KINGDOM PRACTICALS.

God desires to speak and commune with all Christians. In fact, hearing His voice and communing with Him is an inherited priveledge every believer posseses because of our adoption through Jesus Christ.

But very few Christians live in tangible communion with God. Jesus, on the other hand, lived completely by His Father's voice. Regardless of where He was lead or how great the cost, Jesus listened and obeyed the Father.

The root of the issue in regards to hearing God's voice is abandonment. To what degree are you abandoned to God? If He told you to sell your car, would you? If He told you to move across the country, would you? If He told you to pray for the cashier at the grocery store, would you?

Most of us stop the flow of God's voice into our lives because of fear. We're afraid of what He might tell us. We're afraid that He might tell us our pirorities are out of line or we are carrying bitterness in our hearts. 

God's voice is Spirit and Truth and sharper than any two-edged sword. It will cut you deep and reveal the substance of your heart. But it is a healing incision! In His mercy He cuts away the cancerous sin so that we can live freely and fully.

A seasoned Indonesian missionary once gave a challenge revealing the level of abandonment needed to hear God's voice constantly and consistently: "You must live by the three A's: anything, anytime, anywhere."

Let us so abandon ourselves to God's leading that we will do anything He says, anytime He says it, no matter where we are.

Grace and Peace,

JP Hennessy, youth director