How To Know All Truth (brief summary)

A woman in the congregation did record the sermon, and I am waiting to hear from her about posting it on the website.  Until then, I am going to briefly explore the most important point of the sermon.

Don't Misuse and Abuse Silent Prayer

The person who goes "into the silence" hoping that they will "come out" with a healed body, a job offer, or any type of improvement is abusing silent prayer.

I stopped counting the times someone has said to me, "I went into the silence faithfully and I still wasn't healed." God is not in the fix and repair business. God is not in the healing business.

Wait! Don't leave. Let me explain. When silent prayer is rightly focused, your motive is to experience revelation. It is (as I said in the sermon) to learn a lesson in Truth from the Spirit of Truth that dwells in (as) you. In right-focused prayer, it is revealed that there is no problem to be solved, no body to be healed,and no broken life to fix. Right-focused prayer reveals that I (God) Am All.

This revelation appears as a healing, but is nothing more that God more fully revealed.

I am never surprised to hear someone say that they faithfully prayed and was not healed. Why? You start wrong, you end wrong. The motive was wrong from the start. What would surprise me is if someone said, "Rev. day in and day out I went into the silence with only one motive and that was to know more about God than I seem to know right now. After weeks of praying and listening I learned nothing."

Strange as it may seem, no one has ever said this to me.