© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Latter Rain publication of the Stone Church 1923
Knowing God’s Voice and Will
The man came, and brought the money. I said, “God wants me to talk to you. Now sit down.”
So he sat down, and in ten minutes’ time the whole of his life was unhinged, unravelled, broken up; so broken that like a great big baby he wept, and cried for salvation.
It was “feathers” that did it.
But you know Brothers, it seems to me we will never know the mind of God until we know the voice of God.
The striking thing about Moses; is that it took him forty years to learn human wisdom, forty years to know his helplessness, and forty years to live in the power of God.
One hundred and twenty years it took to teach that man; and sometimes, it seems to me, it will take many years to bring us just where we can tell the Voice of God, the leadings of God, and the lines of God, and all His Will concerning us.
But I am speaking to people this morning who ought to know the mind of the Lord, because God wants us thoroughly furnished unto all good works, and always ready to give a good account of the hope that is within us.
God’s Business is Our Business
We must always be ready, as the man in the counting-house is ready on the order lines [3], so must we be ready with all the mind of God, for the day is at hand, and we must clearly see that nothing shall come against us, but that which shall be on the line of profit.
Everything we touch shall be definitely for the operation of God’s thought for a world’s need.
It will be so. [4]
Beloved, everyone of us ought to know the mind of God on the Gifts. [ie. The nine Gifts of the Holy Spirit as listed in 1 Co. 12:1]
I notice in particular that the manifestation of the Spirit of God is given “to profit withal“.
I want you to know that my address, from time to time, cannot be in any way less than on the Baptism of the Spirit, because I see in that; all revelation, all illumination, everything that God in Christ was to be, brought forth into perfect light, that we might be able to see right into that Holiness of His, which was filled with all the fulness of God, and that we may be able to understand that He was the First-fruits on every line, in order that we may; live the same, produce the same, and be in every activity: A son of God, with power.
It must be so.
We must not limit The Holy One
And we must clearly see that God brought us forth on natural lines, to make us super-natural, that we might be changed all the time, on the line of a super-natural basis, that we may every day live so in the Spirit, that all of the revelations of God are just like a great big canvas thrown before our eyes, and see clearly, step by step into all the divine will of God. [5]
There are three things in particular, that we must understand concerning the Baptism of the Spirit:..
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[3] Counting-house: The Office, or building, where business accounts are written up and kept.
[4] It will be so: It must be so: The Christians who are attentive, and obedient to the Spirit in their hearts, are the believers God uses: Not the ones who follow their own thoughts and motives. Whatever situation Spirit-filled Christians find ourselves in, we are confident Father has permitted it in order that, through our response, His Kingdom here on Earth is advanced today. All we say and do must be in accord with God’s Word and Spirit, and God’s desire for this crippled world.
[5] …like a great big canvas: Perceiving by divine revelation in our spirits what Father wants us to do in the situations we face each moment. This is what Jesus meant by, Jn 8:28b and 38a KJV etc; I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things…I speak that which I have seen with my Father:
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Latter Rain publication of the Stone Church 1923
