Focus On What the Holy Spirit Is Saying
KEY No. 10 – If God is talking to you about healing, don’t study cabbages!
Have you ever woken up through the night in a strange house, wanting a drink or needing the loo? You had to grope your way across an unfamiliar room trying to find the light switch. Not so easy, as many stubbed toes will painfully testify!
Navigation is so much easier when the lights are on. It is no different in the spiritual realm.
There is a scripture in John 12:36 that the Holy Ghost quickened to my understanding one time. The red bit reads like this:
“While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light.”
There are seasons in our lives where God wants to speak to us about various things.
This key basically states:
If there is an anointing present at a particular time, leading you to look at and consider a particular subject/book/character etc, give yourself to it while the light is on. If the light is shining in that area lap it up, because pretty soon it may be shining somewhere else and you’ve lost an opportunity for revelation.
Say for example, you just can’t get away from healing scriptures. Every time you pick up your Bible you are drawn to those scriptures that speak of God’s will and power to heal. Now would not be the time to read books about prosperity or end time doctrine.
Buy books about healing, listen to tapes by men who move in the healing anointing and gifts. Do all you can to fill your heart with that area of study, that you may become a child of it.
Just as we are born again by the incorruptible Word of the Living God, so this kind of study generates Christ in us. We want the Word to be ‘made flesh’ in us! We want to be born of the Word of faith, the Word of healing, the Word of truth, the Word of freedom, and the Word of joy…
I remember one season in my life where the Spirit was speaking to me about the power in the name of Jesus. During the next five to six weeks I must have read through the book of Acts seven or eight times, underlining every occurrence of the use of Jesus name. I noted how, where, and when it was used. I bought two six tape sets about the name of Jesus by a popular Bible teacher, and listened to them over and again. I gave myself fully to the light while it was there concerning the name of Jesus, so it might become a living Word in me.
That season was not a time to study the ‘tabernacle’ or ‘repentance from dead works’, but to study ‘the name of Jesus’.
NOTE: It is important to note that general reading of the Bible supplemental to this kind of focused study should also be done. Focus is important, but balance is essential.
