- Mr. Stanley believes one of the most valuable lessons we can ever learn is to to God. In the midst of our complex and hectic lives, nothing is more , nothing more , nothing more than hearing what God has to say.
- Several compelling reasons why God still has His lines of communication open with His people are:
A. He us
B. we his and deliberate for our lives
C. He knows we need the and
D. He wants us to him - We can discover God’s methods of speaking by reviewing the different ways He revealed Himself in Old and New Testament days. He spoke
A. by direct
B. through
C. through His words
D. through His
E. through
F. through
G. through the - The Bible does not ever say to the of God in . Neither are we ever encouraged in the Word of God to the of God through .
- God employs four principle methods of revealing Himself to the contemporary believer:
A. the of God
B. the Holy
C. other
D. - The most assured way believers can know we from God is through His When we face difficulties and heartaches, rather than seek this counsel or that counsel, we should first to the .
- As Christians meditate upon the Word with our request or decision in mind, God will often us to an in Scripture, a , or even a single that will relate to what concerns us. It may deal with our specific , or the governing our decision may be prominent in the text.
- If believers in the Spirit daily, to His power, we have the to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit within us and to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers. We can claim His , direction, and
- The Holy Spirit his in a believer’s spirit or , and they hear Him in their being. Though not audible, the is nevertheless.
- The people believers ought to listen to most are those we with day. Those people who us the most, those who for us the most, are often the God uses to reveal Himself to us.
- Christians need to be very about what we . Recognizing that we can be as God’s should cause us to soberly examine our dialogue. We should seek to be , sensitive, and to God’s voice.
- When God speaks (and He does), should . As David declared in Psalm 85:8, “I will what God the LORD will .”
- When God speaks to us, His first goal is that we may the He desires that we fully what He is saying.
- God wants us to not just talk about but to His , His , His , His , His , and His .When we begin to comprehend these mighty truths about the person of God, our lives are , enabled, and .
- God wants us to our in the scheme of His eternal plans and that our peculiarities sometimes hinder us. God wants us to our and our supernatural of who we are Christ.
- God wants us to see other as His instruments and His creations.
- There are two kinds of listeners: and . A listener does come to God to hear a decision from Him. The listener comes knowing and to hear diligently what God has to say.
- An listener is always probing, searching, and comparing what he hears with previous data he has accumulated. He wants to be to what God is saying; he constantly, How can I this to my life?
- Believers are to and the Word of God with a focus. We are to sit and allow the Word of God to stay simply on the surface level.
- The solid foundation of our lives comes from aggressively and the Word of God. Nothing will do. Anything less will cause our to be upon shifting .
- Christians are to in order to comprehend and to comprehend in order to be and to His truth. God that we may be made like Jesus.
- Believers are not simply to hear but also to —not simply to glance at the Word but also to the Word. We are either in the process of God’s truth or in the process of being and by His truth.
- The third objective God has in speaking is that we may His . God never gives us anything to for . Whether it is money, insight, or truth, it has to be .
- Each of us something every waking moment by what we and what we say, by what we and what we to do.
- Even when believers remain , we subtly state something.
- Christians must be in our to God’s communications. Considering what God has graciously taught us over the years, we need to deliberately these to our lives on a basis. When we comprehend the truth, we need to ourselves to the of .
- When God speaks to us, we must recognize that His is of importance, deserving our and complete Lest we become dull and insensitive to His voice, God has His ways of our attention!
- God uses many ways of getting our , absolute to what He wants to communicate.
- One of the simplest ways God can get our attention is to make us . When you become in your , don’t run. Simply and to the voice of God.
- God gets our attention by to us through . Probably the best known example is confrontation with David in 2 Samuel 12.
- While believers surely know God speaks through other people, we must carefully both and . But, God has the power to know what is going on us, and He has the power to place a upon someone else to say a word to us, even when the doesn’t appear at all.
