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Elijah and the Voice

Voice of a Father

Today’s Focus: Elijah and the Voice

Scripture: 1 Kings 17; Proverbs 18:21

Greetings Sons of God:

Now this story encompass the entire chapter of 1 Kings 17 so we will quote and point out scriptures as we look at the story.  Here we have the prophet Elijah in the city of Zarephath (vs 10).  He came to the gate of the city and there was a widow woman there.  We know that Elijah asks the woman to make a cake for him and the woman explains that she only had a little meal and oil left for her and her son.  Now Elijah tells her to fear not but go do as he has said for this reason:

1 Kings 17:14: For thus SAITH the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.

Not upon the word of Elijah but this is what the Lord said!  It is the voice of the Lord speaking through Elijah.  Now the woman goes and does all according to what Elijah said and this is the result:

1 Kings 17:16: And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, WHICH HE SPAKE BY ELIJAH.

Now we see after this the woman’s son falls sick and dies (vs 17).  The woman questions Elijah why did he come?  Did he come to bring her sin to rememberance and to kill her son?  So Elijah carries the boy to an upper room and lays him on the bed.  And does this and please pay attention to what the Scriptures say:

1 Kings 17:21,22: And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again. And the LORD HEARD THE VOICE OF ELIJAH; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 

Now let me explain the Lord hearing the voice of Elijah is not the fact that Elijah had any power of himself, but it was the fact that when the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, He heard His voice echoing in Elijah and honored the request.  Our goal when we pray is to pray the Will of the Father so that when the Lord hears our prayers, He hears His voice echoing from us and then the Will of God is brought to the earth. 

Finally, the after the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, the soul of the boy returned to him.  It is the voice that raised the boy.  There is life-giving power in the voice of the Lord.  Now this scripture should now take on a more powerful meaning:

Proverbs 18:21: Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. 

In the next message we will look at another example of the power of the voice of the father.

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

The Wilderness Experience

Voice of a Father

Today’s Focus: Father/Son Model Part 3: The Wilderness Experience

Scripture: Matthew 3:3; Matthew 3:17-4:1

Greetings Sons of God:

Matthew 3:3: For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah saying, the VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 

Matthew 3:17-4:1: And lo A VOICE from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Then was Jesus led up of the spirit INTO THE WILDERNESS to be tempted of the devil. 

Now I also want to show you after the children of Israel were delivered from the land of Egypt they were led into the wilderness of Sinai.  Now this is not a coincidence.  It is in the wilderness that God matures the sons.  Funny, if you examine our past 2 teaching series you will see most of the teaching and maturing comes from the wilderness.  Many of the scriptures in Deuteronomy say this:  “If you obey my voice”.  John the Baptist is matured by the Spirit in the wilderness because He is preaching out from the wilderness.  Then we look at Jesus Christ.  After the Son is given at the baptism, Jesus, Spiritual Israel is lead in the wilderness.  Notice also in Matthew 4, Jesus is fasting!  Why?  To sacrifice the desires of the flesh to hear the Father.  In the wilderness, Jesus being tempted was so that He overcame all the temptations of the enemy and pass all the trials that physical Israel failed.  Notice in all of the temptations Jesus speaks what He hears the Father says and in obeying the Father, He overcomes every situation and temptation. 

It is in the wilderness and through the Baptism of fire that the Father transitions you dependence from soul to spirit.  It is in the wilderness that the child becomes strong in the spirit.  The voice of the Father produces wisdom and turns children from disobedience.  Now as the Lord speaks to the fathers, the fathers are to instruct the sons and in training the sons they develop a personal relationship with the voice of the Father.  This all happens and begins in the wilderness.  Before God will present His people or leaders before the people they must ALL go through the wilderness.  The wilderness is not necessarily a physical place but a place in your life where it is you are learning, not only the word of God but also the voice of the Father. 

In the next message we will examine Elijah the prophet and show you the power of the Voice.

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

One Voice

Voice of a Father

Today’s Focus: Father/Son Model Part 2: One Voice

Scripture: Matthew 3:1,3; Romans 7:22,23

Greetings Sons of God:

Now in the beginning as we have said earlier in this series God spoke to Adam Spirit to spirit.  So Adam heard one clear distinct voice.  The reason why was because the soul of Adam would blindly follow and submit itself to the spirit.  Now after the fall we know that things changed and now the soul became the dominant viewpoint to reality instead of the spirit.  Mankind would now reason within themselves how they would meet their provision and protection.  The voice of the soul was very dominant and the only way God would speak to His people would be through a prophet.  Now Jesus came and restored the connection to all those call Him Lord. Now we have a problem and the Lord has a solution.  When one is born again of the Spirit we still have a problem. The problem is a voice-recognition problem.  This voice recognition problem causes many problems to believers and depending on the voice that the person yields to, the flesh manifests that decision. 

Romans 7:22,23: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 

Let me state this for the record, the soul is not evil, but can be influenced by evil forces.  Even within itself the soul can act independent of God and yields to protect itself and figure things out within itself. Now this is the problem, you have your soul wanting to do what it wants to do and you have the spirit wanting to do the Will of God.  This is the war within your members. Jesus Himself had to overcome this war in the garden of Gethsemane when He said my SOUL is sorrowful, my FLESH is weak, BUT THE SPIRIT IS WILLING.

