Tag: word of God

The Blessing Of Being Bound

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What are you bound to? What drives you in every decision you make? We are all bound by something or someone. David says in Psalm 56 “I am bound by Your promise, O God. My life is my offering of thanksgiving to You”; while the apostle Paul says in Romans 1, “Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.” David is bound by the promises of God and Paul is bound by Christ Jesus. If you read anything these two men wrote or read about anything they did, you will see how they being bound to the promises are seen or being bound to Christ Jesus is evident. Now back to the original question, what are you bound to?

Everyone of us is bound to something, for some it is a relationship. Decisions are determined based on a relationship to someone. You will hear them say, I can or can’t do that based on this person. Money is another major thing many people are bound to. They will move their whole family to another state for a job (money). I even know some people who are bound to a church, they literally will not make any move because they are bound to a church. Have you ever thought about what you are bound to? What drives your decisions, what filter you make decisions through? The answer to what you are bound to will help you understand your life and where you are right now.

Paul declared himself a bond servant of Christ. Every decision was based on Jesus Christ and the gospel of God. David, king of Israel, was bound by the promises of God. He only made decisions based on God’s promises to him. My friends, we are all bound to something, but many of us need to repent for being bound to someone or something that is not the person of God, Christ Jesus or the Word of God, the promises. If we are bound to anything else, we will not fulfill the purpose of God in our life and we know it. It is the 26th of July and I was praying Psalm 56 when God asked the question, what are you people bound to? These thoughts came from that question. I am bound to the promises of God and the person of Jesus Christ, oh that every Christian could say that same thing. We would see a revolution but it starts with being bonded.

What Are You Hearing?

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Is God saying more than one thing at one time? Is He declaring one thing to you and another thing to me about the same nation? Is the Lord the author of confusion? In a social media world, there are many benefits, people who do not have a platform for a variety of reasons, can use social media to get their message out. But social media is extremely dangerous as well, for it is riddled with confusion as many self-proclaimed and self-appointed prophets are saying, “Thus says the Lord.” With many people on a spiritual quest, one of the places they are looking for spiritual insight is online, but the challenge is, the church, Christians are proclaiming many things that are not biblically accurate. This is both dangerous for the hearer and the speaker, for the Bible is not silent on the issue of making declarations that God did not make. 
Ezekiel 13:1-3 says, “Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own inspiration, Listen to the word of the LORD! ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.…” (NASB). Jeremiah 23:15-17 says, “For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'” Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD. “They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD has said, “You will have peace “‘; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’…” (NASB). 
Yahweh speaks with clarity, not confusion. He is not speaking many things at the same time, He has so much authority He only needs to speak one thing at a time. One word from heaven has the authority and power to transform the earth. As prophets in training, the first thing that must be learned is how to discern the voice of God, amidst all the other voices. Many people who prophesy, don’t know the word of God in context, so their prophecies are of their own making. One of the greatest challenges we face in Christianity today is the inability for people to hear the voice of God. Because this is an epidemic in the church, many people are looking to those who say they hear God to tell them what God is saying. The challenge with this is, if God is not saying it, but they are told God said it, then they get disappointed for they thought God said something God never said. 
1 Corinthians 14 says, all should desire to prophesy and in the book of Numbers, Moses said, he wished all of God’s people prophesied. But in order to prophesy, you need to know the word of God, for that is the first step in hearing the voice of God. The second indicator of whether you are hearing God is if what you are hearing is being confirmed by those who are seasoned at hearing the voice of God. For example, the Lord spoke to me and said, 2017 is a year of Victory, I posted this on January 1st on my Facebook page, then today, Chuck Pierce came out with a video today that declared 2017 the year of Victory and Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, CA said at their Sunday morning service on January 1st, that the word God gave him for 2017 is Breakthrough. So, when men and women that are known for hearing the voice of God are saying the same thing you are hearing, it is a good indicator you are hearing God and not your vain imagination. 
The Bible says to whom much has been given, much is required. If you have not been given much, not much is required of you, but if you want to be given more, than be a good steward of what you have been given. You have been given your Bible, it is the voice of God to you and to the nations, but it must be righty applied. 2017 is a year of Victory, for you to experience victory, you must learn to hear the voice of God. You hear the news, you hear your family and friends, you hear what others are saying on social media, but can you hear the voice of God in His word? What are you hearing? Hearing the voice of God is the key to the abundant life. He loves to talk, that is why you have a Bible, my prayer is that this year, you will hear His voice.