By Pastor E. Adeboye
Memorise: “But ye have not so learned Christ” (Eph 4:20)
Read: 1 Samuel 3:2-14
In today’s reading, God called a young boy, but neglected the elder who occupied the prophetic office for several decades. The Lord will not pass you by in Jesus’ Name. Samuel was still very young when he started hearing from God. Are you a young convert?
You stand the chance of hearing from God. When God opens your spiritual eyes, you will have clear spiritual vision. As Eli advanced in age, his spiritual age thinned out. The more he was to know, the less he knew.
His once blossoming relationship with God deteriorated to the point that he could no more hear from God. The moment you cease from hearing from God, you become irrelevant. Can you hear from God? If yes, do everything you can to sustain it. It took Eli sometime to realize that God was trying to speak to the child Samuel because he had stopped hearing from God. There is nothing as bad as hearing from God and no longer hearing from Him.
There are people you can fool by saying, God has said. But some people cannot be fooled. Recently, somebody wrote to tell me that the Lord asked him to go and start a ministry, and further gave the name of the ministry. I laughed. God can speak to a child if the elders are no longer willing or capable of hearing.
If God is sending you on another assignment while you are under this Mission, He will tell me, and I will bless and send you forth. Do not send yourself on an errand He did not send you, no matter how inviting it appears.
If you send yourself, you will work for yourself and reward yourself. God will be completely out of the equation. In 1 Kings 18:41, only Elijah heard of the sound of abundant rain. It is possible to hear from God to derive encouragement. It can also be to receive warning. Until you completely obey God’s first instruction, He may never talk to you again.
If you want Him to resume speaking with you, restitute. Be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. If you are careful enough, you will observe His promptings and thoughts dropped in your spirit man. Sometimes, He may ask you to do something that appears stupid.
Go ahead and obey Him. Spend several hours praying in the spirit. Create time for regular personal Bible study.
Shun eye service, and any form of carnality. It shall be well with you.
The Lord will speak to you from today. I command every insensitivity to give way now. The Lord will not dump you.
Hearing from God is the key. I wish i could do it more clearly. I am also trying to find out where my calling is, for ministry. I am not leading an abundant life as i should be, in Holy Spirit. Years of failure in professional life have really gotten me down. But God promises us abundant life, Bible is full of these promises, if we abide in Him. These days i am trying to give Him preference over everything, and keep Him at centre.
Please pray for me.
God be with you.
your brother in Christ
Brother, the God we’re serving is the gracious Lord, who have ears to hear our supplications and streches his arms to the needy one. Sins, ignorance or laziness of doing God’s will are few examples, to add to pastor’s teaching, of causes of being dull and no longer hearing God’s voice. The Word says, no matter your sins are red as scarlet, it would be whiter than a snow. I can pray for two to three hours, but if I do it without pouring my heart to the Lord for Him to see my zeal for repentance, it would be a prayer to pretend. I command every power of darkness to leave your spiritual life right now. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I command any laziness of praise and worshipping the Lord Jesus to leave you by fire, in Jesus name!