism like this is harmful, because the zeal is so strong that you do not care what others think about you, all you know is that you were once lost and now you are found. The challenge is, when people who have zeal but no knowledge are in our pulpits, conferences or on our news feeds. Their zeal can be contagious, but their knowledge is weak, because they have pursued speaking over listening.
 
When I was in my first Bible Training School, one or our Pastor said he spent 8 hours to prepare for one sermon. I remember thinking, what are you doing for 8 hours, when you only speak for 20-30 minutes? But now that I have grown up, now that I have learned the value of listening and stopped trying to be a speaker, I realize how crucial it is to listen for many hours on end and speak for very few. Solomon even said in Proverbs 17:27 “Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.” The less we speak, the more we know, because when you really know something, you have no need to be heard, rather you wait to see if anyone wants to hear what you have to say.
 
The body of Christ has been going through what I call accelerated maturity. It has been a time for those who agreed to it, to learn in a rapid way how to hear the voice of God, clearly, so they can speak the words of God, clearly. They are not taking scripture out of context to match their message; they are not slapping a verse on people’s problems; they are not pursuing a pulpit or platform; they are learning to listen to the still small voice in the secret place of the most High. They have learned wisdom, patience, timing, intimacy and authority; they are not in a hurry to make their name great, but they are prepared to make His name glorious; they went in as unbroken wild horses and are now broken power horses with a fiery love in their eyes and a word in their mouth. When they speak, demons are going to flee; the dead are going to be raised; the sick are going to be healed; relations are going to be restored; and the lost are going to come to Christ.
 
The leaders that are about to arise learned that listening precedes speaking; they learned that if they don’t hear clearly, they won’t speak clearly; and they learned it is not about training your mind, it is about letting the Lord heal your heart, for they know, that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, not out the abundance in their head. They have been in the secret place getting a heart transplant, heart surgery and cardiovascular healing, so when they speak, there is synergy between their heart and their mouth, because they know they can only speak what they hear. God is more interested in you learning to hear His voice (which means consistently obeying what you hear), than He is in you speaking, writing a book or putting out another prophetic word. You can’t side step it, He is a God of order and learning to listen precedes speaking in the kingdom age leaders.