Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, July 27.

Before God can communicate his message, he has to get our attention.

And that's what we'll learn about today as the series on Listening to God Continues.

If I am walking in the Spirit and listening to Him, I'm going to be able to perceive what God is saying to me at that given time.

The problem is we don't always walk in the Spirit.

We're not always living in the Spirit of other Spirit.

At times we choose to do things our own way.

Make it go our own way, do our own thing.

We've got our own plans and sometimes we are headed so fast in a given direction that if God spoke,

He couldn't be heard because now we're not listening to Him.

Sometimes we are so prone to listen to what other people think, other people's opinions, their attitudes,

their approval and their praise, we can't even hear God speak.

What I want to talk about today is this.

How does God get our attention when He wants to speak to us?

Verse 1, chapter 3 of Exodus.

Now Moses was pastoring the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian.

He led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Now watch this.

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush,

and he looked and behold the bush was burning with fire yet the bush was not concerned.

Now listen, so Moses said, I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight

while the bush is not burned up.

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