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Have You Ever Wondered if God Is Speaking to You_ Here_s the Truth. _ Deep Bible Stories · truthunedited

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Speaker 1: Why does it feel like God is silent? It's the
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Speaker 1: question no one wants to say out loud in church,
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Speaker 1: but most believers whisper in the dark, especially after sixty,
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Speaker 1: especially after decades of praying, especially after heartbreak, betrayal, or
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Speaker 1: unanswered prayers. You've walked with God for years. You've cried
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Speaker 1: out during the midnight hospital visits. You've begged for wisdom
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Speaker 1: in parenting, finances, and marriage. You've sat in silence after
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Speaker 1: the funeral, wondering if Heaven hears you at all, And
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Speaker 1: still you're not sure was that God or just your thoughts?
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Speaker 1: Why was He so loud in your twenties but so
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Speaker 1: quiet now? You read the Bible, you attend church, and
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Speaker 1: you love him. But secretly you're afraid you missed his
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Speaker 1: voice somewhere, or worse, that he stopped speaking. But here's
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Speaker 1: the truth you need to hear. God has not gone silent.
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Speaker 1: His voice is closer than your breath, and you haven't
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Speaker 1: missed him. You're just beginning to recognize Him in a
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Speaker 1: deeper way than ever before. By the end of this journey,
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Speaker 1: you'll understand how God actually speaks, how to discern his
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Speaker 1: whisper from your own thoughts, what silence really means, and
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Speaker 1: how to tune your spirit to hear him clearly. Every day.
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Speaker 1: or past. If you've ever wondered why can't I hear
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Speaker 1: God the way others do, this teaching is for you,
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Speaker 1: because the real problem isn't that He stopped speaking, It's
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Speaker 1: that most people were never taught how to listen. Here
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Speaker 1: Everything you need is in the description below. With that said,
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Speaker 1: let's dive back in. There's a specific kind of ache
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Speaker 1: that only grows with time. It doesn't scream, it doesn't rage.
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Speaker 1: It sits deep beneath the surface, quiet, steady, constant. It's
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Speaker 1: the ache of not knowing. You've walked with God. You've prayed,
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Speaker 1: you asked, you've waited, and yet nothing. You're not angry
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Speaker 1: at him, not really. You just wish you could hear something, anything.
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Speaker 1: You've stared at the ceiling more nights than you can count,
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Speaker 1: whispering God, I just need to know you're still with me.
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Speaker 1: But the house stays quiet, the phone doesn't ring, the
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Speaker 1: answer doesn't come, and somewhere inside, a slow fear begins
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Speaker 1: to settle. What if I missed him? What if I've
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Speaker 1: been praying wrong? But if I've gone too far, grown
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Speaker 1: too numb, gotten too old. What if he's talking and
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Speaker 1: I just can't hear him any more. You remember seasons
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Speaker 1: when his voice felt closer. In your twenties, on fire
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Speaker 1: for God, in your thirties, crying out for your kids
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Speaker 1: in your forties, desperate for guidance through marriage storms, financial
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Speaker 1: mess health scares. You used to feel like you knew
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Speaker 1: when God was speaking, a sense, a confirmation, a verse
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Speaker 1: that jumped off the page. But now it's like your
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Speaker 1: spiritual ears have dulled. You. Open your Bible, but nothing
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Speaker 1: stands out. You sit in church, but the message feels
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Speaker 1: like it's for someone else. You've fasted, you've journaled, you've obeyed,
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Speaker 1: and still no clarity. This isn't spiritual laziness. This is
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Speaker 1: spiritual wounding. It's the wound of unanswered prayers, of doors
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Speaker 1: that stayed shut, of loved ones who died before the
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Speaker 1: healing came, of dreams that quietly withered, of prayers prayed
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Speaker 1: a thousand times with no explanation from Heaven. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to talk about this kind of ache in church because
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Speaker 1: people want to give you answers too quickly. They could
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Speaker 1: verses before they sit with your pain. But God isn't
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Speaker 1: like that. He doesn't rush to fix you. He's not
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Speaker 1: annoyed by your questions. He doesn't roll his eyes at
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Speaker 1: your confusion. He draws near to it. There's someone in
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Speaker 1: the Bible who knows exactly how this feels. His name
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Speaker 1: was Samuel, and he grew up inside the temple. You'd
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Speaker 1: think that would make hearing God easier, but scripture tells
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Speaker 1: us something haunting. In those days, the word of the
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Speaker 1: Lord was rare. There were not many visions. First Samuel
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Speaker 1: three won. In other words, God was quiet, not because
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Speaker 1: he was absent, but because the people's hearts had grown dull.
