God Speaks to Us

God Speaks to Us

 

God really spoke to me today!” 

How often we hear statements similar to this by Christians and yet in reality many of us do not seem to experience this normal or continuous sense of “God speaking to us.” Indeed many of us are confused as to what is meant when other people talk about God speaking to them and are often too self-conscious to ask what is meant when this is being said. How then does God speak to us and how can we tune in order to clearly hear his voice and understand his will?

I would like to go through major encounters between God and a wide selection of people in a variety of circumstances, throughout the Bible – situations where they were very aware of God clearly speaking to them - in order to see what we might learn from their experience. After these brief studies I would like to examine ways in which God speaks to us today and how we might become sensitive to His voice.

These studies came about by people in our church asking that very basic question – “How do we know that God is speaking to us? How can we be sure that it is His voice we are hearing?” We explored together in our worship services, examples from the Bible of the different ways in which God communicates with His people. What you will read comes out of these services and the discussions that followed. I hope you find them helpful as you, with all God’s people, seek to understand and hear God speaking to us more clearly in a time when there are so many competing voices that demand our attention.

Iain Greenshields, Dunfermline, Scotland. May 2016


How Does God Speak to Us Today?

Concluding chapter asking how God speaks to us right now, today


God Speaks: Chapter 17: God Speaks to Jesus

God speaks to His beloved Son in His baptism and Transfiguration, and tells us to, "Listen to Him!"


God Speaks: Chapter 16 God Speaks to Paul

How did God speak to Paul on the Road to Damascus?


God Speaks Chapter 15 God Speaks through Hosea

God call us back to faithfulness to Him


God Speaks: Chapter 14 God Speaks through Daniel

God speaks in extraordinary ways to and through one who devotes his life to Him


God Speaks: Chapter 13 God Calls Jonah

When God call us , do we, like Jonah, choose not to hear?


God Speaks: Chapter 12 God Calls Jeremiah

As He did with Jeremiah, God speaks to us so that we may speak of Him to the world


God Speaks Chapter 11 God Calls Isaiah

God "speaks" to Isaiah without saying a word! Can a sinful human being bear to hear and see God?


God Speaks: Chapter 10 God speaks through Elijah

God speaks powerfully through His great Prophet Elijah, but also gently and with healing to His fearful and depressed Prophet Elijah!


God Speaks: Chapter 9 God Speaks to Job

God speaks in majesty to Job, and to us in our suffering - to give hope and joy that transcends suffering, to humble, to teach us to trust Him, and to redeem.

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