Tilling the Soil of the Heart: God’s Voice

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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As we wrap up this week focusing on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we’re going to look at the role of hearing God’s voice in living open and responsive to God. I know for a lot of us the idea of hearing God speak can be a confusing, sometimes too far out there subject. But as God’s children, he wants us to live in communication with him. And through the Holy Spirit, you and I have the ability to hear God speak to our hearts.

May we discover today that we serve a communicative God who loves to talk to his people. And may his voice soften our hearts to receive all that he longs to give us.

Our Scripture for today comes from John 16:13. Today's worship is Here Now (Madness) by Hillsong UNITED.

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Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, the last in our week-long series on tilling the soil of our hearts. Tomorrow we begin a brand new series taking a deeper look at our topic for today. Every day in the next series we’ll look at a new way God speaks, inviting him to deepen our understanding and experience of his voice moment by moment, day by day.

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Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.

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0:00.0	As we wrap up this week focusing on telling the soil of our hearts, today we're going
0:09.7	to look at the role of hearing God's voice in living open and responsive to God.
0:15.1	I know that for a lot of us, the idea of hearing God speak can be a confusing, sometimes too far out their subject.
0:22.6	But as God's children, we want to live in communication with Him.
0:26.6	And through the Holy Spirit, you and I have the ability to hear God speak to our hearts.
0:31.6	May we discover today that we will serve a communicative God who loves to talk to his people. And may his voice soften our
0:39.1	hearts to receive all that he longs to give us. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Spiritual Father
0:47.9	Brother Lawrence once wrote, there is not in the world a kind of more sweet and delightful
0:53.3	than that of continual conversation with God.
0:57.4	We are meant to commune with our Heavenly Father, to be in conversation with him throughout the day
1:02.4	concerning all that's going on around us. For a long time, I held the belief that God doesn't
1:07.8	like to talk. I thought you found out how to live the Christian
1:11.2	life solely through reading the Bible, going to church, listening to sermons, etc. I thought
1:16.8	prayer was just asking God for things and waiting to see if he said yes or no through circumstance.
1:22.6	God does speak through circumstance and his word, to be sure, but he loves to speak directly to his
1:28.7	children. He longs to be in conversation with us. The Bible clearly teaches that God speaks
1:34.7	to his people. Jesus teaches us in John 1613 that when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will
1:41.0	guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever
1:45.6	he hears, he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. In John 1027, God
1:52.9	tells us, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. God promises to speak to you
1:58.8	as his child. He longs to tell you his love for you even more than you long to hear it.
2:03.6	He longs to tell you his plans even more than you want to know them.
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