Thursday, November 13, 2008

Encouragement to the Church - God is Speaking

We believe that God always speaks to those who pursue Him. That the more we pursue, the more He speaks, and the more faith we have in God speaking the next time we cry out to Him to tell us His thoughts.

We have been encouraged. In the last several months on certain weeks, the message from the preacher on the Sunday coincided with what was taught two days before on the Friday. There was a week when Pastor TTQ used frequent reference to a road map, and on the Friday before Abe had done the same thing. There was a week when Pastor Kenneth preached on obedience and the power of God breaking through stagnancy, and on the Friday before it was a very similar message. The week after, Elder Jason did something that was not done for many years at ICC. He asked for the people who were in need to stand up to their feet, and for the people around them to lay hands and pray. This was also done for the first time in Youth on the previous Friday. It came to a point when we, at the Saturday morning meeting, came to conclusions about what was to happen on the coming Sunday.

We are encouraged by the convergence of the Friday and Sunday messages, which shows that God is speaking to both the people who run Fridays and Sundays. God speaks, whether we are conscious of it or not. Now we must learn to recognize His voice with greater accuracy.