WEBVTT 00:00:03.948 --> 00:00:04.490 Ready for this? 00:00:04.490 --> 00:00:06.323 Everybody get a sheet of paper. 00:00:06.323 --> 00:00:11.880 Okay, some of you are not sheet of paper people, and that's fine. 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:15.621 I'm not going to hurt my feelings at all if you don't put anything down on that piece of paper. 00:00:15.621 --> 00:00:21.411 Others of you like to put information down, fill in the blanks, so feel free to do that. 00:00:21.411 --> 00:00:30.088 Others of you may just want to keep it as a reference so that when you're helping other people or blessing other people, that you'll have something to refer back to. 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:38.470 So let me ask this question how many of you have heard the voice of God in one way or another? 00:00:38.470 --> 00:00:39.353 How many of you? 00:00:39.353 --> 00:00:44.691 Okay, big percentage, but there's still some in the room and nobody needs to. 00:00:44.691 --> 00:00:47.125 There's still some hands that didn't go up. 00:00:47.125 --> 00:00:49.026 I want you to leave tonight. 00:00:49.026 --> 00:00:56.273 My goal tonight is to leave with you having the faith, with God and the voice of Holy Spirit. 00:00:56.273 --> 00:01:01.482 Yep, so everybody good with that, all right, so let's start. 00:01:01.482 --> 00:01:05.569 So the point tonight is Holy Spirit speaks. 00:01:05.569 --> 00:01:09.748 The first requirement of mankind was to hear the voice of God. 00:01:09.748 --> 00:01:11.272 So that fill in the blank is here. 00:01:14.647 --> 00:01:20.233 I'm going to need some Bible readers, so let me get to start with six or seven Bible readers. 00:01:20.233 --> 00:01:31.954 Okay, stephen, gary, brooke, christine, okay, yeah, okay. 00:01:31.954 --> 00:01:34.727 So if you could come down, we're recording this. 00:01:34.727 --> 00:01:38.609 So if you could come down when you read and use the mic, I appreciate that. 00:01:38.609 --> 00:01:42.611 So we're going to start with Genesis 1, 26 through 28. 00:01:42.611 --> 00:01:44.947 So, whoever that first person was, come on down. 00:01:44.947 --> 00:01:46.102 Yeah, gary, that's good. 00:01:46.102 --> 00:01:50.890 Genesis, chapter 1, verses 26 through 28,. 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:58.347 And see if you can see, in here there's a phrase that tells us that we were made by God to be able to hear him. 00:01:58.347 --> 00:02:00.391 Okay, 2016. 00:02:00.471 --> 00:02:04.271 Okay, chapter 1, verses 26 through 28. 00:02:04.290 --> 00:02:05.939 I read I can read that. 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:06.721 That's a whole, nother problem. 00:02:06.721 --> 00:02:08.246 Okay, it's a large screen. 00:02:08.246 --> 00:02:10.502 Okay, read from a tindale. 00:02:10.502 --> 00:02:16.631 Okay, then God said let us make human beings in our image to be like us. 00:02:16.631 --> 00:02:27.490 They will rain over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on earth and the small animals that scurry along the ground. 00:02:27.490 --> 00:02:31.087 So God created human beings in his own image. 00:02:31.087 --> 00:02:35.141 In the image of God, he created them Male and female. 00:02:35.141 --> 00:02:44.705 He created them Thing fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and govern it. 00:02:44.705 --> 00:02:51.862 Rain over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky and all the animals that scurry along the ground. 00:02:53.741 --> 00:02:54.304 Appreciate it. 00:02:54.304 --> 00:03:03.865 Okay, so it was quick, you had to catch it quickly, but what was the little phrase that indicated to us that we're supposed to be able to hear God? 00:03:03.865 --> 00:03:09.046 Well, that's good, that's excellent. 00:03:09.046 --> 00:03:09.888 We're made in his image. 00:03:09.888 --> 00:03:11.491 That's true, we are made in his image. 00:03:11.491 --> 00:03:16.229 God, the Father, god the Son and God, the Holy Spirit communicate with each other. 00:03:16.229 --> 00:03:18.906 They're little, just three words. 00:03:18.906 --> 00:03:22.663 Four words, yeah. 00:03:22.663 --> 00:03:29.530 And God said to them so, after he created male and female, created he them. 00:03:29.530 --> 00:03:31.325 What was the first thing God did? 00:03:31.325 --> 00:03:34.427 He spoke to them and they heard him. 