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Speaker 1: Samuel was surrounded by noise, ritual, religion, sacrifice, but he'd
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Speaker 1: never heard God's voice personally until one night. He's lying
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Speaker 1: in bed, the lamp in the tabernacle still flickering, and
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Speaker 1: a voice calls out Samuel. He thinks it's Eli, the
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Speaker 1: old priest. He runs to him. Eli says, I didn't
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Speaker 1: call you. It happens again and again. Only on the
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Speaker 1: third time does Eli realize what's happening. Go lie down,
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Speaker 1: and if he calls you, say speak Lord, for your
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Speaker 1: servant is listening. First Samuel three nine. Samuel obeys, and
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Speaker 1: God speaks, not loudly, not with thunder, but with intimacy,
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Speaker 1: with personal clarity. It would be the beginning of Samuel's
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Speaker 1: life as a prophet. But it started with confusion. It
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Speaker 1: started with not recognizing the voice. What does this mean
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Speaker 1: for you? It means you're not alone in the ache
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Speaker 1: of silence, and more importantly, it means silence doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: God isn't speaking. Sometimes he's speaking, but in a tone
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Speaker 1: you're not used to. Sometimes he's speaking, but he's waiting
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Speaker 1: for you to say, speak Lord. I'm listening differently now,
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Speaker 1: because here's the truth. You've grown, you've aged, you've walked
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Speaker 1: through fire, and the voice you once recognized may now
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Speaker 1: come through different channels. He may speak now through a
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Speaker 1: sudden conviction, a deep, quiet piece, a word in scripture
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Speaker 1: that finally makes sense after thirty years, a conversation with
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Speaker 1: your adult child, a prompting that from sending that angry text,
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Speaker 1: a memory that haunts you until you surrender it. His
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Speaker 1: voice is not always audible, but it's always available. The
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Speaker 1: ache you feel is not abandonment. It's hunger, and hunger
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Speaker 1: is holy. Here's the shift. You don't need more noise,
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Speaker 1: You need resensitizing. You need to believe that He is
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Speaker 1: still speaking right now, into your ordinary life, into the dishes,
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Speaker 1: into the long drive home, into your doctor's appointment, into
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Speaker 1: your silent mornings, into your restless sleeper, because he promised,
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Speaker 1: my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they
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Speaker 1: follow me John ten twenty seven. In he didn't say
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Speaker 1: I am my young sheep, or my perfect sheep or my
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Speaker 1: pastor sheep. He said my sheep, that's you. That's now.
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Speaker 1: That's still possible. So if you feel like you've prayed
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Speaker 1: for years with no clarity, take heart. You may not
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Speaker 1: have missed his voice. You may have just reached the
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Speaker 1: pl where you're finally quiet enough to notice it. This
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Speaker 1: is not the end of your spiritual hearing. It's the
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Speaker 1: beginning of your reawakening. Not hype, not noise, but real, daily,
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Speaker 1: holy spirit born communication from a father who still loves
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Speaker 1: to whisper your name in the night. It always seems
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Speaker 1: to happen at night, not just in scripture, but in
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Speaker 1: your life too. That strange heaviness and the kind that
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Speaker 1: keeps you awake while the world sleeps. It not fear, exactly,
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Speaker 1: but a feeling like something is near, a thought you
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Speaker 1: can't explain, a name that won't leave your heart, attention
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Speaker 1: in the chest you try to pray through but can't
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Speaker 1: quite shake. Maybe God is trying to speak. Maybe you've
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Speaker 1: just never learned what his whisper really sounds like. That's
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Speaker 1: where we meet Samuel, the boy prophet. But before he
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Speaker 1: became a prophet, he was just a child, a miracle child,
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Speaker 1: born to a weeping, barren woman named Hannah, given back
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. He dedicated at the temple, raised among
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Speaker 1: the rituals of religion, but not yet the voice of relationship.
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Speaker 1: He lived under Eli's care, the aging priest. But Eli
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Speaker 1: was fading spiritually, dim eyes going blind, sons living in
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Speaker 1: wickedness at the lamp of the Lord, barely burning. In
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Speaker 1: those days, the word of the Lord was rare. There
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Speaker 1: were not many visions for Samuel three one. God was
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Speaker 1: still present, but his voice had grown distant. Why because
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Speaker 1: the people had grown dull, familiar with religion, unfamiliar with reverence,
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Speaker 1: busy with sacrifice, deaf to the spirit sound familiar. How
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Speaker 1: many of us have lived in church for decades and
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Speaker 1: still wonder what God's voice really sounds like? And so
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Speaker 1: God chooses a boy, not a priest, not a prophet,
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Speaker 1: and not a scholar. A boy. Samuel lies down near
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Speaker 1: the ark of God, close to the holy lamp. The
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Speaker 1: night is still, sacrifice is finished, chores complete. Then it
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Speaker 1: happens Samuel first Samuel three four, Not thunder, not fired,
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Speaker 1: just his name. Samuel jumps up, runs to Eli. Here,
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Speaker 1: I am You called me, But Eli hadn't. It happens
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Speaker 1: again and again. Each time Samuel responds, each time Eli
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Speaker 1: says no, until finally, on the third time, something stirs
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Speaker 1: in Eli's memory. Maybe he hadn't heard this voice in years,
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Speaker 1: but he remembers enough to know what's happening. He tells Samuel,
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Speaker 1: go lie down, and if he calls again, say speak Lord,
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Speaker 1: for your servant is listening. First Samuel three nine. Samuel returns,
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Speaker 1: heart pounding, eyes wide open in the dark. And again
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Speaker 1: Samuel Samuel. This time he knows, and he says the
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Speaker 1: words that open heaven, Speak Lord, your servant is lit.
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Speaker 1: And God speaks not with soft encouragement, but with a
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Speaker 1: hard word of judgment over Eli's house. Imagine that dash dash,
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Speaker 1: the first time Samuel hears the voice of God. It's
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Speaker 1: a message of judgment, truth, clarity. Wait. Because God doesn't
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Speaker 1: whisper to entertain, he whispers to intrust, and Samuel would
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Speaker 1: carry that voice for the rest of his life. The
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Speaker 1: Lord was with Samuel as he grew, and he let
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Speaker 1: none of his words fall to the ground first Samuel
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Speaker 1: three nineteen. So what does this teach us? God speaks
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Speaker 1: most clearly to those who are willing to respond. Samuel
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Speaker 1: didn't understand yet, but he kept coming, He kept saying,
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Speaker 1: here I am. He didn't ignore the voice, He didn't
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Speaker 1: roll over. How often have you dismissed the prompting as
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Speaker 1: just a random thought? God's voice is not always sweet.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's weighty. The first message Samuel received was hard truth,
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Speaker 1: but it was truth from God. Have you considered that
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Speaker 1: the conviction your feeling might be his whisper? The voice
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Speaker 1: of God often starts as something unfamiliar. Samuel mistook it
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Speaker 1: for Eli. Even the prophet in training couldn't recognize it
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Speaker 1: at first. If you're struggling to tell the difference between
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Speaker 1: your thoughts and his, you're not alone. God chooses the humble,
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Speaker 1: not the qualified. Samuel was young, untrained, but available. Age
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Speaker 1: doesn't disqualify you from hearing, nor does lack of formal knowledge.
