The Invitation/ Prepared/ Maturing in Christ

I’ve Got The Power

Heb 9:13-15 March 18, 2017

When the Father in Heaven speaks to you, you should listen. Not that you should ever ignore the voice of Jesus or the Holy Ghost for that matter. They do all have a distinct voice. In my personal experience of walking with the Lord, the Father does not speak directly to the believer very often. It usually comes through Jesus our mediator or through the gentle instruction of the Holy Ghost or an angel or messenger of the Lord. If the Father gets involved, He is insisting we listen or else we could face serious judgement for our lack of Godly fear and reverence toward him. An example that comes to mind in the scriptures is when Moses was on Mount Horeb and the Father spoke to him about bringing deliverance to the children of Israel.

“Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;” Ex. 3:1-7

In the Bible, God often sends His message through an angel. Abraham was visited by an angel or angels several times to caution him or inform him in advance about something God was going to do, like the birth of Isaac, and its significance and promise. Lot was visited by a pair of angels to warn him of the coming judgement on Sodom and Gomorrah, and to warn him to flee from Sodom, so he and his family would not perish in the coming destruction. The angel, Gabriel, visited Zacharias to inform him of John’s birth, he also visited Mary, Jesus’ mother, to tell her she had found favor in the Lord to bear the Christ. An angel appeared to reassure Joseph her betrothed husband that Mary was carrying the child by the Holy Ghost. The shepherds tending the flocks at the birth of Christ were reassured that the Savior had come and to go and witness it. There are far too many instances like that to mention here. Tidings of great joy or prophetic events are often delivered through an appointed messenger from Heaven. The Father will at times deliver a truth or declaration to the believer personally, to emphasize something of great importance or urgency but more often His word is delivered through a messenger. A message whether from an appointed messenger of God, or from the Father himself should be taken with all gravity and reverential fear, to be sealed on your heart. It very often relates to your personal testimony and relationship with the Lord, as well as those people you have relationships with. God is doing you a real kindness to speak to you directly because he does have pity on us in our struggles if we aren’t stubborn.

One day I was going about my business. I had some tasks to do for our web site and was working on that when the power went out unexpectedly. It was a sunny spring day, no weather that would have done any damage to take the power out, nor any accidents in the area, it was unusual. Now, I might have worked under battery power with my computer, except we lost our internet connection, that kept me out of the network we use. So I sat down and considered how I should use my time next, until the power was restored. I decided I had some errands to run so I got my purse and car keys and headed out to my car. I attempted to start it, and all it did was click. It had almost no juice, not enough to start my car, so I couldn’t go anywhere. Now, I thought to myself, this is really weird. I looked for some way to jump my car, but I had no cables and all the other cars were gone from the household. I called my husband to see if he could help, and he was too far away at work to be able to come give me a jump on that particular day. I then asked the Lord about it, and The Father Himself said to me very clearly, “I’ve Got the Power”. That stopped me in my tracks and I paused to consider what He meant.

I sat in the warm sun of our garden to listen to what the Lord wanted me to hear from him and I realized that it was actually quite simple, but some people want to make it more complicated than it really is, and I count myself among them. Despite all our modern conveniences and technology, which makes us believe we are in control of our lives and in what we do, in truth, we can go nowhere and do nothing unless the Lord allows it. God did some extraordinary things, interrupting my day as I had planned it, to make me believe it and begin to comprehend He is the Lord over all, all things. In reading God’s Word, we should be able to understand this, but often God has to impress these things upon us, so we really can get it and apply it to our faith. The sooner we can do this the better off we will be if we are to walk in His realm.

Upon hearing from the Lord and considering it, I decided to call AAA to help me with my car battery. When I went back into the house to get my phone, I discovered the power had come back on. About an hour later, I had a new car battery and went about my errands and was able to complete the tasks I had originally undertaken, later on in the day. This time though, I did these tasks with the understanding that I was only able to by God’s will and not my own will alone. If you endeavor to do any work for the Lord, be sure you are doing it at His behest, not something contrived by yourself, which will result in dead works. Not only that, but we might think it is an appropriate use of our time to do some task at hand, when in reality, the Lord would prefer we listen to Him and consider what He is saying to us about something far deeper. The real work of waiting on the Lord and listening is the important work we have to do in learning to follow the Lord and repent from trying to lead Him.

“For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And for this cause he is mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.” Hebrews 9:13-15