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Greetings,
As leaders, we lead others in knowing God. Knowing God is knowing His heart. Knowing His heart comes by hearing His voice within our hearts. It is not just a matter of hearing Him. It is a matter of understanding Him when He speaks. It is a matter of understanding His heart. This is true for every relationship. When we don’t love someone, we often misunderstand what they say to us. A key to understanding God is a revelation of His love.
Love must be the foundation of our relationship with God so we can understand things that are beyond our understanding. That understanding can only be given to us by God as a gift of grace. God’s ways are higher than our ways so in our misunderstandings of Him we must trust His love and His ability to bring revelation to our hearts. God must be our teacher. We cannot rely upon our natural understanding or logic of things. We must trust His understanding. Holy Spirit is God in us and with us and He is our teacher in all things. As leaders, we lead others to allow Holy Spirit to be the teacher to their hearts and minds for God’s will and desire in their lives.
Isaiah 55:9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Scripture is a witness to the voice of Holy Spirit in our lives. Leaders must excel in the study of Scripture as a tool in the hand of Holy Spirit as He brings revelation to every human heart. We don’t merely study Scripture for the sake of those we lead. We study Scripture for the sake of knowing God that we might inspire others to study in like manner.
Scripture is a book of covenant. That covenant is the fruit and testimony of a revelation of God’s love and being loved by God in this world. This is the essence and character of God. He is love and He wants us to see ourselves as His sons and daughters who know His love and reveal the glory of His love to our world. Scripture reveals the person God: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Scripture reveals God as a person of relationship who wants a relationship with us in all things. The greater purpose of any created thing as described in Scripture, or as described in creation, is it reveals something of the Godhead.
As leaders, we seek revelation in our study of the person God. We then share the message that we are becoming and have become in our daily relationship of partnership with God. Part of that partnership is a study of God’s word in conjunction with the presence of Holy Spirit. Our message to those we lead is not one of information. It is one of inspiration that those we lead may also know God in a partnership of Holy Spirit and His word that they too might become a message of His truth to their world.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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