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Greetings,
Our personal relationship with God will lead us to personal victories in our lives. We hear God to know God, not merely knowing what to do. It is through knowing God that our hearing Him will give us triumph to know an intimate relationship with Him, a life of faith towards Him that overcomes all fear of death, and a testimony of an inward and outward change of life that others in our world can see and experience. Leaders lead others in a lifestyle of hearing God for these things. In the Revelation of Jesus Christ, we find these things and more as a fruit of hearing God. Anyone who hears will bear the fruit of life to their world.
The fourth letter to the churches of Revelation was written to the church of Thyatira. The name Thyatira means, sacrifice or labor of love. Authority is not about getting something from someone else. It is about giving life to them. True authority is the ability to give life to others. Having been judged in Christ, we can now give life to others. We are under authority and thus we have been given authority. The ability to give life in and to any circumstance has been given to Jesus as the Son of Man, therefore, we can give life to those who are in our sphere of life. It is a matter of submission to receive authority and submission to give that substance of life to others.
A fourth reason for hearing God is to give life to our world. We can live in the uncompromising standard of giving life that destroys all manner of death. We can be true to who we really are and who God truly made us to be brings life to our world. We are sons and daughters of God, who is Light. We are lights to our world. By this we can be like the sun to the night. We turn darkness to light. We turn death to life.
Revelation 2:26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— 27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star.
The fifth letter of Revelation was to the church of Sardis. The name Sardis means, prince of joy. It is in the presence of God that there is the fullness of joy. We are awake to God, and we are children of the day and not the night. We know the power of His Might and the testimony of who we are in Christ reveals His resurrection power to our world. We are each a part in the testimony of His calling, His inheritance, and His power to the world around us.
A fifth reason for hearing God is to walk in the works prepared for us in Christ. We hear God to live in the purpose of Christ. We are clothed in the good works that have prepared for us in Christ. We live in the testimony of resurrection life and in the purpose of giving that life to our world. Like angels (sent ones) in heaven, we become sent ones in Christ to our world as sons and daughters of our Father in heaven. 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 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
We overcome all manner of death by being the life-giving force of God’s grace to our world. In addition to hearing for relationship, faith, and a personal heavenly testimony we hear God to receive the overcoming promises of life-giving authority to our world and a testimony of our purpose in Christ according to His resurrection life. Leaders lead others into hearing God and overcoming to see these things true in their daily lives.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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