#His Voice

And I just do a disclaimer before we start.

I might burst into tears. If that happens, it's totally

normal and we just carry on like nothing's happening.

So this week we're speaking at this is the chapter on the

speaking voice of God. So when I say to you the word of

God, what do you think of? I think of this.

That would be the first place that I go the word of God.

But toes us main premise is that he makes a really clear

distinction, between this physical book and the spoken

word of God. And he says this, he says the

Bible is not a book and find by leather and paper and ink.

It is not a printed word at all, but the expression of the will

of God spoken into the structure of all things filling the world

with his speaking voice. This word of God is the Breath

of God, filling the world with living potentiality.

The voice of God is the most powerful force in nature,

indeed. The only force in nature, but

all energy is here only because the power filled word is being

spoken, John 6:63, the words that I speak unto you, they are

John 6:63

spirit and they are life. So as toes are said, it's not

God. Spoke his words are not confined

here, but God is speaking, he's continuously articulate.

He's speaking to me and to you all the time.

But before I go any further, I just feel that I need to say

something. Because you might be thinking,

God, doesn't speak to me. Maybe God doesn't love me.

Other than walking in known thin or the fact you simply not

listening. The reason, I think that we

struggle to hear the voice of God is because we are all

products of Greek thinking the Age of Reason.

So we're taught from infancy to process everything through our

intellect. If it's not coming to us through

fax sense and reason we just were taught to believe.

It's not real. I think sometimes we, you know,

we kind of expect that God will come and stand before us and

speak to those using human words that we hear with our ears.

But I mean, there will be some people here who have heard the

audible voice of God, but that's actually not usually how God

speaks. There are a plethora of ways

that God speaks to us and I'm just going to highlight some of

them. So through a lot, probably come

up on the screen. So a deep knowing, you know,

when you just get that unction in your spirit that quickening

and Spirit and ladies. If you had a baby you feel that

baby come alive. When they get to a certain age

in your womb it's called a quickening and it's the same

with the spirit. We know there's life there, he

speak to a speaks to us through pictures and visions and dreams

through our five senses through circumstances of life, through

words of wisdom, from others, who worship and song Through the

Wonder and beauty of creation. But most of all, he speaks to us

through his word. And at this juncture, I want to

unpack a couple of Greek words because I just think it's really

important and fundamental to help us understand the spoken

voice of God. So, the word for, I want to

unpack our logos and Rhema and both of these words mean word.

They're both Jesus. He is the word of God.

John 1:1 in the beginning was the word and the Word was with

John 1:1

God. And the Word was God.

And it's been said that the logos is the written word and

the Rhema is the spoken word. That's not actually quite right.

So the logos part of a word incorporates, it's not just the

word, but the inward thought or the reason behind the word, it's

the original concept behind the word.

It's the expression of the thought formulated in the mind.

Raymer emphasizes the articulation stage of the

process. So it refers to the instance,

Vokoun word that proceeds, or flows out of one's mouth, it's

an utterance. So the Bible contains God's

logos and his Rhema word. His concept and his utterances.

All of the Bible is about Christ, The Living Word, all of

it, but it will mean nothing to US, unless it can somehow be

applied and I just And to tell you a story here quickly, I have

a friend called Crispin Fletcher, Louis, he is an

academic Theologian. And I guess you would have to be

with a night like that, because you couldn't really be a plumber

or a Ricky, and he is a writer. And his first book was called

Jesus monotheism, and it took him years to write it.

I love a good book. So we're meant to stay with

Crispin and his wife, Mary and I said, Kristen can I read your

book? So he gave me his book to read.

And I went, Better have my cocoa and had my book open.

Literally, I read half a page. I did not have a clue what was

going on. And I said, to his wife, Mary

the next House of Mary, I just couldn't make head nor tail.

And she said, she looked at me, she went Sally said, it's not

for the likes of you. And me, Blackberry has a degree

in Philosophy from Oxford University.

So I'm thinking, well, if it's not for you, who is it for?

