I write unto
you not to brag about how often I hear God, but to be able to help you and I
grow in our understanding of how we can better hear the Lord, so that we will
be better Christians. Men don’t desire what they don’t value. I want to first
whet your appetite by making you to see a few reasons why you need to hear God
speak.
To succeed
in spiritual warfare, you certainly need to be able to hear God speak. There is
a warfare going on concerning your life, and you need to know this! The King
James Bible in 1Peter 2:11 admonishes us to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. Friends, there is a war
against your soul… and there is no discharge in that war…until Jesus comes. Who
are the people that have power to fight and succeed in this war? They are the
people who have genuinely given their lives to Jesus Christ (those folks you
call the Born-again Christians). Why is this so? No man goes to warfare at his
own charges (1Corinthians 9:7). Just like in the physical, no man can go on his
own to fight a war for his country of origin. No matter how intelligent, and
capable you are, you can’t wake up one day and decide to go to the war that
your country is presently fighting in, you must be commissioned by the
authorities in your country to fight in the war. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof, everyday is fully loaded with evil, and it will take supernatural
guidance to escape all the evil of a single day. Know of a surety that you are
fighting against the devil that has probably prevailed against our
fore-fathers, and he can postulate what your next move is likely going to be.
Therefore you need God’s help to overpower this enemy of your soul (Deuteronomy
33:27).
To go to war, the one that is
sending you there must equip you to fight, and after he has done that, you as a
soldier must be wise enough to pick the right ammunition to fight in the
warfare. Only a foolish soldier will go to war with an F-2000
Assault Rifle when his opponent is using a nuclear weapon! The weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong
holds says the Bible in 2 Corinthians 10:4. So, God has given you weapons, but how
do you know the one to use each time? You need to hear from your master! People
who have been in deliverance ministry will tell you how important it is for
them to hear the Holy Spirit whisper to them what they need to do to get the
desired result. You also need the same, at least to succeed in the deadly
warfare against your soul!
Give us examples Bro. Yinka. Please turn with me if you
will, to read Luke chapter 13, verses 1 to 5. You will discover that Pilate
mingled the blood of some Galileans with sacrifices and
that the tower in Siloam fell and killed 18 people. Tell me, if those Galileans
knew of Pilate’s plot to kill them, will they stay around? If those 18 people
killed by the tower knew that the tower will fall, will they still stay under
it? No, they won’t! Friends, you have long enough dwelt in the region of
allowing time and chances to dictate what happens to you… move on with the Lord.
The Yoruba’s have an adage that says ‘A kii duro si inu
ile eni, ki a f’orun ro’ (literarily meaning that you can’t be in your house
and be in danger; but am sure you know that this concept is not true. Haven’t
you heard of an airplane crashing into people’s house while they are in it?
Haven’t you heard of someone being swallowed up alive by his house caving into
mother earth? You don’t have to be a
genius to escape the evil of every passing day, all you have to be is a person
that hears God.
A woman of God once shared how God delivered her from
being burnt alive in her own house while sleeping, because the Lord who knew
the house was going to get burnt while she would be sleeping forewarned her not
to go into the house to sleep. I have earlier shared this particular link.
I am serious about this issue, friends you need to hear
from God! You need to know what exactly God wants you to do now, and then do
just that. Blessings.
