A Living Voice

"We lean our personality on Him, our inner man filled with Him, as a bottle is filled and when capped, nothing else can get in and only what's filling it comes out."

A STUDENT can study to become a doctor and memorize all the bookwork, knowing vast facts and data, but until he or she actually works, hands on, with a patient, they will not truly become skilled. This is true in any field of medical care. In this same way, to learn to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit who lives forever in you, takes more than reading, more than memorizing verses. Even knowing His voice, when He speaks to you, isn’t enough. That was from God, but what do you do with it?

Responding requires experience and experience brings maturity. We cannot read with the mind, repeating what others have said or figuring out what Scripture means, from worldly knowledge. This has led many into error. Even well-practiced ministers must speak from the Spirit in their spirit and not from their head. They must know the Spirit’s voice and the Spirit’s ways and methods of working through the church and through them individually. Their experience in the Spirit changes the anointing on their ministry.

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)

“But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.” (1 John 2:20)

The anointing, also called the power of God, the unction, or the glory of the Lord, is the Holy Spirit at work within us and upon us. He brings wisdom to what we say and power in the words we speak (or write), and God’s words, being full of power, never return to Him without doing what they are sent to do (Isaiah 55:11). We are living and working and praying, doing all things, through Him.

He is not a dove nor a vapor nor just a voice, but the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Breath of the Father, which is given to us as evidence of God’s promise to our full redemption, spirit, soul, and body. He can’t be memorized, and God’s Word, that He’s written through men, is His voice speaking, is Jesus and the Father speaking, and all of it, every known translation is anointed by Him. He was with the translator, even to the placement of chapters and punctuation.

The Word of God is a living voice. It is not simply words on the page, but being read, being spoken, it changes the atmosphere within us and around us because the Spirit of God goes to work at our words, at His words in our voice. And the more we seek Him, the more we “lean into Him,” the more experience we gain with Him. Under pressure from external circumstances, He goes to bat for us because we lean our personality on Him, our inner man filled with Him, as a bottle is filled and when capped, nothing else can get in and only what’s filling it comes out.

We become like that trained medical doctor, who not only did the schooling required but has the experience as well and can live and move well in his field, not confused by the words of ignorant men (men without knowledge) but instead discerning and recognizing truth from error because the source of wisdom, the Spirit of God, guides us and experience has taught us.

“I also pray that your reasoning abilities and conscience may be healed so that you can discern and understand God’s purpose for all humanity—the incredible, rich inheritance in store for his children—" (Ephesians 1:18, Remedy)

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:” (Ephesians 6:17)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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