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Speaker 1: What God is drawn to is availability. Let's bring this
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Speaker 1: into your life. You're sixty seven, you're alone, your kids
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Speaker 1: are grown. You've been waking up at three a m.
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Speaker 1: For weeks now no explanation. You've dismissed it as insomnia
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Speaker 1: or anxiety or aging. But what if it's more? What
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Speaker 1: if God is calling your name, not loudly and not forcefully,
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Speaker 1: just calling. What if the name that popped into your
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Speaker 1: heart yesterday wasn't just a memory but a prompting What
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Speaker 1: if the uneasy feeling you had before making that financial
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Speaker 1: decision was him saying slow down. What if the sudden
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Speaker 1: piece you felt in the middle of your storm wasn't
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Speaker 1: random but a divine whisper. You don't have to be
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Speaker 1: a prophet, You don't have to be in ministry. You
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Speaker 1: just have to be willing to say the words, speak Lord,
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Speaker 1: your servant is listening. Say it while making coffee, Say
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Speaker 1: it while doing dishes, Say it while driving, Say it
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Speaker 1: while crying, Say it while waiting for the doctor to call.
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Speaker 1: Because the whisper doesn't come in noise, it comes in stillness.
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Speaker 1: And if Samuel's story tells us anything, it's this, God
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Speaker 1: will still speak in a generation that has grown deaf.
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Speaker 1: If even one person is willing to listen, you don't
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Speaker 1: need to chase new revelation. You just need to tune
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Speaker 1: your ear God's voice hasn't grown quieter. We've grown noisier, distracted, anxious, rushed.
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Speaker 1: But to night, maybe even before this video ends, he
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Speaker 1: will whisper your name, not because you're perfect, not because
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Speaker 1: you've always gotten it right, but because you're his, And
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Speaker 1: he still speaks to his own. Sometimes the silence doesn't
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Speaker 1: just feel confusing, it feels personal. It feels like rejection,
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Speaker 1: like abandonment, Like God is angry and he's pulled away
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Speaker 1: because you failed him. That's exactly how Elijah felt. This
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Speaker 1: was the prophet who had just called down fire from heaven,
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Speaker 1: who stood alone against hundreds of false prophets, who watched
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Speaker 1: the fire of God consume the altar in front of
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Speaker 1: the nation of Israel, who outran a chariot in a storm,
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Speaker 1: And yet when Jezebel threatened his life, he broke. Fear
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Speaker 1: replaced boldness, Despair choked his confidence. He ran not to
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Speaker 1: the battlefield, but into the wilderness, into a cave, and
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Speaker 1: into hiding. And he prayed some thing most of us
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Speaker 1: have thought but never dared say, I have had enough, Lord.
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Speaker 1: He said, take my life first Kings nineteen four. This
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Speaker 1: was not weakness, that this was exhaustion, the kind of soul,
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Speaker 1: deep weariness that settles in after a lifetime of giving
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Speaker 1: everything and wondering if it made any difference. God doesn't
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Speaker 1: respond with rebuke. He responds with rest. First he gives
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Speaker 1: Elijah food, then sleep, then more food. Only after that
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Speaker 1: he calls Elijah to Mount Horeb, the very mountain where
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Speaker 1: Moses encountered God in fire and thunder. Sentries before Elijah comes,
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Speaker 1: expecting that same voice. After all, isn't God always loud?
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Speaker 1: Isn't he fire? Isn't he thunder? Then a great and
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Speaker 1: powerful wind tore through the mountains, But the Lord was
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Speaker 1: not in the wind. After the wind. And earthquakes, but
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Speaker 1: the Lord was not in the earthquake after to the earthquake. Fire,
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Speaker 1: but the Lord was not in the fire. First Kings,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eleven to twelve. Each of these things had symbolized
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Speaker 1: God's presence before he came in fire to Moses. He
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Speaker 1: came in thunder on Sinai. He shook the earth for Joshua.
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Speaker 1: He sent mighty wind through Ezekiel's valley of dry bones.
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Speaker 1: But not this time, not for Elijah, not for the
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Speaker 1: man who was already fragile, already weary, already listening and
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Speaker 1: then after the fire came a still, small voice First
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Speaker 1: Kings nineteen twelve kJ V. In Hebrew, the phrases called
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Speaker 1: demama dakah, which literally means a voice of thin silence.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even a whisper. It was something between sound
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Speaker 1: and stillness, a holy hush that wrapped around Elijah's heart
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Speaker 1: and said, I'm still here. I have not left you.
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Speaker 1: I do not need to shout to prove I'm close.
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Speaker 1: Elijah covers his face, he steps out of the cave,
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Speaker 1: and in that moment he doesn't just hear God, He's
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Speaker 1: reconnected to him. What does this mean for you? It
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Speaker 1: means if you're in a cave right now, emotionally, spiritually, physically,
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Speaker 1: God is not waiting to yell you out of it.
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Speaker 1: He is already inside it. Not in the noise, not
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Speaker 1: in the pressure, not in the performance, but in the stillness.
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Speaker 1: You may think he's absent, but what if he's just whispering.
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Speaker 1: And the real issue isn't his distance, it's your speed,
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Speaker 1: your volume, your internal noise. God could have thundered it,
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Speaker 1: he could have shaken the earth, but Elijah didn't need power.
