Trying to hear God’s voice can be difficult at first. Maybe you’ve gotten quiet but you still can’t hear. Maybe you’ve waited a long time but nothing happened. Maybe you’ve tried to make prayer conversational but you still feel like you’re talking to a wall. You’re trying, and that’s important. You’re headed the right direction and…
Tag: Holy Spirit
Conversational Prayer
I have found that the majority of prayer services are practiced only from an intercessory angle—in other words, many Christians only pray prayers that treat God as though He’s some kind of magical cosmic genie. They ask and they ask, repeating the same prayer over and over again with different words for ten minutes straight,…
Listen as God Made You to Listen
There’s no need to deny the universality of engaging the quiet to hear God’s voice. If a mega-prophet needed to do so, then we need to do so as well. If we need to get quiet to hear ourselves think, then we need it even more so to hear God think too. It is not…
Thinking God’s Thoughts
While I was originally taught that prophecy died out long ago, my supernatural experiences in college began to teach me that it is still entirely possible to hear the voice of God. It took me awhile to figure this out because I thought that God’s voice must be overly surreal and obvious. After all, the…
The Hidden Truth of Jesus’ Parables
To illustrate the need for the Holy Spirit to operate as an interpreter of the Bible, read through Mark 4:1-20 for yourself. Try reading the first 9 verses alone and see if you can figure out the parable without reading Jesus’ explanation (though if you know this story too well the answers will come flooding…
