Hearing the Voice Of God | Friday, July 08, 2005
Last month, there was a mission conference known as Go4 organised by the churches in Singapore. This was the 2nd time Go4 was organised in English and the first time that the chinese churches in Singapore has joined to participate. I was very blessed when I went in to hear James Taylor, one of Hudson Taylor''s desecendants to speak and the passion he spoke was evident in his speech and animation. He mentioned that the price of Jesus was great and that when we are slain by the Holy Spirit, when we rose up again, we should be different. We cannot be the same as when we are moved by the power of the Holy Spirit and fell to the ground and rise up again just like Saul fell from the ground when he met God on the road to Damascus and that he rose up as Paul, one of the greatest apostles and defenders of the faith.
I was very moved when I heard this but the greatest impact that came to me was that James Taylor read a letter from Hudson taylor and Hudson Taylor mentioned this words, "Can we do enough for the Lord and can we do too much for the Lord?" My answer rose up within me that nope, anything and everything I do won''t be enough of what my heart desires to do and that I have only one life and that this life should be lived meaningfully for the Lord. Another Speaker of the Go4 conference pointed out that Abraham heard one Word from the Lord, who told him to move out of his familiar surroundings and to go into a place that he has not known, Joseph, one dream to sustain him in his darkest times, Moses, one vision to propel him to lead the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. In my teenage life, I too heard the Voice of God in my life and that has been my guiding point throughout my life even now. My path of life, ministry and theological studies all started just because of that Word and even now, I see my life unfolding little by little every day and yet, there are times when I feel uncertain of the way I should go and would seek God as like a oracle seeking for directions of what should I do next or which direction I should go? That night, when I heard the speaker say that, i was very prompted and I asked the Lord for one more Word, dream and vision to propel my way or rather a kind of cataylst to move my life forward in the direction of where God wanted to move me and the Lord said this very clearly to me that I have spoken to you already. I was very impacted and I almost wept before the Lord and I was blessed in such a way I never know and that is how I feel that God speaks to us.
He has spoken to each of us in our lives, be it in different stages of our lives such as a child, youth, a young adult, mature adult or in old age but the end thing is that I long to hear Him say, "Well-done, my good and faithful servant." The Lord has moved my heart and He reminded me that when I am a child, He has called me to serve Him and that He has made the same calls throughout my life and now, He reminded me that I have already spoken to you and called you, wouls you follow Me? and My answer is found in Psalm 27:11, "When Thou didst say to me , ''Seek My Face,'' my heart says to Thee, ''Thy Face O Lord, I will seek.'' That is my answer and my cry and I pray that would be your answer too when the Lord asked you the same question. May you be blessed when you read this.
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