Insights
📖 “Hearing God is one of the most important topics in the Bible.”
🤔 “The greatest disservice we could ever do to someone is to tell that person that he can have a personal relationship with God and then tell the person that God doesn’t speak today.” – Dallas Willard highlights the contradiction of claiming a personal relationship with God while denying that God speaks today.
🙏 We can pray to God, but it’s important to also listen and sense His will and direction in our lives.
🧬 It’s innate and hardwired into our system to be able to hear God’s voice, as we were created in the image of a speaking God.
🐑 The only requirement to hearing God’s voice is to be His sheep, as He says, “My sheep hear my voice.”
📖 “I want you to read somewhere in scripture and then I want you to write down. What you think God is saying to you through that scripture.”
🗓️ The doctor revealed that the woman was actually pregnant during her previous visit, indicating that she received a prophetic word about her pregnancy before it was medically confirmed.
🙏 “God speaks… I pray that all of us will realize we have the ability to hear you and we will learn and mature in hearing God.”
Summary
TLDR: The key idea of the video is that humans are born with the innate ability to hear God’s voice and should strive to develop and mature in their ability to do so.
- 🗣️ God created humans to communicate with Him, and the speaker emphasizes the importance of hearing God’s voice and having a personal relationship with Him.
1.1 God created humans with the ability to communicate with Him, and the speaker addresses the common question of how to hear God and discern His voice from other thoughts or influences.
1.2 The speaker discusses the beauty of being a sheep and how God speaks to sheep in scripture.
1.3 The main difference between a believer and an unbeliever is that a believer has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and it is sad to tell someone they can have a personal relationship with God but that God doesn’t speak anymore.
- 👂 We can hear God’s voice through prayer and sensing His will, as Jesus is the Shepherd and his sheep can hear and follow him.
2.1 We can hear God’s voice by praying and sensing His will and direction, as discussed in John 10:1.
2.2 Jesus is the Shepherd and his sheep, both Jews and Gentiles, can hear his voice and follow him.
- 👂 We are born with the innate ability to hear God’s voice, and it is illogical to believe that God would create us with the ability to communicate but not communicate with us, as animals cannot communicate like we can because we were created in the image of a speaking God.
3.1 We are born with the innate ability to hear God’s voice, as it is natural and instinctual for us as God’s sheep, and it is illogical to believe that God would create us with the ability to communicate but not communicate with us, as animals cannot communicate like we can because we were created in the image of a speaking God.
3.2 We were created with the ability to communicate with God, and the only requirement to hear His voice is to be His sheep.
3.3 We must learn to hear God’s voice, just as we learn to pray and communicate, and like Samuel who was taught by Eli, we are all constantly learning and growing in our spiritual gifts.
- 🗣️ To hear God’s voice, get alone with Him, put on worship music, focus your mind, give your burdens to Him, and listen to what He is saying through scripture.
4.1 A man asks the pastor to teach him how to hear God’s voice, and the pastor advises him to get alone with God, put on worship music, and focus his mind.
4.2 Prayer is an exchange of burdens, and to hear God’s voice, one must give their burdens to Him and listen to what He is saying through scripture.
- 👂 We are born with the ability to hear God’s voice, and can further develop it through learning and classes, just like how we learn to speak appropriately.
5.1 The ability to hear God is innate and learned, as we are born with it and can also develop it through classes and learning about hearing God.
5.2 We mature in our ability to speak by learning what is appropriate to say and what is not, such as not commenting on someone’s weight or asking someone’s age.
- 👂 We need to mature in our ability to hear God’s voice instead of relying on constant instruction or random Bible pointing.
6.1 Some people claim to constantly hear messages from God, but this can be seen as immature and not necessarily a divine revelation.
6.2 God wants to communicate with us, but we need to mature in our ability to hear His voice rather than relying on constant instruction or random Bible pointing.
- 🔍 Finding a life verse based on birth year is unreliable; there are more mature ways to hear God’s voice, as “whatever will be will be” is not always God’s voice due to human error and choices.
7.1 Finding a life verse based on the year of birth is not a reliable way to hear God, and there are more mature methods of hearing God’s voice.
7.2 The saying “whatever will be will be” is not always God’s voice because humans make mistakes and our choices are not always influenced by God.
- 👂 You can learn to hear God’s voice, as the speaker shares a personal experience of receiving a word about his son’s wife being pregnant, despite initial disbelief, and emphasizes that we all have the ability to hear God and should strive to mature in our ability to do so.
8.1 You can learn to hear God’s voice because as a sheep, you were born with disabilities, and the speaker shares a personal experience of receiving a word from God about his son’s wife being pregnant.
8.2 Bridget’s pregnancy was announced to the family, despite initial disbelief, because the speaker claimed that God had told him she was pregnant.
8.3 The speaker’s wife prayed for a word about being pregnant, and despite her husband’s skepticism, they later confirmed her pregnancy at the doctor’s office.
8.4 The woman was told she couldn’t get pregnant due to low progesterone, but after taking progesterone and going back to the doctor, they discovered she had been pregnant for almost five weeks.
8.5 God spoke to save a baby’s life by instructing her to take medicine, and we should all recognize that we have the ability to hear God and strive to mature in our ability to do so.
