Welcome to the Induch podcast with Tarle Stanley for Wednesday, July 26.

Before we can hear God accurately, he often has to retune our spiritual ears so we can hear him speaking accurately.

Today's podcast teaches how God gets our attention.

Whenever God speaks to you and me, He always speaks to us about something extremely important.

It always relates to us and God deserves our undivided attention.

When you and I are walking in the Spirit, we are walking with our spiritual antennas alert to God and we can hear what He's saying.

And the normal Christian life is to live, alert to and listening to the voice of God in whichever form of fashion He may choose to speak to us.

We said there were nine different ways that God spoke to people and they're older than the New Testament.

He speaks to people they primarily in one of four ways. He speaks through His Word by His Holy Spirit to our Spirit through someone else or through the circumstances in our life.

We said that His objective is that you and I might comprehend the truth, that we might be conformed to the truth and we might communicate that truth to others.

What I want to talk about today is this. How does God get our attention when He wants to speak to us?

The natural normal way should be that all God has to do is simply speak in one of those four ways to us and we will hear Him because their antennas, spiritual antennas are available to listen and to hear God.

And if you've been a Christian long enough, you know that when you're walking in the Spirit, you can be about your business or about your family, whatever it might be and God say something to you, you pick up on it right now and know exactly what to do.

But since we don't always live that kind of life, God uses one of several ways of getting our attention.

I want to list these ways that God gets our attention and I want to say to you, fathers and mothers, listen to me.

If you will take notes and teach them to your children for goodness sake, pass on the truths to your children.

You will teach them and so ground them, you can eliminate a whole lot of things that are unnecessary if they know the truth very early in life.

So I want to encourage you to get a pencil piece of paper. I'm going to give you 10 of them.

10 ways that God gets our attention so you don't have time to do anything but listen real quickly.

The first one is this, a restless spirit.

In Esther, for example, in the sixth chapter, here's a beautiful example of what I'm talking about.

The day of the morning, this event happened, or the night, one of the most important decisions ever made for the nation of Israel was going to be made.

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