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Voices are everywhere, and theyâre screaming at us: use me, buy me, believe me. Weâve got voices all over our culture: chat rooms, commercials, billboards, and bumper stickers, and they all want our immediate attention.
And then there is that voice from the past or that voice in your head that says you messed up too many times. You canât do it. You canât do it on your own. Youâre not smart enough. Youâre not strong enough. Youâre not stable enough. Youâre not thin enough. And then thereâs the enemy. The father of lies that likes to get in there and say no way youâll ever make anything of yourself.
I had this amazing conversation with my dad not too long ago. Heâs a great man. I love him so much. And he told me about the first time that his father said something encouraging to him. My dad had just put a room onto his house. And my grandfather was a master carpenter and he was inspecting my dadâs work. And he got done and went to my dad, and said, âThatâs a good job Harry.â And that was the first time my grandfather said something encouraging to my dad, and he was 38 years old.
Man, and without hearing that voice. Without hearing that, whether itâs the actually the physical audible voice of your father or mother, or the voice from God, you donât have any identity. You have no way to function. I think Jesus knew that. I think thatâs why, when He went through His ministry, touching people and healing people, and speaking to people. He never asked them to be anything that they werenât. He tried to get them to understand who they were. Thatâs why he said, âYouâre my daughter, youâre my son, youâre my brother, youâre my sheep.â He wanted us to identify with Him and understand that weâre His creation; that we're worth something.
Yeah, and thatâs something amazing about Jesus. He could look down into somebodyâs spirit and draw out who they really were. I mean, he looked at Simon and said, âYou know what? Youâre not Simon, Youâre Peter. Youâre a Rock.â
And how âbout that woman that came up to Him when He was going through that crowd, and she touched His garment, and he turned around and he said, âDaughter.â His first word: Daughter.
You know, Jesus got that honestly from His father. Three times when Jesus was under immense pressure in his ministry, God the father actually spoke. I mean, spoke audibly, It wasnât inward. Jesus heard it, and the people around Jesus heard it. Like at His baptism, God the father said, âyou are my son, I love you and Iâm pleased with you.â And then at the transfiguration, the father spoke again and the disciples heard it. The father said, âYou are my son. I have chosen you, and God just established Christâs purpose on that mountain.â And then, before Christ died at Gethsemane in John 12, Jesus prayed: should I pray to be delivered from this hour? No. This is why Iâve come. Glorify your name father. And the father spoke and said, âI have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.â And I think that promise just drove Christ to the cross.
I think it did too. You may have never heard that voice. That voice that says youâre worth it. Youâre smart enough. I believe in you. I love you. There may be a gaping hole in your spirit where that voice was supposed to speak into, and itâs just a vacuum. Listen, Jesus doesnât require anything of you. You canât work to get His approval. Remember, when he was affirmed by His father, when God looked down and said, âThis is my son who I love.â Jesus hadnât done a single miracle. All he asks of you is that you listen.
- Album:
- Symbol To Be Forgotten
- Make Them Understand
- The Way We Worship
- Wide Open Spaces
- Voice From Home
- Still The Cross
- Have I Ever Told You
- Found a Place
- Ready to Fly
- Miscellaneous
- One Silent Night
- Stop The Bleeding - Single Bundle (Includes Undone Dance...
- Worship in the Waiting
- Sing Over Me: The Songs of Dennis Jernigan
- Celebrate Freedom (Live)
- As For Me (Radio Edit)
- As For Me (Radio Edit) - Single
- WOW Worship: Red
- Best of 2001 Dove Awards
- I Want to Be Like You