“Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you …” (Jer 29:12-14, NKJ)
To speak presupposes that someone hears. From Genesis to Revelation God reveals Himself as a God who speaks. It implies that the person who is being addressed listens, and respond. Gen 1:3 describes the start of the creation process as follows: “Then God said …” Here He addressed the darkness, later in verses 6, 9 and 20 He spoke to the waters, in verses 11 and 24 to the earth, in verse 14 to the heavens, and so on. And when He speaks to any of these entities, they hear and respond.
In verse 26 God speaks to Himself, and He creates man! After this He equipped man to be the carrier of “the image of Him who created him” (Col 3:10) in order to reign by speaking (Gen 2:19). Thus Job (12:8) says, for example, we must “speak to the earth”.
Even the heavens “tell” and “utter speech” (Ps 19:2); in the same manner also the day and the night reveal knowledge. Creation groans and labours with birth pangs (Rom 8:22), and the voice of blood cries out from the ground (Gen 4:10). All of God’s creation communicates!
This indicates in the widest possible sense that God’s very nature, along with His whole creation, is focused on communicating. Just as it was not good for Adam to be alone (Gen 2:18), it was also not good for the Son of God to be alone. The story of the creation of mankind is the love story of God’s desire to give His Son someone, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone (Eph 5:30), so that He would no longer be alone (John 12:24, LB).
In the final chapter of Revelation the Spirit calls the Bride (verse 17), a call for the dispensation when there will no longer be any distance between mankind and God, the time that Rev 21:3 talks of: “And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.’”
This entire teaching aims to establish that God’s nature is to communicate. Read Jer 29:12-14 again. We will call on Him, draw close to Him and pray, AND HE WILL LISTEN! It is a two-way communication, but with this foundational secret: “I will be found BY you.
- Sela: Also read 2 Chron 15:4 with this. What is the implication of this?
- Read: Ruth 3; Ps 115; Acts 24
- Memorise: Acts 24:14
- Going deeper: Listen to Prince Olesegun’s cd teaching: Speaking into the heavenlies.
