The God Who Speaks

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The title today is the God who speaks, and in the last 12 years that I have been saved, this is arguably one of the things in my life that has been under attack the most. Since the very day that I got saved, there's been demonic, there's been satanic attacks—sometimes through people, sometimes dreams, sometimes just harassing of the enemy in your thoughts or other ways—but always to the same purpose: to attack the idea even that God would speak to someone like you. That you would hear from God without the help of someone else. That you would hear from the Lord without someone else bringing that word into your life, but that God actually brings His word to you and that He reveals unto you.

That when you're reading in the Bible He speaks things to you, or when you are in prayer He opens things up to you and speaks to your heart. That truth has always been under attack in my life since the day that I got saved, and that really came to a climax in the last year. I'm going to share a little bit of that story as we go through this word, but first I want to read to you Hebrews 1 verse 1 and 2. Hebrews 1 verse 1 and 2: “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He has made the world.”

Now, this is not written to church leaders. This is not written to special, chosen people. This was written to a congregation. This was a sermon written down to be read out loud over a congregation. And the writer of Hebrews—we don't know who wrote the book of Hebrews; there are certain suggestions that scholars feel very strong about, but technically we don't know who the author was—but it could not be more clear that the author is making a great distinction between the time past and the time where Christ had come into the world according to the promises of the Father.

The author begins by explaining: before, we were reliant on the very few that the Spirit of God was upon, to be able to hear from the Lord. In the times past we heard from God; He spoke to us through the prophets. And then he makes that distinction that now, in the last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. We talked about it last week. He says, “I am the Word. No one comes to the Father but through Me.” We can daily come to the Father through Christ, but also practically by coming to the Father through this Word. The Spirit will make it alive. The Spirit will cause you to begin to understand and see what the Lord is speaking and what it means for your life today. The Word says, “In these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.” And now I want to read to you as well from John chapter 10 verse 3 to 5 and then 26 to 28—Jesus speaking, the Son speaking.

Verse 3 to 5: “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” And then verse 26, 27, and 28: “But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give unto them eternal life, and they will never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.”

Nothing could be clearer all throughout the Word of God. I'm just giving you a couple of scriptures. Nothing could be clearer: that the Father had foretold through His prophets that the Son would come, and the Word explains to us that now, now that the Son has come, the Father has spoken to us through the Son. And the Son says, “I'm going to give My Spirit unto all. Whoever asks My Father for the Spirit, He's going to give the Spirit.” That's what He says. He doesn't say He only gives the Spirit to some; He only gives the Spirit to those that fast and pray to receive the Holy Spirit. What does Peter say in the very first sermon that is preached ever since Pentecost? He says, “Repent of your unbelief, believe, be baptized, and you will receive the Spirit of the Living God.” And Jesus Himself tells us there's a difference between those that do not believe and those that do believe Me. And the difference is this: those that believe Me, My sheep, they know My voice, they follow Me; and those that do not know My voice, they are not being treated by Christ as believers.

But even though the Lord speaks, and even though I believe with all my heart that most, if not all, of you have had encounters with the Lord—where He tugged on your heart and He made you understand something that was really hard for you to believe, and that was the first day that you began to believe, maybe just a small portion of the Gospel—you heard from the Lord. He began to speak to your heart. But ever since that day, you have been a target for the enemy to somehow begin to convince you—and he does this in very minute ways. He doesn't do it in obvious ways; it doesn't work. He's smart, he's crafty. He's not looking for short-term results; he's looking for long-term results. He's looking to make a difference in your life.

Not just today—he's looking to make a difference. So the enemy always tries to convince the people of God: God is not the God who speaks. Maybe He was that at one time, but today, or in what you're going through, He doesn't want you to come to Him. The devil doesn't want you to come to God understanding and fully believing, “I'm coming right now to the God who speaks. I'm coming right now to the God who is going to make His word known.” The accusation that was made in my life a very long time ago, the very first time that the voice of the Lord in my life was being challenged, was just maybe a week after I got saved. I shared with someone, “Oh, the Lord told me to do this,” and instantly anger arose in that person's heart. And they said something along the lines of, “Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are that God would speak to someone like you? Who do you think you are?” And that accusation from hell—that didn't come from the person; I wasn't offended by that person—it was very clear that it came from somewhere. But that accusation from hell over the years has taken on various shapes and has been a constantly launched battle. Very under the table, very subtle, very gentle, very small, very softly—like a soft current that over the years is slowly but surely carving out stone. Year after year the water is just coming by, and years later that stone has become round and smooth, and water has been able to reshape that stone.

