Wednesday Service | Getting Directions From God | PART 3: Listen… Getting Ready To Hear God’s Voice

[1] Hearing God’s voice we are his children!

John 10:27-30 (NLT)

My sheep listen [hear] to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 

John 8:47 (NIRV)

⁴⁷ Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you don’t hear is that you don’t belong to God.”

[2] God called Abraham his friend because he

Isaiah 41:8 (NIRV)

⁸ The Lord says, “People of Israel, you are my servants. Family of Jacob, I have chosen you.

You are the children of my friend Abraham.

Genesis 26:2-6 (AB)

² The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I will tell you. ³ Live temporarily [as a resident] in this land and I will be with you and will bless and favor you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish and carry out the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. ⁴ I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, ⁵ because Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and [consistently] kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Leviticus 26:21 (NIV)
“‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.”

[3] If we want to hear God’s voice we need to ourselves

Habakkuk 2:1-2 (NLT)

I will climb up to my and stand at my guard post. There I will to what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint. ² Then the Lord said to me,

“Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can the correct message to others.

(1)

“I will climb up to my and stand at my guard post.”

Luke 5:16 (NIV)

But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Matthew 6:6 (NLT)

But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

Daniel 6:10 (NLT)

But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.

(2)

“I will climb up to my and stand at my guard post. There I will …”

Psalm 46:10 (NLT)

“Be still, and know that I am God!”

2 Samuel 7:18 (NIV)

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord…

Psalm 62:1, 5 (GWT)

My soul waits calmly for God alone. My salvation comes from him…

⁵ Wait calmly for God alone, my soul, because my hope comes from him.

(3)

“There I will to what the Lord says”

Genesis 41:1-4 (NIV)

When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, ² when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. ³ After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. ⁴ And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

(4)

² Then the Lord said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets”

Exodus 17:14 (NIV)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it…

(5)

Luke 2:19 (NIV)

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

1 Timothy 1:18 (NIRV)

My son Timothy, I am giving you this command. It is in keeping with the prophecies once made about you. By remembering them, you can fight the battle well.

Jonah 1:1-2 (NIV)

The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: ² “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”