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:45.210 And so the first obstacle that we face when we're trying to hear the voice of God is to believe that God is speaking to us, or that God wants to speak to us. 00:03:45.210 --> 00:03:50.389 What would be some reasons that people would think God wouldn't want to speak to them? 00:03:50.389 --> 00:03:52.122 Just shout them out. 00:03:52.122 --> 00:03:55.004 So he's a God that's removed. 00:03:55.004 --> 00:03:58.990 He's not interested in what's going on in everyday life. 00:03:58.990 --> 00:03:59.941 That's great. 00:03:59.941 --> 00:04:04.091 I'm not worthy. 00:04:04.091 --> 00:04:05.579 That's one of the biggest ones. 00:04:05.579 --> 00:04:09.066 I'm not worthy, and the truth is, we're not worthy. 00:04:09.066 --> 00:04:14.491 That's what makes it so wonderful, the fact that he wants to have a relationship with us. 00:04:14.491 --> 00:04:16.204 We do not deserve it. 00:04:16.204 --> 00:04:18.863 That's what makes it so beautiful, right? 00:04:18.863 --> 00:04:19.565 Anything else? 00:04:19.565 --> 00:04:36.305 Yeah, religious tradition that teaches us that God speaks to particular people only and that fit to speak to us, that that is being prideful, or that it's just not the right that we have to hear God's voice for ourselves. 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.187 Proverbs 20, verse 12 is on the paper. 00:04:39.187 --> 00:04:42.107 It says the hearing ear and the seeing eye. 00:04:42.107 --> 00:04:46.062 The Lord has made them both, so he gave us everybody. 00:04:46.062 --> 00:04:48.428 Grab your ear and wiggle it, or grab your neighbor's ear. 00:04:48.428 --> 00:04:49.190 That would be even fun. 00:04:49.190 --> 00:04:50.081 No, I'm just kidding. 00:04:50.081 --> 00:04:56.069 He gave us these ears to be able to hear. 00:04:56.069 --> 00:04:59.228 I mean, sometimes God is just very practical in what he says. 00:04:59.228 --> 00:05:02.649 We don't have to create some kind of a spiritual moment with that. 00:05:02.649 --> 00:05:07.309 The random people don't have the ability to hear, and that's. 00:05:07.309 --> 00:05:09.552 We pray for them, and that's a difficult thing. 00:05:09.552 --> 00:05:14.670 A lot of people overcome that with a lot of other gifts that God gives them. 00:05:14.670 --> 00:05:18.750 But for the most part, he's given us our ears so that we can hear. 00:05:19.500 --> 00:05:20.584 So what is the problem? 00:05:20.584 --> 00:05:22.947 It's a three letter word. 00:05:22.947 --> 00:05:24.084 It's always the problem. 00:05:24.084 --> 00:05:25.764 It's always sin. 00:05:25.764 --> 00:05:28.605 Yeah, sin brought separation. 00:05:28.605 --> 00:05:32.588 That word is separation in the relationship between God and man. 00:05:32.588 --> 00:05:35.903 Okay, one of our young people. 00:05:35.903 --> 00:05:37.608 Why don't you give us a definition for sin? 00:05:37.608 --> 00:05:41.641 Go ahead, bad stuff. 00:05:41.641 --> 00:05:44.009 According to whom? 00:05:44.009 --> 00:05:46.564 Who's the definer of the bad stuff? 00:05:46.564 --> 00:05:50.031 The Lord? 00:05:50.031 --> 00:05:51.720 Yes, he didn't. 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.005 Even I would have said Jesus, but he said the Lord. 00:05:54.005 --> 00:05:54.887 That was really great. 00:05:54.887 --> 00:05:56.531 Awesome, josh, you're amazing. 00:05:56.531 --> 00:05:58.225 Colossians, chapter two. 00:05:58.225 --> 00:05:59.382 So that's our next reader. 00:05:59.382 --> 00:06:00.346 Who's ready? 00:06:00.346 --> 00:06:01.069 Okay, steve. 00:06:01.069 --> 00:06:04.428 Colossians two versus 13 through 15. 00:06:04.428 --> 00:06:14.668 And if you remember, this was a sermon series we did very recently in the book of Colossians, but this passage right here speaks clearly why it is that sin. 00:06:14.668 --> 00:06:19.290 Colossians two, number 13 through 15. 00:06:24.005 --> 00:06:24.706 It threw me up. 00:06:24.706 --> 00:06:26.288 That's sin, tyler. 00:06:26.288 --> 00:06:27.971 Okay, it was a simple one. 00:06:27.971 --> 00:06:31.002 Sorry, let's get it Okay. 00:06:31.002 --> 00:06:36.992 And you who were dead in your trespasses and the, we were dead. 00:06:37.461 --> 00:06:38.322 So we weren't sinned. 00:06:39.024 --> 00:06:42.286 Right, we weren't mostly Incapable right. 