- God can use , abundant to gain our attention. The blessings may be or , or they may have something to do with the home or a vocation. He gets our attention by us because the motive behind each of His methods is His for us.
- God’s Word indicates there are reasons why some supplications are answered—asking for the reasons, , asking of the will of God, among others. We should God if any of these problems have affected us.
- Closed doors to prayer may sometimes be a sign of God’s hand working to our to another needful area of our lives.
- Sometimes the greatest in life are God’s -getters. The way we to is extremely important. We allow to his ugly finger at us and tell us that we are not worth anything, that God doesn’t really love us anymore.
- The response when disappointment comes is always to God what He is to us and then respond to our disappointment with new insight into God’s plans and purposes.
- Unusual often cause us to turn our eyes and hearts to God.
- Christians must learn to live for the of God in circumstance of life. A child of God, walking in the Spirit, is to look for the , the , and the of almighty God in single situation of life. There is no such thing as an in the life of a child of God.
- God’s blessing should bring about a response of and and our precise , because following great blessings is the time for . It is just then that we must be to the of God, because all too often we become proud and egotistical and God’s in blessing us.
- A in a given incident could prove to be the greatest stepping-stone to in our lives if we are wise enough in the midst of failure to give our attention to God.
- We simply must be willing to our mistakes, God we blew it, and Him at the same time for gaining our wholehearted attention
- The believer thinks if he , God will not shrivel up his finances. However, if anyone and deliberately God, God certainly uses monetary woes to make that person seek His face.
- is sometimes a circumstantial method by which God gains our attention.
- We can’t always view tragedy in a person’s life as a of God’s , but we should look at every tragic situation through a filter.
- When Jim Elliot was killed by the Auca Indians it seemed on the surface an death and loss. Yet his wife’s recounting of his , heart, and for God in Through Gates of Splendor, The Shadow of the Almighty, and The Journals of Jim Elliot has been the spiritual to thrust untold numbers into the fields “white already to harvest” (John 4:35).
- One way God uses to get our attention is through or . We have to be very careful in the area of , because God will often use an to cause us to examine our lives.
- God will not let us aimlessly through the snarled of everyday life without pointing us to the appropriate He has already erected. He does so by gently to us.
- Jesus made it clear in John 10:27 that the believer’s normal experience is to God .
- If we as believers in the Spirit, the meaning of the Cross, and he Holy Spirit to fill us and live His life through us, then it should be easy for us to whether the we hear is of God, the flesh, or the devil. The natural walk of Spirit-filled, committed believers is such that when God speaks, we can His .
- If believers the Word of God and build it into our lives, when Satan comes along we’re all too easily deceived. Since almighty God tells us to do anything to His Word, the better we know it, the more readily we will identify His speaking voice.
- Usually when God requires something of you it will with what you consider to be the , reasonable course of action.
- On many occasions God’s voice will us to accomplish that seems quite to our rational minds.
- God will tell us to do anything that the . God always speaks in such a way that the results the of God within us, not the .
- God is always our , and in so doing He builds our relationship with Him and helps us grow into intimacy with Him. In many instances His voice requires an of on our part to comprehend what He has revealed.
- When God speaks, the fulfillment of His plans hinges to some degree on whether we with confident, spirits. His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into witness.
- We must clearly recognize that Satan is a of As maturing believers, if we listen to God, He will not lead us into the decisions. He will us as we learn to walk in the Spirit and understand the of the Cross.
- We can the voice of God from the voice of Satan, despite Satan’s ability to his expertly.
- Satan comes in the door using the most cunning, persuasive language possible. The best way in the world to believers is to cloak a message in language and declare that it conveys some new from God.
- Several ways by which we can distinguish the divine nature of God’s voice are:
A. the on other
B.
C. consider the
D. Godly
C. spiritual
F. - Nowhere in Scripture does God tell anyone to into a . If we feel an overwhelming to act , we had better pull in the reins. God is interested in having the in their proper places.
