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 let's get right to Rick with part one of a message called Recognizing God's Voice.

Last week, we began a new mini-series on understanding how to hear the voice of God.

Very few things are more important than this because you can't have a relationship to God if you can't hear God.

If all you do is ever talk to Him in prayer and you never hear God speak to you, that's a one-way relationship.

That isn't much of a relationship.

God wants to speak to you.

Now this week, I want us to look at the issue of how do I know when it's God?

When I get an idea in my mind, how do I know where that idea came from, that impression, that thought? How do I know it didn't come from

the devil? Or it came from the bad burrito ate last night? Or it came from my own thoughts. I just bought it up.

I mean, you talk to yourself all the time. I talk to myself all the time. I am my own best

friend. And you're talking, you have a running conversation with you throughout the day.

How do I look? How do I feel? What's going on?

How should I handle that? Respond to that. And it's very easy to sometimes be confused on,

is this God telling me to do this? Or is this just something I want to do? Do you know what I'm

talking about? Is this really just my idea? Or did God give me this idea? Or did it come

to the devil or is it some bad tape that I'm playing in the past? It is extremely important. You

know how to discern when it's God talking to you. Because if you don't, it can be fatal. The Bible says this. If you take out your

message notes on Proverbs chapter 14, verse 12, what you think is the right road may lead to death.

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