Jeremiah Chapter 51 verses 15 & 16

Then he gives us his credentials, not that he needs to prove himself to us or anyone but out of mercy for us the reader and for them the hearer - "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens and he causes the vapor to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain and bringeth forth wind out of his treasures".
As we hear this, we should fear him, tremble before him, before his highness. He alone can say these things - no other god can claim what he alone can. I love the phrase "When he uttereth his voice there is a multitude of waters in the heavens". This speaks to me of souls filling up Heaven because they've heard his wonderful voice. Many waters in scripture speaks of nations and his voice, his glorious voice, delivers us and brings us all home safely to Heaven. But once we're there, like the rain, he pours us back out again on a dry, thirsty earth, longing for his touch, for his presence. We are vessels that he uses to carry his presence to those too weak in the desert of Sin to come to him.
By following his voice and no other we will all be kept safely in his will for us - this is one reason why Prophecy is so important to God and to us. A church without prophecy is a church blind and deaf to his voice, his will for them (his voice always reveals his will) but worse than that, a church without prophecy is one that isn't intimate with him for he speaks to us in a still, small voice, a whisper and in order to hear a whisper one must be very close to the one who is whispering. Do not ever believe that all revelation that God has for you will come solely through your pastor. In fact, most of what God has to say to you he will tell you directly if you will listen. He will also use chosen vessels throughout the congregation to speak to the congregation, maybe even you, but he will never limit himself to one man.
Is your church a Martha church or a Mary church? Is it busy, busy, busy with programs and activities but no real relationship with Him? Or are they able to "wait upon the Lord", corporately together, caring for nothing more than his very presence in their midst? So hungry and thirsty for him they'll refuse to have another "service" without him? Do they take the attitude of Moses who refused to take another step without his presence? Better yet, examine not only your church but your own heart. Are you a Martha or a Mary? If you've read these blogs, enough of them, I suspect you are a Mary, desiring him even more than serving him. Service is good and necessary in our walk with him but it must never preclude simply being with him, spending precious time in his presence, letting him do with us as he pleases, lying at his feet as Ruth did at Boaz' feet.