- Getting of is a terrible mistake, and the consequences are always distasteful.
- The New Testament is clear in considering the of . Whenever God speaks, he has our in mind. God isn’t just the God of , He’s also the God of .
- God often leads us to get from others. Consider the , moral, and track record of anyone from whom you obtain advice.
- Whatever God speaks to us will our growth. That means God will never tell us to anything or of anything that sets us back .
- When God speaks, one of the most prevalent signs is a sense of in the . It may not be tranquil at first, but the longer we listen, the and more our spirits become. We begin to what the apostle Paul called a “which passeth all understanding” (Phil. 4:7).
- Believers will never have God’s peace about . We may be able to believe with our , but we will never be able to believe with our and exercise faith
- When we are saved, it is a natural, normal behavior to know that when God speaks, it is our who has us by .
- Three primary factors significantly influence the substance of what God communicates to His children:
A. our with Him
B. our of Him
C. our toward Him - Our relationship to Christ Jesus is that we are , we are we are , we are of God. We are in the Cross. We can have the and that our daily walk is pleasing and honorable to Him. These two relationships, and , make a difference in what we hear from God.
- Our of God was greatly by that of our parents and what we were taught early in life. Many of us incorporated into our selves of God down to us by schoolteachers, Sunday-school personnel, and preachers. Our of God today is still to a large degree of their understanding.
- Seven key areas in understanding the nature of God determine the essence of the communication we receive from Him:
A. or demanding Father
B. or distant Friend
C. or intolerant Teacher
D. or angry Guide
E. or insensitive Counselor
F. or reluctant Provider
G. or inconsistent Sustainer - Our security as believers is often wrapped up in understanding that the God we serve is first and foremost the of .
- Understanding God as an intimate Friend or as a distant acquaintance influences the of we have in our with Him.
- If we see God as a patient Teacher who understands we from and how we , who understands that our family members were not practicing Christians, who understands our of , then we will hear with an , teachable heart.
- The God of the Bible is One whom we can to and with patient understanding. He critical, strict, or uncompromising. He scold us and make us feel inconsequential because we don’t measure up.
- The negative side of these attitudes toward God is one of the reasons the is today. We have the viewpoint if we think of God as an guide. We don’t understand Him, and we come to Him as rather than as in faith.
- The kind of Counselor we as believers have is One from whom we hide. He it anyway, and we can tell Him anything we want to. No matter what we say, God still us, and as an Counselor, He can take anything we give and us .
- If we know God, we’re not lost or prodigals; we are of the . We do not see Him as a stingy provider but as a one; we His to permeate us.
- Almighty God is our Sustainer. When everybody else us, we can count on Him. When nobody else is willing to with us, He is there. He is , reliable, and . We can upon Him.
- In order to hear, we must possess the attitude toward God. Our attitude must be . Our attitude must be . Our attitude must be .
- Believers must understand the of the we serve if we are to carry out His orders. Our with Him, our of Him, and our toward Him all influence the content of His revelation to us.
- If believers are going to listen to God, we must come to Him We must His speaking to us. believing the promises of God is expressing .
- If Christians are to listen to God, we must be and let Him do the . is essential to listening. If we are too to listen, we won’t hear. It takes and to prepare to listen to God.
- God will not tell us some things We will hear some special revelations only after having a of time. God will sometimes information until we are to listen.
- To hear God we must actively and upon His Word.
- The way we become wealthy and overflowing with the truth of the Word is to upon Scripture, it out, it, and it to our hearts.
- Christians must be that when we to God, we will hear we to hear. It may not always be we to hear, but God communicates to us what is essential in our walk with Him.
- There’s no way for us to hear from God from the ministry of the . When God speaks through others or through circumstances, it is the of the .
- To receive God’s directions we must have a right with Him. That relationship means that we must be with His Spirit, and we must learn to in his Spirit, not the Holy Spirit of God.
