USING OUR AUTHORITY AGAINST DEAF EARS To those who believe in His Name, Jesus left us a checkbook with His signature on each check. This means He delegated His authority to us. And we can use that authority against all forms of darkness. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. (Matthew 16:19 NKJV) We have been given the power in Jesus Name to bind the forces of darkness, and loose ourselves or others from its grip. This authority is available to anyone who believes in the Name of Jesus. The devil hates the Name of Jesus! He shrinks from the very thought. The Bible says to resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7) In relation to hearing more from the Lord, He wants us to use this authority against the devouring enemy who would seek to steal our daily hearing. If you want to hear more from the Lord, in the Name of Jesus, bind the devourer on a continuing basis, and loose the Words of God to come to yourself. Also, in Jesus name, loose your own ears to hear and your heart to understand what He says. This really works. When I wrote the first draft of my first book in 1984, I was accustomed to hearing from the Lord on a continuing basis, and then I began to get interference from the enemy. At that time, I was reminded of the verses when Daniel prayed to hear from God to receive understanding. An angel was sent to him the day he prayed, but it took twenty one days for the angel to fight through opposing forces. With that in mind, if it took the angel that long to get through, shouldn t we remain consistent to pray and use the authority He has given us? Dan 10:12-13 NKJV Then he said to me, "Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. It helps to loose the angels to do their work, since we are joined with them, and we need to use our authority against the opposition who would delay God s Words from getting through. When I began taking consistent authority over the enemy, from stealing my daily portion of Words from God, I began to hear more and more. The key to this is not only believing in the Mighty Name of Jesus to loose what is bound or delayed, but also to not give up.
OVERCOMING THE FAMINE FOR HEARING GOD Amos 8:11-12 NKJV "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it. In context to its surrounding verses, I think the above scripture is talking about an end time judgment when open preaching and the prophetic Word is not readily available. However, every time I read or think of that scripture I can not bare to think how horrible it would be to be without the Word of God. That is one of the reasons I have tried so hard to get everything He has given me on line, so that people who go through that will have some help and comfort. People have asked me throughout the years to pray for them about being able to hear the Lord. I have done a lot of personal intercession about the idea and over that verse. There are a couple things the Lord has shared with me in regards to overcoming a famine of hearing Him. Matt 13:14-15 NKJV 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.' This above scripture is very powerful if you take the time to ponder its meaning. Basically it is saying that God does not want them to hear and understand. If they heard and understood, then they would TURN or REPENT and therefore God would have to heal them. If He does not want them to be healed in hearing, seeing and understanding, then He is going to close down their ability to repent. The way He closes that down is to keep them from understanding what is wrong. He is a very gracious God and if they turn, repent and change, He will forgive and heal them. The other truth the Lord gave me is about those who have grieved the Holy Spirit in some way. For centuries, God has sent visitations of the Holy Spirit to people, churches, cities, and denominations and then men try to control Him and put Him in their God sized box. They quench His ability to move among the people and try to schedule Him into their agendas. This has caused the Lord s river to sweep through a place and take those who are willing to move with Him, and leave behind those who are resistant. behind. In time, this leaves churches and denominations, and individual people in famine of hearing Him. Here is a section from another lesson that is relevant to what we need to repent of so that we can once again have Him freely flowing in our lives and that we may hear and see Him in the fullest measure possible.
PRAYER OF AUTHORITY Lord, my earnest request is that I hear Your voice and see what You are doing. I want to partner with You in bringing Your kingdom on earth, and also in bringing it inside of me. I ask that You will remove the hindrances against my spiritual hearing. I ask that You will send forth Your Word and heal my deaf ears. I bind the deaf and blind spirits in Jesus Name and command them to be broken off and carried away, never to return. I bind every word curse and demonic assignment sent against me and my hearing and seeing and command them to fall null and void in the Name of Jesus Christ. No weapon formed against me and my spiritual hearing and seeing will prosper. I place the blood of Jesus Christ over my eyes and ears and dedicate my ears and eyes to Him. In Jesus Name, amen. Isa 54:17 NKJV No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD. Ps 107:19-20 NKJV Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions. WARNINGS ABOUT THE HOLY Scripture warns us to honor the Holy Spirit with reverence and respect. * Do not blasphemy the Holy Spirit * Do not resist the Holy Spirit * Do not grieve the Holy Spirit * Do not quench the Holy Spirit * Do not lie to the Holy Spirit * Do not strive with the Holy Spirit * Do not test the Holy Spirit DO NOT BLASPHEME THE HOLY Every sin or blasphemy can be forgiven except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which can never be forgiven. Anyone who blasphemes against me, the Son of Man, can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come. (Matt 12:31-32 NLT) DO NOT RESIST THE HOLY You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. (Acts 7:51 NKJV)
DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (Eph 4:30 NKJV) DO NOT QUENCH THE HOLY Do not quench the Spirit. (1 Thess 5:19 NKJV) QUENCH: NT:4570 sbennumi (sben - noo-mee); a prolonged form of an apparently primary verb; to extinguish (literally or figuratively): KJV - go out, quench. DO NOT LIE TO THE HOLY Then Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself. The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren t lying to us but to God. As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died. (Acts 5:3-5 NLT) DO NOT STRIVE WITH THE HOLY And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. (Gen 6:3 NKJV) DO NOT TEST THE HOLY And Peter said, How could the two of you even think of doing a thing like this conspiring together to test the Spirit of the Lord? (Acts 5:9 NLT) REPENTANCE PRAYER OVER GRIEVING THE HOLY Lord I humble myself before You and ask that You will forgive me for grieving the Holy Spirit, the very center of Your heart and feelings. I have disobeyed when I have heard Your voice. I have tested Your patience for years, when you have spoken to me about my willingness to change and I have resisted. In the past, I have tried to control my own response to Your Spirit and felt strangely about how others respond to You. Please forgive me for anything I have done to try to control Your flow. I have not intended to quench Your Spirit and hinder You in any way. I have not wanted to despise prophesies, Lord, and sometimes they are too strong of meat for me to discern and I have turned my heart the other way. Please forgive me for despising any prophesy that is from Your heart. I have spoken wrongly about Your anointed leaders and complained. Please forgive me for quenching Your Spirit due to unbelief and lack of reception to their message. I ask that You will open my eyes and turn my hard heart to receive Your message through all Your chosen messengers. Neither do I want to blaspheme the Holy Spirit by saying Your messengers are operating with the devil s power. I do not want to partner with such sin in Jesus Name. Please deliver me from a hard heart from having grieved Your Spirit. Return, oh Lord, not just with a visitation, but rather a habitation where You fill me and dwell with me in Your fullness. Eradicate anything in my life that has given You sorrow. Please let us abide together as one. In Jesus Name I pray.
THE QUICKENED WORD SCHOOL (HOW GOD SPEAKS) This teaching is a part of the ministry of The Quickened Word School on How God Speaks. In 1984 the Lord Jesus visited Sandy Warner and handed her a solid gold pen. One week later she began writing the book, 101 Ways God Speaks (and How to Hear Him.) After years of seeking the Lord and modeling how He speaks, the school was birthed as a multiplied expansion of that book. If you are hungry for more, you are welcome to go to the school and download other teachings as pdf files and also compiled books created in this same magazine style and colorful format. Throughout her years of scribing what she sees and hears, she has shared many Words on her websites to demonstrate His ways. Thank you for listening and may the Lord bless you! SCHOOL www.thequickenedword.info RHEMA www.thequickenedword.com/rhema/index.htm WORDS TO PONDER www.wordstoponder.info BOOKS http://www.thequickenedword.com/books.htm