Welcome to Lesson Nine!
How to hear the voice of God
I wanted to devote an entire lesson to this because I feel it is such an important topic. If you have received new life from Jesus Christ, then God is your Father, and every good father wants a real relationship with his child. Relationship means communication. It means God hears from you, and you hear from God. You have a conversation together. And it’s pretty hard to have a conversation, if you can’t hear what the other person is saying.
God does speak. He has spoken to us through His word. We’ll be discussing that more next lesson, but I do hope you have developed a healthy appetite for God’s word, the Bible. Our lives are immeasurably enriched as we hear what He has to say to us through the Bible. And He speaks to us through His Spirit. Sometimes that happens when we’re reading the Bible—a certain passage “comes alive” like never before. But, in addition to all that, God enjoys talking with us about everyday stuff—our plans, our hopes, our fears, our experiences, our relationships, our goals, whatever.
In our reading (pages 111–115), we look at how to hear the voice of God. If you’re new to this (as I once was), it isn’t spooky, it isn’t weird, it’s just a normal part of a relationship with our heavenly Father.
I’m reposting here the video from Lesson Eight so you can review the information on hearing the voice of God starting at 06:35:
If the video doesn’t show up on your screen, here’s a link so you can watch it on YouTube.
Questions
Check your understanding
Here are the questions I recommend you work through: page 124, questions 3 & 4
Answers to “Check your understanding” questions
Group discussion
I recommend you discuss question 7 on page 125 from the “Group discussion” either with others who are studying with you and/or with our Facebook group.
Congratulations! Lesson Nine complete!
In Lesson Ten, we’ll discuss how to read and understand the Bible.
Look forward to seeing you next time!
Dwight
Reading and other links
Chapter 3
Section 3.7
Reading: Pages 111-115
Questions: Pages 124-126 (selected questions)
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Links to other pages in the Spiritual Self Defense textbook
Glossary & index (pages 285-289) | Answers to “Check your understanding” questions (pages 278-284) | Table of contents (pages 3-9) | About the author (page 290) | Cover page (page 1) | Copyright page (page 2) | How this book came to be (page 11) | How to get the most from this book (page 12) | Other books to explore (page 10)
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