Insights
⏰ Setting an appointment to meet with God in the mornings creates a prepared atmosphere for Him to show up.
🧠 “When I worship, I can feel myself slowing down. I can feel my mind and my heart slowing down. I can get still in the presence of the Lord.”
🙏 Robert Morris emphasizes that one doesn’t have to be “good” to receive grace from God, highlighting the importance of acknowledging our own shortcomings and being open to receiving healing and salvation.
🙏 Worshiping God and entering His presence before praying and reading the Bible is very important.
🖊️ “Listen and write down” – Morris suggests that one of the best ways to hear from God is to set aside time for stillness, worship, prayer, reading the Bible, and then writing down any insights or messages received.
📝 “I wrote down what I felt God was saying to me.” – David’s example in the Bible encourages us to document and record the messages we receive from God.
🤔 “I make time for whatever I value and I value hearing God.” – Robert Morris emphasizes the importance of prioritizing and making time for what we truly value in our lives.
🙏 “I want you to know something. It’s changed my life.” – Hearing from God through prayer and scripture has the power to transform lives.
Summary
TLDR: The key idea of the video is to prioritize making time to hear God’s voice through prayer, worship, and reading the Bible, as it is valuable and can bring about transformation and guidance in one’s life.
- 👂 Make time to hear God because it is valuable, and the speaker will provide a practical way to learn to hear God.
1.1 Make time to hear God because it is valuable, and the speaker will provide a practical way to learn to hear God.
1.2 God speaks to people throughout the Bible, and he answered Moses by voice on the third day after instructing him to have the people prepare for two days.
1.3 God comes to a prepared atmosphere, so it is important to set appointments to meet with Him and have a designated time and place.
- 📚 Set an appointment with God, worship Him, and trust that He will fight your battles and provide salvation, as seen through the example of Tom Lane, an important figure in a church, who spends time with God every morning at McDonald’s.
2.1 A man named Tom Lane, who is an important figure in a church with over 30,000 attendees, spends time with God every morning at McDonald’s and has even been named customer of the month.
2.2 Set an appointment, be still and worship, and trust that you will not need to fight in the battle because God will provide salvation.
2.3 Worshiping God can confuse the enemy and lead them to destroy themselves, allowing you to stand still and witness the salvation of the Lord.
- 🔑 Believing in God’s healing power requires acknowledging one’s flaws and receiving grace, as demonstrated through personal experiences and the understanding that being “bad” does not hinder healing.
3.1 The speaker experienced severe and persistent back pain for a year, seeking multiple treatments and specialists, with the pain feeling like a knife between the shoulder blades.
3.2 Believing in God’s healing power requires acknowledging one’s own flaws and receiving grace, as demonstrated through personal experiences and the understanding that being “bad” does not hinder healing.
- 📚 Worshiping God and entering His presence before praying and reading the Bible is essential, as demonstrated by biblical examples, and prayer should involve transferring burdens.
4.1 Worshiping God and entering His presence before praying and reading the Bible is important, as it is often overlooked during quiet time.
4.2 Entering God’s presence is essential for effective prayer, as demonstrated by the story of the priest’s sons who died for offering incense outside the tabernacle, and Jesus’ practice of rising early to pray in solitude.
4.3 Prayer is the transference of a burden, so when you pray, you should pray about whatever is on your heart and if you come out of prayer still burdened, then you didn’t truly pray.
- 🐑 Lay your burdens at the feet of Jesus and make time to pray, read the Bible, and listen to hear God.
5.1 Sheep cannot carry burdens, so we should lay our burdens at the feet of Jesus instead of trying to carry them ourselves.
5.2 Pray, read the Bible every day, and set an appointment to be still, worship, pray, read, listen, and write to hear God.
- 📝 Write down what you believe God is saying to you based on your readings, as it will help you understand and remember His messages throughout the day.
6.1 David wrote down what he believed God was saying to him, as shown in Psalm 45:1, 1 Chronicles 28:19, and Habakkuk 2:2.
6.2 Write down what you believe God is saying to you based on your readings, as it will help you understand and remember His messages throughout the day.
- 👂 Make time for what you value, like hearing God’s voice, as shown by prioritizing activities such as shopping or spending time with loved ones, and prioritize hearing God by making time for reading the Bible and praying.
7.1 Make time for what you value, including hearing God’s voice, as demonstrated by the example of making time for shopping or spending time with loved ones.
7.2 God speaks to us through whispers and a man asked the speaker how he has time to read the Bible and pray, to which the speaker responded that he makes time for what he values, such as hearing God.
7.3 A man invited the speaker and his wife for dinner, and during the visit, he showed the speaker a beautiful rocking chair that he decided to try after their conversation.
- 👂 A man’s life was changed after spending time each morning in a rocking chair, listening to God, quitting his job, and joining a church, eventually passing away from cancer but leaving behind a legacy of hearing God’s voice.
8.1 A man’s life was changed after spending 30 minutes each morning in a rocking chair, reading the Bible, listening to God, and eventually deciding to leave his job and join a church.
8.2 A man followed God’s guidance to quit his job, became an unpaid employee at a church, helped build it, then moved to Colorado to fund a new church, and even though he eventually passed away from cancer, his family plans to pass down the rocking chair where he heard God’s voice.
8.3 Value hearing God’s voice and make time in your life to hear it, as it is important to have a place where you can hear Him.
