One of the keys to Christian living, to spiritual life, to success in the Christian life, to growth in the realm of the Spirit, is being able to hear the word or to hear a word from God. The Holy Spirit was sent to lead and guide you into all truth, but He cannot lead you if you cannot hear Him. You cannot hear Him unless you read the Bible. You cannot be faithful to the spoken word if you are not faithful to the written word. If you open yourself up to receive revelation knowledge from the Holy Spirit, your life will never be the same. God is always speaking! God is always speaking in the earth, but who hears Him when He speaks? I want you to become one who hear the Lord when He speaks. If you want to receive revelation knowledge (the secret things of God revealed to you by the Holy Spirit), you must position yourself to hear God’s voice. It is important as a child of God to know God intimately and not just have a casual acquaintance with Him. You must learn to hear the word of God from God in order to mature and grow into the vessel or servant that God wants to use.

God’s word is powerful and when you put the word in a heart of faith it will come to pass. This is why what you hold in faith you can be sure that it will come to pass. If you don’t give up, if you don’t give in, if you don’t get tired, God will bring it to pass. You do your part and God will do His part. What is God’s part? The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. There is a process. You and the word of God go through a process. You hold the word in your heart in faith and go through a process of faith. The process is the work of the Holy Spirit. He comes upon you and overshadows you, and when He is done with His work, what you are holding, the word of God in your heart in faith, shall become sight, shall manifest itself, shall come to pass in the earth.

To see God’s plan manifested in your life you must seek to have a deeper consecration and deeper walk with God. Some…no…many of you know already that you have been called to live this life. You have no other desire, no other will, no other hungering in you soul. You want to experience the life of God, the power of God, the gifts of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit pass through you. You know already that this is why you are in the earth. You know that it is your destiny. Yield your all to God and let Him fill you with His life and power. Yield your all to God and let His presence and power in you transform your life, transform you into a new person; let Him reveal the  divine nature of God in you. Yield your all to God and let His presence and power in you be       your source to overcome all weaknesses all temptations, anything you may go through while doing the work of God in the earth. Yield your all to God and let His presence and power in you empower you for service.

Today, we are called to a deeper walk with God. I cannot wait on you. You can not wait on me.  But as the Spirit of God is dealing with you, you must move accordingly. Ephesians 4:1, reads, “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”   And in I John 2:6, “He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”  He who?  Jesus. He walked in complete obedience to the will of God. He lived a life of self-denial. He was steadfast, honest and upright. Most of all, He walked in love. Today we are called ot walk as Jesus walked..

To follow Christ you must pick up your cross, die daily and follow Him. This is no small statement. You must have a strong, very strong, commitment. Those who have are called strange, peculiar people. Why? Well, first of all those who talk this way and live out what they say have been dealt with by God. They know that God’s hand has been on them for some time; they have gone through seasons of preparation before God. Some of that has had to do with suffering, pain, failures, disappointments, and shame until now they know what they want in life, and they know who they want. They are not perfect individuals. Anytime they could quit or give up, but something inside of them won’t let them quit, won’t let them give up. They know that they have been bought with a price. They know that they no longer belong to themselves. And they have come to the place in their lives where all they live for, work for, strive for is to do the will of God and be found faithful.

The word of God is a creative word, a creative force. According to the creation account, things came into being when God spoke words. The psalmist wrote, “By the word of LORD were the heavens made” (Psa. 33:6,9), “For he spake, and it was done, he commanded and it stood fast.” And from the writer of Hebrews, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God (Heb. 11:3). God’s power is in His word.  It will not return to Him empty. Isa. 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Meditate this.

Haven’t you heard of Prov 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he? You become what you think in your heart. You have what you think, what you hold in your heart. The Christian holds the word of God in their heart in faith and that is what they become; that is what they have, that is what they receive. Now you know why those hard knock. The enemy is trying to knock the word right out of you. Now you know why you are having it so hard. You are not suppose to keep the word in your heart in faith. But you make up your mind that no matter what it takes, no matter what you go through, you are going to keep what God has given to you. You are going to hold on to the words He has sown into your heart, for it is going to come to pass, if you faint not.

God will not give you a rod today. He will not give to you a mantle. Nowhere in the New Testament will you find a rod or a mantle. But you will find God giving His word.  God will give His word. You have to hold that word in your heart in faith. What do you mean hold the word of God in faith? You keep the word in your heart and before your eyes, and in your mouth at all times. It sounds silly but it works. You meditate on it day and night. You hold it in faith. You allow nothing to take the word from you, to distract you, to cause you to lose your focus on the word of God. There will be trials; there will be test to take your mind off the word. You will go through great suffering and woes; but keep the word in your heart, before your eyes and in your mouth. The Devil will attack your body for the word sake. He will attack your family to get to you. But keep the word in your heart and in due season God will bring that word to pass.

What did God give to Mary, the person that was about to become a handmaiden of the Lord, an instrument in the hands of God, the servant of God? What did He give to the one who would give birth to His Son in the earth? What did He give to the willing vessel that He would work through to manifest Himself in the earth?  For she told the angel: Luke 1:38 “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” He gave to Mary His word. She had nothing but what He said to her…No mantle…No rod. She had to hold God’s word in faith. Her part was to hold the word in her heart in faith. Don’t drop it. Don’t doubt it. Don’t turn it a loose.  Hold it in your heart until God brings it to pass. How would He bring it to pass? Answer: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. In other words, the Holy Spirit has to do His work. Can you hold the word in faith until the Holy Spirit completes His work?

The ultimate purpose for those who believe on the Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ is to “go and bear fruit”. You reach the height of your life in Christ when you “go and bear fruit”. As children of God, we have been chosen and ordained by God (John 15:16); and have been given the same ministry of Christ Himself: to go into all the world and bear fruit among men and women. We have not chosen ourselves. We have not ordained ourselves. But God has chosen us and ordained us. We are going forth under His authority. Thus it becomes our Christian right, our new birth right, our kingdom right to receive all that God has for us as we go about doing His will in the earth.