- We make God tell us anything one split second before He is ready. We can and and and , but that doesn’t impress him at all. The only way is to come before Him, upon the abiding, effective work of the Holy Spirit within us.
- We must come to God . To listen means to be willing to hear God us as well as comfort us, to hear God us as well as assure us.
- Listening to God our full attention.
- Believers must have our antennas fully extended. We must be to the voice of God in the circumstances in our lives each day.
- As Christians we cannot divide our lives into and compartments. Our walk is because Christ is life. Our walk is spiritual because we are creations in .
- The Word of God reveals the innermost and of our lives. The light of the Word illuminates everything enabling us to discern the from error. Whatever we hear we must thoroughly out the absolute of His truth.
- We need to listen to God . Submission must ultimately listening if we are to fully God. is if we are to follow Him.
- 6.16 When we come to the Father, we should have a attitude.
- When you come to Him, you should draw near with a heart, because you do not come in contact with a heavenly Father who speaks to the masses, but one who to .
- A heart should be the foundation of hearing God. His total, concentrated, and undisturbed attention is focused upon us . That ought to us and create within us a that acknowledges God for the mighty Creator He is.
- and its scriptural are of immense value if we are to listen accurately to God.
- J. I. Packer’s definition of meditation is: Meditation is the activity of to mind, and over, and on, and to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
- Since is the one activity that should be the daily of believers, it is the one discipline will doggedly keep us from observing.
- God gave the practice of meditation to His children so that we might better to Him. Personal, private meditation begins when we get with the Lord and get before Him.
- Four principles that will guide you into meaningful meditation are:
A. review the
B. upon God
C. remember God’s
D. make a - 7.6 Focusing on difficulties and the problem. When we focus our attention on , the problem is put into its proper perspective, and it no longer overwhelms us.
- When we meditate upon God and remember the promises he has given us in His Word, our grows and our dissolve.
- Meditation isn’t a
occurrence. Certain
must be put in play in order for us to receive the full benefits of its application. The disciplines are:
A. a season of
B.
C.
D.
E.
F. - The most important lesson parents can teach their children is the practical of and In doing so, they give their children a lifetime .
- God gave the practice of meditation to His children so that we might better to Him. Personal, private meditation begins when we get with the Lord and get before Him.
- Four principles that will guide you into meaningful meditation are:
A. review the
B. upon God
C. remember God’s
D. make a - Focusing on difficulties and the problem. When we focus our attention on , the problem is put into its proper perspective, and it no longer overwhelms us.
- When we meditate upon God and remember the promises he has given us in His Word, our grows and our dissolve.
- Meditation isn’t a
occurrence. Certain
must be put in play in order for us to receive the full benefits of its application. The disciplines are:
A. a season of
B.
C.
D.
E.
F. - The most important lesson parents can teach their children is the practical of and . In doing so, they give their children a lifetime .
- The only way to teach your children to spend time with the Lord is by . They to hear you praying, in on you praying, to you share how God is speaking to you.
- Christians often God’s most beautiful interventions in our lives because we are so by other things that we see or hear Him. We are not before Him. We haven’t learned to be in his presence.
- God wants you sometimes because He wants your absolute, undivided . He wants you all to Himself to put His , divine around you.
- Private meditation allows the Lord Jesus Christ to have of all to Himself. His private workings are often His most .
- Silence and seclusion before God allow Him to speak to our hearts , positively, and . Though God may not speak to us , He will in our spirits and our minds. We know God has spoken to us.
- Rebellion is the antithesis of submission, and if believers are to hear Him adequately, our and must be totally to Him. is vital in listening to what He has to say.
- Meditation brings believers to a position in which we can ourselves in the of God’s . We cannot rightly see ourselves or God His revealing .
- Biblical meditation causes something to happen to our , in our and our emotional , even in our human .
- When believers spend time with God, our old selfish selves move out of the way and let the radiant within us and .
- If Christians want to be with God, it may be because He is dealing with particular points in our lives that we simply want We will not let Him us.
