God Still Speaks with Leon du Preez

Ministering to the Lord begins with giving Him your attention and love. In Acts 13, the Holy Spirit spoke as the believers worshiped and fasted. Ephesians 5 brings that fellowship into daily life through psalms, hymns and spiritual songs offered from the heart. You can praise God without making a request, wait in His presence, and learn to pray with both your spirit and your understanding. Make room for this quiet fellowship in your day, even for five or ten minutes, and grow attentive to the Spirit who dwells within you.

God does not need to raise His voice for you to hear Him. Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would dwell in you, and Romans 8 places His leading within the life of every child of God. The inward witness, the inward voice and the voice of the Holy Spirit call for discernment that grows through practice. Learn to recognize the difference between a passing feeling and an inward knowing, test what you hear against the written Word, and bring your decisions before God with a clean conscience and the assurance of Christ within you.

God's generosity is a gift you receive by faith. In Romans 4, Paul distinguishes wages from grace; in Matthew 20, the vineyard workers resent a landowner who gives freely to those who arrived last. You may be secure in your salvation and still feel you must pray enough to deserve God's help. That pressure can turn prayer into a bargain and the Father into an employer. Receive what Christ has supplied, enjoy fellowship with the Father, and let your work and generosity flow from gratitude.