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Speaker 1: He needed presents. That's how God speaks to those who
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Speaker 1: have already seen the fire, those who have already been faithful,
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Speaker 1: those who have already carried the burden. He speaks in
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Speaker 1: whispers to those who are close, because you don't need
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Speaker 1: to yell at someone who's beside you. You only need
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Speaker 1: to whisper. And if you've walked with God through betrayal, aging, grief,
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Speaker 1: unanswered prayers, then know this. You are the kind of
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Speaker 1: person God whispers to. But how do you recognize that whisper.
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Speaker 1: It's not emotional hype, It's not always a feeling. It's
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Speaker 1: a spiritual knowing, a sudden peace in the middle of confusion,
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Speaker 1: a verse that suddenly comes alive, a name that comes
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Speaker 1: to your heart three times in one day, a thought
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Speaker 1: that aligns perfectly with scripture but cuts deep with conviction.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a warning, don't go there, call them now,
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Speaker 1: wait forgive speak, And sometimes it's simply I'm here. Elijah
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Speaker 1: thought his life was over, but that still small voice
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Speaker 1: wasn't just reassurance, it was redirection. God told him it
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Speaker 1: go back the way you came first Kings nineteen fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Go back, not because the danger was gone, but because
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Speaker 1: Elijah now carried clarity. He wasn't done. He wasn't alone.
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Speaker 1: There were still kings to anoint, disciples, to raise, nations
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Speaker 1: to confront. So hear this to day. If you're in
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Speaker 1: a quiet season, it doesn't mean God is gone. It
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Speaker 1: may mean he's closer than ever, and he's not going
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Speaker 1: to shout to prove himself. He's going to whisper because
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Speaker 1: he knows you're finally ready to hear. You've lived through
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Speaker 1: the earthquakes, you've survived the fire, You've endured the wind.
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Speaker 1: And let the silence speak, and let his still small
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Speaker 1: voice become louder than the chaos. He is not done
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Speaker 1: speaking to you. He is not frustrated with you, and
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Speaker 1: he is not finished using you. But he is changing
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Speaker 1: how you hear him. You don't need fire to believe again.
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Speaker 1: You just need to listen with your spirit. Because God
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Speaker 1: doesn't shout to the broken, He draws near in the
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Speaker 1: stillness and calls them back to life. It's five o
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Speaker 1: six a m. You didn't set an alarm, you didn't
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Speaker 1: mean to wake up, But here you are, are, wide
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Speaker 1: eyed in the silence, staring at the ceiling. Your chest
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Speaker 1: feels heavy. There's a low throb of worry in your
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Speaker 1: stomach and a name comes to mind, or maybe a
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Speaker 1: decision or a regret you've carried for years. You want
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Speaker 1: to roll over, you want to distract yourself, but something
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Speaker 1: in you knows this isn't just insomnia. This is holy interruption.
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Speaker 1: That's the moment right there where God's voice often comes.
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Speaker 1: Not through thunder, not through a booming thus saith the Lord,
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Speaker 1: but through a nudge, a name, a restlessness, a quiet
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Speaker 1: clarity in the early morning dark. And if you've ever
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Speaker 1: experienced that, you already know what his whisper sounds like.
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Speaker 1: We often think hearing God is complicated, but the truth
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Speaker 1: is his voice doesn't sound like a preacher's, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: sound like our emotions, and it certainly doesn't sound like
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Speaker 1: guilt or fear. When God speaks in your daily life,
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Speaker 1: it often feels like this and calm in the middle
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Speaker 1: of your anxious spiraling. A thought that interrupts your frustration
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Speaker 1: with mercy. A name that rises in your mind three
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Speaker 1: times in one day. A pull to pray for some
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Speaker 1: one out of nowhere, a hesitation before you speak the
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Speaker 1: harsh word. A scripture that comes back to memory from
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Speaker 1: years ago, a check in your spirit before you hit send.
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Speaker 1: It's not always loud, it's rarely convenient, but it's always consistent.
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Speaker 1: If you're listening. Think of Jesus. He didn't only speak
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Speaker 1: in synagogues. He spoke while walking. He called Peter while
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Speaker 1: the man was cleaning fishing nets. He spoke to a
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Speaker 1: woman by a well in the heat of the day.
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Speaker 1: He interrupted funerals. He spoke to tax collectors during work hours.
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Speaker 1: He visited a widow during her grief. He still speaks
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Speaker 1: that way now, not just during church, but while you're
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Speaker 1: doing laundry, while you're driving to a doctor's appointment, while
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Speaker 1: you're paying bills, while you're waiting for your adult children
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Speaker 1: to call. The spirit does not need a microphone. He
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Speaker 1: needs your awareness. Let's be more specific. What does God's
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Speaker 1: voice feel like when you're making a hard decision. It
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Speaker 1: won't sound like pressure. Pressure is the voice of fear.
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Speaker 1: God's voice is peace. Even if it calls you to
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Speaker 1: something hard, his voice says, yes, this will stretch you,
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Speaker 1: but I will walk with you. This isn't the easiest road,
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Speaker 1: but it's the right one. This door is closing, don't
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Speaker 1: force it open. What does his voice feel like when
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Speaker 1: you're anxious? It often comes as a surprising stillness. You
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Speaker 1: feel overwhelmed. Then suddenly it's as if something deep inside says,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to carry this alone. I'm here and
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Speaker 1: take one breath, one step. What about temptation? God's voice
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Speaker 1: brings conviction, not shame. Shame says you're disgusting. You always
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Speaker 1: do this, why bother trying? And viction says this isn't
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Speaker 1: who you are anymore. You don't need that to feel loved.
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Speaker 1: There's a better way. Follow me. What does it feel
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Speaker 1: like when he's warning you? There's a tightness and the pause,
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Speaker 1: something feels off. The voice says, don't ignore this. This
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Speaker 1: seems right, but it's not. Stop before you regret it.
