How has God revealed Himself to you?

I had a revelation this morning more than a dream. I heard myself preaching. I felt the presence of God inside of me. I asked, “how has God revealed Himself to you?” “Tell me without using any scriptures.” I said, John said, “in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God.” God revealed to John that He is the word of God. Remember at this point there were no scriptures. Then I said, Paul was walking on the road to Damascus when he was knocked down and he heard a voice saying, Saul why are you persecuting me? Saul, asked who are you Lord? Jesus answered and said, “I am Jesus.” God revealed Himself to Paul.

Jesus had gathered the twelve together and asked them, “who do men say that I the Son of Man am?” They answered some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the other prophets. Jesus answered and said, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter spoke and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus told him that he was blessed and that flesh and bone had not revealed this information to him, but that it was His Father who is in heaven.

Matthew wrote the entire lineage of the Christ because that was his revelation of Christ. So I asked again, “how has God revealed Himself to you?” Tell me without quoting any scriptures or rehearsing someone else’s revelation of God.

Then I said, I was asleep and a voice stood over me and called my name. He said, Adoria. I did not know the voice. I got up and asked my husband had he called me. He said no. I went back to sleep. A voice told me when He calls you again say yes Lord. I did as I was told. When the voice called me again, I said yes Lord your servant hears you. God revealed my whole life to me that night. He knew me and revealed Himself to me. When I woke the next morning I remembered His voice and that He called me but I did not remember anything that He showed me. Only that He had.

That was the beginning of the many years of God revealing Himself to me. Honestly for too many of these years I listened to what men told me was God and I embraced their teachings and their said revelations. I read of other men’s testimonies in the bible and attempted to mirror their lives believing that is what was expected of me as a Christian. I like millions of others picked and choose scriptures and attempted to make them applicable to my situation while proclaiming wholeheartedly and believing that they were the word of God. Failing to understanding that John’s revelation was that Jesus is the word of God NOT the words written revealing Him in the bible.

But God! The same God that stood over me and called my name, in His never ending faithfulness endured in me. Not by my side as people say. In me. While I was in my folly and ignorance He revealed Himself and through that revelation my error little by little. As I acknowledged that what I knew to be true vastly contradicted what I partook of and participated in I began to see the light. The light of the liberty that Jesus gave His life that I might have. Liberty free of men’s traditions and expectations.

So now I ask you, how has God revealed Himself to you?” Tell me without quoting any scriptures or rehearsing someone else’s revelation of God. Or at the very least rehearse it within yourself.