That is the best way I can describe to you how the enemy seeks to begin to alter what God had so firmly placed in your life by His voice. A constant battle to bring you to a place where, when you come to God, you no longer in your heart really feel like you're coming to the God who talks with you—the God who speaks to you, the God that helps you understand this Word the moment you open it; He helps you. The enemy seeks for the way that your heart views the Father—he seeks to alter that. He seeks to change it. It's a constantly launched strategy against the life of any believer to bring you to a place of doubt or even second-guessing whether God even does really speak. Isn't that just an abstract thing? Doesn't that just mean He wrote down the Scriptures for us and we can read it and that's all that means? Isn't it maybe just that—bringing in the doubt whether or not God is willing to speak to a man or a woman like you?

And obviously, hand in hand, whether or not God is willing to speak through a man or a woman like you. And if God does not speak, where does that leave a man that goes to prayer? Where does it leave you if God does not speak? What begins to happen in your heart, in your mind? How do you view the place of prayer?

If God no longer speaks, all I can think of is that prayer becomes a place of work one more time, where we go to somehow accomplish something or persuade something or bring about something in the heart of God. But if He does not speak, what does it mean for a man or a woman to open the Word? What does it mean? Only strong people can do that—only strong people that know how to keep a law, know how to change their life, can come to the Word and just study it up and gather a lot of knowledge and become somehow, some way, maybe something impressive in the eyes of God. But if God does not speak, what does that mean when the Bible explains to us that He desires to know us? What does it really mean to have a personal relationship with God if God does not speak? You say, “Well, that's how God used to relate to humankind. That's not how He speaks anymore.” I've heard that thinking. I've heard that said so many times in so many different countries, in so many different ways. But what does that say about the God who says, “I am the same yesterday, today, and forever”? What does it say about the God who says, “My sheep will know My voice”?

Jesus tells us, “I am the Word.” What Jesus is saying is: Because of Me, the Word of the Father is in your life again.Because of Me, the Word of the Father is present in your life again. The devil says, “That's not true. That can't be true. The Word lays dead. The Word lays dead. It did not rise from the grave—not for you. Not in your life. In your life the Word lays dead. It is what it is. The Word has not been resurrected. The Word has not come alive. And the Word did not send His own Spirit to come and dwell inside of you. The Word is not going to produce anything significant through you. The Word is not going to come to you from day to day. It is not true.”

That's what the enemy seeks to bring about in our hearts. He won’t say it to you that way. He does it in a very subtle way—like that brook, that creek, that is just flowing by slowly and surely, willing to wait years to see those stones carved out. The enemy just needs you to begin to feel that way about the Father. And however he needs to get that done, he's patient, Church. He's patient to get that done.

But the Word of God is seeking to come alive in you—and I believe in some of us once again. And the devil is so afraid of that—afraid that the Word would be alive in you, that the Word would be real to you. That you go to God in the morning; you read maybe a bit; and you go to prayer in the morning because you know, “My God is the God that speaks.” And you stay with Him until He speaks—maybe a verse to your heart, or He shows you something—and you take it with you into your day because you know somebody is probably going to have to hear this.

Because my God is the God that speaks. And not everyone seeks Him. Not everyone comes to Him. So He has sent me out into my day to reach those that do not yet believe that God speaks, that God forgives, that He is willing to be a part of their life. And I need to carry with me what God is seeking to speak today, because He is able to bring it into someone else's heart.

