Hearing From God

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Most of us want to hear from God. We want truth, for only the truth will set us free. But we go our own way so often. We do not ask God what he is thinking.

(4/24/2005) Dr. Dianne McIntosh spoke at both services today. She emphasized that we need to hear what God is saying.

She brought out the point that Christ continually is making intercession for us. We need to ask the Lord what His prayer is for us; what His prayer is for other people. When we pray for ourselves and others as Christ is praying, our prayer always is answered.

As she always does, Dianne emphasized repentance. The Lord Jesus said we are to worship the Father in spirit and in truth. It is vain for us to go to church and pretend we are living a righteous life, when this is not the truth. When we find we are doing this we need to repent and confess to the Lord that we are not being sincere.

Dr. Dianne feels as many of us do, that she no longer wishes to "play church." We want to hear from the Lord. We want to know what Christ is saying, not what we think He might be saying as we play our little church games.

There is no question in my mind but that the Lord Jesus wants to do a deeper work within us, and within many other congregations as well. We need to permit Him to speak to us so all that is not sincere in our life will be renounced as we draw closer to Him.

She told how in her own family that if they fought on the way to church, and then pretended while in church everything was lovely, they then would have their own prayer meeting on the way home from church as each family member repented of his or her behaviour.

It certainly is time to make straight the way of the Lord!

Dianne remarked, concerning the woman at the well, that she had had five husbands and now was living with a new man. Dianne remarked that sometimes we or our children have to live in the pigsty for a while before we are ready to drink of the water of eternal life; and for this reason we should not despair concerning a wayward young person.

What a wonderful time we are living in as the Lord Jesus Christ comes to us and shows us our need of Him, and how we should be conducting our life. Without doubt the coming of Christ in His Kingdom is near at hand, and He is preparing us to work with Him as He establishes justice upon the earth.

At night Dianne elaborated on training people to hear the Lord. She pointed out that we sometimes hear Christ in our inner man, but when the message reaches our brain we may misunderstand what God is saying because we have "itchy ears." By this she meant we select what we want to hear and screen out the rest.

She brought out several passages of Scripture that speak of our having ears to hear. She emphasized that God’s sheep hear His voice but the lambs do not. Therefore we have to teach our children how to listen to the Lord.