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Speaker 1: It's subtle but unmistakable, especially to those who have walked
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Speaker 1: with him long enough to know the difference between discomfort
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Speaker 1: and disobedience. And then there's peace, not the fake kind,
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Speaker 1: not the temporary high from a worship song or a
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Speaker 1: good sermon. The real kind, and the peace of God,
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Speaker 1: which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
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Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus Philippians four seven. When God speaks peace,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't always change the situation, but it changes you.
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Speaker 1: It slows your breathing, It settles your thoughts. It feels
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Speaker 1: like someone just sat beside you and took your hand,
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Speaker 1: even if you're alone in the room. That's his voice too,
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Speaker 1: you might say, But how do I know it's really
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Speaker 1: him and not just my thoughts? He's attest. God's voice
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Speaker 1: will never contradict scripture, lead you into sin, stroke your pride,
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Speaker 1: fuel your fear, rush you into panic, condemn your identity.
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Speaker 1: A God's voice will always align with the word, Point
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Speaker 1: you toward truth, convict you with grace, lead you into obedience,
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Speaker 1: confirm his nearness even in correction. Build your faith, not
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Speaker 1: break your spirit. Sometimes his voice is simply a silence
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Speaker 1: that says trust me. Not everything he speaks will come
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Speaker 1: with a clear action. Sometimes his voice is the restraint
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Speaker 1: that keeps you from doing something stupid. Sometimes his voice
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Speaker 1: is the permission to rest. Sometimes his voice is the
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Speaker 1: courage to keep praying for that prodigal again. Sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: the reminder that your still his. So when you wake
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Speaker 1: up at five a m. And feel the tug, don't
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Speaker 1: rush past it, sit with it and whisper back, Lord,
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Speaker 1: I'm listening, And then I pay attention. Who comes to mind,
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Speaker 1: What decisions rise to the surface. What part of scripture
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Speaker 1: stirs your spirit? This is not emotionalism, This is not superstition.
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Speaker 1: This is what Jesus meant when he said, my sheep
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Speaker 1: hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me
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Speaker 1: John ten twenty seven. You're not crazy. You're not imagining things.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing him. Finally, the voice you've been longing for
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Speaker 1: may have been speaking all along, but now you're still
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Speaker 1: enough to recognize it. It's a quiet moment. You're sitting
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Speaker 1: with your coffee, the morning sun begins to peek through
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Speaker 1: the blinds, and suddenly a thought comes. You've wasted so
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Speaker 1: much time. You were never consistent enough. God's probably tired
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Speaker 1: of you by now. Your family would be better off
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Speaker 1: if you stop trying. Look at your mistakes, your prayers
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Speaker 1: haven't worked. It comes in your own voice, a soft, familiar, convincing,
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Speaker 1: like a tape you've heard a thousand times in your life.
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Speaker 1: But let's stop right here, because this moment is sacred.
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Speaker 1: This is where spiritual warfare hides, not in Hollywood imagery,
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Speaker 1: not always in dramatic temptation, but in this a quiet
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Speaker 1: accusation disguised as reflection, and the question that changes everything
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Speaker 1: is this, Who said that? Was that God's voice and
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Speaker 1: or the enemy's or your own inner critic shaped by
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Speaker 1: years of pain. Discerning this isn't optional, it's essential, because
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Speaker 1: your entire spiritual walk hinges on this one thing, knowing
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Speaker 1: who you're listening to it. Let's go to scripture. The
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Speaker 1: Bible is clear. My sheep hear my voice, and a stranger,
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Speaker 1: they will not follow John ten, twenty seventy five. Jesus
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Speaker 1: says his followers can learn his voice, and not perfect,
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Speaker 1: not instantly, but like sheep recognizing the voice of their
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Speaker 1: shepherd over time. And he makes another promise, they will
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Speaker 1: flee from a stranger. But here's the problem. Some of
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Speaker 1: us have been listening to a stranger's voice so long
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Speaker 1: we've mistaken it for our own. So let's slow down.
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Speaker 1: Let's walk together through how you can tell the difference
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Speaker 1: between God's voice and the enemy's voice in your everyday thoughts.
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Speaker 1: One God's voice convicts, Satan's voice condemns. Conviction feels like it.
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Speaker 1: This action is not right. You're better than this. Turned
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Speaker 1: back to me. Condemnation feels like it. You are wrong.
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Speaker 1: You always fail? Why even try. God's voice calls you up.
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Speaker 1: The enemy's voice pushes you down. Conviction leaves room for hope.
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Speaker 1: Condemnation suffocates it. If the voice makes you want to
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Speaker 1: give up on God, it's not God God. Two. God's
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Speaker 1: voice leads, Satan's voice drives. God leads with peace even
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Speaker 1: when the road is hard. The enemy drives with urgency,
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Speaker 1: panic pressure. God says, follow me one step at a time.
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Speaker 1: The enemy says, hurry, fix it now or else. If
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Speaker 1: you're making decisions from a place of anxiety, pause, God's
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Speaker 1: voice waits for you to listen. The enemy wants you
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Speaker 1: to react before you discern. Three. God's voice brings clarity.
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Speaker 1: Satan's voice brings confusion. God is not the author of confusion.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't speak in riddles meant to trap you, even
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Speaker 1: when his mysterious, his heart is clear. This enemy clouds
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Speaker 1: your mind with what ifs, with emotional fog, with fear
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Speaker 1: of consequences instead of faith in obedience. When you're spinning
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Speaker 1: in circles, uncertain, exhausted, step back and ask, am I
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Speaker 1: being led or tormented? Four. God's voice aligns with scripture.
