I am in awe of the gift that God has placed on this man’s life and the skill with which he uses it. Jetlagged as he was he still managed to hold the whole place spellbound with the way that he explained the scriptures. By the time he had finished I was ready to sit there for another hour or two and have him keep going. It’s worth getting the DVD or CD if you can get your hands on it, the brief notes I am writing here aren’t going to do the message justice.
He was talking from the passage in 1 Samuel 3:1-11 where God calls Samuel one night. He started out about talking about how God is always a god of transition and movement, that it is no use putting up a monument or a flag to say that here is where God moves because where God is moving and how he moves changes. This is why we need to be listening to the voice of God rather than relying on past revelation. He made the point that the Holy Spirit is always referred to in scripture as something that changes: A fire, a river, a rushing wind. We need to remain flexible and teachable.
He then went on to make the point that we need to maintain and build both our vertical relationships with God and our horizontal relationships with man in order to remain flexible. Eli has lost his vertical relationship: he thinks Hannah is drunk because he is unfamiliar with that sort of crying out to God, he takes a long time to realise that God is talking to Samuel, God isn’t talking to him. Eli’s spiritual sesnses have been dulled throgh lack of use, we need to exercise our spiritual senses by using them. When we praise and worship God we tap into what is already going on in heaven, reestablishing our vertical relationship.
Bishop Jakes then went back to talking about transition. Samuel was nurtured by Hannah, weaned, trained by Eli and now he is in transition to being called by God. He made the point that you don’t want to have people in your ministry who have not been weaned otherwise you are turning the church into a nursery. Samuel is transitioning from relying on the voice of a man to relying on the voice of God. If God is calling us with a new movement we shouldn’t keep on going back to the voices and people of tradition to validate oiur experience, we need to learn to transition to hearing the new move of God.
Samuel has to go back to the right place to hear God. If we go to all the trouble to get to a place where we hear God we cannot let Satan push us out of that place.
T.D. Jakes brought mighty blessing to all who heard him that night.
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I am in awe of the gift that God has placed on this man’s life and the skill with which he uses it. Jetlagged as he was he still managed to hold the whole place spellbound with the way that he explained the scriptures. By the time he had finished I was ready to sit there for another hour or two and have him keep going. It’s worth getting the DVD or CD if you can get your hands on it, the brief notes I am writing here aren’t going to do the message justice.
He was talking from the passage in 1 Samuel 3:1-11 where God calls Samuel one night. He started out about talking about how God is always a god of transition and movement, that it is no use putting up a monument or a flag to say that here is where God moves because where God is moving and how he moves changes. This is why we need to be listening to the voice of God rather than relying on past revelation. He made the point that the Holy Spirit is always referred to in scripture as something that changes: A fire, a river, a rushing wind. We need to remain flexible and teachable.
He then went on to make the point that we need to maintain and build both our vertical relationships with God and our horizontal relationships with man in order to remain flexible. Eli has lost his vertical relationship: he thinks Hannah is drunk because he is unfamiliar with that sort of crying out to God, he takes a long time to realise that God is talking to Samuel, God isn’t talking to him. Eli’s spiritual sesnses have been dulled throgh lack of use, we need to exercise our spiritual senses by using them. When we praise and worship God we tap into what is already going on in heaven, reestablishing our vertical relationship.
Bishop Jakes then went back to talking about transition. Samuel was nurtured by Hannah, weaned, trained by Eli and now he is in transition to being called by God. He made the point that you don’t want to have people in your ministry who have not been weaned otherwise you are turning the church into a nursery. Samuel is transitioning from relying on the voice of a man to relying on the voice of God. If God is calling us with a new movement we shouldn’t keep on going back to the voices and people of tradition to validate oiur experience, we need to learn to transition to hearing the new move of God.
Samuel has to go back to the right place to hear God. If we go to all the trouble to get to a place where we hear God we cannot let Satan push us out of that place.
T.D. Jakes brought mighty blessing to all who heard him that night.
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