God Told Me to Tell You...

I have heard many a people say that they are instantly turned off when someone comes up to them and says these words, "God told me to tell you...", they sometimes respond with a smart comment about having their own relationship with God and if He wants them to know something He will tell them himself.  Sometimes that just patronize the person and say, okay, thank you, but they really have no interest in what the person has delivered to them.

Behind my hearing this, I became a little confused, not a lot, just a little because God is also, not the author of confusion.  But I was a little confused because they bible I read (in Proverbs) states that there is wisdom in wise counsel, long-standing wisdom at that.  My bible says that there is victory in wise counsel, there is sweetness in wise counsel.  So why exactly are we not listening to people when they say God is using them as a messenger?  God may have told you something in your private time with Him and that other person delivering the message could be delivering the confirmation you needed.  Or is it that you are fighting what God told you and you don't want to hear it from anyone else?

What if that person is delivering a blessing and a word of encouragement that was needed in that right now moment; are you not going to hear what they have to say because you are so stuck in your ideals of how God will speak to you?  Also in Proverbs it mentions that the way of the fool is to follow in his own eyes, or his own understanding.  Could that person be delivering to you a word of warning.  So I'm just a little confused, what is the problem with people telling you what God told them to?  I know there are false prophets out there, I know that there are preachers, teachers and apostle that lie but this is where you come in with prayer and ask God to kick up your discernment.

In Ephesians the word says that he gave some apostles, prophets, evangelists, preachers and teachers for the perfecting of God's people, for the edification of the body of Christ.  If your discernment is heightened and your ear is keened into God's voice you don't have to be concerned about false teachings, you will hear what God wants you to hear and you are allowing the vessel delivering the message to be obedient.  Stop being so selfish, you are not the only one that can hear God when He speaks and you are not the only one that can deliver His message.

Scriptures:

Ephesians 4:11-16

Proverbs

Peace and Blessings beautiful people!

Remember to walk in Your purpose!

Jai