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Speaker 1: Satan's voice twists it. Satan knows the Bible. He quoted
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Speaker 1: it to Jesus in the Wilderness Matthew four. But he
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Speaker 1: always uses it out of context, just enough to sound spiritual,
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Speaker 1: but twisted just enough to lead you into pride, fear,
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Speaker 1: or compromise. God's voice will never contradict his word. That
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Speaker 1: includes telling you to hold on to unforgiveness, telling you
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Speaker 1: your past makes you unusable, telling you it's okay to
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Speaker 1: lie just this once, telling you you're beyond redemption, telling
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Speaker 1: you it's too late to change. God will never contradict himself.
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Speaker 1: Test the voice by the word five. God's voice is
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Speaker 1: rooted in love. Satan's voice is rooted in fear. There
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Speaker 1: is no fear in love. Perfect love casts out fear
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Speaker 1: first John four eighteen. God doesn't scare his children into obedience.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't use fear as a leash. He draws us
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Speaker 1: through love, through grace, through truth. If the voice your
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Speaker 1: hearing is laced with fear, with dread, with panic, that's
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Speaker 1: not your father. That's a thief trying to sneak into
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Speaker 1: the sheepfold. Real life example, you wake up and think
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Speaker 1: I should call my daughter. It's been weeks. God's voice
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Speaker 1: may prompt, but reach out let her know you love her.
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Speaker 1: Even if she doesn't respond, it matters. The enemy's voice
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Speaker 1: may follow with she doesn't care, why bother? She probably
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Speaker 1: resents you anyway. See the difference. God leads you into obedience,
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Speaker 1: the enemy leads you into retreat. Or let's say you've
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Speaker 1: been struggling with addiction. Again. God's voice says, confess it,
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Speaker 1: let me help you. You are not alone. You can change.
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Speaker 1: The Enemy's voice says, you'll never change. This is just
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Speaker 1: who you are. You're disgusting. One brings life even if
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Speaker 1: it hurts. One brings death, even if it sounds like honesty.
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Speaker 1: So what do you do when you're unsure? As scripture
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Speaker 1: tells us, do not believe every spirit, but test the
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Speaker 1: spirits to see whether they are from God. First John,
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Speaker 1: for one, how do you test? Ask these questions that
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Speaker 1: does this voice aligne with scripture? Does it lead to
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Speaker 1: obedience or avoidance? Does it bring peace or panic? Does
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Speaker 1: it draw me closer to God or push me into hiding?
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Speaker 1: Does it speak to my identity as a beloved child
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Speaker 1: or accuse me as a failure? If you're unsure, even
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Speaker 1: after asking, pause, The spirit of God is not in
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Speaker 1: a rush. He's not threatened by your hesitation, he invites it.
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Speaker 1: God would rather you wait in quiet prayer than rush
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Speaker 1: into guilt based obedience. Remember, Jesus himself discerned voices in
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Speaker 1: the wilderness. Satan came sounding spiritual, quoting scripture, but Jesus
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Speaker 1: knew his father's tone. He replied, it is written because
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Speaker 1: he had already hidden the word in his heart. You
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Speaker 1: don't need to be perfect at this, You just need
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Speaker 1: to practice presence. The more you listen, the more you'll
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Speaker 1: recognize when it's him. And the more you recognize him,
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Speaker 1: the more confidently you'll ignore the stranger's voice because his
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Speaker 1: voice carries something no other voice ever can, peace, truth,
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Speaker 1: and the unmistakable love of a father who still walks
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Speaker 1: in the garden looking for his children to walk with
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Speaker 1: him again. You're sitting in your chair, Bible open, but
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Speaker 1: your mind is distracted. You're trying to hear from God.
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Speaker 1: You've prayed, you've asked for a sign. You've listened to sermons,
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Speaker 1: replayed conversations, scanned your feelings, searched your thoughts. But how
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Speaker 1: do you know it's him? You feel something, but you
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Speaker 1: don't want to trust a feeling. You think something, but
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Speaker 1: you're not sure if it's God or your anxiety. You
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Speaker 1: hear a whisper, but how do you test it. There
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Speaker 1: is only one sure foundation, one immovable anchor, one voice
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Speaker 1: that never contradicts itself, the Word of God. Your word
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Speaker 1: is a lamp to my feet and a light to
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Speaker 1: my path, Psalm one hundred nineteen, verse one hundred five.
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Speaker 1: The Bible is not just a historical book. It is
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Speaker 1: a living voice. It is not just the record of
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Speaker 1: what God has said. It is the measure of what
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Speaker 1: He is saying now. And when his whisper comes, it
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Speaker 1: will always always harmonize with his written word. Let's make
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Speaker 1: this practical. You feel convicted to forgive someone who deeply
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Speaker 1: hurt you, but your emotions scream they don't deserve it.
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Speaker 1: Your pride whispers protect yourself. Then in your reading you
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Speaker 1: come across forgive as the Lord forgave you Colossians three thirteen.
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Speaker 1: That's not a coincidence, that's not random, that's confirmation. The
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Speaker 1: whisper aligns with the word, and when it does, you
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Speaker 1: can trust it even if it costs you everything. Or
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Speaker 1: maybe you feel drawn to step out in faith to
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Speaker 1: finally start the ministry God's been stirring in you for years,
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Speaker 1: but doubt cloud's your confidence. Then, during your reading this
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Speaker 1: passage burns in your spirit. Do not despise small beginnings,
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Speaker 1: for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin Zechariah fourten.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly peace floods your mind, fear weakens, and your feet
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Speaker 1: feels strong again. That is how the Spirit confirms his
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Speaker 1: whisper through the word. Let's go deeper. The Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is the same spirit who inspired the script All scripture
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Speaker 1: is God breathed two Timothy three sixteen. That means the
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Speaker 1: Spirit will never tell you something privately that contradicts what
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Speaker 1: He already revealed publicly. So if you hear a voice
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Speaker 1: saying God told me to leave my spouse, God told
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Speaker 1: me it's okay to hold this bitterness. God told me
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Speaker 1: I don't need to pray any more. God told me
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Speaker 1: to pursue success above obedience. That you can be one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent sure that is not God. It might be
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Speaker 1: your emotions, that it might be your wounds, it might
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Speaker 1: even be the enemy, but it's not the voice of
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Speaker 1: the good Shepherd. This is where many older Christians have
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Speaker 1: been wounded by confusion. They were never taught how to
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Speaker 1: test what they feel against what God has written. So
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Speaker 1: they followed an impression and ended up in regret. They
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Speaker 1: assumed every strong desire was divine, and it led to damage.
