Priscilla Shirer: Hearing the Voice of God (Part 1) | TBN

i want to tell you this before i share with you some principles that actually have transformed the way i spend time in the word of god the enemy wants to convince you he wants to convince me that god has some sort of hotline connection between he and certain people that it's just our spiritual leaders our pastors our bible study teachers the folks that are on staff the people that are in full-time ministry the folks that have you know a microphone on their jacket the people that are in the spotlight the folks who we go past their instagram feed and we are um admonished or encouraged because they are teaching and preaching to masses the enemy wants you to think that it's a seminary degree that is required before you can actually have a fervent ongoing relationship with god where you yourself can open up the word of god and know that the holy spirit can illumine the scriptures and give you guidance and direction and insight and clarity and encouragement and comfort he wants you to think that that kind of fervent friendship with god is only for certain people because he knows that as long as you and i are not convinced that we can hear a fresh word from god for ourselves then at best we'll be handicapped in our faith because we'll always be waiting on somebody else to spoon feed us the word of god instead of knowing that we can have confidence in our friendship in our relationship with god himself and i want to share them with you position yourself to hear from god i'm going to say it again position yourself to hear from god there is power in your positioning in your posture okay i mean this in a spiritual sense but i also mean it in a physical sense i want to tell you about both when you come to god through his word that you're going to meet with him through the pages of scripture so this is your own personal quiet time you know you maybe have just sat up in bed and you're going to have 10 or 15 minutes that you're spending with the lord or you're going to come out of your room and to the kitchen table maybe in the quietness of the morning or in the quietness of the evening when all the activity in your house has died down just a little bit you're going to position yourself over a portion of scripture and i'll tell you in just a few moments how you can choose a portion of scripture to dive into but when you make that commitment to posture yourself to position yourself i mean that in a spiritual way meaning the position of your heart has to be in a perspective and a frame of reference that is eager to hear and expects to hear the voice of god speaking to you it's a.w tossier a great theologian that put it this way the person that does not expect to hear god won't because every single time god speaks they'll just discount it as their own idea they'll think that it was just a coincidence they will attribute it to anything and anybody else except what it is god's breathed word coming to life through the power of the holy spirit to speak to you to give you guidance and direction in your own personal life and so you have to have a heart i have to have a heart that is filled with expectation that i am one of the sheep of god's fold and i can hear the voice of god john chapter 10 jesus said my sheep hear my voice listen to that again he basically says the default position for anybody who's a part of the fold the flock the family of god what my sheep do is hear my voice it's one of the schemes of the enemy to get you to think that you need to be something more be something else have a different perspective or a different personality or be someone other than you are to have excelled in some way to not have made the mistakes that you've made it's the scheme of the enemy to get us to think that we have to be anything other than a son or daughter to have this right this privilege to hear god speaking to us through the word so we have to pray and say lord would you carve away anything in my heart that is a roadblock that's keeping me from having an expectation that in my own regular quiet time while i'm in my pajamas or in my jogging suit while i'm in my house shoes whatever i'm doing and no matter what i look like i have the privilege to keep company with you that you want to cultivate lord jesus thank you a friendship with me that you want to speak with me that you gave me a love letter so that i can hear your voice and know you and know who you are thank you lord for that privilege and if my heart doesn't expect it would you begin to mold in me a holy expectation that desires and anticipates that i have the privilege to hear the voice of god posture your heart with expectation the psalmist put it this way in psalm 27 it's one of my favorite verses verse 13 and 14. he says i would have despaired unless i believed that i would see the hand of the lord in the land of the living did you see that expectation there he says i would have despaired i would have been hopeless i would have been down my countenance would have been downcast man except that i expect that i'm gonna see god i expect that i'm gonna hear god so i can wait patiently on him because i have an anticipation and expectation that god is going to come through on my behalf the prophet habakkuk spoke to this as well if you look at his little book that is named after him in the old testament you'll see that the entire first chapter of habakkuk is habakkuk calling out to god mostly him calling out to god and saying lord how long are you going to let this go on he's looking around him at the destruction that he is seeing happening in his culture in his nation man if that don't speak to us right now i don't know what is you and i can't flip past all that's happening on our twitter feeds our instagram feeds the news channels that we're watching and not see the vortex of chaos that is swirling all around us habakkuk knows exactly how you feel and he calls out to god and says how long lord it seems like you're just sitting back idly letting all this go on and so lord i'm going to vocalize my concerns to you my cares to you i'm going to be authentic i'm not going to hold back and that's the privilege we have in relationship with god he lets us ask our questions voice our concern he knows that in our humanity we have some worries and some issues and some fears and he lets us come to hear him and bear it all but after habakkuk bears it all chapter 2 he says now i'm going to climb up on the watchtower and i'm going to wait to see what it is that my king is going to say to me how god is going to respond to me do you see that he positions himself to hear from god he says i'm going to climb up on a watchtower back in biblical days there was a stronghold or a citadel that would sit at the front of a of a city and it was designed so that a soldier or a watchman could climb up to the top of this watchtower position himself above ground level circumstances in other words he was saying there's too much chaos swirling around down here i'm going to be distracted if i keep myself positioned here so i'm going to climb up on the watchtower where i'm up above ground level distractions and i'm going to position myself here because from this vantage point i'll have a clear view to the horizon and i expect that god is coming i have expectation that there is someone coming who's going to deliver an answer for me and so because of that expectation i'm going to position myself in a place and in a posture where i can hear god where i can see his hand where i have clear view and there's nothing to distract me position yourself spiritual expectation and anticipation but not just spiritually like habakkuk position yourself physically do you see that he climbed up somewhere he went to a place where there was some silence and some solitude you

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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020