But actually, Crispin is writing for Scholars and he's writing

it. This really A high levels of

Academia and he has a mandate and I believe it's a prophetic

mandate and his mandate and a costly mandate.

His mandate is to bring the Glorious truth of the Divinity

of Christ into those very high levels of Academia, packaged in

such a way that it will be understood and respected.

Why does he need to do that? Because these academics, who eat

biblical, Greek and Hebrew for breakfast, 15 letters after

their name. No longer believe in the

Divinity of Jesus. Yes.

It's the logos without the Rhema.

But we just said that the word even though it is a live, even

though it's living in filled with potentiality, it profits,

there's nothing unless it can be applied to, how does it get

applied? It gets applied through the

spirit. John 6:63 tells us that the

John 6:63

Rhema words that he speaks are spirit and life.

So, his Rhema word, impart. The spiritual essence of himself

to our Inner Man, to our inner being through the faculty of of

the Rhema, God spoken word. So that the logos God's Concepts

his thoughts and his reasonings, and come alive on the inside of

us, that the Rhema word has one purpose to reveal Christ.

And we see the most powerful example of this with Peter in

Matthew, 16. I think it's verses 15 to 18 be

coming up on the slide. I'll just read it when Jesus

came to the region of caesarea Philippi.

He asked his disciples. Who do people say the son of man

is they replied? Some say, John, the Baptist

others say Elijah and still others, Jeremiah or one of the

prophets. But what about you?

He asked? Who do you say?

I am Simon, Peter answered. You are the Messiah, the Son of

the Living. God, Jesus replied.

Blessed are you Simon bar-jonah, but this was not revealed to you

by flesh and blood. By my Father in heaven, and I

tell you that you are Peter. And on this rock, I will build

my church and the gates of Hades, will not overcome it.

You know, I used to read that and I used to think.

Yeah, get that. And I'd hang it in my little

mental coat, hanger bullet, my little mental wardrobe, things,

I know. And then it's Greek thinking,

isn't it? And then, you know, the Holy

Spirit, brought me back. So that scripture and he totally

opened my eyes to see that. This is not simply Only a thing

to know, it's not to be appraised intellectually.

This rock is the moment by moment eternally expanding

Universe filling revelation of Christ to my heart and to your

heart. Christ wants to reveal more of

himself to us in new and fresh ways all the time.

He is our very life. And he's continually speaking to

us words of Direction and wisdom and power.

We can never drink so deeply that we get to the end of who

Jesus is, all of eternity will not fully reveal his Mysteries

to us. And it is in this place of the

ongoing revelation of Christ, Our Hearts or his embry's Rhema

word, but he builds his church and it is this same place that

cannot be overcome by the gates of Hades.

May I suggest but controversially, but that the

church for too long now has been building with the wrong

materials. John 14:30 Jesus says, I will

John 14:30

not say much more to you for the prince of this world is coming.

He has no. Hold over me.

The word for World there is Cosmos, it's come to mean kind

of a whole universe that it initially meant the ordered

systems of the world. The ordered systems of man and

it's also where we get the word cosmetic from Satan is God of

the ordered systems of the world.

The banking system education entertainment, medical systems

are religious system, he it's in the throned over all of that,

but it's a cosmetic Kingdom because what you see is not

what's really there. What's really there is not

ordered at all, but it's much more Sinister and it's rooted in

chaos and the church has been building from using these

materials for years. Humanistic philosophies cultural

ideologies systems of man. She's look to the world and

she's made herself, Seeker sensitive and inoffensive and

relevant. A church built in this way will

be a cosmetic church and organization with a painted on

face that distracts people from their true purpose and their

true identity and does not Point towards Jesus.

At all, I tell you what, it points to it points to self and

the Mantra is, you can live your best life, that is not the

gospel. The gospel message is give up

your life so you can truly find it die to self and pick up your

cross. 2. Corinthians 2:15-17 says there's

2 Corinthians 2:15–17

and I'm reading from the Amplified love a bit of the

Amplified we for We Are The Sweet fragrance of Christ, which

exhales unto God, Among those, who are being saved and among

those who are perishing. But to the latter, it is an

aroma wafted from Death to. Death, a fatal odor.

