Hearing GOD’S Voice: Part 1

Our daily priority should be to hear GOD’S Voice!

Dispensations are time periods in which the Lord has at least one authorized servant on the earth who bears the Holy priesthood and the keys, and who has a Divine commission to dispense the Gospel to the inhabitants of the earth.

There have been three dispensations in history:

The Patriarchs (Fathers of families: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Enoch, Noah, etc.)

Israel as a collective nation (The dispensation of The Law, The Temple, the priesthood))

The Dispensation of The Gospel for all the inhabitants of the earth

In all three, there was one unvarying requirement which never changed from dispensation to dispensation: the requirement to hear GOD’S Voice.

Moses wrote by THE SPIRIT in Exodus chapter 15:

22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

23 Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” [25] So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them,

26 and said, “If you diligently heed the Voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His Sight, give ear to His Commandments and keep all His Statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD Who heals you (Jehovah Rapha).”

First, you must hear and second, you must do.  When you respond by acting on The Word you hear, you will be rewarded with whatever is needed at the time.  In this case, it was healing.

What does the word diligence mean?  As used in Hebrews 11:6, it means to zealously seek for something with all of one’s heart, strength, and might. It conveys the idea of being hard-working, attentive, busy, constant, and persistent in one’s devotion to what he or she is doing.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 11:

4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

7 By faith Noah, being Divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with Godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

In all these examples, men walked in faith and diligently hearkened to the Voice of GOD.  In response, they were rewarded and protected by HIM.  When FATHER speaks to you, it may require a simple action or a persistent, multi-year effort as was required by Noah and others.

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