Title of the series is Divine Communication
In this series we will be focusing on communication, what it means for us as believers, God's love for it, basic principles towards effective communication, types and finally, the Prophetic.
Before we go on to the first topic in this series, I'd like us to share what communication means to us as believers
Communication is the process where feelings, thoughts, desires are passed between God and us, his children. - Samson
Pouring my mind out to God and hearing his thoughts concerning them. - Tebs
To me communication is a father to son or daughter interaction through diverse strategies in the kingdom such as..
-prayers
-worship
-meditation etc. - Kenneth
Communication is wording out our feelings infact our total mind to God
It could be through prayers, our worship n singing - Dasi
From our definitions of communication earlier, we see that it is a two way street. It is not just us talking and pouring out to God but rather talking with God.
We pour our heart out to Him and He pours His heart out to us.
It's amazing how we sit for hours talking to God, laying it all bare before Him and we believe so much that God can hear us.
Yahweh, the one who is invisible to us but our hearts strongly believe He can hear us, so we go ahead and speak.
We do not just speak, we ask and expect a Him to answer our prayers.
Where a lot of us get it wrong is this, we believe so much in the God who hears so much that we speak non stop for hours daily but we are yet to 100% dig the God who speaks.
We hardly can sit waiting long hours to hear Him speak as we'd stay to speak with Him.
I'd like to ask, if you sit for 2 hours waiting to hear from God and you do not hear anything, what will you do?
Waiting....
Honest answers please
Move on o😂
I've found that I don't always get my answer on the spot. It could just come from listening to a song after waiting for a while. The answer could be in someone's random statement. - Tebs
Ill stop waiting for a reply - Dasi
Here is what I've come to notice in many Christians, we have poor communication skills.
If you and I talk everyday for 2 months, and I'm always opening my mouth like parrot talking every minute not allowing you to land (And this happens repeatedly), my communication skills is bad.
Though I speak a lot but if I do not listen well, then communication is Zero.
I found out at some point that i was in this place both in real life and in my prayer life.
Twice tragedy 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
How can you be suffering from one problem in different angles?
Is it only me that waka come?
I tried to change the physical aspect but it did not.
Infact, I did not notice a change physically until it started with God first
It is a very good thing to talk to God, to pour our heart to Him. First, it shows love and trust, I believe. It's really so difficult to discuss with one person for a long period daily without seeing them physically..
Yet, this is what we do as believers.
Why?
If we don't love God, we won't care enough to be marking daily attendance and gisting.
A lot of relationships end when one partner changes location because they can't keep up but somehow we try to keep up even when it is difficult.
I want us to know that God loves us so much and it's such a sweet thing that we are keeping this relationship alive
Even if it's just 5 min we are able to do daily. God knows that it is only love that brings us (even when we do not know it ourselves).
Also trust.
We do not just come to Him, we come with our secrets, things we'd not tell any other person.
Such a beautiful relationship
But it doesn't end here.
The same way we want to pour out to God out of love and trust is the same way God wants to pour out to us out of love and trust.
Love because that is the bedrock of our relationship
See, it is the nature of God to speak, not just to speak but to communicate His thoughts to others.
God actually has thoughts just as you do.
The same way you want to share yours with Him is how He wants to share His with you.
Communication is a big deal for God.. It is built in the very fabric of His Divine being.
Remember creation when God was going to make man, He said, "Let us make man in our own image"
He communicated His thoughts to the trinity
We see it in His relationship with all His children in scripture.
He is a communicating God. Not deaf, not dumb.
If God had this relationship with the trinity then surely man who was created in His (their) image was created with this same specification, to relate, to hear Him and speak with Him.
Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
The hearing ear, God made it.
What is the ear hearing?
God
He designed us - His prime creation--to hear Him.
He wove it within our very nature and being just like it is woven into His..
Look at this before us:
* God spoke and Noah heard and responded.
* God spoke and Abraham heard and responded
*God spoke and Jacob heard
Same has David, Jesus, Paul etc
The story of the bible is a story of a Speaking God and a hearing people.
Again the verse in proverbs says: God made the hearing ear.
See, if you have ears, then you can hear God because this is how God made our ears, to hear.
The only way you cannot hear God is if He is not your creator
Is there anyone here that wasn't created by God?
If the answer is no, then everyone here can hear God.
Not faintly, audibly.
He doesn't have to shout it in your ears like that mama no network woman in Nollywood (please Google if you don't know her)
So tonight, I want you to know it and believe it very well, that You can hear God, everyday, for as long as He is speaking. You have ears that hear.
Please if you need to add it to your confession daily, do so. It is important first to believe this, if not every other part of this series will be difficult for you.
Please take this home tonight
The God that hears is the God that speaks
If I have mouth that can speak to God for long, then I, Olúrèmí, have ears that can hear/Listen to God for long
I'm going to stop here tonight.
Next week we continue with The Speaking voice and The Spoken Word
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