00:06:42.286 --> 00:06:43.699 Yeah, okay. 00:06:43.699 --> 00:06:49.201 Dead in your trespasses and the incircumcision of your flesh, god made alive, together with him. 00:06:49.201 --> 00:07:02.026 Having forgiven him by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands, this he set aside, nailing it to the cross, he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open. 00:07:02.026 --> 00:07:04.923 Shame by triumphing over them in him. 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:08.240 In the future. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.884 I'm going to write something for you to read to my children, because you say it with authority. 00:07:12.884 --> 00:07:15.908 I appreciate that I just told one time I had a radio voice. 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.382 I said I have a radio face as well. 00:07:20.807 --> 00:07:22.730 All right, stay in your lane, brother. 00:07:22.730 --> 00:07:23.312 Stay in your lane. 00:07:23.312 --> 00:07:23.932 Thank you, steve. 00:07:23.932 --> 00:07:30.990 How long have I been wanting to say those words that have been said to me so many times? 00:07:30.990 --> 00:07:32.374 All right. 00:07:32.374 --> 00:07:38.012 So this verse talks about sin, the trespass, but it also talks about redemption that came. 00:07:38.012 --> 00:07:45.882 Jesus has repaired our broken relationship with God so that those who believe in him hear his voice. 00:07:45.882 --> 00:07:52.783 No-transcript, come on up. 00:07:52.783 --> 00:07:54.329 I guess you can. 00:07:54.329 --> 00:07:56.415 Just when one reader is finished, you could. 00:07:56.415 --> 00:07:57.620 The next one can just come on up. 00:07:57.620 --> 00:07:59.906 So we're gonna move through this pretty fairly quickly. 00:08:00.528 --> 00:08:15.759 John 10 Truly, nope, truly, truly, I say to you he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:19.168 The, he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 00:08:19.168 --> 00:08:21.394 To him, the gatekeeper opens. 00:08:21.394 --> 00:08:26.225 The sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 00:08:26.225 --> 00:08:33.759 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them and the following, for they know his voice, a stranger. 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.190 They will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do. 00:08:37.190 --> 00:08:40.919 This figure of speech Jesus used with and what he was saying to them. 00:08:42.668 --> 00:08:44.960 So they didn't understand what he was saying to them. 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:51.214 We should be able to understand now, because we're on the other side of the cross and we understand that who's the good shepherd in this story? 00:08:51.214 --> 00:08:56.511 Jesus is the good shepherd and who are the sheep in the story? 00:08:56.511 --> 00:09:08.655 Yeah, I mean, it's a love the fact that it puts in the the passage. 00:09:08.655 --> 00:09:09.779 This is a figure of speech. 00:09:09.779 --> 00:09:13.527 So even the identity is important with God. 00:09:13.527 --> 00:09:26.567 Okay, you're not actually sheep created in the image of God, but it is important for us to understand that his sheep, jesus's sheep, hear his voice and the voice of strangers we will not follow. 00:09:26.567 --> 00:09:30.495 Are there any strange voices that people are hearing right now? 00:09:30.495 --> 00:09:34.908 Anything, yeah, it's everywhere. 00:09:34.908 --> 00:09:43.333 It's everywhere, everywhere that you turn, something is crying out for our attention and to cause us to act in a certain way. 00:09:43.333 --> 00:09:45.345 So it's so important, guys. 00:09:45.345 --> 00:09:45.886 Why is it? 00:09:45.886 --> 00:09:47.410 Why are we doing the school of the spirit? 00:09:47.410 --> 00:09:56.926 Because we live in a time where we have to be what God is doing in the earth, so that we don't get swept up In all of the stuff. 00:09:56.926 --> 00:09:59.322 Right, amen? 00:09:59.322 --> 00:10:03.659 So the next thing is Jesus sent Holy Spirit to speak truth to us. 00:10:05.365 --> 00:10:06.229 Got my next reader. 00:10:06.229 --> 00:10:09.383 Did we run out? 00:10:09.383 --> 00:10:10.245 Oh, christine's coming. 00:10:10.245 --> 00:10:14.413 Yeah, so you've got John 16, 12 through 14. 