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If you want to hear God’s voice, spend time with God. If you want to hear God’s voice more clearly, spend time with God. Engage God. Seek His face and His hand will move on your behalf. Don’t just seek what God can do for you with His hand. Seek friendship with God. Converse with God, and let God lead the conversation. God doesn’t mind your questions. God resists the proud. Come in humility. Remember that pride destroyed Lucifer. Let yourself be the one who doesn’t know. Be dependent on God. If you seek Him, you will find Him. He will answer your prayers. Learn to enjoy the Lord. Enjoy His humor and the riddles He gives. Go deep into conversation with Him without fear.
Consider the three-stewards parable. Two stewards took the risk and invested the gold they had been given. Gold is a type of deity. They invested. One steward played it safe and lost what he had. Don’t play it safe.
Sometimes, when you walk with God, you will make mistakes. You will look like a fool. And yet, God honors the fact that you trust Him. You aren’t afraid to go ahead when you sense the Holy Spirit leading. Your carnal nature has great pride and never wants to make a mistake. Fear comes in and clamps down on the Holy Spirit. Pride-driven fear wants to play it safe. Step out when God tells you to step out. Through obedience and trust, God will develop confidence and discernment in you.
When God gives you something, stand by it. The enemy will test it. Do not waver. The enemy will mock through brothers and sisters in Christ. Stay faithful. Stand strong. You can come back to God and ask Him whether you got it wrong, but receive the confirmation in spite of the physical evidence. Don’t give up on the brink of a miracle.
Ask God to answer these questions.
- In what ways do you spend time with God?
- How do you seek God’s face?
- Why is it important that you seek friendship with God and not just ask for things?
- What does it mean if you are humble before God?
- Why did the steward who played it safe lose what he had?
Bonus questions:
- Why do you sometimes make mistakes when walking with God?
- What should you do if you feel like you made a mistake instead of following God’s lead?
- How can you guard yourself against pride like Lucifer’s?
SEEKING GOD
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- Pray for the Lord to protect you and keep you in His presence and His presence only.
- Direct your mind toward the Lord only.
- Ask God what He want’s to talk about.
- You can ask God any questions. In all of this, be led by the Holy Spirit. God promises that He will answer you if you ask Him.
- Do not edit or change what God says even if you don’t understand it.
- Reject the lies and receive the truth.
- Take notes.
- Transfer your notes to your journal without editing what God said to you.
Keep in mind that God doesn’t want you to ever disconnect from Him. He wants to flow through you constantly in knowledge, wisdom, and love.
Search Engine Exercise:
Type “What does the Bible say about knowing God?” into a search engine and find websites like biblestudytools, sunshynegray, or openbible (my favorite) that list many Bible verses on the topic. Use the ones that take input from the users rather than those that are trying to cherry-pick Scripture to prove some point. As you go through the verses listed, you will find that some are on the topic and others don’t fit very well. This is a great place for discussion about which ones fit and why. Let the Holy Spirit lead you in this. (Romans 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.) Take what you learned, your notes or what you produced and videotape yourself. Become a kid influencer for Christ with your own social media platform by uploading your video as God leads. 