Apostle Dr. Derrick L. Wallace

To be fair it is evident that most of us can hear in the literal and more general sense, but the call to hear, ( if I can describe it as a calling) is more specifically and far more importantly speaking to something far less common and far more essential, hear in the spirit and more precisely hearing what the spirit of the Lord is saying to the Church.  So the question that begs to be asked is can you hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the Church? Or perhaps the better question is are you listening?

 

These two questions can you hear and are you listening are two of the most important questions that any believer should and I would suggest all believers must ask themselves on an ongoing basis because not only are the answers indications of our spiritual health but also our attentiveness and the priority we place on the only voice that should really matter in our lives. The answers to these two different but interrelated questions determine whether we will arrive at a place of true sunship, ( and how we will manage it if we do) and whether we will come to understand and fulfill our individual destinies. In Romans 8 the Apostle paul teaches makes two statements that emphasize the necessity of hearing the first in found in Romans 8:7 where he declared that “the natural mind is at enmity ( and odds) with God and that it cannot understand the laws of God” which tells us that the human mind is not capable of understanding God or operating in the laws created by God. Before I move on to the next point I think it is important that I point out that the laws of God that the Apostle Paul is referencing are not simply the ten commandments and the other 613 Levitical precepts but the spiritual laws of the universe such as the law so sowing and reaping, the law of thanksgiving, the law of faithfulness and the like that govern how the spirit world operates, laws which are essential for our building or expanding the Kingdom and fulfilling our destinies. The second of these two statements is found in Romans 8:14 where he declared “those who are led by the spirit become the sons of God and if sons heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ”. It should be evident that it would be next to impossible to be led by the Spirit of God if we cannot hear the Spirit of God when He speaks.  Being led by the Spirit has a dual purpose in the Kingdom of God the first is in the preparation of those who can hear to become Sons of God through the process of  healing, maturation, revelation, instruction, testing and the development of the fruits of the spirit just to name a few as well as providing wisdom, guidance, insight, knowledge, warning, protection and the like to those who have become the Sons of God on how to properly operate in their sonship. Without which neither the development into Sons of God or the operation as Sons of God would be possible.

 

Interestingly enough the willingness to be led by the Spirit is one of the greatest determining factors in our ability to hear the Spirit of God, which is one of the greatest truths in God’s word found throughout Scripture. When we seek God desiring to hear God He will come to us and we will hear Him. However that requires that we place God in a place of honor in our hearts above everything and everyone else and that pleasing God becomes our greatest priority and our desire to be His greatest desire in our hearts. Hear the Spirit of God is intended to give us guidance not options and instructions not information for the sole purpose of bringing us into the place and state of being God desires for each of, the Spirit of God reveals God’s will for us and corrects us when we are not in alignment with it. Without the ability to hear the Spirit of God we lose our connection to the will of God and ultimately the ability to enter into the presence of God, which is the foundation of our ongoing relations with God and even our hope in the promises of God, without which we are spiritually lost.

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