Truman Herring Ministries

Three ways God makes His Word personal in your time of need.

Another word of confirmation. So often when we cry out to God and He opens His Word to us on Monday, God sometimes confirms His Word through our Pastor on Sunday. What you sensed God was saying to you privately on Monday, your Pastor says the same thing on Sunday and many times from the same passage.

Today my dear pastor Kevin preached powerfully from Psalms 13. I heard God’s comfort and confirmation again as I face the unknown journey through blockage in my arteries. To get the context of why this was so powerful to me personally, please look at my Facebook post of June 24 regarding facing the unknown in the hospital on January 4, 2023. Please see my Facebook post on July 2 for the context of God’s sending confirmation through other Christians.

Consider three ways God makes His Word personal in your time of need:
1. Have a daily time in God’s Word. The Holy Spirit is the Comforter and He uses His Word.
2. Do your best to be at Church. God ordained to speak to His Church through the gift of preaching/teaching of your pastor. God puts on our pastor’s heart God’s burden for His Church. Over 50 years ago I was impacted by the little phrase, “And Thomas was not there…” Jesus showed up in His resurrected body and Thomas missed it. You never know when God chooses to show up at church in a powerful and personal way for you.
3. We cannot be an independent Christian. God made the Body of Christ in such a way that we are interdependent upon one another. I Cor. 12:15-18, describes this interdependence. (The hand needs the foot, and the eyes needs the ear …) Often God will also confirm what He is saying to you through another believer who is walking in faith with Jesus. (See my July 2, Facebook post of comfort and confirmation this way.)

Over the years I have heard so many in discouragement say, “God is silent and not speaking to me.” Often, they have not learned the secret of the three points above. God is indeed speaking if we are in a position to hear. May God increase you in your walk of faith.