Now, let's look at what Christ says. Let's go to John 16. John 16 verse 13–15: this is what Jesus says about the Holy Spirit. “However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.” That's what Jesus says, Church. You and I need to expect, need to anticipate, when we have believed on the Lord, we have given Him our life, He has promised that His Spirit would come and walk with us. That His Spirit would come and live in our hearts. He has explained to us what to look for, what to expect, how to seek Him, how to wait on Him. He said, “My Spirit is going to speak with you. When you don't really know what is true, you go to My Spirit; He will guide you into all truth. When you feel discouraged, you go and you spend time with My Spirit; He’s the encourager. He will speak to you. He will take of what is Mine—everything I purchased on the cross, everything My Father placed under Me—and He will begin to distribute it to you. He’ll begin to make it known to you. He will declare to you what you need to hear in that very moment, in whatever you may be going through in your life.”

But Satan is seeking to kill the Word of God in your life and make it a graveside, Church. If God does not speak, that’s all this Word is. It’s a grave marker. It’s a tombstone. A memorial of Jesus Christ—His memoirs. That’s all this Word becomes if Christ does not speak, if God does not speak, if the Scriptures do not speak in our life daily. It is not alive. It’s not sharper than a two-edged sword. It cannot get to the insides of our hearts and do for us what we could never do.

You can read it, you can memorize it, and it may never carry out anything the Father said it would in the lives of those that have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. See, Satan always seeks to kill the Word of God. That’s nothing new, Church. That’s not new. Ever since we became the church, he’s always sought to do it—by mockery.

I want you to understand when you leave today what to look for, what to shut down in your life. Satan always seeks to kill the Word of God by mockery. By mockery—to cause you to doubt. By mockery—to cause you to give up on the God who speaks. Mocking means this: to make something seem laughably unreal or impossible. It is a degrading word. “To mock…”“Huh… sure… right… I don’t know about that one.” Mocking is what the enemy seeks to bring about in a person's life to make them doubt and give up on the God who speaks. And the enemy has been very faithful in my life to place those people in my life and to give them something to say—people that mock the moment I tell them, “The Lord has given me a word for you.” They may not say anything. It may be happening in the heart. A lot of mocking happens behind closed doors, Church. They’re called hypocrites. They speak one way behind closed doors; they present themselves another way publicly. These are mockers.

But mockery is anointed of hell. It is designed by hell to do something. You’re going to see that in the Word of God. I’m not making this stuff up. You’re going to see it in a whole bunch of Scriptures. But that mockery that will always come to the Word of God—it doesn’t come into your life because of you. It never came into your life until you gave your heart to Christ and until you began to speak His words. That’s when the mockery started. And people, words, and feelings are all launched into your life to make you believe that God is not going to speak through you—that God is not going to bring His purposes to pass through you. People that you tell, “God put something on my heart for you,” and they chuckle. Or you begin to tell them what God has shown you for their future or their situation, and they mock it. They do not believe it. They mock the presence of God in the believer’s life.

You have to understand, Church—and I know most of you do understand this—but when God claims that He places His own Spirit, God the Holy Spirit, inside of each vessel that is part of the Bride of Jesus Christ, when you stand in front of that person, you better listen. Because what comes out of their mouth may, from time to time, come from the Holy Spirit of the Living God. A mocker says, “No. I see the vessel. Not through this vessel. No thank you. Not through this vessel. I do not believe.” And they mock the presence of God—the Holy Spirit—who has taken up residence in that person. They mock the Holy Spirit by saying, “You’re not going to use that person. You’re not going to speak through them. As a matter of fact, I don’t even believe You can. I do not believe.” Mockery. And that is the way the enemy will come against you, Church, as the mouthpiece of Christ in your generation. He will send mockery your way. He will bring it against you to bring you to a place of doubt and a place of unbelief, and to bring you to a place personally where you are no longer being poured out by the Lord throughout your day with the living water that God did place inside of you—the understanding of the Gospel that He did reveal to you, the things of encouragement that He did speak unto your heart.

The enemy wants to bring you to a place where your feelings are so persuaded that you’re not being poured out throughout the day with all that living water that was deposited inside of you. He’s seeking to mock and come against the Word of God.

