I was preaching in a church in California recently. I was to begin ministering on Sunday evening. I came early to hear the pastor preach Sunday morning, and it was wonderful. There was such life in it. I knew he had a message prepared, but he was not bound to it. I could tell the Spirit of God was speaking right through him even though he was more of a teacher than a preacher. He was teaching prophetically. He was speaking the oracles of God.

The next day as I was in prayer, I asked the Lord why all pastors can’t speak with that kind of unction and life. I was feeling sorry for the pastor who could not speak as well as that man could. The Lord replied to me by saying, “John, everyone of the persons I have called to minister can speak with that kind of life. The only problem is that they limit Me by their preplanned sermons and notes. They can’t trust Me to speak through them!” Men have limited God to their understanding of Him instead of allowing Him to operate through them as a vessel. Every time I’ve yielded and let God speak through me, He has revealed to me more of His nature.

Why must we try to put God in the box of our mental comfort zone? Too many try to put Him within their intellectual limits. You cannot confine the move of the Spirit to your understanding. To try to put God in your realm of mental reasoning is like trying to hold the wind in a cage. He is like the wind. To confine Him is impossible. All you can do is just yield to Him!

Bevere, John. The Voice of one Crying. Apopka: Messenger Press, 1993, p. 23-24.