How can you be sure if
it is the voice of God that you are hearing?
There are several
real issues here. But, thanks be to
God we have the holy scriptures to
provide us with examples that reveal what God blesses and examples of what God
doesn’t bless.
The only reason we
are confused at all about whether what we are doing is in the will of God or if
it is the voice of God we are hearing is because of the influence of the world
system.
The world, as
referred to in scripture, (and as I am going to refer to it in this teaching),
is a system, set up by satan, where everything is to appear to operate,
exclusive of the intervention and active participation of a living,
supernatural, Holy, God.
The world is
clamoring for your time, your talent, your energy, your inspiration, your creativity
and your money, and it is getting it.
The world appears to
be running on its own power and energy, apart from any intervention from
God. Even the notion that the world
created itself is entertained by many clever and bright minds.
The ‘world’, as used
in scripture, refers to a mind set that excludes the idea of
a personal relationship between God and man and entertains rather a
relationship where all is relative to what exists apart from how it exists, why
it exists or how it came to exist.
Let me give you an
example:
Turn with me to the
book of John, chapter 14, verse 16 & 17.
John 14:16-17
“And I will
pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide
with you for ever;
V17 Even
the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him
not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and
shall be in you.”
See, the
world is blind to the integration of God and man through Christ.
Blind to your union with God through Christ
Blind to the joining together of God and man, through. Christ.
Blind to the allegiance of God to man and man to God.
Blind to the covenant between God and man.
Blind to the promises from God to man.
Blind to the free gift from God to man.
Blind to the image/likeness of man to God
Blind to the connection between the Father,
the Son, the indwelling Holy Spirit, your role and mine, in the performance
of the Father’s business.
The
world, cannot receive the Spirit and cannot see God and cannot know God and
therefore the world, does not recognize the authenticity of your claim to the
Christ."
Excerpt from God Thinking XLIV - Two Agendas by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014
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