Hey, do you guys 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 continues his life-changing series called Hearing the Voice of God,

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

build on a real friendship with him, and discover his direction for your life loud and clear.

And now here's Rick with part one of a message called How God Talks to You.

Now God tells us that he wants to talk to us.

In fact, the Bible is full and full of examples, hundreds of examples of God's talking to people.

In fact, if God didn't talk to people, we wouldn't have this book, the Bible.

The whole reason we've got this is God spoke to people, told them to write it down, and they

did over a period of thousands of years, and now we have the Bible to read what God had said

to those people and wanted to say to us.

Now in the Bible, God uses many, many different ways to communicate.

Obviously, God is God. He can communicate anyone. If you

wanted to communicate through a light bulb, he could do that because he is God, so he can choose any way

he wants to. And many of the ways in the Bible are quite spectacular, and some of them are actually

pretty bizarre, but he spoke in many different ways. He spoke to Moses through a burning bush.

He spoke to a guy named Jacob through an angel.

He spoke to the entire nation of Israel through a cloud.

In fact, one time he spoke to a man named Balim through a donkey.

Now, that might surprise you.

Somebody say, well, does God ever do that today? Every week at

saddleback. Still, God does that today. It's pretty bizarre, but Job chapter 33 in the top of

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