How does God deal with this problem?  He sends mature sons, spiritual fathers, to watch over your soul.  Spiritual fathers do not father or watch over your spirit for God is the Father of your spirit.  Your biological father is the father of your flesh.  The role of the spiritual father is to watch over your soul and help you to silence and submit your soul so that you can hear one clear voice, the voice of the Father. Through their maturity they teach and show the character of the Father in teaching you how you can hear God through submission of the will of self and self-ambition.  Let me show you this powerful picture that we read but many miss. 

Matthew 3:1-3: In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying repent ye: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  For this is he that is spoken of by the prophet Isaiah saying, THE VOICE OF ONE crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight. 

Notice it says the voice of ONE!  One voice, the voice of the Father was crying in the wilderness.  So let’s take another step back and understand the importance of the voice of the Father and the wilderness experience in the next message.       

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

The Father/Son Model Part 1

Voice of a Father

Today’s Focus: The Father/Son Model Part 1

Scripture: Joel 2:28; Malachi 4:5,6; Luke 1:17

Greetings Sons of God:

The father/son model is the way the Father desires to interact and have a relationship with His sons.  In the early days of Adam, God would speak to Adam in the cool of the day and His voice would usher in His presence and there Adam and God had an intimate relationship and Adam would come to understand His role in the earth to bring righteous rule, the Kingdom of God, the culture of the Father to the earth and reflect the glory of God in the Earth as His sons, representatives, ambassadors and agents. Now we know that Adam and Eve sinned and through that sin, that intimate connection was severed and God instituted the Prophet/Father/Son model of speech.  In other words, God would speak through a prophet to the fathers and the fathers to the sons. But this was not the original way, the original way was father/son.  Now let’s prove that this is the model because before God does anything within the age of man, He speaks it and then at the Father’s season and exact time, His Word then is made manifest.  Let me show you:

Joel 2:28: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 

Malachi 4:5,6: Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. 

These are two scriptures that I want to show you and both of them shows how the Father will reconcile and restore the breach that sin caused to restore the House of God back in the Earth and bring us back to our original purpose. 

First, God must revive our spirit and restore the connection back to Him.  He does this by the pouring out of His Spirit Holy Spirit) into our flesh. In pouring out (His Spirit into our flesh, He revives the spirit within man and restores the connection so that He may talk to His sons, Spirit to spirit. Now the other scripture, Malachi.  In Malachi, the Lord says that He will send the spirit of Elijah before the coming of the day of the Lord and he shall turn the HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERS.  Now the Old testament ends with this particular prophecy and picks up with Zacharias, John the Baptist’s father, in Luke 1 and the Lord restating the same prophecy in verse 17.  So in the coming of the Lord the hearts of the fathers must be turned to the sons and the sons to the fathers to make ready a people for the Lord.  Now if this does not happen the scriptures say this:

“Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse”

In the restoration of the father/son model, God can fellowship with mankind once again, Spirit to spirit.  Now in the next message, we want to further understand the father/son model and how the Spirit of Elijah turns the hearts of the fathers to the sons.

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

Languages of a Father

Voice of a Father

Today’s Focus: Languages of a Father

Scripture: Hebrews 1:1,2; Romans 1:20

Greetings Sons of God:

Romans 1:20: For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse;

Now this is a critical eternal concept that the Lord has placed in my heart to share with you so you can understand how the Father speaks to the sons in various ways.  In the above scripture we simply see that to understand the various things about God and the Godhead.  He has structured and infused eternal concepts and characteristics in the things that are made in creation.  In the infinite wisdom of God, He understood that mankind would fall and be subject to a different perception of reality.  The perception of reality from the soul is limited and the viewpoint is only from the five major senses which allow us to interact with the natural world. Now when mankind fell because of disobedience the Father could no longer speak to the sons Spirit to spirit.  We know that eternal communication is Spirit to spirit.  But because of disobedience that connection was severed and the Father now had to speak to mankind in a particular way and this way would be the way until Christ came.  Let me show you this in scripture. 

Hebrews 1:1,2: God, who at sundry times and in diver’s manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Now this is loaded so let’s start to break it apart.  First, God at sundry times and in diver’s manners spoke in past times unto the fathers by the prophets.  Now since God could not speak to man Spirit to spirit, it would be by the grace and agency of the prophetic that God would speak to the FATHERS.  Do we see this! God is speaking to the heads of households but because of the particular time of man, God would speak through a prophet to the fathers.  Hence the prophetic was used to convey the message of God to the fathers in the direction, commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Now the scripture goes on to say in these last days.  When did the last days begin? Acts 2.  So now, God is speaking to us by Son.  Now why is this so important to understand?  The Father has always desired to speak to His son, Spirit to spirit.  This is an intimate relationship that the Father had with Adam and Jesus Christ, the Son of God came to restore that communication.  Now if this is the intimate relationship that the Father desires to have with the sons then there must be a model in the earth that the Father will speak to the sons. 

In the next message we will examine that model because we cannot have this intimate relationship with the Father unless this model is restored to the Body of Christ.  

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.