How do listen to god

In silence We need to be quiet to listen. Through the beauty of nature Every creature bears the mark of the Creator. About this Brother: Br. Simon Teller entered the Order of Preachers in He is a graduate of the University of Dallas, where he studied English literature.

Before entering the order, he spent some time as a busker playing folk music in Asheville, NC, and worked in the oil fields in North Dakota. Uncertainty is the name of the game. The best thing is to take our questionings and doubts directly to God, as David often did. He fills page after page with confusion and disbelief. God can handle our hesitancy.

If the value of our times alone with God depends on our emotional state, we will always be troubled. We should never worry about how we feel. Even when our minds are confused or our hearts are cold we can learn from our solitude. Just give it to Him. There we hear what Jesus said and did and what was said about Him.

There we see Him making visible the invisible God. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. One commentator wrote: wrote:. If this be not true, we know nothing of God at all. If it be true—and we know it is—then Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, the unique, incomparable, only begotten Son of the Living God.

The main use of the Gospels is to help us see the character of God made real, personal, and understandable in Jesus. What we see Jesus doing—caring, suffering, weeping, calling, seeking—is what God is doing and has been doing all along.

In the Gospels we see that God is the only God worth having. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Make a habit of intentionally and expectantly listening for whatever God may want to tell you. Set aside some time today to begin listening for God's voice and hearing his promises and plans for you. Keep a journal to remember the things he brings to life in you. Dallas Willard is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. Here are 10 ways how you can hear from God and recognize his voice regularly: 1. Recognize that God has created you for a close friendship with Himself.

Later Jesus alludes to the gentiles who will also hear his voice and follow him. I must bring them also. Our Lord Jesus is very happy to lead us as his disciples and those who follow him should be able to hear his voice and receive the guidance we need.

It is part of our birthright when we are born again by the Holy Spirit and become followers of Jesus. But what about those other voices? How can we be sure we are hearing only from our Lord? Earlier, when Jesus commissioned his disciples, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, sending them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick Luke After this Jesus sent out 72 others to do the same Luke I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

We know that Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth. And Jesus gives us his authority to silence the enemy. But what about our voices? How can we be sure we are not hearing our own thoughts?

In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul suggests that we can also take authority over our own thoughts to make them obedient to Christ. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.

On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. I have personally found that the best way to do listening prayer is with a small group of people, as opposed to trying it alone.