00:10:14.413 --> 00:10:17.198 I. 00:10:20.520 --> 00:10:24.351 Still have many things to say to you, but you can't bear them right now. 00:10:24.351 --> 00:10:28.306 Yep, most of us can't. 00:10:28.306 --> 00:10:42.254 When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 00:10:42.254 --> 00:10:47.779 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 00:10:51.365 --> 00:10:53.947 Wow, that's awesome. 00:10:53.947 --> 00:10:56.432 And the Lord uses Christine and Grant. 00:10:56.432 --> 00:11:11.951 I could name a lot of other people here, but Miss Christine is, is Ruth person, and the spirit of truth Speaks to her, confirms to her with the word of God, right, and she shares that with others. 00:11:11.951 --> 00:11:13.821 And what a gift that is to be able to do that. 00:11:13.821 --> 00:11:17.149 Aren't you glad we don't have to wonder what the truth is. 00:11:17.149 --> 00:11:18.493 That's really what's. 00:11:19.282 --> 00:11:21.994 The greatest debate right now is what is truth? 00:11:21.994 --> 00:11:25.267 And we don't have to guess at that. 00:11:25.267 --> 00:11:29.085 We can literally say we have the truth, we know the truth. 00:11:29.085 --> 00:11:37.942 The truth is not just some kind of subjective thing, it is objective, completely, because the truth is actually a person who is. 00:11:37.942 --> 00:11:41.399 This is the way, the truth and the life, right. 00:11:42.342 --> 00:11:44.471 Okay, so we're gonna do an acronym. 00:11:44.471 --> 00:11:49.662 Believers can learn how to hear H, e a r, holy Spirit. 00:11:49.662 --> 00:11:50.023 Clearly. 00:11:50.023 --> 00:12:03.469 Now some of this is gonna sound a little familiar because Clem Ferriss shared During youth conference about some of these things, and so I'm borrowing some from him, with his permission, but I've changed it up to protect the innocent. 00:12:03.469 --> 00:12:07.039 So, letter H what do you think that H would be? 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.785 Habit? 00:12:09.785 --> 00:12:13.453 Yep, make it a habit to listen to holy. 00:12:13.453 --> 00:12:14.903 Did we run out of readers. 00:12:14.903 --> 00:12:16.326 Let's get a new set. 00:12:16.326 --> 00:12:16.847 Let's get some. 00:12:16.847 --> 00:12:18.471 Let's get some young readers up here. 00:12:18.471 --> 00:12:20.244 Who's got there? 00:12:20.244 --> 00:12:24.967 Yeah, aliyah, just I need about four or five. 00:12:24.967 --> 00:12:27.745 So Come on down, aliyah. 00:12:27.745 --> 00:12:31.570 You're gonna read Isaiah 50, verses four through five. 00:12:31.570 --> 00:12:34.884 What is a habit? 00:12:34.884 --> 00:12:44.484 Normally we think of habit, we think of something negative, right, but habit itself doesn't have a positive or negative connotation, it's just a thing. 00:12:44.484 --> 00:12:45.828 So what is a habit? 00:12:45.828 --> 00:12:51.530 Something you do, a normative thing for you, right? 00:12:51.530 --> 00:12:54.820 Isaiah 54 through 5. 00:12:54.820 --> 00:13:02.818 The sovereign Lord has given me a well instructed tongue to know the word that sustains the weary. 00:13:04.144 --> 00:13:08.120 He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ears to listen, like one being instructed. 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.365 The sovereign Lord has opened my ears. 00:13:10.365 --> 00:13:10.886 I haven't. 00:13:10.886 --> 00:13:13.735 I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away. 00:13:13.735 --> 00:13:17.066 So how often did Isaiah say that? 00:13:17.066 --> 00:13:17.749 That he spent time? 00:13:19.635 --> 00:13:20.720 with the sovereign Lord. 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:20.980 Morning. 00:13:20.980 --> 00:13:23.750 He wakens me and opens my understanding. 00:13:23.750 --> 00:13:25.095 Isn't that a beautiful relationship. 00:13:25.095 --> 00:13:29.471 The father awakens him. 00:13:29.471 --> 00:13:38.980 You realize every day that we wake up is a gift, and our first thought should be, our first word should be good morning heavenly father, good morning Lord Jesus, good morning Holy Spirit. 00:13:38.980 --> 00:13:42.971 If you're married, good morning wife, good morning husband, right? 00:13:42.971 --> 00:13:45.067 So I'm gonna read just a quote to you. 00:13:45.067 --> 00:13:46.231 I thought it was so powerful. 