A smell of Doom. In the former, it is an aroma

from Life To Life. A vital fragrance, living in

fresh, and who is qualified fit in sufficient for these things

who is able for such a Ministry, we will, we are not like so many

like hucksters making a trade of peddling, God's word

shortchanging and adulterating the Divine message, but like men

of sincerity and the purest motive as commissioned and sent

by God, we speak his message in Christ, the Messiah.

In the very sight and presence of God.

The church is not called to be relevant, we called to be

revelatory. The Church of Jesus Christ is

built on the ongoing revelation of who Christ is and the spoken

word of Christ is everything. There's no other means by which

Christ builds his church. Can I take this one step

further? So we read in Genesis that God

spoke the world into being and we all know that, you know,

we've all read that, that story. We all understand it.

But I find it really fascinating, right?

At the end of the book, right? The end of the Bible Revelation

Revelation 22:17

22:17. We read this, the spirit, and

the bride say, come, So, in the beginning, we've got God spoke

at the end of revelation, we have the speaking voice of the

Bride joining in. With the speaking voice of the

spirit of God, they speak in agreement with each other.

They say the same thing, they extend the same invitation and

in Ezekiel 43 2. We read this.

The voice of God is the sound of many Waters.

A couple of years ago, had been praying for understanding of

something that and there's no real time to go into that now.

But suffice to say when I read that, it just blew me away

because I immediately understood what the spirit of God was

communicating to me that just as we are the body of Christ in the

earth just to spare his hands and feet.

We are also his voice in the Earth.

We each of us have a river of Living Water on the inside of

us. John, 7:38 to him who believes a

river of Living Water will flow out of their inmost being, just

imagine with me for a moment. Just imagine if each one of us,

every one of us is living in that place where we have that

River of Life flowing out of our inmost being and just imagine a

church living in complete unity and Harmony.

What would that look like? I tell you what, that would look

like that. Would look like the voice of God

in the earth. That would look like the river

that flows out from underneath the temple in Ezekiel and gets

wider and deeper, and wider and deeper, and it ends up flowing

into the dead. Seen, it makes a salt water

fresh and it brings life, whatever it goes.

That's what it would look like. The voice of God is the sound of

many Waters. But right now in the church,

we've got issues for that River. As some of us, it's barely a

trickle. as some of us, what comes out of our mouths is more

polluted than pure and for some of us, I'll Wells the place that

the river flows out of, of become stocked up with the

traumas of Life disappointments, so that the river can't flow.

I keep hearing the Lord saying over and over and over.

I am unstopping the wells. It means he's coming to open up.

The, well, the inside of me and on the inside of you, so that

the River of Life can flow, we know we're stepping into

Revival, don't? We can also Feel it.

But can I just say, Revival is not something that gets done to

you? Revival is something that comes

comes to you and goes through you.

Did you know that the word voice is directly connected to the

word vocation? Invocation is color.

Come to me and just a job but actually the initial meaning of

the word vocation is a consecrated calling and I'm

going to read a quote from Christianity Today.

A true calling can be sustained only by abiding in Christ and

totally dependent on him if Ministry, efforts can continue

without a leader Drawing Near to God through constant.

In prayer and the faithful study of his word, it is not a real

Ministry at all. And it's most certainly not a

calling, a Divine calling cannot be self contained by any human.

Being a true calling requires God to jumpstart the effort and

God's presence to sustain it. Your voice is the expression of

your vocation. Your consecrated calling And the

Lord is, is bringing the church back to the place of

Consecration, and he's bringing each one of us into the fullness

of our consecrated call so that we can take our place in his

bride and your voice is the main way that the River of Life.

On the inside of you gets released, it's the expression of

your deepest most authentic self in Christ Jesus and you won't

find that self anywhere else except in surrender to him.

