If you have given your life to Jesus, you have an amazing privilege to be able to hear His voice and walk in fellowship with His Spirit. It was God’s delight to provide you with this gift combination so that you can have everything thing you need in your life here on earth.
I sometimes wonder what my life would have been like if I’d known about Jesus earlier in my life. Bur, then I realize that I wouldn’t be as strong as I am today without the past experiences I’ve had to endure. It’s our sorrow’s that we have in life that lead us to the Salvation God has for us.
It is by God’s design that we are able to know Him deeply. And as we grow through the journey of discovery. His plan is that we become His mouthpiece and become one of His prophetic people. Through our experiences and traumas in life, we may be able to become a bridge for others to come to Jesus.
God often leaves me awestruck by the people and situations He leads me to in order to be His mouthpiece to help a hurting person.
In order to walk out God’s plan for our lives and do it well there are five vital goals that every true believer in Jesus should have.
To remain tenderly aligned with God’s heart and be reflective of His true nature as we yield to Him and become a conduit to release His words of love, strength, and hope.
1. Protect Your Relationship With God
This has to be your highest priority. Life is like a grand buffet with endless, appealing choices you can heap onto your plate. But we all know how miserable it is after overeating, so in reality, there is only so much we can do with life while still maintaining good health. We should always keep God on the center of our plate.
Know sometimes we will have to forfeit other desirable things in order to choose God. God never said to believe in Him and then go into the world and do what ever we want to do. You may have to skip out on some social media time, or other social opportunities in order to enjoy extra time with God. But in the end you will see the blessings that are attached.
At what price will to pay to protect and prioritize your relationship with God? At what price will you pay to be a friend of God. How hungry are you to not just have the knowledge about God but to know Him deeply, and personally?
2. Study And Model God’s Heart And Character
When you decide you want to dive deeply into God. He will take you on a journey to teach you about who He really is. And He is like no one else. He reveals things to you about His nature and what motivates Him. If you give Him a chance He will strip away all the junk you’ve picked up in the world and give you a fresh new observation on life.
If you make it your goal to truly know Him, the God of the Bible will illuminate the truth of His word so that your heart can understand what your head knows. He will teach you the way to love, demonstrated by His every word and action toward you.
3. Learn God’s Language And Timing
As you dig into God’s Word, you will find that God’s messages to people often seem come from a shroud of mystery. From dreams to visions to parables you’ll begin to see that symbols are a common part of His language. Proverbs 25:2 tells us, “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” As God prophetic people, He invites us to search out what He has hidden. We can do this by pursuing God, not by reasoning with our minds, for interpretations belong to God (Genesis 40:8). To learn God’s language we must listen for His Spirit to unlock understanding of His revelation.
Likewise, we must depend on God’s wisdom to discern His timing. As with Joseph, who was a teenager when he received a symbolic dream from God that indicated that someday his family would bow down to him. Joseph likely didn’t realize that it would be many years before this would play out in his life. Our human nature typically seeks immediate application when we hear from God. At times we will have a deep witness in our spirit of the correlation of what God is saying with a present situation. But when His words seem puzzling it is best to protect the word by writing it down. Ponder and pray over it, knowing that when the time is right, the Holy Spirit will unlock what God has revealed.
4. Be A Conduit Of God’s Love
It doesn’t take great discernment to seethe negative in the world. But what makes an impact is Spirit-led truth that is sourced from the heart of God, who is Love. If we don’t speak out of His love, we become ineffective in speaking the truth of God, and therefore it holds no value. Jesus Himself said that on the last day some will remind Him that they prophesied and preformed miracles in His Name, but He will reply that He never knew them (Matthew 7:22-23). God makes it clear in His Word that He is looking for people to be His voice on the earth. Prophecy is in His heart. But if the prophetic is not fueled by the love of God, it will completely miss the mark of God’s intention and be worthless in His eyes.
“If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing” – 1 Corinthians13:2.
On the other hand, if we are stewarding our relationship with God and studying His character with a desire to truly know Him, we will catch a personal revelation of His great love for us, which inevitably will cause us to speak God’s truth out of the overflow. “We love because He first loved us” – 1 John 4:19.
5. Humbly Walk In Fear Of The Lord
“Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom” – Proverbs 11:2.
Being a representative of God is a privilege that should have no pride attached to it. To hear from God is a gift that could be handled with the greatest humility. God tests our hearts to see what we will do with what He gives us. Revelation should never be paraded around or shared to glorify ourselves. Some personal whispers from God should never be shared. And others will be key to set the captives free.
The key to properly delivering God’s Word is to depend on His wisdom and to stay close to His heart, We can learn when God gives us the unction to speak what He has told you. He gives grace to the humble. If you always point people toward Jesus and stay soft and teachable, the Lord will train you as His spokesperson. As you protect your purity and maintain the right heart motivation, you will learn to serve God and His people and to represent Him well.
Humility and fear of the Lord go hand in hand. Jesus Himself walked with the Will of His Father. He said and did only as He saw His Father doing. God desires to align your life in reverence to what pleases Him and establishes His will.
God’s people should be sensitive and obedient to His promptings. They should depend on His leadership in every aspect of their lives.
From Pity to Praise 