Quiet Time Notes

I was just reading this passage..1 Cor 2:4-5 (ASV)

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And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

You can be fluent in your language. You can be inspirational. But if your words carry no power, then it is still nothing. "Without love, you are nothing", you can have the best career, the best spouse, a rich and fulfilling life, but without love, you are still nothing.

Day to day, whether is it at work, in church, in school, in camp, do your words bring forth the manifestation of God? Or is it just plain ramblings after ramblings?

Our mouths belongs to God. To use our mouths to complain, that is insult to God. To use your mouths to swear, that is an insult to God. To use our mouths to gossip, that is an insult to God! Why? Because its as if you are making God complain, you are making God swear, YOU ARE MAKING GOD GOSSIP!

Many people can attend the same seminar, the same sermon, one leaves totally changed, while another, simply goes on with his life, stuck at a pinnacle, stuck at a problem that needs breakthrough. The key is in your prayer, the key is in your confession.

"If a man believes with all his heart, and does not doubt, he shall have whatever he SAYS".

Words are not responsive, words are creative, initiative, prophetic. If you are failing, its because you said you are. If you are no good, its because you said you are. No one made you to be like that, God made all things good.

When you were born, you were the superstar, everyone loved you, everyone wanted to play with you, you were the cutest thing there ever was. But what has happened to that superstar? You started to live your own life, for your own self.

What is in your mouth? God? Life? Or junk?

Note that Paul didnt just talked about preaching, he talked about speech!

Its not just what you say in church that matters, but in every conversation, in every meeting, in every social gathering. Let your words bring life to the dead, light to darkness, healing to the sick, joy to the sad and liberty to the oppressed.

"By faith, the worlds were framed by the word of God.."

To have our world framed by words is to literally set the boundaries of our life, with our words, how far we can go, etc.

If your vocabulary only consists of vulgarities, your life will be that, your life will be like ****, because thats all you know! There is a trend, people who go far in life, very often have very good vocabulary and sentence structure.

Have your words created anything?
If your life is in a mess, its simply because your words are in a mess!

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That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Do you believe a speaker just because he is wise, just because his preaching is good? Or do you believe a speaker because you have ginosko, a personal encounter?

If there were no such thing as churches, will you still believe? If there were no such thing as sermons, can you still live the godly life and bring down the presence of God?

It boils down to your personal relationship with God.

God is not a religion. Religion is man-made. And religion will be gone.

If all you do is religious acts and routine 'rituals', then you're just wasting your life away. Whats the point of doing all the good (not that its bad, we should do good), but at the end of our lives, we come before God and He tells us, "Who are you? Do I know you?"

How real is your life? That will reflect how real your God is!