Sunday Re-Cap 25th June 2006

When God Speaks
By Ps Kul Bal

1 Sam 3:9-10

• Many times we say “Listen LORD, thy servant speaks..” instead of “speak LORD, thy servant heareth”.
• The Most important thing for a believer is to hear the voice of God.
• We may think our Eli is calling i.e. sickness, depression, poverty, old nature; if we don’t recognize the voice of God.

God will test us in 4 ways (Gen 22)
4 TEST pressure points:

1. Present Reality

• Whatever is happening currently.


• We must realize that God is watching us on how we respond and not our current situation. Many times we focus on the situation when God is focusing on something else.

2. Time

• Test of time.


• Building Faith and Patience.

3. Oppressors

• Oppressing and diminishing our vision.


• Often people who are close to us.


• We have to ignore the opressors and the negative voice within.

4. Adversities

• Demonic.


• Stop us in the direction that God is taking us.


• Distractions.

When God Speaks we normally go through 7 stages:

1. Excitement

2. Doubt

3. Fear

At this point we must:

4. Remember, Repeat, Rehearse the WORD

5. Apply FAITH

6. Put into ACTION

7. Joy (Gen 22:13-14)

Most of us go through these steps. However many people stop at point 3 and miss their victory. Let us be people who carry it through from steps 4-7. Let us be like JESUS.

Heb 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Phi 2:5-11
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth; And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.