00:13:46.231 --> 00:13:47.820 It says learning is a habit. 00:13:47.820 --> 00:13:48.981 I'm gonna read just a quote to you. 00:13:48.981 --> 00:13:50.085 I thought it was so powerful. 00:13:50.085 --> 00:13:54.014 It says learning the unforced rhythms of grace requires practice. 00:13:55.081 --> 00:13:57.649 We're prone to meeting the demands of the busy life. 00:13:57.649 --> 00:14:27.981 We wake up each day and maximize Getting ready as fast as possible, eating a quick breakfast before running out the door to be a few minutes late to wherever we're going, packing every possible moment with meetings, work, chores, children, parents, exercise, driving, shopping, eating, emails, phone calls, texts, facebook, errands, ministry, what else? 00:14:27.981 --> 00:14:32.240 What are all of the apps that you guys are using now Carefully? 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.226 You're using them very carefully, which I appreciate. 00:14:34.226 --> 00:14:36.011 So we've got Twitter, we've got Instagram. 00:14:36.011 --> 00:14:39.663 What is now what it's called? 00:14:39.663 --> 00:14:43.152 Oh yeah, tick-tock snapchat, okay, anyway. 00:14:43.152 --> 00:14:48.519 Basically, what we're saying is we create space for whatever it is that we feel is important. 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:54.958 We create the space of time For whatever it is that we feel is important. 00:14:54.958 --> 00:15:00.000 Right, and so our relationship with our Heavenly Father should be prioritized. 00:15:00.700 --> 00:15:03.534 It goes on to say, yes, our lives are stretched to the maximum. 00:15:03.534 --> 00:15:18.746 Our days are full, from the time we awaken to the time we drop into bed, and though we're living, very often come to the realization that, in fact, we're quite unfulfilled, because there's no time to simply be. 00:15:18.746 --> 00:15:25.042 We're judged, and we judge others by the do verb. 00:15:25.042 --> 00:15:26.714 But what about be? 00:15:26.714 --> 00:15:31.557 We have to be before we can do in the proper order. 00:15:31.557 --> 00:15:35.818 Right, okay, somebody wanna come down and write on the chalkboard? 00:15:35.818 --> 00:15:40.039 Or it's not a chalkboard, it's a magic marker board. 00:15:40.590 --> 00:15:42.216 Judah, you're the first hand. 00:15:42.216 --> 00:15:46.336 Come on up, gonna, put your homeschooling to the test. 00:15:46.336 --> 00:15:47.714 Oh, no, you're not homeschooling. 00:15:47.714 --> 00:15:48.496 Go to school. 00:15:48.496 --> 00:15:52.094 He was yeah, so first one. 00:15:52.094 --> 00:15:54.660 And you wanna write the words? 00:15:54.660 --> 00:15:58.375 Or do you wanna do like your sister did and draw some kind of a picture? 00:15:58.375 --> 00:16:08.576 Oh, judah, this is an overachieving young man I can tell that right now In whom the Lord is well pleased. 00:16:08.576 --> 00:16:11.817 Okay, so write down. 00:16:11.837 --> 00:16:12.600 Choose a time. 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.533 We'll just keep it at that. 00:16:16.533 --> 00:16:17.275 Choose a time. 00:16:17.275 --> 00:16:21.697 The continuation of that is choose a time to be still before God in devotion. 00:16:21.697 --> 00:16:27.822 So I'm for be still and know that I am God. 00:16:27.822 --> 00:16:29.393 So choose a time. 00:16:29.393 --> 00:16:32.793 Dedicate that time to spending time with the Lord. 00:16:32.793 --> 00:16:39.937 The second one did you do a clock or a watch or anything? 00:16:39.937 --> 00:16:43.153 No, you're good, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna micromanage. 00:16:45.474 --> 00:16:47.399 Second is create an atmosphere. 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:51.355 Create an atmosphere that helps you to focus in on hearing God. 00:16:51.355 --> 00:16:55.673 So what might that atmosphere not include for you? 00:16:55.673 --> 00:17:03.062 Anybody Distraction, levi, what'd you say? 00:17:03.062 --> 00:17:13.337 Say a little louder Wow, yes, job, amy, that's my wife, amy. 00:17:13.337 --> 00:17:17.615 So, yeah, create an atmosphere that helps you to focus in on hearing God. 00:17:17.615 --> 00:17:19.375 For some people it might be worship music. 00:17:19.375 --> 00:17:27.058 For others it may be Toby Mack, I mean, you couldn't right. 