Help For The Hearing Impaired Series

2. Conscience / ¡§offensive ways¡¨

-- not only does it cause separation in our heart from God, but the enemy

uses it as an opportunity to condemn us: shame, fear.

-- confess

o What, then, do we wait for? In what fashion will God¡¦s impressions come to us?

„X Spontaneous thoughts, ideas, words, feelings, or images

-- the key word is ¡§spontaneous,¡¨ meaning not developed in our own

reasoning

-- may be as refined as a word from Scripture, or as strange as a symbolic

dream, or as simple as a single image or word

-- I¡¦m not implying that every spontaneous thought is from God, but only

that this is the avenue of His leading. (Discernment is essential, as

I¡¦ve outlined on several occasions).

-- I¡¦m also not implying anything inferior about our more reasoned

insights ¡V they may be equally of God. But, God does want to speak

beyond our natural abilities as well.

¡KLearn to listen with the ¡§eyes of our hearts.¡¨

3. Record the counsel we believe God has given us.

Habakuk ¡V ¡§write down the Revelation and make it plain (on tablets).¡¨

Here I want to suggest the value of our writing down and recording the things we believe to be God¡¦s insights:

„X Words of personal use or public, we find examples in scripture ¡V Book of Psalms (is ex. of personal use), Revelation (of public use)

„X In public words, those for body, it¡¦s helpful for discernment and holding on to

„X In your personal life, it¡¦s often referred to as journaling.

Series: Faith, Prayer & Prophesy

HELP FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED

November 5th, 1995 - Brad Bailey

I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me¡K, Then the LORD replied: ¡§Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald my run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. Habakkuk 2:1-3.

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1. Take a watchful position.

2. Listen with the ¡§eyes of the heart.¡¨

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the EYES OF YOUR HEART may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:17-19

3. Record that counsel which we believe God has given us.