I’m going to show it to you in the Word of God. Let me read to you Matthew 9:24: “Jesus speaking—He said to them, ‘Make room, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.’ And they ridiculed Him.” Here's the Word of God to them in their situation. And Jesus comes to deliver it Himself, and He tells them, “The girl is not dead. Make room. She is not dead; she is only asleep.” And humanity responds and starts to make fun of the Son of God. He brings in the Word of the Father for their situation—instant mockery, ridiculing Him. Luke 18:32: “For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.” Matthew 27:29: “When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and a reed in His hand; and they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’” Luke 22:63: “Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and beat Him.” Mark 15:31: “Likewise the chief priests also, mocking among themselves with the scribes, said, ‘He saved others; Himself He cannot save.’”

Church, in the flesh—humanity—you and I, in the flesh, humanity has and always will respond to a word from God with mockery. That is how humanity responds to when God sends His Word into this world.

When the Word became flesh and Christ came into this world, all the mockery was addressed to Him. He couldn’t turn anywhere or mockery was there. And now that the Word has come alive in you, what do you think is going to happen? The enemy has the same devices, the same strategy, the same attack to kill the Word of God still today as he had in the past. He seeks to mock it out of you. He seeks to bring forth the doubt so that you quiet down. Let me take you to Romans chapter 10 verse 8: “What does the Bible say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’—that is, the word of faith which we preach.” That's what the Word says. The Spirit of God has produced something inside of you and I—something so miraculous—that now the Word of God is in your heart. That now the Word of God is residing in your mouth, communicated to you by the Holy Spirit of the Living God who came to live inside of you. You have heard from God, Church, and you will hear from God. And if you run into a person that mocks the Word of God inside of you—when you run into a situation where people seem to mock the Word of God inside of you—remember: that’s an assignment from hell. The person is not your enemy. You love that person. You bless that person. But you need to seize that message before it can get into your heart or before it goes somewhere deep down in the back of your mind, where it is seeking to begin to grind out that stone in your life—that maybe God is not speaking.

Not to you. Not through you. Not by you. That word of God is not in your heart; it shouldn't be in your mouth. You need to seize that message of the enemy, and you need to reject it. You need to send it straight back to hell where it came from. You cannot disbelieve God, our church—not in our generation, not in the time that we live in. Satan has been selling these kinds of messages to believers, really of all generations. He did it while Jesus was walking the earth, whispering to people, “God wouldn't send His Son in your generation. God wouldn't send His Son to come and visit your village. God wouldn't send His Son with a miracle into your life today. God wouldn't send you a word today.” That's what Satan's whispering in our heart really is. That's what he's seeking to make you and I, believers of all generations, believe. He seeks to convince them the Word of God will not come to you. The Word of God will not come to you today. The Word of God will not come to you when you open your Bible in your home alone. The Word of God will not come to you when you have requests in your heart and you go on your knees at home. And the enemy says, “The Word of God is not going to come to you. Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are that you can just come to God and that He's going to speak to you, let alone through you? Who do you think you are?”

What the enemy seeks to make you feel is that you are the only one who is speaking the truth or speaking Christ. The enemy wants you to begin to believe, to begin to feel, that you are alone.

He tried to grind me out with that message for 12 years before I began to see the effects of it. The best enemy attack—my wife and I were talking about it last night—the best enemy attack is the one you do not notice. He doesn't come to you obvious. He doesn't come to you trying to take big, big steps. He comes very subtle, very gradual, like that stream of water. He didn't cause me to struggle with a thing. No obvious struggle. No obvious attack. After 12 years of this—very subtle, very in the background, very on the down low, very, very quiet, very quiet—after 12 years I began to develop just some slight feelings. That's all the enemy was seeking to do: to make me feel something. And I began to notice just in this past year that there were times that I wanted to talk to that person in front of me about Jesus, and I would feel like backing out of that conversation, sometimes even before it started. And I would think, “How strange. That's so not like me. Where do those feelings come from?”