00:17:27.058 --> 00:17:34.076 Josh, yeah, okay, I don't know, I could throw out some other names, but worship music of some kind. 00:17:34.116 --> 00:17:43.898 Do to be able to shut everything down here that you're thinking about constantly and be able to focus in on talking to God and listening, most importantly listening to God. 00:17:43.898 --> 00:17:46.856 Turn off your notifications on your phone. 00:17:46.856 --> 00:17:49.152 Turn off your phone. 00:17:49.152 --> 00:17:50.938 Even be better, right? 00:17:50.938 --> 00:17:52.451 Sometimes. 00:17:52.731 --> 00:17:56.031 Some people like to walk to hear God, other people. 00:17:56.031 --> 00:17:58.473 I've heard many people say the Lord speaks to me in the shower. 00:17:58.473 --> 00:18:01.193 It's because you're just. 00:18:01.193 --> 00:18:03.621 He can get to you there. 00:18:03.621 --> 00:18:07.218 For me, god speaks to me when I'm fishing. 00:18:07.218 --> 00:18:12.241 God speaks to me when I in a place of solitude. 00:18:12.241 --> 00:18:15.980 He speaks to me many different places in different ways. 00:18:15.980 --> 00:18:20.819 So choose a time, create an atmosphere. 00:18:20.930 --> 00:18:25.457 And then the next thing don't end the conversation at the end of your devotional time. 00:18:25.457 --> 00:18:30.492 Now, conversation, so prayer. 00:18:30.492 --> 00:18:34.015 When we think of prayer, what do we normally think of? 00:18:34.015 --> 00:18:37.440 Who's doing the talking? 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.736 Typically, we're doing the talking. 00:18:40.736 --> 00:18:41.815 Are we supposed to do that? 00:18:41.815 --> 00:18:50.473 I mean, yes, I'm sorry, it's to speak to God, but if it's a conversation, then what do we need to do? 00:18:50.473 --> 00:18:57.516 As well, need to take time to listen, to listen, to listen to the voice of God. 00:18:57.516 --> 00:19:00.134 Okay, the next. 00:19:00.134 --> 00:19:01.459 Thank you very much, judah. 00:19:01.459 --> 00:19:12.016 Let's give him a big hand, yeah, yeah, so don't end the conversation at the end of your devotional time. 00:19:12.016 --> 00:19:17.278 One of the ways that I like to describe it it's like keeping your chat room open, right? 00:19:17.278 --> 00:19:19.296 Keep the conversation going. 00:19:19.296 --> 00:19:20.753 This is something that we're gonna. 00:19:21.130 --> 00:19:26.498 The Lord doesn't have just like an appointment time, a scheduled time where he gives you 30 seconds a day. 00:19:26.498 --> 00:19:42.676 Through Holy Spirit, who lives on the inside of us, he wants to converse with us and relate with us every moment of every day, right, so we can always be listening, can always be speaking and communicating back and forth with God. 00:19:42.676 --> 00:19:50.537 The next main point is to expect to hear Holy Spirit in whatever way that he chooses to speak. 00:19:50.537 --> 00:19:54.421 You can actually expect for God to speak to you. 00:19:54.421 --> 00:19:57.554 We've shown you in the scriptures that this is true, that he's speaking. 00:19:57.554 --> 00:20:01.234 He's looking for those who will listen, so he wants to speak to you. 00:20:01.234 --> 00:20:03.075 All right, so who is our next reader? 00:20:03.075 --> 00:20:04.332 Come on, josh. 00:20:04.332 --> 00:20:05.736 Do you have a Bible? 00:20:05.736 --> 00:20:09.057 Okay, you can read my iPad. 00:20:09.057 --> 00:20:09.880 Come on down. 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:19.516 Obviously, sitting on the front row is a blessing and a curse, isn't it? 00:20:19.516 --> 00:20:22.698 I've experienced that my whole entire life. 00:20:22.698 --> 00:20:25.374 I'm a front row Christian. 00:20:25.374 --> 00:20:30.977 I'm not saying that in an arrogant way, I'm just saying literally, literally. 00:20:30.977 --> 00:20:34.913 I've said on the front row, I might need some therapy. 00:20:36.513 --> 00:20:39.513 Same bro, Just at the top. 00:20:39.789 --> 00:20:40.517 Right here first king. 00:20:42.069 --> 00:20:43.253 First kings, 19,. 00:20:43.253 --> 00:20:44.898 Nine through 13. 00:20:44.898 --> 00:20:48.219 But the Lord said to him what are you doing here? 00:20:48.219 --> 00:20:54.549 Elijah replied I have zealously served the Lord, god Almighty. 00:20:54.549 --> 00:20:56.394 Zealously, zealously. 00:20:56.394 --> 00:20:59.121 Serve the Lord, god Almighty. 