- Of all the things Christ wants for us, Him and our on Him are the most important. Then we can Him and all He has prepared for us.
- The of time we spend with Jesus—meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face—establishes our in the kingdom. Meditation is simply a matter of our in rich fellowship with our personal Lord and Savior.
- Our spiritual in hearing and appropriating scriptural truth greatly affects how believers listen to God.
- A person is one who decides what he is going to hear and what he is not going to hear. He his to anything that demands of him something he does not choose to give.
- Close-minded people sit and listen . Their hearts become when they grow in their listening, not taking the initiative to respond.
- To listen to Scripture, which is the eternal Word of the living God, is a against God. People are actually better off to God’s Word than to attend church and listen passively, committed to a closed mind.They become by listening and not responding.
- There are multitudes who sit and , who the gospel every week, but think about what they encounter. They sift through it in their lives. They apply it. Their minds are .
- Christians should all be willing to ourselves and see if we really know we believe what we believe. We should be to others we believe in the forgiveness of sin, we’re not afraid of dying, how our bodies will be resurrected, or what it means to be justified, redeemed, sanctified, and reconciled. Taking root means that we deep into the Word for and the firmness of His Word.
- Jesus Christ isn’t a , momentary thrill. He is ! If an individual is satisfied being saved and keeping a cloudy mind, and knowing he believes, he believes, or he believes in, then he is a poor listener.
- The mind is of yesterday, today, and tomor- row, full of things, people, money, business, and school. Tremendous thorn bushes of worries the Word of God.
- Satan will do all he can to our away from the im- portant task at hand, and that is listening to what God has to say. That is why it is so very important that our be , lest we miss the important truths that God desires to share with us.
- We must commit ourselves to some principles that can help cultivate the fertile soil Jesus described. They are:
A. to carefully to His through our pastor, a friend, a book, a television or radio program, or a Bible-study group
B. to outside
C. to our in the light of what we hear
D. to the that God impresses in our hearts
E. to those that God has impressed upon our lives - It is spiritually to apply the Word week after week and the . As listeners with minds, we become productive, maturing children of God.>
- God seeks to support not the closed mind, the cloudy mind, or the cluttered mind but the mind—the mind of a person “he that standeth in his heart” (1 Cor. 7:37).
- At least ten contributing factors raise thick barriers to hearing the voice of God:
A. a of of God
B. a self-image
C. a sense of
D. business/
E.
F. God-directed
G. sin
H. a spirit
I. rejecting messengers
J. listening - If believers know Him only as Savior, God speak some things to us because we simply don’t the He operates. The more we understand God is, the more we will from Him.
- Christians must see ourselves as God sees us, that is, as children who for Him to speak, who to listen, who guidance every day of our lives. If we have a pauper-like image of ourselves, then is at best.
- We are responsible for guilt and we have to deal with it. guilt stems from sin against God.
- Satan places guilt on us; this occurs when the devil us of not living up to God’s standards.
- It is easy in the midst of all the clamoring voices of our society to the still, small of God. We must be careful to remain to His . Learning to listen to God amid mass confusion is a wonderful and .
- Christians must make certain that we are fully and that God does speak to us personally about our families, our businesses, our finances, our hurts, our frustrations, and our fears.
- God understands our anger, but we must recognize that our rage our ears. so of make it impossible to receive any words from the Lord.
- Harboring a sin is different from a sin. a sin means sin is present, God has put His finger on it, and still settling it. Harbored sin our vision, our minds, and our ears.
- God will speak to the heart to of a sin, but if no change occurs, God will speak on other subjects. Rebellion God’s penetrating voice.
- God will speak to us not only through people but also through circumstances. Our circumstances, too, may be less than . That doesn’t mean that God speak through them.
- Christians have to
ourselves to listen. Some godly tools we can firmly grasp to assist us in hearing from God are:
A. we should questions
B. we should God’s speaking
C. we should to what we hear
D. we should be to confirming events
E. we should God to to us - God always has the answers, but it is up to us sometimes to the right . An heart is essential to hearing God.