What this enemy attack against the Word of God inside of you seeks to accomplish is that your feeling level—your feeling level, your motivation, your excitement to talk to someone about Christ, to share with someone what God has shown you—that feeling level of motivation and excitement, the enemy just wants you to feel the insecurity, the doubt, a little bit more, so that it begins to alter your decisions of stepping out and letting the Word of God that is in your heart and in your mouth enter into someone else's life. The enemy wants you to feel alone, like you are the only one there speaking. That you are the only one. How are you going to get it into a person's heart? You are the only one. Are they going to respond to you? You are the only one speaking.

That's the message he wants you to feel. You may not be able to put words to it, but he wants you to feel alone. He wants you to feel that God does not speak when you open your mouth. That He doesn't speak the words that you share of the Gospel. That God doesn't speak it into the hearts of those that are listening. That's what the enemy wants you to feel: God does this for others, but not for you—and definitely not through you. You are on your own. Have you ever felt like that? When you are around family or certain friends, or when you're at the job—even when the thought of speaking of Jesus or sharing something comes—you feel alone and radically discouraged out of it, intimidated out of it. If you recognize that at all, God is seeking to deliver you today from Satan's trap that he's been setting over your life, possibly for years. Because that's Satan's constant subtle message—to wear you out and to get you to believe that when you speak the Word of Faith with your natural mouth, God is not supernaturally going to be the God who speaks to you and speaks it into the hearts of those that you so love, or those that you would love to be forgiven, those that you would love to begin to see that Jesus died for them and came to rescue them.

Satan says, “Who do you think you are? You are alone. Be quiet.” But when the Church of the Living God begins to speak the Word of Faith that is in your heart and in your mouth again—when the church begins to speak again—you’re going to find out that you are not alone, Church. Church, the God who speaks is always with you, and He will be true to His name. He will be true to His call. He will be true to the purposes to which He called you. He will speak into the hearts what you never could. But by faith you are called to continually let that Word of Faith be in your mouth. To continually speak over people's lives God's opinion over them. To continually speak over people's lives what God has done for them. You may feel like they will never believe it—you know now where those feelings come from. You may feel like God cannot use you—you know now where those feelings come from.

You have received the Word. You have received the Spirit and the promises. You are called to be a mouthpiece of God in this nation and in this world. And the God who speaks will bring to pass what you never could. That's what the Word tells us. The word that God sent out will not return void to Him. That's what He will accomplish when you open your mouth and you say, “I'm going to speak the Word of Faith that God entrusted to me.” It's a simple message. It's not an impressive message. But my God is going to do miracles when I speak it. You're not alone.

Let me take you to the final verse for today—the promise given to us by the God who speaks. Isaiah 62:1. I'm going to read it to you from the ESV version: “For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.”

That is the heart of Christ, Church. Remember, He is the head; you are His body. You are the members of His body. You will receive the heart of God. You will receive the zeal of Christ. You will have that heart—not your neighbor. You will have that same heart. Where yes, you may have the insecurities. Yes, you may struggle with doubt. Yes, you may be the worst thing that ever happened to the kingdom of God. Yet God will give you a heart that says, “I can't be quiet anymore until people have received righteousness. I can't be silent until they receive salvation.” That is the heart of God given to the church, given to every person that is called after His name.

He'll give you His mind. He gave you His Word. He gave you His Spirit. And you are called to be a man or woman that says, “I can't help it. I cannot be silent—not in this generation, not being quiet in this generation—until I begin to see the righteousness of the people in front of me. It's being established. God is giving it to them. He's speaking it into their heart. They're beginning to believe. He's changing them. He's setting them free. His Spirit is coming upon them. They're being delivered. They're being changed. They're being saved. Until their salvation comes, I cannot be quiet.”

That is the Word of God to you, Church. The heart, the zeal of Christ will be yours. It will be given unto you, and the enemy will never be able to quench it. The enemy will never be able to rob it out of your life. Today, if you can hear the words of the Lord—if you can hear the Spirit of God—don't harden your heart. But let Him lead you. He will bring you into deliverance. He'll bring you into freedom. You'll never again stand in a place where people have no righteousness, no salvation, and you can have peace and just move on. The Lord will restore that into your life and give you the heart of Christ one more time, where you say, “I can't leave these people. I can't be quiet around these people until they receive righteousness, until they receive salvation. God placed His Word in my heart. God placed His Word in my mouth. I cannot stay quiet.”

