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Attention people pipes: God want's to flow through you!
Jesus declared it. Speaking of the Holy Spirit, Jesus said: "Out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.
People pipes are not just in the pulpit. They are also in the pews. God wants to flow through you, not just through the pastor/preacher; but also through you. It doesn't matter what title, ordination, or office a people pipe has, or whether he/she looks special or speaks with religious language, or how much religious education he/she has.
The King James words, "Quench not the Spirit," mean "Don't hold back the Spirit's flow." What can quench or hold back the Spirit's flow? You! You can shut down God's flow through you just like you can turn off a water faucet. But why do that? Why not allow God to flow through you?
Any water pipe can carry water. And any (even you) people pipe can carry God's flow. God is wanting and waiting for His Spirit rivers to flow through you. He says: "Open your mouth and I will fill it." He will fill your mouth with a flow of anointed words from your innermost being.
Religious tradition says only pastor pipes can flow on Sunday mornings, however, that is untrue. Come and see God flow through any of His people pipes that He chooses.
Sundays/10:45am/(& Fridays/6:00pm)/225 Berry St./Nashville/TN/37207
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Some people make a big deal about being a prophet. They love to announce that they are a prophet. They even put it on their letterhead.
However, Bible prophet, Amos said: "I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet." He didn't need to claim to be a prophet. He just was one.
Paul told the Corinthians: "You can all prophesy." Note the word "all." God's not picky who He speaks through. He even used a donkey one time. Every believer can speak prophecy.
God says: "Open your mouth and I shall fill it." Try it. Ask God to speak through you and then open your mouth and begin to speak from your heart. Words will begin to roll off your tongue as the Spirit speaks through you.
No need to run after those who call themselves prophets. No need to attend conference after conference. No need for a famous prophet to "give you a word." Just listen to the Holy Spirit and let him speak through your voice.
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We humans have been designed to carry a current. We have inner channels in our heart that were created by God to carry the rivers of the Holy Spirit's flow.
Jesus, speaking about the Holy Spirit, said: "Out of your inner most being shall flow rivers of living water." God's Spirit-rivers are ready to flow through you! All you have to do is open the flood gates and God, Himself, will flow mightily, all through your inner most being.
Perhaps one of the most ignored commandments of the New Testament is "Quench not the Spirit." In other words, don't hold back the Spirit's flow.
Truth is, most American Christians have been taught just the opposite of this Holy Scripture. We have been taught to shut down the Spirit and block His flow. Tears come? Hold them back. Heart beating fast because the Spirit is telling you to say something in church? Don't you dare do that because you will be out of order. Feel led to go pray for someone during the sermon? Better not, or the ushers may tell you to get back to your own seat.
Isn't it time for us to let the Spirit flow? Isn't it time to obey God rather than men?
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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was captured by slave traders as a young boy in Africa in the late 1700's. After experiencing much cruelty and suffering, he finally got his freedom and learned to read and write. These quotations come from his book: Thoughts And Sentiments On The Evil Of Slavery.
"I was brought from a state of innocence and freedom, and in a barbarous and cruel manner, conveyed to a state of horror and slavery." QOC
"How wonderful is the diving goodness displayed in the Old and New Testaments! O what a treasure to have and to be able to read therein." QOC
"Those men that are the procurers and holders of slaves are the greatest villains in the world. They must be lost to all sensibility thinking that the stealing, robbing, enslaving, and murdering of men are not crimes." QOC
"If a man have not love in his heart for his fellow creatures, all his other virtues are not worth a straw." QOC
"The destroyers and enslavers of men can not be Christians, for Christianity is the system of love, and its followers are devoted to honesty, justice, humanity, meekness, peace, and good will to all men." QOC
"Good soldiers of Jesus Christ have many battles to fight with their unbelief, with the perverseness of their nature, with evil temper, and with besetting sins." QOC
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Why do many nonbelievers like to use theological language in their day to day lives? Why do people who say they don’t believe in eternal punishiment for sin, tell people to “go to Hell”? Why do they use the expression “Hell no!” to let someone know that they are not interested in following their suggestion?
Why do people who say they don’t want their children exposed to prayer, use the phrase: “Oh my God”? Why do people who insist that they don’t believe in prayer, loudly ask God to “damn” things?
Why do people who say they don’t want to talk about God and spiritual things keep bringing them up in conversation? Isn’t there a major inconsistency here?
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