- Before you go to bed tell the Lord that you are to Him and that you are to hear what He has to say anytime during the night. You will be amazed at how many needed to trying problems will almost effortlessly formulate, how deep hurts will soothingly be , as you tell God that you are and to hear His voice.
- Listening crucial companion and completing mate is .
- Much of the pain, hurt, and suffering in our lives result from to respond to God’s voice.
- When we fail to listen to God, we listen to the voices. We live in a world rampant with sin, and when we turn ears to what we know God is saying, we listen to the voices. One of the most tragic acts anyone can carry out is to a ear to almighty God.
- Not choosing to listen to God when we know He is speaking to us is an of . When we listen to voices other than God’s voice, our becomes unbalanced.
- The bottom line of all sin is . Every single time we to God’s revealed truth, we choose to act of Him. It is an expression of our .
- When we fail to listen to God, we make decisions that to the , not to the spirit.
- We must be people of God whose ears are bent to to .God wants our ears turned to Him because He wants to us divine and because He has our best at heart.
- God never asks questions to find out . God asks questions to receive a .
- Since God knows our , our , and our to listen, He isn’t ever going to say to us than we can deal with at the moment. So we can’t our to listen on anyone else.
- When believers fail to listen, we will the . The most serious business today that you and I should engage in is and the voice of God.
- Before you get ready to do something, if there is a deep inside, a sneaking , think twice before acting, because God could be telling you, “ !” Be enough to stop, confront God, and say, “Lord, would You tell me one more time what Your is in this matter?” God will tell you the and save you a lot of pain.
- When we to to God, others around us are hurt. You sin in . Other people when we fail to listen.
- When we fail to listen to God, we his very Many people are on the brink of losing God’s best because they have to to a voice than God’s. God has provided the for you. If you fail to listen, you’ll go through life having God’s very best.
- God’s voice and it into our value systems, behavioral patterns, thoughts, and conversations are the prerequisites for enduring lives. Staying and to His speaking voice becomes the rock foundation that no tempest, temptation, or trial can erode.
- We build well-built lives by the Word of God and the Word of God we have encountered.
- The important thing is that we God’s Word into our .
- Blessings, peace, and wisdom were results of Scripture and that God is to His Word.
- The wise man or woman will intently to the principles of Scripture and having heard them, will upon them, will them in life, and will be by the principles of truth. Jesus said a person isn’t one who hears, but one who hears and doesn’t act.
- Christians face many situations and circumstances over which we have control. Somebody else makes the decision; something happens that’s totally our . How our have been will determine whether we crumble or hold fast.
- When we think about a well-built life, we have to think first in terms of the , which is the eternal rock of .
- The substance of God’s is our imperishable building material. We should be governed, dominated, undergirded, and directed by the of . The living of should prevail in every aspect of our lives. The substance of our lives must be .
- Jesus said the one who decided to build his house upon the lost everything when the storms hit. The life that is poorly built leaves out and makes application of the Word of God. This is the life of a man who hears the Word of God and it, it, and it.
- The rewards of a well-built life are:
A. we the storms
B. we have the capacity to the of
C. will the of
D. is continuing growth - Each of us who is richly endowed by the Word of God has something to every single we meet.
- The tremendous blessings of God into our lives when we are to Him in the . When we are to God, to His voice and it, He will honor and bless us.
- Elijah was one of the mightiest of the Old Testament. His miraculous had a tremendous impact upon the nation of Israel.
- Believers, often weary and worried, need to just one thing to refresh, encourage, and strengthen us in our service of the King—God’s . Whatever our situation may call for—guidance, comfort, assurance, strength, perseverance, faith, joy, peace—God’s will .
