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1 | Psalm 46:10 | Ps 46:10 | 8788 | 128010 | ||
Praise the Lord everyone! I have been reading a book by Joyce Meyer "How to hear from God" and it's a good book and what I got out of it was this verse, learning how to be still, be quiet and listening for his voice. I know that all things take time and practice. I have sat quiet before the Lord, not very long, I would say around 5-10 minutes and my mind will not be quiet. I try to sit there and think about the Lord and clear my mind but I'm thinking about what I did earlier, what I'm going to cook or everything else. What can I try to do to clear my thoughts and focus on God, I'm not used to doing that at all. I'm one of the ones who's always talking (praying) and never listening and God is taking me to another level in him and I just want to do all that he wants me to do. Thanks you and God bless. |
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2 | Psalm 46:10 | Ps 46:10 | Hank | 128030 | ||
In pain of bursting your bubble, I submit to you that there are far better mentors out there than Joyce Meyer! I have no idea of what she put in her book, "How to Hear From God" -- and really don't want to know. But I can tell you this -- and don't need to write a book to tell you -- the way to hear from God is by reading the Book He wrote! He has revealed Himself in Scripture. Scripture thoroughly furnishes the man of God unto all good works (2 Tim 3:17). Perhaps when we've all mastered all the things He's already said to us in His holy word, He will let us hear from Him again! But I've been working 55 years at trying to attune my ear to "hear from God" all the glorious things He has spoken in His word, the Bible, and, believe me, I've only just begun this sacred journey, barely having scratched the surface. My advice to you is to forget the ballyhoo of Joyce Meyer and go to the word of God and listen to what He has to say to you. Petition Him to help you, ask Him: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." (Ps. 119:18). ..... There is considerably more involved in "hearing from God" -- much more that He wants us to do -- than to sit in our little booth, as Jonah did, waiting to hear from God, and hoping all the while for a divinely appointed shrub to shade our heads and bring us a measure of comfort. ...... Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still (cease striving) and know that I am God." It is always good to have a spiritual quiet time every day to pray, to praise, to meditate on the love, the mercy, and the awesome power of God. That is the way God hears from us, through our prayer and praise. We hear from God through His eternal word. So it is also of utmost importance to spend time regularly and consistently in His word, reading it, marking it, learning it, and inwardly digesting it. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Psalm 46:10 | Ps 46:10 | Anteros | 128047 | ||
I'll take this even one step further: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made...The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth...That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us." John 1:1-3,14; 1 John 1,2 I submit to you that the Living Word of God is divine, that when you open the Bible you are not just reading a book but having a conversation with the creator of the universe. What better way to know God than to sit and have a chat with him? The more you talk, the more you know Him. "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." Isaiah 1:18 All texts NIV |
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