Daily Word

1. God’s presence: «I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own» (John, 10:14).

2. God’s holiness: «I am the good shepherd» (John,10:11а)

The Bible says that God called Abram His friend. God came to Abram and said that He cannot hide from him what He has purposed to do: «And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him”»(Быт.18:17-19)

1. To give us revelation about God (about Himself).

First of all, God will speak to us in order to reveal the truth about Himself. If we fail to hear the voice of God we will never get Him to know well enough to become His friends.

Þ When you hear God’s voice you will be strong.

Þ You will be able to easily break the strongholds of life.

Þ You will be able to walk through fiery tests and stay unharmed.

When we hear the Lord’s voice it strengthens us and takes disorder and confusion out of our lives. When we hear the Lord’s voice it awakens in us the spirit of faith and raises us up into God’s dimension.

Let’s look at some verses of Scripture that tell us about the benefits of hearing God’s voice and being led by the Spirit.

There are two dimensions of faith:

THE WORD OF FAITH

«But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or “’Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach)» (Romans, 10: 6-8)

The Bible also states that everything God does endures forever. Nobody is able to destroy or cancel what God makes and builds. For this reason nobody was able to harm Jesus before the appointed time, when Jesus Himself gave up His soul. Jesus was protected by God the Father because he followed the leading and the guidance of the Father.

Usually, we never dedicate time to something unless we realise its advantage and strict necessity for us. When we realise what we are losing by not understanding and hearing God’s voice, then we can become zealous and motivated to do our best in order to dedicate time and attention to it.
You must understand that satan is a thief and given a smallest chance he will take away all our privileges and opportunities in God.

15 times in the New Testament Jesus repeats the expression «He who has ears to hear, let him hear» (see Matthew 11:15; 13:9,43; Mark 4:9, 23; 7:16; Luke 8:18; 14:35; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6,13,22; 13:9).

The Philip’s translation of the Bible states it the following way: “The man who has ears to hear must use them”.

In order to do that, we must learn to hear His voice. God speaks to us but we need to learn to discern and hear His voice.

We discussed the meaning of two Greek words – LOGOS and RHEMA – which are both translated as ‘word’ in the Bible.