God Still Speaks To the Church of Today

The Spirit of

God Still Speaks

To The Church Of Today

Couldn't you just imagine yourself sitting here beside Jesus, sharing moments of intimacy with him and hearing him speak words of wisdom from above.

How wonderful it must have been for those who walked with him on the road to Emmaus. Their very hearts burned within them as they listened while he expounded on the scriptures that were written concerning him. He sat at meat talking to them then the time came to break bread . Jesus broke the loaf of bread before them and as he did their eyes were opened and they realized who it was that sat with them . It was Jesus ! As they realized this he vanished out of their sight, right before their eyes. Could you just imagine how it must have been for them them.

God still speaks to his children. We don't have to wait and long for an experience like the one on the road to Emmaus. The Lord said Lo I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in and sup with him and he with me.

Many denominations falsely teach that God no longer speaks to his children .But this simply isn't true. Some denominations teach that God used to speak but that all of those things ceased with the last of the original twelve apostles. But nowhere in the bible does it say God will no longer speak to man. In fact is states quite to the contrary that in the latter times that God would pour out his Spirit upon mankind and that your young men would have visions and the old men would have dreams and that the daughters would prophesy. God still speaks to us in dreams and visions and by way of the Holy Ghost and the gifts of the spirit.

(* See below for a list of related articles on the gifts of the Spirit, visions dreams etc.)

What had happened here is that many unbelieving churches won't allow the manifestation of the spirit of God to move upon the churches and the people within. For many churches have refused to yield to the knocking at the door and Jesus is still standing out side knocking to come in.

The things of the Spirit of God do frighten some people and in particular those who are in unbelief, and who are untaught or mis-taught in man's doctrine. Man's doctrine teaches that God doesn't speak and that miracles and healings and all of those things ceased with the last of the apostles but no where in scripture does it say this is true, yet man because of ignorance has taught these things in the churches and has by this left the Lord standing out side the church knocking. Though the Spirit of God resides in the believers who have accepted him, the moving and manifestation of the gifts of the spirit have in many churches ceased because of un-yieldedness and unbelief. This is due to the teaching of wrong doctrine.

God is not one to push his way in where he is not welcome. Rather he is patient and longsuffering toward us. We are in the acceptable year of the Lord and God waits patiently for us to yield to him.

In contradiction to what many have thought to be true, God still speaks to the church of today. He has not abandoned us to live through this life without his guidance and leading. God speaks to us in and throughout the scriptures, but this is not the only way he speaks to the body of Christ today.

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Heb 1:1-3 (KJV)

We see in the verse above that God does speak to us in many ways. The word diverse in this passage means different. If by different ways he speaks, then there must also be more than one way in which he speaks otherwise, what would be different from the one way ?

The Logos and the Rhema Word:

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Matt 4:4 (KJV)

This includes both the logos and the rhema word of God. Logos means written and Rhema means spoken.

The logos Word of God can be found written in the scriptures. The rhema word comes from the supernatural spoken word of God.

God's word, whether written or spoken is powerful and creative and alive. By his Word he created the earth.

The Lord said:

John 6:63 (KJV) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Isaiah 55:10-11 (KJV) 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 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.

Heb 4:12 (KJV) 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Again this includes both the written and spoken word of God, as well as the living Word of God.

The written word of God was written by men of God under the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit.

God's word is spiritually discerned.
1 Cor 2:11-16 (KJV) 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

We have the mind of Christ through the workings of the gifts of the Spirit. The gifts of the spirit were given to the body of Christ as the Spirit of God wills for the purpose of edification and exhortation and instruction.

The Rhema Word:

The rhema word comes to us by way of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The rhema word is a manifestation of God working and moving and speaking through the gifts of the Spirit.

To continue with this study and learn more about the logos word and the gifts of the Spirit including visions and dreams choose from the list below.

This section of pages is an in-depth study on the gifts of the spirit and hearing from God. It begins with definitions and a brief over view of the gifts then branches out to explain further each individual gift and its use. If you have never experienced or have little experience with the gifts of the Spirit I recommend that you begin by reading the page entitled. " The Nine Gifts Of The Holy Spirit Defined"

NOTE Only the green sections have been completed as this section of pages is quite new.

The Nine Gifts Of The Holy Spirit Defined

The Revelation Gifts The Power Gifts The Vocal Gifts

Word of Wisdom Gifts of Healings (not available) Prophecy

Word of Knowledge Miracles Tongues

Discerning of Spirits Gift of Faith (not available) Interpretation of tongues See also

See Also: Supernatural Visions Dreams