Did you know that the God who created the universe wants to talk with you, and not just once, but every day?

Today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, Rick Warren begins his life-changing series called Hearing the Voice of God,

where he reveals how you can tune into God's voice, build a real

friendship with him, and discover his direction for your life, loud and clear.

All right, I can't wait to get started, so here's Rick with part one of a message called

God wants to talk with you.

One of the basic tenets of scripture is that God has revealed himself,

that God has made himself known to us, that God speaks.

All through the Bible, we see this phrase, and God said,

and God said this, and God said that, and God said this and God said that.

God speaks, and you were that and God said that. God speaks.

And you were created to have a relationship with God.

God made you to love you and he wants you to know him as well as he knows you.

Now, in order to know God, in order to have a relationship, you got to talk to him.

And he's got to talk to you. You've got to have a relationship, you got to talk to him. And he's got to talk to you.

You've got to have a communication.

Without communication, there is no relationship.

Now the problem is communication can be easily misunderstood.

Would you agree with that?

I mean, with people, much less God. You know, when Kay speaks to me, A, I don't always hear, and B, even when I do hear, I don't always understand.

Now, we've been married 35 years.

It gets better, but I still don't always hear and I still don't always understand.

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