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When we walk in Holiness, we will walk in greater faith because we hear GOD’S Voice and respond accordingly!

There are two Greek words that are translated “WORD”: G4487 rhēma and G3056 logos.

When Jesus was tempted by the devil, He spoke in Matthew chapter 4:

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word (G4487 rhēma) that proceeds from the Mouth of God.'”

This rhēma Word is the whole counsel of GOD, eternal, unchanged, complete.  We cannot apprehend the whole counsel of GOD for we have finite minds.  FATHER will speak a rhēma Word for us to receive personally and within our ability to comprehend HIS counsel specific to our lives.

The total counsel of GOD is imparted to us in portions so that we are able to receive it and walk in the rhēma Word we have been given.  HE is well aware of our capacity to receive HIS rhēma Word and will not tell us more than we can handle based on our level of maturity.  HE will impart a rhēma Word each day to develop our capacity to receive greater instructions in our walk.  HE patiently builds up our spiritual maturity so that we can walk in a greater level of power and authority.  HE will correct us as needed; this is what Love does!

Moses recorded by THE SPIRIT in Deuteronomy chapter 8:

1 “Every commandment (rhēma) which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

2 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments (rhēma) or not.

3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every Word (rhēma) that proceeds from the Mouth of the LORD.

4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments (rhēma) of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;

8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,

FATHER instructs us just as HE instructed Israel with HIS (rhēma) Word.  The result of hearing and responding to HIS (rhēma) Word will produce the same benefits HE stated to the children of Israel.

Our faith increases as we hear and respond to the (rhēma) Word of Christ.  The more we hear the (rhēma) Word, the stronger we become.

As Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 10:

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the (rhēma) Word of God.

What should be our highest priority?  It is to hear the (rhēma) Word and respond to It!

When we walk in Holiness, we will walk in faith because we hear GOD’S Voice!

FATHER’S Voice is intimate and personal to each of us individually.  HIS Words are multifaceted and ministers to our spirit in accordance with what is needed at the time.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 10:

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word (G4487 rhēma) of God.

In other Words, faith, then, is birthed in a heart that responds to God’s anointed Utterance of the Anointed One.

There are two Greek words that are translated “WORD”: G4487 rhēma and G3056 logos.

The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 1:

1 In the beginning was the Word (G3056 logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

4 In Him was Life, and the Life was the light of men.

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Logos is the mind, total counsel, and reason of GOD.

David recorded by THE SPIRIT in Psalm chapter 119:

89 Forever, O LORD, Your Word is settled in Heaven.

In other Words, standing firm in the heavens and fastened to eternity is the Word of God.  FATHER’S Word is concise and totally reliable.  It expresses FATHER’S Divine Intent.  HIS Word’s preciseness is reflected in the heavens.  Scientists are able to precisely calculate astronomical events only because of the reliability of GOD’S Word when HE established the heavens.  All of the natural laws were established by HIS precise Word, you can count on it!  It can’t be changed.  This is also true of HIS Spoken Word to each of us.

The Logos Word is summed up in the Person of Jesus Christ as John wrote in the above passage.  There is no variance in Jesus Christ, so if there is an issue, it is with you and me.  Jesus is the total purpose, counsel, and Mind of GOD.

Jesus spoke in John chapter 14:

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The Words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father Who dwells in Me does the works.

11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

Jesus heard HIS FATHER’S Voice and precisely carried out The Word as directed.  HE served FATHER’S Divine Intent with no variance whatsoever.  As we walk in Holiness, we will do the same… not my will but Your Will be done!

In order to do FATHER’S Will, we must clearly hear HIS Voice.

When we are walking in Holiness and operating in our calling, we will act immediately and without hesitation!

Once Saul’s heart was transformed and as he received the Baptism of The Holy Spirit, he did not delay in walking out his calling!  He was more than willing to confront his former supporters.

Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 9:

20  Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

This is the only one of two times in the Book of Acts that the phrase “Son of GOD” is used to describe Jesus.  Philip used this same phrase in Acts 8:37. Sonship relates to full and complete obedience to Our Heavenly Father.

21 Then all who heard were amazed, and said, “Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this Name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?”

22 But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

We should not be surprised when an enemy of Christ is converted.  Saul’s power increased greatly as he became more and more proficient in proving that Jesus was the anointed Messiah. Saul remained there for several days with the disciples, even though it agitated the Jews of Damascus.

Saul declared that Jesus was The Son of GOD!  Thus, Truth was resisted by the Jews who knew their power would evaporate once the people heard such a Truth!  Saul went from a hero of the Jews to an archenemy of the Jews in less than a week.

23 Now after many days were past, the Jews plotted to kill him.

24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him.

25 Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket.

26 And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.

27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

28 So he was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out.

29 And he spoke boldly in the Name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to kill him.

30 When the brethren found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus.

31 Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the Fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

As we speak boldly and declare The Name of THE LORD, we will be confronted by the adversary and his minions.  Jesus was confronted by the Jews in like manner during His earthly ministry.

Jesus spoke in John chapter 8:

37  “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.

38 I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.“

39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the Truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

41 You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father-God.”

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would Love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My Word.

44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

45 But because I tell the Truth, you do not believe Me.

46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the Truth, why do you not believe Me?

47 He who is of God hears God’s Words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

As we walk in Holiness, we will confront the father of lies head on just as Jesus did, just as Paul did.  Let us walk in full assurance, immediately, and without hesitation.