spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
has in these Last days spoken to us by His Son."
HEBREWS 1 : 1
Our generation is preoccupied with methods. When we find a program that works in one business, we immediately want to package and distribute it so that it will work for others. The attitude carries over into the spiritual like as well. We spend much ebergy looking for spiritual disciplines, books seminars, or conferences that "work" in order to feel satisfied with our Christian life. God does not want us to trust in methods. Rather than in a Person serious limits the way we experienceGod. When we expect Him to speak to us only in predictable ways, we forget that God is much more complex than our perception of Him. In times past, God spoke in dreamw and visions. He used nature; miraculous sign; prophets, a still, small voice; fire trumphets; fleece; the casting of lots; and angels. He spoke in the middle of the night, during worship services, at meal times during funerals, while people were walking along the road, through sermons, in the midfle of a storm, and through His Son.
The important thing was not how God communicated, but that He spoke. If God always spoke to us through dreams, we would remain in our beds awaiting a divine revelation! The means God uses to communicate with us is irrelevant; the fact that He is communicating is what is critical.
Don't limit yourself to a method, exoecting only to hear from your Father in predictable ways. Rather open yourself up to other means by which God wants to commune with you. Allow the Holy Spirit to sensitize you to God's message at all times, in every location, under any circumstances. Then you will ecperience God in entirely new dimensions as you are receptive to His voice.
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