God
is One, and we must be Single-Minded with Him
in Prayer.
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| “He wakens me morning by morning...." |
(Photo, Mary Hunt c. 2012).
Dear
Father in the Highest Heavens, You waken us early in the morning to
hear your voice and to understand what you are saying. So, I thank
you that you wake me, and I can hear you speaking instruction to me.
Oh, I’m hearing the Lord talk to me! Listen....
“The
Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word
that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my
ear to listen like one being taught” (Isaiah 50:4 NIV).
You
say, you want us to get rid of all uncertainty and double-mindedness.
Double-mindedness limits faith and productivity, the works that come
from prayer. Double-mindedness steals our firm stand upon the spoken
and written word of God. It immediately puts dark spirits on notice
that there is an open door for temptation. We open ourselves to be
led astray or to be lied to. When God instructs us, we must come into
such sure agreement with God that we can act upon that word.
We
obey. We say and declare what we hear from God, and we make the word
our own. We become one with it. It builds our knowledge and faith in
God, increased by God himself. Romans 10:17 instructs us that faith
comes from hearing the word or the message. And hearing the word of
God, we believe in our heart and confess with our mouth, the word of
truth is revealed to us.
“The
word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is the
word of faith we are proclaiming”(Rom 10:8 NIV).
Paul referred to Psalm 116 when he said, “I believed; therefore
I have spoken” (2 Corinthians 4:13
NIV).
The
word comes, we receive it. But it works its effectiveness in us when
we speak it and declare it back to God, and to others. It grows in us
by reason of use. We must take it up, the Sword of the Spirit, which
is the word of God, both logos and rhema. The rhema word, spoken in
faith, quickened, enlivened by the “electricity” of the Holy
Spirit, truly generates faith and removes doubt.
In
the hearing of that spoken, prophesied word, faith empowers. We know
we are hearing the very word of the Lord. Our spirit witnesses to the
Holy Spirit. That’s how we as the Body of Christ are able to judge
any word spoken in the assembly. Does it generate faith? Does it
confirm and unify? Does it unsettle and divide?
The
confirming, prophesied word of the Lord produces electric faith and
rejoicing that God, our Wonderful Father, has spoken personally and
specifically to us. We never forget it, for we are changed by it.
–
Mary Alice Hunt
Mary
is a prophetess, an anointed worship organist, a concert pianist
graduated cum laude from the University of Syracuse, School of
Music. As her ministry, she teaches Adult GED to men of all ages as a
career correctional educator. She and her husband, Bill, have raised
their family of six children serving states including New York,
Maine, Alaska, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Florida.
