{"id":11738,"date":"2024-08-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=11738"},"modified":"2016-07-24T00:08:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T21:08:06","slug":"do-you-hear-what-god-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/do-you-hear-what-god-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hear What God Speaks?"},"content":{"rendered":"Peace to you and grace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!\r\n\r\nI greet you in our column “Daily Word for Spiritual Strength”! Today, I want to start a conversation about a very significant theme: Do You Hear What God Speaks.\r\n\r\nGod speaks constantly! The question is whether you hear what He says.\r\n\r\nGod created everything by His Word, and He holds everything together by the power of His Word.\r\n
“And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”\u00a0(Genesis 1:3).<\/h6>\r\n
“The Son is the radiance of God\u2019s glory and the exact representation of His being,\u00a0sustaining all things by His powerful word<\/u>. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”\u00a0(Hebrews 1:3).<\/h6>\r\nOnce Jesus said,<\/u>\r\n
“My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of My Father\u2019s hand.”\u00a0(John 10:27-29).<\/h6>\r\nIn this excerpt, Jesus speaks about the sheep that hear His voice. Jesus said about them, “I\u00a0give<\/u>\u00a0them eternal life.” He did not say, “I\u00a0gave<\/u>them eternal life”. The word “gave” is the past form, and if Jesus had said that He had given eternal life, this would mean that God has already given eternal life and it is forever. But, as Jesus used the word “give”, this is understood as present tense, but not as the eternal life which we received after we repented by receiving Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. Jesus speaks about every-day salvation which He grants us if we obey and follow His voice every day.\r\n\r\nOnce God opened my eyes to see the difference between the life of resurrection which we received after repentance, and the life in abundance which we enjoy every day. The life of resurrection is within us and we receive it the day we repent. But today we can meet very many people who have the life of resurrection, but they are unhappy. How many such believers do you know \u2013 they come to church but at the same time they are not satisfied with their lives? There are very many such people! What is the problem? The problem is that they have the life of resurrection, but they do not have the life in abundance. What is the difference between the life of resurrection and the life in abundance? Jesus said,\r\n
\u00a0“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.”\u00a0(John 10:27-28).<\/h6>\r\nBy this, Jesus wanted to say that no shocks and no problems or obstacles will not snatch His sheep out of God\u2019s hands as long as they hear His voice.\r\n\r\nWhether we want it or not, we constantly hear someone\u2019s voice.\r\n\r\nSometimes you can hear your voice of common sense, which impose and dictate to you certain thoughts. However, if you live by the voice of your common sense, you\u2019ll never be able to enter the supernatural sphere, from which God initiates His works. Your mind cannot understand God, therefore life dictated by common sense prevents that you receive from God what He has prepared for you.\r\n\r\nBible says:\r\n
“However, as it is written:\u00a0“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him.””\u00a0(1.Corinthians 2:9).<\/h6>\r\nIf this is so, but the Bible – it is the truth, your common sense does not know the whole truth about your life, about your circumstances and your future. The common sense must not dictate us, what we believe or believe not. Every believer must learn to intentionally ignore the voice of common sense, especially when it does not coincide with what God says. You cannot hear God\u2019s voice, if you listen all the time to the voice of your common sense.\r\n\r\nMay God richly bless you today!\r\n\r\nWe will meet tomorrow!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"God speaks constantly! The question is whether you hear what He says.\r\n\r\nGod created everything by His Word, and He holds everything together by the power of His Word.\r\n\r\n“And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3).","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/depositphotos_90857718-stock-photo-curious-young-male-trying-to-e1664291651776.webp",600,400,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38698,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions\/38698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}