Increasing Your Revelation Bandwidth

I learned by the Holy Spirit a while ago that if you study any two subject matters, especially if one were the Holy Bible, eventually you would begin to recognize analogies between the two—how one subject matter is an illustration the other. The title of this lesson speaks to one such analogy.

For eight years, I was a communications officer in the United States Air Force. In this job, I spoke of and was involved in all things network-related, and the term “bandwidth” was commonly a part of my vernacular. That being said, by the Holy Spirit, this analogy between receiving revelation from God and network bandwidth came rather easily to me.

Without being too elaborate, bandwidth is the speed at which bits of data travel from one network interface to another. Ideally, you want to have as high a bandwidth as possible, but with the your bandwidth being a function of the amount of twisted pair copper and/or fiber optic cable you are willing to pay for, whether your bandwidth is high or long is strictly up to.

And such is revelation from the Holy Spirit. Like that bandwidth, the revelation you receive from the Holy Spirit is increased or decreased as a function of your practical effort you to receive it.

The Holy Spirit has an eternity’s worth of revelation to share with you, but paramount to you receiving that revelation is that you create the moment of meditation. From strictly church attendance to personal Bible study and prayer to even taking notes in service, as you endeavor to ingest God’s Word, so is the revelation bandwidth increased.

The Holy Spirit once told me that taking notes when being ministered to will ultimately be the difference between those that speak from pulpits and those that just listen to them. His point was that to those who make increased effort to retain God’s Word, He will entrust more opportunities to share that Word. And I guarantee you that the persons with high revelation bandwidth will have a lot of Word to share.

I implore to do more to create the moment of meditation than just attend church or an occasional prayer. Don’t be so naïve—really deceived—as to believe God will tell you what He wants when He wants. For God has placed the capability to receive from Him into your hands. Remember, you control your own existence; your free will is not an illusion, and God created Man this way from the beginning. So make time to study God’s Word and pray and listen to teaching tapes, CD’s, and Christian radio. Such practical effort will create moments of meditation and thereby continually increase your revelation bandwidth. And the higher you revelation bandwidth, the more you empower God to share His revelation knowledge with you.