The Lord is unstopping the world so that the rivers can flow.

I'm just going to share a little bit of my story at this point.

So, when Mark Hall, be on Sunday morning, Monday morning and

asked me if I'd preach, I do, I just made my breakfast and my

appetite for my breakfast, immediately disappeared and it's

okay. And the effects of the cup of

coffee. I just consumed immediately

quadrupled You know, that it was nerves and I have felt nervous

on and off through the week because I wasn't done this

before such a large crowd. But you know, there was a time,

not long ago. Just last year actually that I

would not have been able to stand here and do this.

I've known for quite some time in my spirit that I would be

standing here and doing this. But I have battled fear, and

shame and intimidation the just an enormous degree.

It's crippled me. And, you know, when it was at

its absolute worst in church, every time I walk through the

front doors after feel it building, as I was driving in,

It was torment, the voice of God on the inside of me was saying

he walking he moving. I'm calling you to Ministry

calling you to speak. But the thing is the direction

he was leading me in was towards the shame and fear when it's so

counterintuitive. I didn't want to go that way.

I wanted to go the other way. I wanted to run and keep running

and never come back. And you know the closer I got to

break through the more torment. There was it was just like this

crushing pressure and the thing is, I didn't know that I was

just about to get to the place of breakthrough.

You don't know that until after the event.

You know what, quite honestly at times, I thought I was losing my

mind. But the thing is the just will

live by faith. We don't live by sense of Reason

sense. And reason said just run away,

Faith said keep walking. And I didn't know that I was at

a threshold. I could see Destiny.

And my spirit, I could see the promised land in my spirit, but

I just did not have a clue how to get there.

I didn't have a clue how to wait, through all that shame and

fear and get to that place at it, just felt utterly

impossible. And I felt utterly stuck on that

threshold. And then last year, holy spirit

showed me why I was stuck. You showed me that I've been

holding myself and unforgiveness the 30 years.

The long time, isn't it to hold yourself in unforgiveness.

And I was living in the place of if well, what if I hadn't

backslidden, what if I've blown it?

What if you can't use me now guard?

What if you don't love me, God. And God, what do I do?

If I do what you're telling me to do and I'll make an

absolutely G of myself and you all start throwing rotten fruit

at me. from the deepest places of Of my being.

I forgave myself because the thing is the place of it is the

place of Doubt, isn't it? The place of double mindedness

and in James 17. It says, you're in that place.

You wish that, you received nothing from God.

If was not going to let me cross over the threshold into Destiny

and into the promises of God. So yeah, I forgave myself from

the deepest place of my being most sincerity I could muster

and I repented if And I came into agreement with his voice

and you know what God did he happen to her?

Well, And you release my voice. There we go, and it would

happen. Got my tissue just in case, you

know? And I realized that that place

within me where there was so much torment and contention that

was where the well was it was out of that exact same place

that the river of Living Water would flow.

Satan knows where the wells are, who knows where the well, is in

your life, and he's working overtime to keep those.

Well, stopped up the church if we want to partner with God in

this hour, If we want to release the rivers of Life promised in

John 7:38, if we want to become the voice of God, in the earth

John 7:38

than our voice must be in agreement with his voice.

Mark 1819, have to agree on Earth, concerning anything.

They ask it will be done, you know, we tend to think of that

as me my prayer partner. Well, it is that.

But the most basic fundamental and important place of agreement

is on the inside of you where are your voice, the things you

declare and speak over yourself are in agreement and in

alignment with God's voice and the words, he speaks and

declares over you As where you have agreement, I think shall be

established, says the Lord. Not an easy thing to agree with

God's voice. Firstly, because we're not

always listening so we can't hear him in the first place.

If that's you, it's been me at times.

If that's you you don't know what God is saying.

It's still before him. I'm away with him until you do

hear his voice. Those are says this.

Says, God is always speaking and our Eternal welfare depends on

our hearing. And yet we've trained ourselves,

not to hear. Whoever will listen, we'll hear

the speaking heaven and God's voice is a friendly voice.

