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GOD SPEAKS
THROUGH RHEMA WORDS
Finding the Right Balance
Between Knowing the Bible and Knowing the Gifts of the
Spirit
God speaks through the Bible as
His spoken Word. And God also speaks through rhema as
His spoken Word. Some people think the terms logos and
rhema mean the written Word and the spoken Word. But
they actually both mean spoken Word. {Strongs # 4487 &
3056}
Rhema is just simply Words that He
speaks to us through the many personal ways He speaks
outside of the Bible, like for instance hearing His
still small voice and the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Cor
12.
The more you get to “know” people,
churches, and movements, you will start to see that
there are some who are predominately Bible people and
others who are predominately Spirit people.
The Bible people find their
relationships with God through studying and quoting
scripture. Many are left brained people, who are more
logical and receive most of their spiritual food through
Bible study.
The Spirit people find their
relationships with God through the gifts of the Spirit.
Many are right brained people who receive most of their
spiritual food through spiritual gifts, which are more
on the creative side, In the past this could be
recognized between the denominations of Baptists vs
Charismatic’s.
Click here for more about this subject.
Now the line is not as easily
drawn. There is a new breed of believers the Lord is
raising up that are a marriage of both the Word and the
Spirit. Bob Jones prophesied this back in the 90’s.
And I have watched the move of the Holy Spirit bring
those who were more Word people into flowing in the
gifts of the Holy Spirit, and those who were more gifts
oriented, get back into the Word. There is a divine
union taking place between the gifts of the Spirit
people and the Word people who have expertise in the
scripture.
1 Cor 1:22-24 NKJV
For Jews request a sign, and
Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ
crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the
Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom
of God.
In context to this article,
consider this same verse paraphrased for today’s
culture:
1 Cor 1:22-24
For Rhema people request a
sign, and Word people seek after wisdom; but we preach
Christ crucified, to the Rhema people a stumbling block
and to the Word people foolishness, but to those who are
called, both Rhema people and Word people, Christ is
both the power of God (rhema people) and the wisdom of
God (Word people).
WARNINGS
CONCERNING THE SUPERNATURAL GIFTS
The manifestations of the Spirit
are FUN and God uses them to edify His people and also
draw unbelievers to Himself. Remember Moses and the
burning bush? (Ex 3:3) God uses signs to draw men
aside and to get their attention.
John 6:2-3 NKJV
Then a great multitude followed
Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on
those who were diseased.
The rhema Words, or spiritual
gifts have a strong drawing power because they are
obtained through the supernatural. Because of the
drawing power that God has placed inside of them,
people’s tendency is to chase after or seek the
supernatural.... and the zeal to do this can become a
stumbling block:
1. People get lured into the
supernatural experience and error not knowing
scripture.
Matt 22:29-30 NKJV
"You are mistaken, not knowing
the Scriptures nor the power of God....”
2. The zeal for having the gifts
overpower the zeal to know God.
Rom 10:2-4 NKJV
For I bear them witness that
they have a zeal for God, but not according to
knowledge...
3. People seek the gifts and not
the Giver.
Num 11:34 NKJV
Now a wind went out from the
LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them
fluttering near the camp, about a day's journey on this
side and about a day's journey on the other side, all
around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface
of the ground. 32 And the people stayed up all that day,
all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail
(he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they
spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 33
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before
it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against
the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very
great plague.
When you begin to be drawn into
the spiritual gifts and God’s supernatural walk, the
very most important detail is to never, ever let go of
scripture as your daily foundation. Every bit of rhema
that you hear God speak to you MUST align with
scripture, or it is not God speaking to you.
May the Lord open your spiritual
eyes, ears and heart to receive His personal rhema Words
to you, and may you always remain grounded in His holy
scriptures, in Jesus Name.
2 Tim 3:16-17 NKJV
All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness, that the man of God may be complete,
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that
I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Phil 1:9-10 NKJV
And this I pray, that your love
may abound still more and more in knowledge and all
discernment, that you may approve the things that are
excellent...
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