Last night was the final week of our Sunday night equipping seminars @ the Halifax Vineyard. I talked on a practical level about hearing the voice of God as the basis to every spiritual gift. Very simply, when we learn to hear and obey God's voice, all sorts of powerful things begin to happen through us. Healings, prophecies, encouragement, miracles, words of knowledge and wisdom etc- all of these are the results of listening to what God wants to do in the moment and then stepping out and taking the risk to obey what we hear.
See, Jesus only did what he saw his Father doing (John 5:19). That means as Jesus would hear the Father's voice in the context of intimacy and see something that God desired to do, he simply did that thing.
Sometimes the result was opening a pair of blind eyes, other times it was telling a demon to leave. Sometimes it meant speaking to a wind and rain storm, or forgiving someone's sins, or raising a dead person back to life. Multiplying bread, turning water to wine and announcing the kingdom's arrival all began with the ability to listen and respond to these little nudges from God's Spirit.
Well, after the teaching it was time to put the words into practice and do the works. We brought a couple of people up in front of the group, and took the time to ask the God what he wanted to say to them. As the group sensed the Holy Spirit speaking, they shared what they heard. The result was tremendous encouragement for everyone involved. God came near with prophetic gifts to a group of ordinary people who weren't even wearing their TV evangelist costumes!
I'm speaking at a youth gathering tomorrow night on doing the ministry of Jesus. I have a really good sense about it. More to follow...
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