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Speaker 1: They listened to someone claiming to speak for God but
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Speaker 1: contradicted scripture. Hear this, God does speak in whispers, but
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Speaker 1: his whispers always echo his word. Think of Jesus, even he,
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Speaker 1: the son of God, use scripture to confront the enemy
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Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Hungry, tempted weak, And when Satan twisted
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Speaker 1: the word, Jesus didn't rely on a feeling. He didn't
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Speaker 1: argue emotionally. He said, it is written. That's the blue printers.
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Speaker 1: If Jesus used scripture as his filter, you must too.
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Speaker 1: But maybe you're asking, what if I'm not a Bible scholar?
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Speaker 1: What if I don't know where to look. You don't
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Speaker 1: need to memorize the whole Bible to recognize God's voice.
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Speaker 1: You just need to stay close enough to the word
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Speaker 1: that your heart starts to recognize its rhythm. Let it
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Speaker 1: wash over you, Let it soak into your thoughts. Even
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Speaker 1: one verse a day can change how you hear him.
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Speaker 1: Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. Colossians
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Speaker 1: three sixteen. That word dwell means to take up residence.
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Speaker 1: When the word lives inside you, the whispers start to
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Speaker 1: feel like home, familiar, safe, recognizable. And when you're unsure,
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Speaker 1: when the whisper is quiet and the confirmation unclear. Wait,
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Speaker 1: God is not in a hurry. His voice is not desperate.
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Speaker 1: He'd rather you walk slowly with scripture than rush ahead
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Speaker 1: in emotion. The unfolding of your words gives light. It
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Speaker 1: gives understanding to the simple Psalm one hundred nineteen, verse
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Speaker 1: one hundred thirty. If you can read, you can hear him.
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Speaker 1: If you can pray, you can test it. If you
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Speaker 1: can be still, you can receive clarity. Don't trust a
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Speaker 1: whisper that doesn't have a verse to walk with it,
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Speaker 1: because the enemy is subtle. He will use just enough
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Speaker 1: truth to lure you off the path. But God's voice
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Speaker 1: will never call you into something that makes you compromise
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Speaker 1: his word to get there. So the next time you're
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Speaker 1: wondering is this God or just my thoughts? Ask does
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Speaker 1: this reflect the heart of Jesus? Does this match the
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Speaker 1: character of God I see in scripture? Does this contradict
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Speaker 1: anything I've read in the Bible? Is there a passage
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Speaker 1: that confirms or confronts what I'm sensing. And if you
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Speaker 1: don't know, don't panic, ask him to confirm it. If
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Speaker 1: he will, your word is truth John seventeen seventeen, and
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Speaker 1: his voice will never lie. There are seasons in life
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Speaker 1: where the question isn't at what is God's saying, but
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Speaker 1: rather as I is God not allowing this. It could
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Speaker 1: be a job you prayed for but didn't get, a
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Speaker 1: relationship you invested in but it fell apart, a financial
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Speaker 1: door that looked like a breakthrough but slammed shut, or
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Speaker 1: something even deeper, a dream you carried for decades and
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Speaker 1: it simply never came to life. If you've ever whispered
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Speaker 1: in prayer to God, why won't you let this happen?
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Speaker 1: Not alone? What you may not realize is this the
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Speaker 1: closed door may have been God's loudest voice. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Scripture. Paul was one of the most spirit led
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Speaker 1: men in history. He wrote much of the New Testament.
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Speaker 1: He performed miracles, he endured beatings, shipwrecks, and imprisonment for
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Speaker 1: the Gospel, but even he was stopped by God. Paul
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Speaker 1: and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia,
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Speaker 1: having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the
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Speaker 1: Word in the province of Asia, Acts sixteen six, let
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Speaker 1: that settle in. Paul was trying to preach the Gospel
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Speaker 1: to go where people needed the truth to do the
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Speaker 1: will of God, and God said no, not because Paul
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Speaker 1: was wrong, not because he sinned, but because God had
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Speaker 1: something different and better in mind. That same chapter continues
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Speaker 1: they tried to enter Bithynia, but the spirit of Jesus
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Speaker 1: would not allow them to Act sixteen seven. Another closed
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Speaker 1: door or another divine interruption. But then Paul has a
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Speaker 1: vision of a man from Macedonia saying, come over here
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Speaker 1: and help us. And just like that direction a new door,
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Speaker 1: a different one, the right one. God didn't give a
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Speaker 1: full explanation. He didn't sit pulled down and say here's
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Speaker 1: the whole plan. He simply closed the wrong doors so
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Speaker 1: Paul would walk through the right one. Now pause, how
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Speaker 1: many times in your life have you felt discouraged the
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Speaker 1: things didn't work out? Confused why God didn't bless your plan?
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Speaker 1: Devas stated when a dream died rejected after a closed opportunity.
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Speaker 1: But what if that wasn't rejection? What if it was redirection.
