tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post2653259908969994774..comments2024-01-20T06:33:12.603-08:00Comments on Created to Give God Glory: Speak God's CommandsCreated to Give God Gloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17298394573836878999noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594466655926701168.post-68093435585943700852011-09-27T18:10:31.550-07:002011-09-27T18:10:31.550-07:00Ps Prentis, I cannot agree you with more.
"B...Ps Prentis, I cannot agree you with more.<br /><br /><i>"But these fellow beings {your audience} are only part of those who need to hear God's word. We need to hear them from our own mouths. They are impressed deeper upon our own hearts when we share them with others. They become part of who we are and have a more profound affect upon us than those who hear us say them."</i> Very true, indeed.<br /><br /><i>"And God, through the Holy Spirit, increases the application of His word so that those who hear it get more than what has been said audibly. They take this revelation of God and give it to others so that they receive even more than they would have. It becomes so much a part of them as they share it that they cannot refuse its meaning. It becomes a part of them."</i> Also, how very true.<br /><br /><i>"There is one other person who must hear us speak God's word. It is God."</i> There is a teaching going round, and is also creeping into the church in shades, and it speaks about positive confession. While generally speaking, it is a positive thing to do, one has to be careful when the positive confession is adopted to the extent that it merges into the teaching of "The Secret". The latter is a secular teaching on positive confession with the core understanding lying in that it is the cosmos that would hear you and align everything to give you what you want. God is absence in there, or if there is a God, cosmos is the god. Extreme proponents of this secular teaching preach that you can get whatever you want; all you have to do is keeping confessing the thing you want, and everything will be aligned up by cosmos to give you what you want. I just want to point out the subtility for believers to be careful. It is along the line that it is definitely good for us to exercise, but we must be careful NOT to embrace the deeper things of such forms of exercises as Tai Chi, yoga, just to name a few. As Christians, we must know, in what our positive confessions are rooted; it is in the Almighty God who Himself alone decides if He would align anything or everything when we confess. Ps Prentis was of course, right to say that when we speak of God's commands, God is glad to hear them, for such would be in alignment to His will and purposes, and so, He would render His assistance to us; in other words, He would extend His grace to us.Anthony Chiahttp://high-expressions.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com