Good ground..

Dear friends,

It is important how we receive the word of the Lord. The word that disciplines, confronts, corrects, encourages, builds up, or comforts us. The spoken or the written word.

These words that energise our faith & help us change are spoken to us by servants of the Lord or the lord himself trough the spoken or written Word. Words that are Spirit and life. ( spoken by a servant not a hireling. A shepard not a wolf).

1Thess 5: 11-14...Therefore, encourage each other, and build each other up - just as you are doing. We ask you, brothers, to respect those who are working hard among you, those who are guiding you in the Lord and confronting you in order to help you change. Treat them with the highest regard and love because of the work they are doing.

If we receive these as only words, as human words, we don't receive the energising of there power, the work of the Holy Spirit and total conviction. This power that can cause us the change and grow. 1thess. 1:4-5 & 1Thess 2:13.

This change/clean up done in us is done to us by God unto God who has reconciled us in Christ to himself to present us before himself without defect or blame. 1Col 1:21-23.

Let us therefore receive the words of the Lord with a hungry and humble heart so that we can fully benefit from its work.

God Bless!