Got slayed in the spirit yesterday!
I realize that these may be words that not everyone is familiar with. Well, this is just the church lingo to help explain how the Holy Spirit can come to you and fill you with his spirit. It is a supernatural occurrence that you don't have to be afraid of or run away from. It is something that God's people should recognize as normal. It is a way for God to communicate with you. There is no reason to think that God does not talk to each and everyone of us.
Here is your motivation for Monday:
God wants to talk to you
and he will do it however you are comfortable
Here is the thing, don't let anyone make you feel that you are not worthy to hear from God. The father allowed us to have direct communication with him through his son. That may be a little confusing, but you must grab the understanding that Jesus is God. Jesus is God with us. He is Jehovah God, the one who saves his people from their sins. Hence, God made a way for us to communicate with him, through the death of Jesus and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, I know, that is a lot of Spiritual Lingo!
Let me share this about the new covenant, or the new PROMISE!
The new promise that God made with his people can be found all through out the bible but check this out about communicating with God:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days said the Lord I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more everyman his neighbor and everyman his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least to the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. . .
Jeremiah 31:33-34
What does all of that mean?
This means that each and every person has the ability to connect to the father through Jesus Christ.
You need no man to teach you, you just need to call on the name of the Lord and he will save you. He will teach you step by step what to do and where to go. So, I know that people often wonder why God doesn't talk to them while other people claim that they talk to God all of the time. Well, it all depends on your relationship. The Lord is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Just like any other relationship, friendship, or commitment; the more time you spend with a person the closer you get to them. I encourage you to spend time with the Lord, he is a person.
How does The Lord speak to us?
In our quiet time
in our prayer time
through other people
through our creative practice
through our study and bible reading time
through that small still voice
through dreams, and visions
through our children
through our work
through our life experiences
through analogies, parables, and coincidences
etc. . .
God speaks to us all of the time. We just have to learn how to hear his voice. His voice can take on many forms, but it is always connected back to the living word of truth, the bible. This conversation has come up for me because of a discussion we were having about dreams is PSYCH class. The question was inquiring if God talks to us through our dreams; to which I responded with a big fat
YES!!!
The following is what I posted in class:
Yes, dreams are important to God. Throughout the bible we read scriptures that are symbolic of something deeper and more intricate. We may not always connect to the true meaning unless we are aware of other understandings and interpretations. We must take the time to learn and grow in order to grasps the deeper meaning of the living word. God is the creator that deals with the unseen, then manifests those ideas into reality. Hence, he is the original dreamer. He is the giver of vision. So, it is also probable that everything that we are seeing with our eyes is only a representation of what is real:
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV
We believe that what we see is real, and therefore it is:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
The reason why you think it, is the same reason why you eventually see it, is the proof that it has always been.
We see a pattern with the way that God communicates with us. He tells us to meditate on his word which signifies the importance of grasping the deeper meaning. We must let the word of God become part of us, not only existing on the outside but on the inside. Jesus taught in parables which were small representations of the full teaching that later revealed itself on the inside of man. The parables them self had surface level meanings with deeper revelations that could only be understood through the growth of the learner. The meaning must become a part of you, way deep down in the marrow of your bones, in the crevices of your soul, and in the recesses of your mind.
The king of Babylon had a dream that he saw clearly, but lacked the connection to the symbolic meaning to make sense of it. So, the king sent for Daniel. Daniel’s interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream had a surface meaning that was relevant in his time but also holds a strong message for us today. It is the historical representation of the fallen empires of the world and the announcement of the messiah, Jesus Christ coming to reign on earth. Now, to some it may only be a dream that once lived in the unconscious mind of a troubled king, but to Christians it is a message that brings great hope. God is always trying to communicate with us. There is always a deeper meaning.
When it comes to developing our relationship with God, it is about letting his word live on the inside (the unconscious, the unseen) so that it can then manifest itself into our current reality (the conscious, the seen).
I share all of this to get to this simple point:
Forget about all of the spiritual language
Forget about thinking that you have to be smarter, or more connected, or more spiritual
SMH
God wants to talk to you
He desires a relationship with you
and he will meet each and everyone of us on our level, in our understandings, and in our minds
He will write his truth in our hearts
and we will be his people
and he will be our God
Until Next Time
-Tamorra
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