God Is Talking To Youon October 06, 2013 at 1:18 am in Article of Faith By Femi Aribisala When Christians cannot hear the voice of God, we become tethered to the bible. We insist God only speaks through the bible. However, the bible is only 600 years old. If God spoke to people in the past without using a bible, as the scriptures testify, you can bet your bottom dollar he is still doing so today. God does not change. (Malachi 3:6). “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8). Don’t accept the limitations of bible fanatics. Jesus says: “My sheep hear my voice.” He does not say: “my sheep read the bible.” John warns that Jesus cannot be delimited to one book. He says: “there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” (John 21:25). Therefore, don’t put God in a box or a book. God is talking to you, with and without the bible. God talks to those who cannot read the bible, including the illiterate and the blind. On three different occasions, and without the benefit of a bible, God called out to Samuel. Samuel thought it was Eli calling him. However, by the fourth time, he had received instructions from Eli about how to respond. Therefore, he answered God and engaged in a conversation with him. Let us also be instructed by the different ways God talks to us, guides us and leads us. Situations and circumstances God is the God of all providence. I call him the God of situations and circumstances. Since you are his child, know this for sure. Nothing in your life is by happenstance. If it happened to you, it happened for a reason. It is your responsibility to determine why; and what you are supposed to learn from it. So doing, you will soon be confronted with a kingdom dynamic. The good often turn out to be bad for us and the bad often turn out to be good. Every valley is exalted: every mountain and hill made low. One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I was attacked and shot in the leg by armed robbers. Just imagine that! In the middle of the attack, my ears were opened, and I heard the Lord for the very first time. Much later, I was thanking God, for the umpteenth time, for delivering me from the robbers when, out of the blue, he said to me: “Femi, I allowed you to be shot because I wanted you to see yourself using crutches. You have been using crutches all your life. I decided to show it to you physically otherwise you would never know.” Then he asked me: “Can a man walk properly with crutches?” I answered: “No.” He continued: “That is what you have been doing. You have been trusting in chariots and in horses. Now listen to me Femi, put down your crutches and walk.” “But my leg is broken,” I protested. “No,” he said, “there is nothing wrong with your leg. It is not about your leg. It is about your faith. I want you to walk by trusting in me, without using any crutches whatsoever.” Therefore, I say to you: don’t ignore situations and circumstances. Interrogate them. Take nothing that happens to you in life for granted. God is a God of purpose, so you need to ask: “Father, what are you trying to teach me through this situation?” “What are you saying to me?” Object lessons In the scriptures, Jesus taught with parables. He is still using parables today; only that they come as word pictures or object lessons. An object lesson is when God uses something in the natural to illustrate a spiritual principle. Be alert to object lessons from God. They often come through some crisis or difficulty.
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