THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH - PART 7

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2024

Reference: Deuteronomy 32:1-3 New International Version (NIV)

"Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!"

Having expounded in my previous article, what it means for his teaching to fall like rain, Moses also instructed the heavens and earth saying, "Let my words descend like dew." When the words from a godly teaching descend as the dew, it indicates that the hearts of listeners are open to gaining an undeniable understanding of an animated speechification that illuminates a pouring rain (A doctrine full of spiritual wisdom). So for Moses, the implication of his statement suggests: "Let my words be seasoned, refined, processed, fueled and filled by the Spirit as it falls on the ears of the hearers such that the audiences would assimilate the resulting cognition and in-depth interpretation."

Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Ephesians 1:18 reads, "I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand..." (NLT). When the spiritual understanding of any audience extracts essential meaning or grasp the thorough significance of a gospel message uttered in the cadence of the teacher's speechification, it denotes that the teaching minister has imparted the hearers with the divine wisdom he or she communicates. That's exactly what it means for a speech to distil as the dew, just like Moses dictated. Oftentimes, an audience will benefit more from this kind of teaching because it trancesends an understanding gained from a preached sermon.

In addition, when the words of a teaching priest descend like dew - on the listeners, it mainly implies that the focal points or emblematic qualities of the message have been hammered into the perception of the audiences, such that they have comprehended or accepted the message intoto - beyond dispute. The teaching process gets to the point of the message being firmly established as a divine notion or embedded attitude in the listener's mind. Indeed, it is an indelible form of speechification that evidently renews one's thoughts and instills the mindset of the just.

Put in another way, when you are under the grace of such speechification, you are being renewed in the attitude of your mind because your spiritual understanding has been subjected to behold unseen eternal light emanating from the speechification. The book of Ephesians expressed it in this manner: "And be continually renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh, untarnished mental and spiritual attitude]." That's exactly what the words of doctrinal precept, descending like dew, will do for you. It exerts a climacteric (or far-reaching) effect on the hearers.

To that effect, Pauline epistolary expression numbered as Colossians 4:6 reads, "Your speech must always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt..." (NASB). Most importantly, why should the speechification of a teaching priest be full of grace? So that it may benefit, edify and transfigure those who listen. Stay tuned for part 8. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Proverbs 16:24; Ecclesiastes 10:12; Proverbs 18:4; Luke 4:22.

Exuberant Declaration:

I confess that the words of my mouth descend like dew from above; they convey and interpret spiritual realities and also establish them as natural realities on earth. They are gracious words that always bestow the blessings of salvation and eternal life to the hearers. Praise God!