The altar call is very simple today, for you online as well, you can respond together with us in prayer. But here in person, if you have recognized throughout this service that the Lord is stirring your heart, you say, “I may not be able to put words to it, but God is stirring something in my heart.” I want to invite you to come forward. We're going to pray together at this time.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. If you have recognized that God was stirring your heart in this service, that means that the Lord wants to give unto you open eyes in your heart again, where you can see the God who speaks in your situation. When you even have the first desire or the thought to tell someone about Christ, that in that moment you see the God who speaks is with you. You can say this stuff because the God who speaks is going to speak it into the heart. He's going to open eyes, he's going to deliver people, he's going to set them free. God wants to give you the ability to see Him for who He is again: the God who speaks at all times.

When you're discouraged, when you think about going to the Word, instantly your heart can see, “I'm going there because the God who speaks will open up that Word to me.” When you desire to go to prayer, instantly your heart will see, “The God who speaks is there for me. I'm fleeing to that place. He will speak on my heart,” and you will have the heart of Christ.

I will read it one more time: “For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.” He's going to restore unto you the zeal for His house—Church, for the believer, the unbeliever, everyone made in His likeness. He will give you again the heart that says, “I just can't move on from these people. I need to say something.” You may feel terrified—don't feel like a failure; I do too. You may feel intimidated—don't feel like a failure; I do too. I just need to feel and understand with all of my being that the God who speaks is with me more than all of the other stuff, so that the other stuff doesn't move me out of those decisions to bring forth that word.

“I will not keep silent. I will not be quiet until their righteousness goes forth as brightness and their salvation as a burning torch.” Let's lift up our voices to the Lord, and let's call out unto Him that we may receive this promise over our life. Lord God, we come before You, and Lord God, we thank You, Lord, that You expose the ways, Lord God, that the enemy seeks to grind out, Lord God, the most powerful aspects of the salvation You have given us in Christ. Thank You, Father, that You forgave us by the blood. Thank You, Lord, that You called us, Lord God, into Your kingdom by the blood. Thank You, Lord, that all of the promises are yes and amen in Him and Him alone. Lord God, we pray today, Lord God, and we surrender unto You, Lord God, all of the feelings, all of the things the enemy has been trying to grind out of our life—that we would lose our confidence in the God who speaks; that we would lose our confidence in the presence of the God who speaks; that we would lose our confidence that the God who speaks will do the miraculous when I step out in the natural to speak the word of faith that He placed in my heart and put into my mouth.

Lord God, we pray that we may be able to see with the eyes of our heart continually the God who speaks going before us. Lord, Your Word tells us that You go before Your sheep. Lord Jesus, show the eyes of our heart one more time, Lord God, that our God who speaks—our God, the Word—is going before us, Lord God, that courage may arise in the heart, and that the burning may arise in the heart that says, “I cannot keep silent, and I will not be quiet until I see righteousness come forth in the people called to be delivered by the Living God, until salvation comes forth in those that do not know Him.”

Lord God, give us Your heart as You have promised. Lord, Lord, we pray, fill us, Lord Jesus, with Your Spirit time and again. Teach us, Lord God, Your heart. Teach us Your Word, and teach us, Lord God, to speak—to become, Lord God, more and more like You. You are the God who speaks. You sent Your Word to the most hostile of people. Teach us to become like You, that no hostility, Lord God, would make us back down and remove the Word from their lives, Lord God, but that we would send the Word of God into the hostility. Lord Jesus, humanity has always sought to kill You, yet You found a way to bring forth life for all. Lord Jesus, Lord God, give us this simple, childlike trust that God will do the impossible when I speak His Word. He's done it before; He will do it again. Lord God, You are the God who speaks.

-Pastor Stan Mons