It is not impossible that many of us would be amazed at the choice of Topic for tonight’s edition of the Thursday Special. But as much as we might be tempted to try to ‘reason‘ out the correlation between such topic and the necessity of being a Kingdom writer, I’d implore you to let your heart do the mathematics of understanding rather than engaging your head – reasoning to do so.
Also, I’d enjoin us to ask questions for the sake of interaction, enlightenment and widening of the knowledge horizon of everyone here.
Sweet Holy Spirit we bless you for tonight, we thank you for the unceasing grace to learn and be taught… We receive therefore the engrafted word of God able to save our soul and capable for spiritual exploits. Amen
The Topic of discourse is:
THE RECEIVE: A Content Determinant
This is to be paraphrased as saying that the receiver of a message is at most times the one who determines the content of a person’s message. And at such, it is imperative that we understand what message or content is, contextually.
Noun
message (plural messages)
A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
Communication is all in your head! Well, maybe not all, but it certainly begins and ends there. And it begins with the sender. To send a message, a person must say or do something that represents an idea in his or her own mind. The sender has a mental image, a vision, an idea, an opinion, or perhaps some information that he or she wants to convey to someone else. The sender initiates the communication process and has a primary interest in making sure it’s effective.
To receive a message, a person must interpret something said or done by another person—the sender—and give it a name and develop a feeling about it. The receiver’s job is to then seek to understand whatever it is the sender wants to communicate. The receiver shares responsibility with the sender to ensure an effective communication process.
The message is the vehicle for the sender to share feelings, thoughts, and ideas. It is the way the sender’s mental images are transmitted to the receiver. Messages can travel in a variety of ways, including spoken, written, or behavioral. The message may be immediately clear and understood, or murky and misleading, based on how well all of the components in the communication process have been considered and accommodated. Always remember that the meaning of the message will be whatever the receiver assigns to it. In other words, the sender may have a meaning in mind, but the receiver can only know what it means to him or her personally.
Message is not synonymous with meaning. In fact, the communication challenge is to make sure that the meaning that is intended by the sender is the same as the meaning the receiver assigns to the message when it’s received.
My emphasis tonight would focus majorly on the concept of “Meaning & Message”
By reason of ignorance and unconscious indifference, we have at most times confused Message for Meaning. Of which they are extremely two different subject.
It is possible that by the virtue of wide reading, intellectual prominence, inadequate choice of words, and ambiguity in grammatical composition a message means or medium (text, speech, writing e.t.c) CAN HAVE multiple meaning. But it is impossible that such medium carry multiple messages.
In the conceptualisation of Message means or medium, Meaning is what can be deduced from a well knitted and expressed articulation of words, but the Message is always the intended and deliberate content designated for and to the receiver.
As Kingdom Scribes, writers for God’s precepts, principles and kingdom.
It is imperative that we are deliberate about what we write for and to. For it is only the message that can Change people not the meaning they deduce from it.
For meaning are suggested to reasoning, necessarily making a message appeal to one’s faculty of thought. But message is that life that is inspired by the HolyGhost meant to affect lives.
When you write, be concerned but less concerned about what anyone would deduce of it. But be more concerned about the genuity and the divine agenda of your message.
This is because by default the message has the capacity identify with the situation and the issues of people. Making it encoded divinely for them.
Meaning in its natural state has the capacity to be interesting and emotionally appealing because there are series of things know earth to always relate it to.
This is why as a Kingdom Scribe that caries the burden for the people of God and for the reason of extending the Kingdom principles to God’s people, God makes you a *Message Medium* by coining and encoding the message needful for the transformation of people’s life through you.
The Bible says in
1 Corinthians 2:11
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
So it is by far impossible as a Kingdom Scribe to address, correct, influence or even attend to the challenges of people without first getting a Message from God that would do transform them or their situation. WHY?
Because by default, it is only God who knows their heart. And the very essence of a Message is determined by Receiver. This is why as Kingdom Scribes, we must strive to align ourselves and be deliberate about receiving from God for the receivers of our Messages.
We’d stop here tonight.
Should you have any questions. Don’t hesitate to ask. God bless you.
