God builds on His Word

Sometimes we have trouble keeping the things God has spoke to us by faith. We might lack understanding and find that it just doesn’t make sense to believe in what we once thought was God’s spoken, personal Word to us. This lesson is written with that dilemma in mind.

God created the world by speaking His Word. His voice laid the foundations and by His Word He built on it. All we see around us is built line-upon-line by what God speaks, for His words have purpose. God’s purposes are evident then, in what we see around us. The trees bud and bring forth seed-bearing fruit, which, when it falls to the ground is planted, one day to grow up into more of the same kind of trees. God purposed it to be this way and accomplished it by first speaking His word to create the tree.

We know God by what we see around us, for His ways are unchanging. The tree does not stop bearing flowers or fruit, neither do the seasons change their order. We learn God’s nature little-by-little, observing what is around us.
And so it is with prophecy. God sends us a Word, and then builds upon it, just as He spoke the foundations of the world into being and then covered them with the oceans. When we receive a Word from God, He will build on it, little-by-little, line upon line, bringing understanding, growth and maturity. And after the Word bears fruit in a believer it will bear seed that will grow in others. I’d like to give you an example from my own life of the process of God building on His Word.

Several years ago, while living with my husband in Kona, Hawaii, the Lord sent His Word to me in the form of a dream. In this dream I saw myself going up to a brick building, but couldn’t get in because the door was locked. My older sister was at a different entrance, approaching a door with keys. I called over to her, asking to be let in. After unlocking the door my sister returned to the other side of the building because that is where she worked. I was to sit down and take a very fundamental test of things I had learned long ago. This was a surprise to me. This was the end of the dream, dated 11/04. I wrote the dream in my journal, though I hadn’t a clue as to its meaning.

In 2007 my husband and I moved back to my home town, Santa Rosa, California. Work was hard for us to find. I had been a nurse, and then became a Nurse Practitioner. Ro renew my license I had to go through the state Board of Nursing, putting in hours to meet their requirements and bring both licenses to an active status.

One day my older sister, who was a professor of nursing at the local college in Santa Rosa, asked me to apply for a teaching job there. I didn’t want to go back to nursing as I had become a Nurse Practitioner, but then I remembered the dream from 2004. The brick building in my dream was the local college, which is built out of bricks. And my sister held the keys to my employment there. I began to see the Lord building on the Word He had sent me three years earlier by bringing understanding about what I should do; seek employment at the college.

So, obedience to this understanding meant I had to nursing, which I hadn’t done in over 10 years. To qualify for the teaching position I had to do remediation at a hospital and pass their standards for patient care. This seemed overwhelming at the time and I lacked confidence to begin the process. Then I realized that the remediation was the “test” in the dream. Nursing was a fundamental part of my education, and I had to renew my knowledge of it. Knowing that God sends His Word and then builds on it, I saw these steps were only possible if I went through with the remediation. I passed and was hired for the teaching position. Not surprisingly, I now teach the Fundamentals of Nursing. All that I have learned has borne fruit and now is being planted in nursing students. Also, in this time of economic turmoil, I have a good job, one I wouldn’t have considered if God had not first sent His Word to me in the form of a dream.

I hope this helps you to see that God sends His Word to us, and builds on what He has spoken. We can trust Him to bring understanding to what He has said or shown us. If we keep His Word by faith and obey it when understanding comes, we will grow, mature, and plant seeds in others. Amen.