In order to achieve godly goals, we must understand and communicate with spiritual realities. What you see with your eyes is not the only reality there is. The invisible spiritual world is also very real and people ignore it to their own detriment. If the spiritual world is so important, how can we perceive it and communicate with the King of the spiritual world, God Himself?
Two Sundays ago, I talked about you can prepare to receive spiritual vision, how you can begin to see the plans and goals that God has for your life. If you missed the message, you can listen to it on our church website. Today, my message is entitled “Hearing God’s Direction.” I want to explore how you can better hear God speak to you. As pastor I will also be talking about how God has spoken to us in leading our church family to a new home.
What is the point of wanting to hear in the spiritual world? Why do you need to hear from God? The overarching reason to hear from God is to discover God’s goals for your life and for our church. In my last message, we talking about seeing a vision of God’s goals. Today, we are going to talk about hearing God speak of His goals for our lives. Seeing and hearing are two very related aspects of spiritual communication.
God longs to speak to you as His child.
John 10:27 (NIV) My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
Have you learned to listen to God’s voice? You can. It starts with diligently reading God’s Word and prayer. Prayer was never intended by God to be one-way communication, a believer telling God his requests. Prayer was intended by God to be two-way communication, in which God responds to a believer who has learned to listen.
Today we’re going to look at the life of one of the most important prophets in the Old Testament named Samuel. We’re going to study how Samuel learned as a young boy to hear from God, so that you also can prepare to hear God speak to your life.
Listen to or watch my January 30, 2011 message Hearing God’s Direction.