For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Matthew 10:20.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
The anointing is all about hearing My voice. All life has its source in Me and it is created by the voice of My Word. My voice creates, directs, sustains, maintains, and recreates in Christ. And My voice is personal to each person, I call you each by name, you are Mine.
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!” Isaiah 43:1.
It is very important to know and hear My voice. It is a matter of life and death. But you must not only hear it, but you must take it in, understand, and do it. And all of this comes with the anointing.
I speak to you by My Word. A word comes by a voice. I communicate by My voice in you, in your spirit. The Spirit is My breath. My Word is God breathed. You speak using your breath. In Hebrew and Greek, the languages of the Old and New Testaments, the word for “spirit” is also the word for “breath” and “wind.”
The voice of My Word, not just the word you read or hear preached by others, but you must hear the voice behind the Word, My voice in you, before the Word is real to you.
All you need to be successful and blessed is to hear and obey My voice.
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently hear (שָׁמַע) and obey ( שָׁמַע) the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His אֶת commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you hear and obey (שָׁמַע) the voice of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 28:1-2.
My Word will speak to you by My Spirit in you, which is the anointing. Faith comes by hearing (שָׁמַע) and hearing (שָׁמַע) by the instrumentality of the Word (rhema) of Christ (the anointed and the anointing). Romans 10:17.
There are two words you see for My Word in the New Testament in Greek but in English you just translate both as “word.” Just as there are three different words for love in Greek but only one in English. “Logos” and “rhema” both mean “word” in Greek, but “logos” is primarily the written word, though it also can mean the spoken word, but “rhema” is the word spoken by a living voice. When Jesus tells you that you do not live by bread alone but every word that proceeds from My mouth he used the word “rhema,” meaning My voice. When I spoke the commandments from Mt. Sinai, the Israelites heard My voice. The voice behind the words. And I tell you that faith comes by hearing and hearing My voice of the anointed one and the anointing. What am I telling you? I am telling you how to hear My voice.
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him. Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him. 1 John 2:20-29.
Jesus gives further insight on this mystery of Christ (the anointed One and the anointing) in you, your hope of glory, by the Holy Spirit:
These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper (Paraclete), the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. John 14:25-26.
This is how you hear My voice. The anointing, the Holy Spirit in you and on you. He teaches you by My Word spoken by Me through Him in you, for He is the breath of My voice. The Holy Spirit, the anointing within, guides you to all truth, and My Word is truth and consecrates you in the truth, and He teaches you all things by bringing to your remembrance the things I have said to you.
Let Me go a bit deeper. You must have revelation of My voice within before it becomes your reality as it is Mine. Jesus told you that was why it was to your advantage that He died for your sins and returned to Me, for if He did not take your sins on Himself and take the punishment in your place and return to Me once He had made purification of sin, the Holy Spirit would not have come to you. He cannot dwell in a spirit that is dead to Me and alive to sin, you must be born again from above by My Word of truth, alive to Me and dead to sin in Jesus, before He can join with your spirit and I can pour My love in your heart, which is the anointing.
And now let Jesus tell you how you hear and are taught by the anointing within you:
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.” John 16:12-15.
I tell you that those who are led by My Spirit are My children. And how does He lead you? By My voice.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.” John 10:27-30.
You can all know Me from the least to the greatest by hearing My voice because you who believe in My Son have the anointing within and upon you by the gift of the Holy Spirit which I have given those who obey Me. I have poured My love (and I am love so I have poured Myself) into your heart by the gift of the Holy Spirit and love has a voice. Love speaks and the Holy Spirit gives love utterance and gives you utterance as well. He teaches you in any situation the words you are to say as well. That is how Jesus could say that He only spoke the words I told Him to say, for while in the flesh he limited himself to operate as a man like you in all things but original sin, setting His God powers aside while clothed in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was born from above by the imperishable seed of My rhema Word over the virgin Mary. Yes, when Mary said let it be done to Me according to Your Word, she used the word “rhema.”
Do you recall that on the day of Pentecost the Spirit was poured out by My Son upon the believers gathered in the upper room and He came as a strong driving wind but descended on each as a tongue of fire? A tongue of fire for each, and each had My voice to speak within and to light their tongue with divine fire. And I tell you that they spoke in tongues as the Spirit was GIVING them utterance, Acts 2:4, but they had to speak the words He gave them.
This is the way the anointing came upon the prophets of old as well. The anointing upon them, the breath and flaming tongue of the Spirit was giving them utterance, was giving them words to speak, My Words on their in their hearts and on their lips. And they would cry out, “Thus says the LORD God!”
