Wednesday, 29 June 2016

God Speaks




God speaks to every one of us; we just have to learn how to listen. I am still learning because I have realized that He speaks to us in various ways. Every individual just has to Identify the one way in which God communicates with him that he understands the most, and develop his hearing ability in that direction.


It may not be very easy to do, but I assure you it is not impossible. We need to pray to Him for the ability to hear Him and understand Him better, and also to understand the things He says to us, as they are usually directions on how to live our lives; what directions to take, what to do in every situation that we face. He is a loving father to all of us, and He desires only the best for all of us. It does not matter whether we are the worst sinners or not, for we are all sinners and have fallen short of His Glory. (Romans 3:23)


Just as God speaks to all of us, He also hears us all when we pray to Him – whether He answers our prayers or not is another topic all together. We can however, develop ourselves spiritually so that God will listen and answer us when we come to Him in prayer. Development, as we know, does not happen overnight, it takes time, consistency, devotion, meditation on His word and perseverance. God is ever willing to forgive us all of our sins and welcome us into His fold, into His bosom, but it is left for us to seek Him and desire to be in His presence, for He has given every one free-will to choose our paths – whether we want to walk the broad road that leads to the devil or the narrow path that leads to God and His heavenly kingdom.


[Matthew 7:13-14 New International Version (NIV) 13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.]


We will do well to choose wisely; for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. (Mark 8:36)


On Free-Will






Proverbs 16:9

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. 


Joshua 24:15

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” 


John 7:17

If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. 


Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 


1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 


John 1:12-13

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 


Deuteronomy 30:19-20

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” 


Genesis 2:16-17

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 


Galatians 5:16-17

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 


Mark 8:34

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 


Deuteronomy 11:26-28

“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. 


James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 


Isaiah 55:6-7

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 


Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 


Romans 14:12

So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. 


Romans 10:13

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 


Romans 6:16

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?