Speaking into Others

In this blog, Adam shares what is necessary to know when it comes to speaking into the lives of others.

Speaking into Others

As I (Adam LiVecchi) travel to different nations and different churches I am forced to remember the great responsibility and awesome privilege God has entrusted me with when it comes to speaking into the lives of other people. Lately this has brought a great sobriety upon me with a deep desire to be faithful to God and rightly divide the word of truth. Generally speaking we don’t make decisions based upon knowledge we don’t have therefore studying is a must. How can you properly teach others something if you yourself don’t really know it or do it? Speaking into the lives of others is a sacred thing whether it is in the context of friendship or in the pulpit. Both are sacred, one is not more important that the other. The only thing that is different is, those who labor in the word will be judged double. So those of us who are teaching others better live what we are teaching or we are hypocrites to God no matter what success we may have or seem to have in front of men. If we are teaching on the supernatural it better be flowing in our life. We must not teach on evangelism and than not do it ourselves. A word that I share to leaders is that your people or the people that God has entrusted to your care will not do what you say but they will do what you do. All leadership in the Kingdom is by example. We must never get to busy to practice what we preach, no one is that important!

Speaking into other people is second and it comes after we have learned to hear and obey God in our own life. Often in the body of Christ you have people giving prophetic words to everyone and often they don’t even know whether they are coming or going, that is totally dysfunctional and it will only reproduce what it is. I am not saying that we need to be perfect to speak into the life of others but I am saying that our life should be in order if we are going to speak effectively into the lives of others. When our life lacks order usually we lack confidence toward God and authority toward the circumstances that are in our lives. As we speak into others are words should be seasoned with grace. We should be speaking the truth in love with the right motives. We should be speaking with the other person’s best interest as our motive. When we speak into others there are three simple things we need to be able to discern they are as follows - when to speak, what to say, and how to say it. I have made mistakes doing this so I am sharing from the place of experience not the place of theory. Unfortunately our mistakes hurt other people and our success blesses other people. The decisions we make affect other people for better or for worse. The next thing we need to be able to discern is the person on coarse or off the coarse God has mapped out for their life. Do they need to be encouraged to move forward or get back on track? That is simple but that is what is necessary to discern what needs to be said when speaking into other people. There are circumstances that are more complex with more variables but for the most part these principals will help you speak into the lives of other people as the Holy Spirit leads.

I am praying for you now that God would release a grace upon you to speak effectively into the people that God has given you influence with in Jesus name!