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Expecting To Hear God's Voice
Brian Mashburn
September 13, 2015
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Expecting To Hear God's Voice
I admit it. The idea that you and I can receive God's specific guidance, at first, seems presumptuous; maybe even dangerous.
But is it not even more dangerous to believe that we could live life adequately without His specific guidance? Is it not even more presumptuous to suggest that an Almighty God can't speak to us today?
If the Bible communicates anything about God, it is that He can and does speak. Literally from the beginning to the end (11 times in Genesis 1, 7 times in Revelation 22), the Bible portrays God speaking.
Now, I concede that it is astoundingly remarkable that the same God whose voice speaks oceans, stars, mountains, and creatures into existence would also speak to and guide mere people. But, again, beginning with Adam and Eve in Genesis, and ending with John in Revelation, and to countless others in between, that is exactly what the Bible presents.
The Bible itself claims to be an expression of God speaking (we call it His "Word") to people. Further, what He recorded in the Bible is literally a collection of story after story of God speaking to people. Do you consider the Bible a book of exceptions, or a book of examples?
God speaks.
Today, we begin this series on "Hearing God" where we must. Lesson #1 for anyone who would hear God's voice is this: You must believe that God speaks and live with the expectation that He longs to speak to you.
Today, let us open our Bible's and consider.