Blog In Audio:
Greetings,
Hearing God is about knowing God and it is in knowing God that we overcome all manner of death in our world. Hearing God empowers us to overcome in relationship, faith, testimony, authority, and our purpose in Christ. Leaders set an example in this that inspires others to follow.
The sixth letter of Revelation was written to the church of Philadelphia. The name Philadelphia means, brotherly love. We are increasingly experiencing the testimony of communion with God and one another that inspires the testimony of His community in the earth. We are increasingly knowing God in our midst as the family of God. We are the people of God in the earth.
A sixth reason to hear God is to be a pillar of God’s presence in the earth that loves and lives for God and His family. Our thinking is for God our Father and for one another as the family of God. We know that we are each a temple of Holy Spirit and together we make a greater temple of God’s Spirit.
Revelation 3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
The seventh letter in the book of Revelation is to the church of Laodicea. The name Laodicea means, just people. True justice is not a testimony of what is right verses what is wrong. True justice is to become the substance of who God is as those who have clearly obtained His mercy. We can know the power of prayer that is really a face-to-face relationship with God in all things. Those prayers are not about meeting the needs of a justice of right and wrong. They are a testimony of God’s mercy and grace that extends to the generations.
A seventh reason to hear God is to be consumed with His zeal for His glory. It invites a partnership with God to reign with Him in life. This only comes by knowing Him in us and us in Him in all things. We can partner with Him in all things and reign in life.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Summary:
- The first reason to hear God is to know the life that comes by being loved by God. It is to have a relationship with Him and know Him – this is eternal life. Revelation2:7
- A second reason to hear God is to overcome the fear of death in all things. Love does whatever is necessary to show that love and it will physically manifest that love in the actions of our lives. Revelation 2:10, 11
- A third reason to hear God is to know the inward transformation of God’s word in our hearts and His outward testimony in our lives. These are the fruit of responding to God’s gifts of His Word and Spirit in and through us. Revelation 2:17
- A fourth reason for hearing God is to give life to our world. We can bring light to any darkness and transform it to light. Revelation 2:26-29
- A fifth reason for hearing God is to walk in the works prepared for us in Christ. We are sent ones; thus, angels work with us to reveal the goodness of our Father through our lives as part of the testimony of His Son. Revelation 3:5, 6
- A sixth reason to hear God is to be a pillar of God’s presence in the earth that loves and lives for God and His family. Hearing God empowers us to be part of God’s community of life. Revelation 3:12, 13
- A seventh reason to hear God is to be consumed with His zeal for His glory. This only comes by knowing Him in us and us in Him in all things. We can partner with Him in all things and reign in life. Revelation 3:20-22
Leaders seek to live in these overcoming truths and to lead others into this same living testimony that comes through an intimate relationship with God, revealed by hearing Him.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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