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Find His Frequency Don’t you think we ought to have at least as much faith in God as we have in the television networks? They can break down. They can fail us. But God never will. He has given us His WORD. He has promised He’ll lead us by His Spirit and enable us to know His voice. So, if we’re having difficulty with those things, we need to stop blaming Him and determine where we’re missing it. Actually, that’s not hard to do. When we have trouble hearing God’s voice, it’s almost always for one of the following four reasons: • We don’t believe He is speaking. • We’re not paying attention. • We’re allowing some kind of interference to drown out His voice. • We just plain don’t know what frequency He is on. Let’s focus right now on that last point. Exactly how do you locate the frequency God uses to speak to you? I’ll tell you right off the bat, you don’t do it by using those fleshly paddles on the sides of your head—your natural ears. Some people try to hear God that way. They think if He would just speak audibly to them everything would be solved. They’re mistaken. Our natural ears weren’t designed to hear the voice of God. We were created to hear Him in our inner man or what the New Testament calls “the hidden man of the heart” (1 Peter 3:4). As Hebrews 3:7-8 says, “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts....)” God leads His children not by outward voices or signs and wonders but by the inward witness of “the hidden man of the heart.” So to find His frequency, the first thing you’ll have to do is tune in—not with your head but with your heart! Learn to Discern How do you know the difference between your head and your heart? Scripturally speaking, your head is your soul, which is comprised of your mind, will and emotions. Your heart is your spirit, which is the core of your being that has been born again and joined to the Spirit of God. Granted, discerning the difference between the voice of your soul and the voice of your spirit can be challenging and it takes spiritual wisdom to do it. But the Bible tells us clearly how to develop that wisdom: We do it by spending time in the written WORD of God. Hebrews 4:12 tells us that The WORD is “quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” It contains the voice of God in its most tangible form. God always agrees with His written WORD and His WORD always agrees with Him. In fact, Psalm 138:2 says, He has magnified His WORD even above His Name. That means God has put His Name on His written WORD the way we would put our name at the bottom of a contract. He has given us His WORD as a covenant and signed it in the Name of Jesus by the blood of Jesus. Since God cannot lie, there is no way He will ever do or say anything contrary to that WORD. He has absolutely joined Himself to it forever. So, the first place God takes us to train us to recognize His voice is to His written WORD. He uses it to tune our spiritual ears to the real, so we can easily recognize a counterfeit. Have you ever watched an impersonator mimic a celebrity? If he is good at what he does, you’ll think, I know who that guy is impersonating. It’s so-and-so. He sounds just like him! But if you were to put the real personality right next to the impersonator, the differences would be glaring. If you could see them both at the same time, you’d think, That guy doesn’t sound much like him at all! That’s the way it is with God’s written WORD. The better you know it, the more you’ve heard God’s voice speaking to you through it, the easier it is for you to tell the difference between His voice and another voice. The easier it is for you to divide your soul from your spirit, and discern the difference between the voice of your head and the voice of your heart. When you’re trained to hear God’s voice in His WORD, the devil won’t be able to sneak deceptions in on you, either. When he tries to razzle-dazzle you with some religious-sounding voice that says, I love you, my son. But it’s just not my will to heal you at this time, you won’t buy it. You’ll rise up and say, “That’s not the voice of God. That’s a lie from hell because it doesn’t agree with The WORD that says, ‘By His stripes ye were healed.’” * * * * article continues on p. 22 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SALVATION PRAYER If you do not know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, simply pray the following prayer in faith, and Jesus will be your Lord! Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” and “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Acts 2:21; Romans 10:9). You said my salvation would be the result of Your Holy Spirit giving me new birth by coming to live in me (John 3:5-6, 15-16; Romans 8:9-11) and that if I would ask, You would fill me with Your Spirit and give me the ability to speak with other tongues (Luke 11:13; Acts 2:4). I take You at Your Word. I confess that Jesus is Lord. And I believe in my heart that You raised Him from the dead. Thank You for coming into my heart, for giving me Your Holy Spirit as You have promised, and for being Lord over my life. Amen. CONNECT WITH US If you have just prayed this prayer, please let us know of your decision. We have a Free Gift to help you begin your new life in Jesus! kcm.org/salvation PRAYER IS OUR PRIORITY. +1-817-852-6000 7 days a week es Hablamos Español Nohemi R., prayer minister * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BVOV : 21

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