Tilling the Soil of the Heart: God’s Voice
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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, and today's worship is Wherever You Lead by Bethel Music (feat. Kristene DiMarco).
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| 0:00.0 | As we wrap up this week, focusing on telling the soil of our hearts, |
| 0:08.0 | today we're going to look at the role of hearing God's voice and living open and responsive to God. |
| 0:15.0 | I know for a lot of us, the idea of hearing God speak can be a confusing, sometimes too far out there |
| 0:22.6 | subject. But as God's children, he wants us to live in communication with him. And through the |
| 0:29.4 | Holy Spirit, you and I have the ability to hear God speak to our hearts. May we discover today |
| 0:37.2 | that we serve a communicative God who loves to talk to his people. |
| 0:42.3 | And may his voice soften our hearts to receive all that he longs to give us. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | Our verse for today comes from John 16, verse 13. |
| 1:06.3 | Scripture says, |
| 1:09.2 | When the spirit of truth comes, |
| 1:14.3 | He will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the |
| 1:21.0 | things that are to come. |
| 1:26.3 | Spiritual Father, Brother Lawrence once wrote, |
| 1:28.3 | There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful |
| 1:33.9 | than that of a continual conversation with God. |
| 1:40.1 | You and I are meant to commune with our Heavenly Father, |
| 1:51.0 | to be in conversation with Him throughout the day concerning all that's going on around us. For a long time, I held the belief that God doesn't like to talk. |
| 1:56.0 | I thought you found out how to live the Christian life solely through reading the Bible, |
| 2:02.1 | going to church, or listening to sermons. |
| 2:06.6 | I thought prayer was just asking God for things and waiting to see if he said yes or no |
| 2:12.6 | through circumstances. God does speak through circumstances in his word to be sure, but he also loves to speak |
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