Frequency: Tune In. Hear God. - Hardcover

Morris, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718011112 ISBN 13: 9780718011116

Verlag: Thomas Nelson, 2016

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God is speaking. Are you listening? As you open your spiritual "ears," you will learn to determine which channels God is using to broadcast his intentions. Discover how to discern his specific versus his general voice, recognize the multiple ways he communicates, and draw closer to him by reading his Word.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we naturally want to know how we can hear God’s voice. Does God speak? Is He speaking to you? The good news is, yes, He is speaking. And like a radio host broadcasting His voice into the airwaves, God speaks all the time. The question is, are we tuned in to the right frequency?

God communicates with us in multiple ways, whether through the Bible, through circumstances, or even through a whisper. Pastor Robert Morris demonstrates how we can grow in our faith, maturing from sheep hearing His voice to hearing it as His friend or even as a prophet. When we begin to understand the general and specific ways God speaks to us, then we can begin to cultivate a life of deeper connection with our Creator.

In Frequency, you will:

• Gain a better understanding of how to recognize God’s voice
• Discern the general voice of God from the specific voice of God
• Grow in your relationship with the Lord by developing consistent time in His Word
• Value the voice of the Lord and enjoy drawing closer to your Creator

Frequency will demystify the process of hearing God and take you to a new level in your faith.

 

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ROBERT MORRIS is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He is featured on the weekly television program The Blessed Life and is the bestselling author of twelve books, including The Blessed Life, From Dream to Destiny, The God I Never Knew, and The Blessed Church. Robert and his wife, Debbie, have been married thirty-five years and are blessed with one married daughter, two married sons, and six grandchildren. Follow Robert on Twitter @PsRobertMorris.

 

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Frequency

Tune in. Hear God

By Robert Morris

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2016 Robert Morris
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-7180-1111-6

Contents

Introduction: How Can I Hear God?, xv, 
Chapter One: The Beauty of Being Sheep, 1, 
Chapter Two: Why Hear from God?, 21, 
Chapter Three: Go to the Bible, 41, 
Chapter Four: Hear God's Voice Through Worship, 61, 
Chapter Five: Value His Voice, 79, 
Chapter Six: Call for Confirmation, 99, 
Chapter Seven: Be a Steward of God's Voice, 117, 
Chapter Eight: Recognize God's Voice Through Relationship, 135, 
Chapter Nine: Hear God's Voice for Others, 153, 
Chapter Ten: Hear God's Voice for a Breakthrough, 171, 
Closing Prayer: A Prayer to Hear God's Voice, 191, 
Acknowledgment, 195, 
Notes, 197, 
About the Author, 199, 

CHAPTER 1

THE BEAUTY OF BEING SHEEP

When he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

–John 10:4

Say you're in a small group at your church and want to break the ice, so you play a little game to start things off. A great game for this purpose is called Two Truths and a Lie — have you ever played it? You make three statements about yourself, the more outrageous the better. Two of the statements will be true, and one statement will be false. Then the other people in the room try to guess which statement isn't true about you.

So let's play that game, right here, right now. I'll start by telling you a story that includes three statements about myself. Two will be true, and one won't. You guess the lie. Here it goes:

• Statement one: My wife, Debbie, and I have been married for more than thirty-five years. Can you imagine that? Thirty-five years!

• Statement two: During that time we've been through highs and lows, joy and sorrow, children and grandchildren, and everything in between. I'd say that after thirty-five years together, Debbie knows me pretty well, and I know Debbie pretty well too.

• Statement three (this is actually more than a statement; it's a little story in itself): Just last week, Debbie called me on the phone and greeted me with one word, "Hey."

And I said, "Who is this?"

And she said, "Uh ... it's your wife, Debbie."

And I said, "Debbie who?"

And she said, "You know ... Debbie. Debbie Morris. Your wife. We've been married for more than thirty-five years. You remember me, don't you?"

End of story.

