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Listening Lessons - Lesson 6

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Lesson 6: My process for listening to God  In these lessons I have tried to establish that God speaks in many ways and that we can discern that voice. Now I want to share a process for listening which has helpful to me: 1. Seek the voice- I begin in prayer and share with God the area...

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Listening Lessons - Lesson 5

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Lesson 5: Remove obstacles to hearing God’s voice.  There is another helpful story about a nun struggling to hear God’s voice who came to Mother Teresa for help. Mother Teresa sent her back for more solitude and prayer. The nun returned and complained that she still had...

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Listening Lessons - Lesson 4

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Lesson 4: There are ways to check your hearing. We believe that God still speaks today. We are also listening for that voice. How will we know if the voice we are hearing belongs to God? Unfortunately, it almost seems that God does not speak as clearly as God did in the Bible. My first...

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Listening Lessons - Lesson 3

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Lesson 3: God speaks in many ways. G. Campbell Morgan, a great British evangelist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, best summed up what I believe about God’s voice when he wrote, “Where there are hearts waiting for the voice of God, that voice is to be heard.” The...

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Listening Lessons - Lesson 2

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Lesson 2: Motives matter.   At this stage of my life I am really enjoying being the father of three grown sons. One reason is that they have greatly enlarged my world with three daughters in law and three grandchildren. Another reason is that my sons and I can have a fun and free...

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Listening Lessons - Lesson 1

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Lesson 1: God still speaks.Comedian Lily Tomlinson once asked, “Why is it that when we talk to God it is called prayer, but when God talks to us it is called schizophrenia?!” It is probably appropriate to maintain a level of skepticism when people claim that God has talked to them...

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