The Ultimate Whistleblower!

Nobody can be trusted to reveal church corruption, deceit, and evil-doers like God can. God knows exactly what is happening inside and outside of the walls of His church. Unless, of course, God isn’t real in which case everything about the church is fake. Maybe a fake God wouldn’t send prophets either. What would convince you that God is real? How would you confirm allegations of corruption or “swampy” creatures in the church (or anywhere)?

What if you actually experienced God’s presence and heard Him tell you what’s going on? How could you be sure it was God and not the devil trying to deceive you? Would you just decide to ignore the situation because you didn’t trust yourself to discern fact from fiction? Maybe you realize that you don’t really know God, but you have rather enjoyed church attendance to the point that you don’t want to rock the boat or raise an eyebrow in suspicion.

Certainly, if God were real and had all the power that sovereign lordship implies, why would He need to send messengers? Couldn’t He just zap out the evil-doers? Couldn’t He just decide that those people don’t deserve a chance to turn away from their injustices? Couldn’t He demand to exact justice without affording a public hearing with a jury of their peers? If He’s God, He doesn’t need to hide for fear of retribution. So is He the ultimate whistleblower and did He try to reason with those doing wrong before making a public spectacle of their deeds? Hmmm?

Yes, I asked a lot of questions there, do you even want the answers? Who could you ask that you would trust? Have you heard of the word “prayer”? Prayer is a two-way conversation with a very real God. However, if you’re only having one-sided communication where you’re doing all the talking, then perhaps your God isn’t real at all or maybe you are actually the real god. That’s scary! However, if perhaps the real sovereign God and creator sent a messenger to teach you how to hear His voice in prayer, you might be able to discern whether or not He is real. Oh boy, are you up for that? Take a minute, decide, …

If the answer is “no”, then see you later. No hard feelings. But if the answer is “yes, I want to learn to hear God’s voice in prayer”, then hallelujah! We’re on a mission!

There are two prerequisite points that need to be clear if you want to hear God’s voice in prayer. The first one oftentimes gets lost in churchy language. 1) You must be in covenant relationship with God (God is His title — Jesus is His name.) Being in covenant relationship means that you have chosen God to be your only God. You can have no other gods. You cannot value anyone’s authority higher than God’s authority. The moment that you choose a secondary god or a counterfeit authority, you have broken covenant. Thankfully, God does afford us all the opportunity to apologize for the foolishness of choosing other “gods”. Sincerely asking for forgiveness, learning how it displeases God, and promising to not do it again is how we can restore the covenant relationship. So … are you in unbroken/restored covenant relationship with God? It is a necessity to hearing God’s voice in prayer.

The second prerequisite is that you are seeking God to know God. 2) Seeking God means the opposite of telling God. It means that you are humbling yourself and asking questions to get to know His will. If you’re only wanting to hear God with the hope of getting winning lottery numbers from Him, He isn’t going to waste your time or His with that nonsense. He is looking at your heart, and knows it better than you do … unless of course, He isn’t real. Then you know best.

Please gauge for yourself … is what I’ve told you here correct? Could you set yourself apart in a distraction-free area and have a candid forgiveness conversation with God? Could you seek Him? If you did and you heard His voice, would you believe that He is real?