And what did Jesus tell those who believed in Him and followed Him? Not to worry ahead of time what they would say or speak before the kings, governors, and those adverse to the good news of Jesus when they were called in to witness on My behalf because My Spirit would be SPEAKING IN THEM telling them what to say and the answers that no one could take exception to or contradict. They would hear My voice by the anointing.
You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Matthew 10:18-20.
I am spirit and I communicate in Spirit and truth. I seek those who worship in spirit and truth.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:13-14.
When Moses wanted a sign that I was with him to deliver the people I told him that the sign would be I would bring them out to the same mountain where he was hearing My voice (Mt. Horeb which is also called Mt. Sinai) and all would worship there. And what happened when they came to Mt. Sinai? I descended upon the mountain, again in fire, and they heard My voice as I spoke the commandments.
You hear the voice of the one you serve. The anointing sets you apart for the honor and privilege of serving Me and My people. It is a position of trust and responsibility. You cannot serve two masters and clearly hear from Me. As Elijah told the people who were worshipping Baal and yet giving Me lip service as well, you cannot straddle the fence. You must go one way or the other. Double minded doubters cannot hear or receive from Me. They block My voice.
And He said to me [the prophet Ezekiel], “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.” Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me. And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD God.’ As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.” Ezekiel 2:1-5.
But what did I tell Ezekiel what he needed to do to hear My voice in the anointing?
But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” Ezekeil 2:8.
I tell you that all who call on My Name will be saved, but how can they call on Me unless they have heard of Me? And how can they hear unless someone preaches My Word to them? And how can you preach unless you are sent? Faith comes by hearing and hearing the voice of My anointed Word, but then I tell you that though many hear it has no effect in their heart and they do not hear. How do you hear and not hear? If you are disobedient to and CONTRADICT My Word (“antilego” in Greek, meaning speaking against My Word) in a hostile and argumentative way. Romans 10:21. There are those that when they hear My Word argue with it and mock it. You have experienced this I am sure in your own family and also heard in on the news media. But this also includes believers who challenge My Words by saying My Word is not working and does not heal them, deliver them or prosper them. The Israelites were in Covenant with Me and heard My Words but they questioned the truth of them and tested Me time and time again saying I would not perform what I had promised.
Understand this, you who constantly question, doubt, and fear that I will not do what I have promised in My Word or that My Will is evil against you, making you suffer rather than prosper and be in good health. But I can only perform My Word in you if you are walking in the truth. Jesus could work no mighty miracles in His home town of Nazareth even though He longed to bless His people because they would not HEAR HIS VOICE as truth as well as My witness of Him from the prophet Isaiah. They tried to kill Him, as did the chief priests and Pharisees as well.
“I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.” John 8:37.
Hearing has to do with serving. Where I am there My servant will be. Remember what Samuel said to hear My voice? “Speak LORD, your servant is listening.” He was open to hear and ready to do. There is a difference between the son who serves Me and the son who does not.
Sheep follow a shepherd. They hear his voice. Jesus said His sheep hear His voice and follow Him. They will not hear a stranger’s voice, they will not follow the stranger. If you are following the stranger, however, that is the voice you will hear.
To assure yourself of hearing My Word is simple, follow Jesus, who is My Word, and serve Him by keeping His Word. For if you abide, continue, remain in My Word you will be My disciples (followers) and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Abide in My Word as a branch in the Vine and let My Word abide in you. Read, hear, speak, and meditate upon My Word until you hear the voice behind that Word.
Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!” Isaiah 30:21-22.
That way you can always hear. And in hearing is the success, the deliverance, the healing, and the wisdom.
The more you obey, the more you will hear. And the more you hear, the more you will want to hear. For if you are willing and obey you will have the good of the land, days of Heaven on earth even now.
But the more you disobey and contradict (antilego) instead of homologia (agreeing with My Word), the less you will hear. You have grieved and quenched the Holy Spirit. Although Saul was anointed the first king of Israel, and had even prophesied after being anointed, he finally could not hear My voice. Why? He was not obeying, serving, or following, he was blatantly disobeying Me to My face and seeking to use his anointed position to murder and lust for his own glory. The only voice he heard at the end of his life was a demon spirit he called up from the nether world.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:21-23.
There are many anti-Christs (speaking against the anointed one and mocking the anointing) who have arisen and will continue to come onto the scene in these last days, they will try to steal your anointing from you. Do not let anyone quench your lamp by making you adopt the stance of the disobedient, the mockers, the doubters, and the argumentative.
I love you and have poured My love in your heart by the gift of the Holy Spirit. Only My sheep hear My voice, those who follow My Son. Do not live in fear little flock, it has pleased Me, your Father, to give you the Kingdom. I have anointed you and appointed you as priests, prophets, and kings. Never forget that and walk so as to hear the voice within. He will guide to all truth and remind you of My Words just when you need them. Make sure you are listening. Shama, shama.