– as He was rebuking the cities, the Lord was asking, seeking, and knocking in prayer before the Father, and He spoke what the Father had spoken to Him. 11, where, as He was rebuking the cities that had rejected Him, He answered and said to the Father, Yes Father…. And even more, we need to demand from the Lord in a most intimate way that He would be the One speaking in us, and He would accompany our word with His mighty hand. Then we need to supplicate in a more specific way, to have the specific words from the Lord to say to them. When we meet someone we need to ask the Lord, Lord, what should I speak to this person? What is his situation and condition, and what should I say to him? This is a common prayer. To ask is to pray in a common way, to seek is to supplicate in a specific way, and to knock is to demand in the most intimate and most earnest way. This means that we must pray we must pray before we speak, and we must pray as we speak to others.
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The truth is that we do not know how to contact people, and even having a good heart and being filled with the enjoyment of God’s word doesn’t mean that we should speak to others right away about it.Īs we are contacting people and dealing with them, we must ask, seek, and knock for the proper way to contact them (Matt.
Learning to Ask, Seek, and Knock for the Proper Way to Contact People according to the Spirit What we need to do first of all – and even while we contact others – is to ask, seek, and knock for the proper way to contact them. When we talk to others about the truth or about our precious experiences of Christ we must first perceive and determine whether or not they have the capacity to receive what we intend to share. In speaking our subjective experiences of Christ we have to consider who we’re speaking with especially those young ones among us, when they get excited, they speak to everyone about everything, and pretty soon some turn and trample them under foot. 7 – is that we need to refrain from sharing these holy things and sweet experiences with some who are like “dogs” and like “hogs”, some who may be believers but are religious and are ready to turn and tear us. Rather, the law of the kingdom of the heavens – as outlined by the Lord in Matt. Praise the Lord, as we pursue Him and grow in Him, we are infused and filled with His word, and the divine truth is being constituted into us to the point that we want to overflow and share this with others.įurthermore, as we grow in life we have precious subjective experiences of Christ, and He becomes so real and personal to us our desire is to speak of this wonderful One to others.īut simply being excited about the truth in God’s word and being happy about the experiences of Christ we had doesn’t mean that we should share these things with everyone, no matter who they are and where they are. That which is holy refers to the objective truth belonging to God, and the pearls refer to the subjective experiences of Christ.
Secondly, we need to be careful when sharing the truth in God’s word and our experiences of Christ to others, for some of them may not be in the right condition and situation and, instead of receiving them, they may trample them and turn and tear us (see v. Actually, the judgement with which we judge others we will also be judged, and the measure with which we measure others, we also will be measured. 7 we see the way for us as kingdom people – as citizens of the kingdom of the heavens – to care for others and to deal with others.įirst of all, we should not judge others, nor seek to find their faults and expose them, for we ourselves have faults, and no one asked us to judge. As we are contacting people and in dealing with them, we must ask, seek, and knock in prayer for the proper way to contact them we must receive the divine supply and minister this supply to others.