Hearing God's voice

At my church this past Sunday, the sermon topic was about hearing God's voice. The pastor prefaced his talk by saying that we need to learn to listen and make space for God in our busy lives.

The four key points from the sermon were:

• People hear from God when they're willing to listen to him about issues of obedience. Rather than focusing on hearing about something new, do we need to revisit something old to align with God?
• People hear from God when they take time to listen to God. We need to reduce the noise in our lives and partner with God each day.
• People hear from God as they begin to identify what God sounds like. God's voice tells us to be more like Jesus; he doesn't appeal to our pride, greed or addictions.
• People hear from God when they have confidence that God is committed to speaking to them. As I have seen through this blog, God has creative ways of speaking to us. He is a great speaker and leader, and is committed to speaking to each one of us.

One of the worship songs this past Sunday was "Full Attention" by Jeremy Riddle, which has some very notable lyrics:

May Your voice be louder

And may Your voice be clearer

Than all the others

Than all the others

God wants to talk to us, but we need to listen.