LISTENING - All The Bible Teaches About

Consider identifying a place and time to meet with God everyday. Prayer is how you begin a conversation with God. Think of it as saying "hello. Listening to God requires a deliberate choice to shut out the chaos around you and focus your thoughts. Is God someone you can hear? The Bible says He is, and the Bible is one of the main tools through which He speaks. We live in a world of noise. Almost everywhere we go, we find sounds competing with our minds, keeping us from letting our thoughts get below the surface level.

Hearing God's voice means not listening to the noise of the world around us. It's not easy, but it can be done. King David, author of most of the book of Psalms, gave us a model for meeting with God, "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you.

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Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul" Psalm He sought God's direction in the morning, at the beginning of the day. Like a general in God's army, he wanted to hear from his Commanding Officer before he entered into battle. Beginning each day fresh with God is a great reminder that, as the Scripture says, His mercies are new every morning Lamentations 3: How do we get to know a person? By communicating with them. By talking and listening. It's the same with our relationship with God.

He talks, we listen.

We talk, He listens. God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to take our place and to die for us. He did this so that we could once again have fellowship with Him. In the book of Hebrews we see that we can have access to God's very presence, " He also wants us to be fulfilled, blessed and successful in the plan that He has established for our lives -- so that we can be a reflection of His love and blessing in the Earth. It is God's desire to walk with and to communicate with His children.

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He wants to talk to us. And He wants us to listen and talk to Him, too. There is more good news -- we can hear His voice. The Bible, God's love letter to mankind, makes it clear that we were created to have two-way communication with Him. Jesus tells us in John One day the producer and I traveled to a video shoot with a young woman who worked in the donor relations department. Along the way she told us that, at the urging of her father, she had recently purchased a flat with two apartments.

Still uncomfortable with the big step she had just taken she thought out loud, "How do you know if you are making the right decisions in life?

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But as a child of God we don't have to walk blind. We can have confidence that we will hear His voice. The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8: We have further assurance of this promise in Psalm Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholds him with His hand. The most difficult part of hearing God is the fact that it takes time to learn to discern God's voice -- and it takes a humble heart. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

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Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. A Psalm of David.

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Give ear to my words, O Lord ; consider my groaning. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people? And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

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If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

I love the Lord , because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—. About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.