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Hello and welcome back to Verity podcast, friends. I took a little break last week as I was researching

for some new episodes.

And this week, we're going to have a shorter episode on one of my favorite topics,

which is how to hear God's voice.

I know that many of you are asking this very question, how do I hear his voice?

And I at first thought about titling this episode,

how to listen for God. But then I realized, you know what, a lot of times our desire is to hear

God's voice, and that's the felt need that we have. We want to hear God's voice. And as we're

going to get into in this episode,

the answer to that problem or that question is to learn how to listen for God. And so I

intentionally named this episode how to hear God's voice. But the answer I'm going to give you,

spoiler alert, is you have to listen for God. And I'm going to give you, spoiler alert, is you have to listen for God.

And I'm going to give you some tools to do that in today's episode.

So this will be a shorter one because I think, honestly, the Bible is very straightforward about this.

It's very simple about how we can hear God's voice.

But when it comes to practically walking it out, that's where it gets difficult.

That's where we run into problems.

And I'm going to tell you right out of the gate that one of the biggest reasons that we

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