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God, our loving
Father--didn't stop talking to His people 2,000 years ago. God sent
His son Jesus to show us the Father's love, to sacrifice Himself for
our sins. Jesus ascended to Heaven and sits at His Father's right
hand and the Bible says "He is forever able to save the
people he leads to God, because he always lives to speak to God for
them."(Hebrews
7:25)
Jesus said "The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you
into the full truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will
tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know
what is going to happen. The Spirit will
bring glory to me by taking my message and telling it to
you." (John 16:13-14)
God the Holy Spirit has
been making known to us the Lord's will for our lives ever since.
The ability to hear, in our spirits, what God is saying to us has never ceased. The
Holy Spirit is always ready to talk to and guide us in the
affairs of life. The Holy Spirit's responsibility is to lead
us into truth. We can sense Him speaking to us when we pray and listen to our hearts.
The
Bible says "Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts,especially the gift of prophecy." (1Corinthians 14:1)
Sometimes
God may want us to give a message to someone else which is called
prophesying and the Bible says that
everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their
strengthening, encouragement and comfort. Biblical prophecy does not mean fortunetelling, or even foretelling future events, although this cannot be ruled out.
God wants to speak to you, and
if you are one of His children because you have accepted the
salvation that
He offers you through the death of His son Jesus, you can learn to
hear Him like many Christians do.
God, because of His love for
you as His child, He has marvellous plans for you. "I know the
plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and
not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
(Jeremiah
29:11).
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