GraceLife Thoughts – When God Speaks

Grace Thoughts

GraceLife Thoughts – When God Speaks

When God speaks, He reveals. God has revealed information about Himself, His eternal plan and will, at many times and in many ways. That’s what we find in Scripture .. a slow, methodical revelation over a period of thousands of years. God used dreams, visions, angels, audible voices, the quiet voice of the Holy Spirit, physical appearances (Theophanies), Urim and Thummim, casting lots and other ways to communicate truth to His prophets. His prophets then communicated God’s revelations with the fathers.

I’m reminded of the prophecy of Zacharias in Luke 1 —

Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited and redeemed His people, And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David, As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us, To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.LUKE 1:68-75

Also, in Psalm 33 —

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. PSALM 33:6-9

The words “then God said” are repeated eight times in Genesis 1. It demonstrates the pure power and purpose of God as He created the heavens and the earth “By the word of the Lord.”