- Christians are with necessary to confidently hear from God. We are the of the Holy Spirit, who teaches us all things and brings to our remembrance everything Jesus said. We have at our fingertips His completed which is the magnificent sum of God’s character, nature, truth, and principles. In a nation that abounds with sincere , we have unhindered to the wise of people who know and love God.
- The man who has heard from God has the enduring to adversaries, tragedy, and any problem that lies in his path, because upon what God has spoken, he can steadfastly rest. God His promises and His Word.
Match the following:
| 1. God made the hearing ear. | A. Mark 4:24 |
| 2. An obedient ear | B. Isaiah 55:3 |
| 3. Blessed are…your ears, for they hear | C. Proverbs 20:12 |
| 4. God has opened my ears. | D. Psalm 85:8 |
| 5. Ear of the wise seeks knowledge | E. Matthew 13:16 |
| 6. Be more ready to hear than to sacrifice | F. Psalm 40:6 |
| 7. Having heard the word, keep it | G. James 1:19 |
| 8. Be swift to hear, slow to speak | H. Proverbs 25:12 |
| 9. They received the word with all readiness of mind | I. Ecclesiastes 5:1 |
| 10. Hear…learn…fear the Lord…observe to do all His Word | J. Proverbs 18:15 |
| 11. I will hear what the Lord will speak. | K. Psalm 51:8 |
| 12. Hear and your soul shall live. | L. Deuteronomy 31:12 |
| 13. Take heed what you hear. | M. Luke 8:15 |
| 14. They that hear shall live. | N. John 5:25 |
| 15. Make me hear joy and gladness. | O. Acts 17:11 |
Course Review
Answer T (for True) or F (for False):
1. The Bible commands us to seek God’s mind through dreams and visions.
2. The least assured way believers can hear from God is through His Word.
3. The Holy Spirit usually speaks to us with an audible voice.
4. Believers are not simply to hear but also to obey.
5. One simply way God may get our attention is to make us restless.
6. Unusual circumstances often cause us to turn our eyes and hearts to God.
7. Tragecy in a person’s life is always a sign of God’s disapproval with that person.
8. God will never ask us to do something that seems illogical to our rational minds.
9. God often leads us to get advice from others.
10. To hear God we must actively wait and meditate on His Word.
11. A reverent heart should be the foundation of hearing God.
12. Hearing God is the important thing; applying what we hear is not important.
13. It is possible to apply God’s Word week after week and yet remain unchanged.
14. Hearing God is the critical thing; applying what we hear is not important.
15. Christians are equipped with everything necessary to confidently hear from God.
2. The least assured way believers can hear from God is through His Word.
3. The Holy Spirit usually speaks to us with an audible voice.
4. Believers are not simply to hear but also to obey.
5. One simply way God may get our attention is to make us restless.
6. Unusual circumstances often cause us to turn our eyes and hearts to God.
7. Tragecy in a person’s life is always a sign of God’s disapproval with that person.
8. God will never ask us to do something that seems illogical to our rational minds.
9. God often leads us to get advice from others.
10. To hear God we must actively wait and meditate on His Word.
11. A reverent heart should be the foundation of hearing God.
12. Hearing God is the important thing; applying what we hear is not important.
13. It is possible to apply God’s Word week after week and yet remain unchanged.
14. Hearing God is the critical thing; applying what we hear is not important.
15. Christians are equipped with everything necessary to confidently hear from God.
Fill in the blanks:
(Need some hints? The answers are found in the scrambled words below).
- Compelling reasons why God still has His lines of communication open with His people are:
A. He us.
B. We need His definite for our lives.
C. He knows we need the and assurance.
D. He wants us to Him. - The principle methods God uses to reveal Himself to today’s believers are:
A. The of God
B. The Holy
C. other
D. - One of the most valuable lessons we can ever learn is to to God.
- OWH
- SOLVE
- TRIPIS
- RIDITONCE
- EELPOP
- COTFORM
- MYONE
- WONK
- SILENT
- CANCERCUTSIMS
