Weekly Wisdom

Praise the Lord, you are truly blessed! We’re going to be sharing today about the communication lines between God and man. The lines have been opened up. God has reattached man back to Himself by the Blood of Jesus. Colossians 1:20-22 reads,

“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight”.

Every believer has the right to have communion with the Creator. Verse 23 says,

“If ye continue in the faith…”.

We must always believe in what the Blood has done for us. If you have sinned after you have been saved, get it right! I John 1:9 says,

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.

When we are reconciled to God, we can have communication with Him. Some Christians say God never talks to them. That is because they are not trained to hear. John 10:2-4 says that Jesus is the Shepherd and His sheep hear Him.

“But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”

We have the ability to hear and follow God. Psalm 23:1 says,

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want”.

When we start hearing the Shepherd, He will lead us into a place that is out of this world. Get a hold of this message, and you will never be the same again. Most Christians are in trouble because they need to be trained to hear the voice of Jesus. You might ask, "How can I hear His voice?" His voice is not heard with your mind, it’s heard with your spirit. We must learn how to listen with our spirit. I Corinthians 14:2 says,

“He that speaketh with an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God”.

When you speak in tongues, you are speaking spiritual secrets. Verse 14 says that a person who prays in unknown tongues is praying with his spirit. If we are going to do a lot of communicating with God, we will have to move into the spiritual realm. You might ask, “What good will it do me?” I Corinthians 14:2 says that by praying in tongues we speak to God and not to man. We make contact with God and have intimate relationship with Him.

Read the Bible on this subject until you get so hungry for it that you must have it. Watch your life turn completely around. The devil doesn’t want you to have it, so he will fight you. Resist him and he will flee!

When you know down deep inside that your Father created the whole universe, you will never again think bad things can overpower you. God is more powerful than anything that can come against us. He takes a personal interest in keeping us blessed and protected. Galatians 4:6 says,

“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts crying, Abba, Father.”

Our spirit is crying everyday for a greater intimacy with our heavenly Father. Because our minds are so earthly, and our Father is so heavenly, we tend to neglect spending time with our Father God. The earth and all the things in it are calling us to spend time with them. We must resist the temptation to give them a higher place in our life. Even as Jesus was 12 years old, He was seeking His Father’s will by studying with the doctors and lawyers in the temple. He wanted to know more and more about His Father from heaven. In these last days, there will be ample opportunity for us to be distracted with earthly, material things. In Ephesians, God calls us to redeem the time. The more time you spend with God and His Word in prayer, in church, and in study, you will learn who you are as a son and daughter of God. By doing this, you are redeeming the time.

The job of God’s family on the earth is to bring God’s business to the earth. At the time when Jesus said He must be about His Father’s business, He was studying in the temple with teachers of the Old Testament. Why? Well, we can't do something we've not learned. Even though we are children of God, our productivity is limited by our lack of understanding the Father’s will.

These are great days in the church. Great works of God will be accomplished through you and me as we are ever-increasing in our heavenly Father’s understanding. Our elder brother, Jesus, came to die for our sins and to reveal His Father to us.

Over the years, I have watched different family businesses, and it seems to me that when you have two generations working a business, that business is fairly successful. The second generation has learned both the first generation's understanding, and accumulated their own understanding. God has sent Jesus to receive His understanding and to give it to us through the Apostles that wrote the New Testament. The more we study the New Testament, we will pick up on how to function and operate as heaven operates. Father God runs heaven completely, nobody does anything unless God says so. God wants that type of living to be manifested in the church. We must push the envelope and live like heaven.

“Rewards Come By Diligence!”

I love you,

Pastor Paul