00:20:59.121 --> 00:21:07.819 But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars and killed everyone in your prophet. 00:21:07.819 --> 00:21:14.520 I'm the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too. 00:21:14.520 --> 00:21:20.713 Go out and stand before me on the mountain, the Lord told him. 00:21:20.713 --> 00:21:26.837 And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. 00:21:26.837 --> 00:21:34.256 It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. 00:21:34.857 --> 00:21:38.695 After, the the Lord was not in the wind. 00:21:38.695 --> 00:21:40.670 Interesting Cause. 00:21:40.670 --> 00:21:50.752 A lot of times when we want Holy Spirit to move, or we want Holy Spirit bam, like the lightning and thunder, we Right, come on man. 00:21:50.752 --> 00:21:52.494 Yeah, think about that. 00:21:52.494 --> 00:21:56.714 He walked with them in the cool of the day and they spoke with each other. 00:21:56.714 --> 00:21:59.730 Okay, so he's not always Now. 00:21:59.730 --> 00:22:06.798 Sometimes he does show up like the wind, right, and that can be good or it can be bad. 00:22:06.798 --> 00:22:09.038 It depends on whose sides you're on, right? 00:22:13.609 --> 00:22:18.115 After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 00:22:18.115 --> 00:22:28.859 And a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire there was a sound of gentle whisper. 00:22:28.859 --> 00:22:38.678 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in the cloak in his cloak, not someone else's and went out. 00:22:40.682 --> 00:22:45.012 Thank you, Thank you for clarifying that. 00:22:45.012 --> 00:22:45.715 It was his cloak. 00:22:45.715 --> 00:22:47.059 Let's give him my hand. 00:22:47.059 --> 00:22:48.193 Yeah, that's great, joshi. 00:22:48.193 --> 00:23:12.032 All right, so here's the thing A lot of us in the past have experienced Holy Spirit in the fire, in the wind, in the earthquake, and so we can be judgmental or critical when God isn't moving like that or we don't visibly see him moving like that in a person's life. 00:23:13.056 --> 00:23:18.316 Right, but the signs and wonders that God performs by Holy Spirit are supposed to do what? 00:23:18.316 --> 00:23:20.314 What's the purpose of them? 00:23:20.314 --> 00:23:24.199 To glorify God, and what does a sign do? 00:23:24.199 --> 00:23:26.994 The points it gives direction. 00:23:26.994 --> 00:23:34.557 Signs and wonders are given by God in order to point to who. 00:23:34.557 --> 00:23:36.363 Jesus is right. 00:23:36.363 --> 00:23:49.355 But when we're having a personal relationship with God and we're having devotion with him, sometimes the only way we can really hear him is to get really, really still and listen for his whisper. 00:23:49.355 --> 00:23:51.894 I love that, okay. 00:23:52.950 --> 00:23:59.778 Next point Holy Spirit can speak through anyone or anything, at any time and in any way. 00:23:59.778 --> 00:24:03.153 You believe that he can speak. 00:24:03.153 --> 00:24:05.537 Give us some examples from the Bible. 00:24:05.537 --> 00:24:08.558 What all, who, all and what all did he speak through in the Bible? 00:24:08.558 --> 00:24:10.213 Donky, that's the famous one, right. 00:24:10.213 --> 00:24:14.877 What else he's spoken through? 00:24:14.877 --> 00:24:19.354 All kinds of different kinds of people right Throughout time, even. 00:24:19.354 --> 00:24:23.201 Yeah, there you go. 00:24:23.201 --> 00:24:28.075 He spoke to Moses through a flaming bush right that would not be consumed. 00:24:28.075 --> 00:24:32.159 All right, so expect the unexpected. 00:24:32.159 --> 00:24:34.154 God is going to speak. 00:24:34.154 --> 00:24:39.330 Next one is the A is what Anticipate. 00:24:39.330 --> 00:24:41.011 Everybody got the E. 00:24:41.011 --> 00:24:47.867 The E was expect growing in your ability to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit. 00:24:47.867 --> 00:24:51.604 Alright, one more reader, and I think we're Benjamin. 00:24:51.604 --> 00:24:52.465 Come on down. 00:24:52.465 --> 00:24:54.137 This front row is on fire. 00:24:54.137 --> 00:24:58.369 Un Fuego they are the storm in the which one. 00:24:58.369 --> 00:25:01.420 You gotta read it like it's serious. 00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:02.564 This is not a joke, okay. 00:25:04.005 --> 00:25:04.328 This one Okay. 00:25:05.757 --> 00:25:07.000 Do I need Stephen to come tell you? 