Okay, what are the two truths, and what's the lie?

The part about Debbie and I being married for more than thirty-five years is true.

And the part about us being through highs and lows and everything in between is true.

But the part about me not recognizing Debbie's voice on the phone is false. I'm sure you got that. Do you know why it's false? Because after more than thirty-five years together I can easily recognize her voice. Her voice is instantly familiar to me. I don't even need to ask who it is. All Debbie needs to say is one word on the end of a phone — hey — and there's no doubt in my mind it's my wife.

What's my point?

Jesus calls us to a similarly close relationship with Him where we instantly recognize His voice. And it doesn't take thirty-five years either. Can you imagine how great this is? The God of the universe invites us to enjoy a familiar relationship with Him, a relationship where we pray to Him, and He listens to us, and where He speaks and we listen to Him. A true dialogue.

There's a foundational truth that we need to grasp right up front, the glorious truth that God wants to talk to us in the first place. You need to grab hold of that amazing truth. If you don't, then you could dive into the Bible with a niggling doubt that there's anything to this experience of God speaking. Maybe God doesn't want to talk to you. Maybe He guards His counsel and never lets it out.

But no, God wants to talk to you and me. God even wants us to depend on hearing from Him as we depend on inhaling our next lungful of air to breathe. In Matthew 4:4, Jesus, when being tempted by the Devil, quotes Deuteronomy 8:3: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Did you catch that? We're to live on the words that come out of God's mouth. They nourish and feed us, even better than real food does.

That truth can be staggering if you've never thought about it before. Because that is how God primarily wants us to live — not by our consciences, or by our pastor's teaching, or by our attendance at church each Sunday.

God wants us to live by His voice.

Living by God's Voice

Sometimes we Christians have a hard time living this way. We aren't familiar with the idea of living by the voice of God. It sounds weird, maybe even a little spooky. The people who go around saying that they hear from God get put in straitjackets, don't they?

But ask yourself this question: What's the main difference between a person who believes in Jesus Christ and a person who doesn't? Or let's make this personal: If you're a Christian, what's the main difference between you and an unbeliever?

It's that you have a personal relationship with God.

In a personal relationship, what you experience with God isn't merely religion. You don't just check a box beside a certain denomination, or mentally agree to a bunch of facts about God. Rather, you experience a deep and profound connection to God by His Son, Jesus Christ. Your relationship is personal because it's something you experience alone. Your grandfather can't have this faith for you. Your pastor can't make this connection for you. A personal relationship with God is what the apostle Paul describes in Ephesians 5:22–33. Jesus Christ is a living, thinking, acting person, and Paul describes by analogy how Jesus loves the church the same way a husband loves his wife.

So a personal relationship must involve communication — it must. Otherwise, how could a person ever have a personal relationship with God? If true dialogue doesn't take place, then it would be a one-sided attempt at communication, with us staring up into the sky, talking to God but hearing nothing in return.

God speaks. That's biblical fact. The pattern is established throughout Scripture that God communicates with humankind. God spoke to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. He spoke to Noah and to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He spoke to Moses and to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel — and to all the prophets. He spoke to men and women, to Deborah and Ruth. In the New Testament, He spoke to Mary, Peter, Paul, Jude, James, and John on the island of Patmos. In the time since then, God hasn't gotten laryngitis. He hasn't decided to change His nature and become mute. God still speaks — and this can give us great confidence in life.

A friend told me he was looking for a new job and had three strong leads. All three looked good, and he was trying to make a decision, so he asked me what he should do. We talked for some time, and I learned that he had done his homework, gathered facts, and carefully weighed the position, location, and salary of each job. Yet he was concerned about unknown factors. Maybe one of the companies would relocate in the future. Maybe the supervisor in one position would turn out to be a tyrant. Or perhaps a company was hiding its true financial picture and about to go bankrupt.

I said to him, "You just need to hear...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thomas Nelson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0718011112
• ISBN 13: 9780718011116
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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