Understanding The Move Of God

One of the greatest scriptures that inspires me to study is Hosea 4:6 which says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

What Hosea is saying here if I could just break it down for a moment is that; people are missing out because they don’t know. People are not receiving all they could because they are unaware, uninformed, and unfamiliar, to what God has for them. In other words, people without the understanding God and His word, are people who are destined for destruction.

There are people who believe that the spiritual gifts of God, is something of the past, they believe that God is a God of the yesteryears.

But the Bible clearly tells us that God is unchanging. Malachi 3:6 says, “I am the Lord, and I do not change. Somebody might say well pastor that’s the Old Testament and we are living in the new dispensation.

Well, Hebrews 13:8 of the New Testament says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” In other words, while everything else, and everybody else around us is changing, we can depend on God to be the same forever.

So, what that is telling me is that we need to be careful of saying what God is doing, and what God is not doing in these days and times.

If God is the same today as he was yesterday, and if he was healing people back then, then he’s still healing on today. If God was providing back then, that means that God is providing today. Wait a minute, if God was raising people from the dead back then, that means that God is raising people right now.

Let me prove it to you. There are some people right up in here who has coded on the operating table and God brought them back.

There have been people who has died, and their pacemaker shocked them, and they return back from the dead. I know some people might think that it was the pacemaker that brought them back, but what we must know, and understand is that the pacemaker didn’t have any power, only God has that power.

Is there anybody in here that has been sick, and God healed you? Is there anybody in here that has been to their lowest point, and God brought you back?

It is God who has the power over life and death. In fact, Deuteronomy 32:39 says “Now see that I, even I am he, and there is no God but me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound and I heal; nor is there any who can deliver, or take from my hand.

Somebody might say well pastor, if God has the power over life and death, why did God take my love-one that was so dear to me? Why did God leave me by myself? There is the possibility that God was tired of seeing them suffer in this world and God took them to the place that we are all working to go to, where there will be no more suffering no more pain and no more heartaches.

But certainly, God never changes.

The scripture says my people are destroyed because of the lack of knowledge. We say we want to be healed, we say that we want the blessings of the Lord, but then we are skeptical, suspicious, dubious, doubtful, and questioning if this is really God.

In John 4:24, it says that God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Which means that if God is a Spirit, this means that he is divine, celestial, which means that he is spiritual and unworldly. So, then that brings about the question, where are the spiritual gifts, and what are the spiritual gifts.

First, the spiritual gifts has been used throughout the Bible, and secondly, spiritual gifts can be found throughout the Word of God:

In Romans 12:6-8 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; (which means with a broad-mindedness, open-mindedness and freedom) he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Ephesians 4:7-13 - But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore, He says: "When He Ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”

Now when it says "he ascended" it means that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.