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:08.023 Alright? 00:25:11.260 --> 00:25:13.566 First, samuel, 3.1.3.11. 00:25:13.566 --> 00:25:17.954 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli. 00:25:17.954 --> 00:25:22.974 Now, in those days we're very rare and visions were quite uncommon. 00:25:22.974 --> 00:25:27.974 One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed. 00:25:27.974 --> 00:25:36.926 The lamp of God had not yet gone out and Samuel was sleeping in the tabernacle near the Ark of God. 00:25:36.926 --> 00:25:39.934 Suddenly the Lord called out Samuel. 00:25:39.934 --> 00:25:43.903 Yes, samuel replied what is it? 00:25:43.903 --> 00:25:46.954 He got up and ran to Eli here I am, did you call me? 00:25:46.954 --> 00:25:48.307 I didn't call you. 00:25:48.307 --> 00:25:50.559 Eli replied Go back to bed. 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:51.584 So he did. 00:25:51.584 --> 00:25:54.624 Then the Lord called out again Samuel. 00:25:54.624 --> 00:25:57.824 Again to Eli here I am, did you call me? 00:25:57.824 --> 00:25:59.098 I didn't call you. 00:25:59.098 --> 00:26:01.319 My son, eli said go back to bed. 00:26:02.015 --> 00:26:08.708 Samuel did not yet know the Lord because he had never heard a message from the Lord before. 00:26:08.708 --> 00:26:16.520 So the Lord called a third time and once more Samuel got up and went to Eli here I am, did you call me? 00:26:16.520 --> 00:26:19.964 Then Eli realized it was the Lord who was calling the boy. 00:26:19.964 --> 00:26:27.747 So he said to Samuel go and lie down again and if someone calls again say speak, lord, your servant is listening. 00:26:27.747 --> 00:26:36.548 So Samuel went back to bed and the Lord Samuel, samuel and Samuel replied speak, your servant is listening. 00:26:36.548 --> 00:26:41.703 Then the Lord said to Samuel I'm about to do a shocking thing in Israel. 00:26:44.656 --> 00:26:45.941 Yeah, and it was not good news. 00:26:45.941 --> 00:27:03.954 So it's important for us to believe that once we've heard the voice of the Lord one time and we've been able to discern it, we can continue to hear it and we can improve in our ability to discern or understand the voice of God. 00:27:03.954 --> 00:27:21.630 So let me give you a few things that you can check marks as you're trying to discern whether something that you're hearing, or you feel like you're hearing, is the voice of God, or whether it's the voice of your flesh, or the voice of Satan, or the voice of pizza, or the voice of ice cream, whatever it is. 00:27:21.630 --> 00:27:24.762 Yeah, the voice of what? 00:27:24.762 --> 00:27:30.913 Yes, okay, yeah, that is a note. 00:27:30.913 --> 00:27:31.836 I don't know what you're. 00:27:31.836 --> 00:27:33.422 Yeah, okay, I lost it. 00:27:33.422 --> 00:27:34.726 It's beyond me. 00:27:34.726 --> 00:27:36.378 Oh, because they melt. 00:27:36.378 --> 00:27:39.997 He said. 00:27:39.997 --> 00:27:42.141 Ice cream is always concerned about the weather. 00:27:42.141 --> 00:27:48.551 Number one that's a definitely a dad joke. 00:27:48.551 --> 00:27:52.384 Did you hear that from Mr Andy or from Mr? 00:27:52.384 --> 00:27:54.061 Yeah, anyway. 00:27:54.344 --> 00:27:55.974 Number one look at scripture. 00:27:55.974 --> 00:28:02.327 If you're trying to determine whether what you feel like you're hearing is from God or not, you don't have to go any further than scripture. 00:28:02.327 --> 00:28:04.560 Scripture is our guide. 00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:08.805 Aren't you glad that God wrote down his thoughts and his words in a book? 00:28:08.805 --> 00:28:17.806 It didn't happen on your iPad first, right, he wrote it in a book so that we could have it and know the basic. 00:28:17.806 --> 00:28:19.829 Have it God thinks and how he speaks. 00:28:19.829 --> 00:28:21.974 Okay, so look at scripture. 00:28:21.974 --> 00:28:25.208 If it doesn't line up with the Bible, it's not God. 00:28:25.208 --> 00:28:26.894 I remember it. 00:28:27.075 --> 00:28:38.109 I've said this before many times where people have felt like they heard God saying to them you know, you're going to divorce your wife and you're going to marry this other woman, and here's the thing. 00:28:38.109 --> 00:28:40.913