But listening today is not a part of popular religion.

We have accepted the Monstrous heresy that noise sighs activity

and Bluster May Commander to God and he was right in that in the

1940s. There weren't even any smoke

machines or subwoofers. When he wrote that.

Secondly, we struggle to agree with God's voice because we so

often mix up our own voice and the voice of the enemy with

God's voice. You know, I used to do that.

I mean that was the place I lived in for a long time and I

remember, once I was sitting on my bed at home, Having a quiet

time in the Lord began to speak to me about living water.

And I was reading through the word, all these places in the

Holy Spirit was hooking it all up for me and joining this first

with this fast, but more than that, it was as if this window

of Heaven opened up above my head and Living Water poured out

and it was the most glorious thing.

It just undid me and did all of the fear and the shame.

It's like, they were singing earlier in your presence.

My shame is undone and that is what happened. and I remember

sitting there thinking, This is what his voice sounds like.

It doesn't sound Nagy or condescending or picky or

downright unkind that was my voice.

And that was the enemy's voice. His voice toward those who seek

him with their whole heart is always kind and loving always

full of Hope and life, and glory.

And I think the third reason that we struggle to agree with

God's voice is because it requires faith in my experience.

God's voice doesn't appeal to send some reason he asks

outlandish impossible things of us his word, terrify our flesh

and we incline our ears to the enemy who Whispers really say,

because we can't make sense of it and our natural mind and

we're not meant to the just shall live by faith.

Church. We have to know that we are

stepping into a new era and this era is preparation for the bride

to be made ready and for the King of Kings to come again.

And just as G as Jesus came, the first.

And when he came the first time, we know we read in scripture,

the spirit of Elijah was on John.

The Baptist. The way the spirit of Elijah is

in the Earth again. And, you know, John the Baptist,

he came out of the Wilderness saying I must decrease and he

must increase. And as I was stepping into the

place of leadership and Gathering the profits, which is

something that the Lord asked me to do this debate between my

voice, and God's voice was ongoing and slow learner.

And I kept saying to God, I can't do it, I can't do.

You've got the wrong person, I can't do.

I'm not even very prophetic, I can't do it.

Pick that one. Pick that one.

Then, be much better than me, you know.

God, spoke to me. Me. you know, he disciplines

those, he loves And he said, to me, stepping into Destiny and

taking your place, in this new era requires a radical

agreement, with my voice and a radical suppression of your

flesh. In other words, radical

subjection of my voice to his voice.

And I immediately had a picture of me standing on the cardboard

recycling after Christmas. But you've got that much

cardboard and that much box to put it into Radical suppression

of the Flash. worship team, if you'd like to The Lord is

unstopping Wells. All over this church.

He's releasing the River of Life so that it can flow and

Hindenburg. And, you know, it's a glorious

thing. But from our perspective, it

doesn't always look glorious. 2 Corinthians 3:18 tells us that

2 Corinthians 3:18

we go from glory to glory, but I think we read that glory to

glory and what we think is Comfort to comfort success to

success, benefit to benefit, That's not what it's like.

To go to a new level of Glory will cost you?

It will cost you yourself. It will cost you what's

comfortable? It will cost you.

What's reasonable? So as the Lord and stops the

wells in this church, what does it look like?

I'll tell you what it looks like.

It looks like deep Brokenness. It looks like repentance.

It looks like surrender and the release of deep pain looks like

forgiveness. Where we have to forgive others

and ourselves. It looks messy and real and roll

at the breakout from meeting on Tuesday.

Richard said something that really stuck with me and it

stayed with me all week. He said this move of God will

come through people's Brokenness and it will,

So church. I believe that there are some

here today. And what I've said is impacted

you Maybe, touch some of you deeply.

You've heard God's words you've heard his prompt her to be

leading you. But your own voice has been

arguing with God. Disagreeing with, and if that's

you, I'd like you to stay.