How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

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Moments of revelation may not happen over night. Sometimes these moments are scattered out over the better part of a year. Ask God to breathe life into your prayers, the embers you have spread before his altar, and that you may perceive his answer with open eyes and ears, and a softened heart. I talk in the book about the ABC as a principle of how you know if it’s God or not. Is it Affirming? Is it Biblical? And is it Christlike? If it’s those three things, then it is probably God. In the section on Lectio there was a tendency towards individualistic discipleship, which ironically was counterbalanced for me in doing the Lectio Course as a group exercise. He does return to the need to hear God in each other later, but there might be a tendency to see this as a separate thing altogether. False prophecy is not a new problem. We see false prophecy throughout scripture, but nowhere do we read that God decides that prophecy or prophets should no longer exist. The solution to false prophecy is not the rejection of prophecy altogether. Rather, we weigh how we understand God is speaking through prophecy just as we do with God speaking through a sermon, or through a Bible passage, or through any of the other ways God speaks. How we hear God speak is about how our neural pathways have learned to receive and process data, and this varies from person to person 2. THEOLOGICAL

Well, if you go to 24-7prayer.com, 24-7prayer.com, you can get all this stuff, we do a daily devotional called Lectio365 that has hundreds of 1000s of daily users, that’s free, you can get that there. And one thing I must say, Jason, because I know, I know the psychosis we all have as pastors, the new book, How to Hear God, in this fall, I’m filming a five part series, which will be free online for congregations to help congregations grow in these different ways of hearing God. And so we did the previous book was called How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People. We’ve had 3 million people have used the course, the prayer course, that we did on that. And so I’m hopeful this will be a great resource for churches to grow in their prayer life and their sensitivity to what the Spirit is saying. So all that will go up on prayercourse.org. And so 24-7prayer.com and prayercourse.org and there’s all resources that help you in your ministry. And thank you all, for the way you serve Jesus. Pete Greig: And yet that’s what we love about Jesus. Right? He was ordinary and yet extraordinary. He was humble. He didn’t force himself on people. So if we’re going to learn to hear him, we need to begin to think that his voice might sound a lot like our thoughts. It might sound like a Bible verse. It might be one of those pictures that comes into your head and you think, “Is that just me, or could it be God?” Greig’s main readership is likely to be young adults in the Charismatic Evangelical wing of the Church. This book will do a solid job helping them listen for the voice of God in everyday life, by way of a broad range of spiritual traditions, while remaining alert to the loopier and more manipulative claims of some would-be channellers of the Almighty. Yeah, that’s good. That’s beautiful, beautiful Pete, let me ask you this, for the pastor watching today are listening in, and they they have a hunger for this, like you said to consistently kind of practice this. They have a hunger to lean into this more. What advice do you have to give that pastor? And so I’ve had to learn how to recognize the voice of God. And the good news is you do get better at it. It’s a bit like when someone first calls your cell phone. Your phone doesn’t recognize the number. Right? And then you get to know them a bit and you program it in. And after a bit, you don’t even need to read their name on the screen. You just recognize their voice.So I find that reassuring because I don’t find listening to God particularly easy. And I just love the fact that they clearly struggled a bit too.

One of the many problems with this view is that it disregards the fact that people can, and do, misunderstand and misapply the Bible just as much as any other means of divine communication. It also ignores the fact that the Bible itself teaches us to expect God to speak in ways outside of the Bible! Dispensationalism only really makes sense in the absence of miracles, which leads me to the third problem I had with hearing from God… 3. EXPERIENTIALAnd do you know what? The real aim of this book isn’t just to teach people how to hear God in religious contexts, like prayer and Bible study, important as those things are. What happens when we start to hear God in all of creation? Like when we switch on the normal radio? When we go for a walk? When we talk to a non-Christian who doesn’t believe God exists, and yet we start to hear God in what they’re saying? That’s when one day the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. That’s what it says in Habakkuk (2:14).