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Speaker 1: A closed door is not always punishment, and sometimes it's protection.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes God's no is saving you from heartbreak you can't
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Speaker 1: yet see. Sometimes is not yet is preparing someone else
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Speaker 1: on the other side of your obedience. Sometimes his silence
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Speaker 1: is your safety. Think of Joseph, sold by his brothers,
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Speaker 1: falsely accused and imprisoned, and forgotten for years. If anyone
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Speaker 1: had the right to say God has abandoned me, it
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Speaker 1: was him. But later, decades later, when he stood as
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Speaker 1: second in command in Egypt, when he saved his family
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Speaker 1: during famine, when he saw the full picture, he said,
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Speaker 1: what you meant for evil, God meant for good Genesis
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Speaker 1: fifty twenty. Joseph had lived through door after door slamming shut,
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Speaker 1: but every one of those closed doors led him to
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Speaker 1: a throne. Or think of Jesus before the cross in deathsemone,
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Speaker 1: he prayed, Father, if it is possible, let this cup
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Speaker 1: pass from me Matthew twenty six thirty nine. In other words,
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Speaker 1: if there's another door, please open it, but Heaven stay
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Speaker 1: it's silent. And Jesus surrendered. And because he walked through
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Speaker 1: that one final door, the one lined with suffering and
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Speaker 1: blood and wood and nails. Salvation came to the world.
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Speaker 1: Not every closed door is about your comfort. Some are
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Speaker 1: about your calling. So how do you recognize when God
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Speaker 1: is speaking through circumstances? Here are four ways. One disruption
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Speaker 1: that won't leave you. Try to push forward. You try
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Speaker 1: to make the plan work, but everything falls apart. Flights canceled,
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Speaker 1: calls drop, people go silent, and nothing aligns. Don't ignore it.
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Speaker 1: That isn't always the enemy. Sometimes it's God saying this
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Speaker 1: is not the way. Two a peace that doesn't match logic.
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Speaker 1: You should be panicking, but you're not. Everything looks unstable,
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Speaker 1: but you feel strangely calm. The world says this makes
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Speaker 1: no sense, but your spirit and it says, this is
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Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to be. That's not emotional blindness. That's
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Speaker 1: the whisper of the spirit. God will often confirm his
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Speaker 1: direction with peace in the middle of chaos. Third, supernatural alignment.
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Speaker 1: You see patterns. Doors open at the exact time you surrendered.
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Speaker 1: A call comes you weren't expecting, A need arises, your
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Speaker 1: perfectly positioned to meet. A conversation confirms what you sensed
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Speaker 1: in prayer. That's not chance, that's providence. That's the steps
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Speaker 1: of a good man are ordered by the Lord Psalm
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Speaker 1: thirty seven, twenty three four. A door that only opens
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Speaker 1: through obedience. Sometimes the door won't open until you take
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Speaker 1: the first step. You want confirmation before movement, but God
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Speaker 1: is waiting for your movement before confirmation. Abraham didn't get
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Speaker 1: a map, he got a command, and go to the
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Speaker 1: land I will show you Genesis twelve one. He had
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Speaker 1: to walk before he saw. That's how divine doors work.
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Speaker 1: God's voice doesn't always come as words. Sometimes it comes
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Speaker 1: as the absence of opportunity. That job didn't call you back,
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Speaker 1: that door slam shut, and that person stop responding that
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Speaker 1: opportunity vanished. Don't curse the silence and ask Lord, what
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Speaker 1: are you redirecting me toward? What door are you inviting
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Speaker 1: me to see instead? What lesson are you building in
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Speaker 1: the waiting? Because your life is not being delayed, it's
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Speaker 1: being divinely arranged. And if you've been staring at a
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Speaker 1: closed door for years, let me say this with love,
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Speaker 1: stop knocking. What God closes no man can open, and
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Speaker 1: what God opens no man can shut. See. I have
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Speaker 1: placed before you an open door that no one can shut.
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Speaker 1: Revelation three eight. He still opens doors, He still leads children,
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Speaker 1: He is still speaking through timing, alignment and disruption. He's
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Speaker 1: not punishing you, and he's guiding you because he knows.
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Speaker 1: The best doors don't lead to comfort. The best doors
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Speaker 1: lead to calling. You've been praying for years, not days,
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Speaker 1: not weeks. Years, You've cried in the quiet, You've whispered
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Speaker 1: his name, and you've begged him to say something anything,
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Speaker 1: And yet silence and no sign, no voice, no answer,
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Speaker 1: no change, just the ticking clock, the same problems, and
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Speaker 1: a heavy question that only grows louder with time. Where
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Speaker 1: is God? For the believer who's walked through decades of life,
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Speaker 1: through heartbreak, funerals, estranged family, unanswered prayers, there is no
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Speaker 1: trial harder than silence. We expect storms, we expect trials,
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Speaker 1: but silence that feels like abandonment. And yet the silence
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Speaker 1: of God has always been part of the story of God.
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Speaker 1: Let's go back to Job, stripped of everything, a children, wealth,
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Speaker 1: and health. His friends say he must be cursed. His
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Speaker 1: wife says to curse God and die. But Job doesn't
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Speaker 1: want explanations, he doesn't want theology. He wants to hear
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Speaker 1: from God. And for thirty seven chapters. God says nothing,
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Speaker 1: no thunder, no comfort, and no clarity, just silence, until finally,
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Speaker 1: good to deed, God speaks, and not to explain, not
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Speaker 1: to justify, but but to reveal himself. Where were you
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Speaker 1: when I laid the foundations of the earth Job thirty
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Speaker 1: eight four. Not a solution, but a vision of sovereignty.
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Speaker 1: And Job weeps not because his life is fixed, but
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Speaker 1: because his eyes have seen the Lord again. Or look
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Speaker 1: at David, the man after God's own heart, and yet
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Speaker 1: listen to his cry, How long Lord will you forget
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Speaker 1: me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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Speaker 1: Psalm thirteen one. David wasn't being dramatic, and he was
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Speaker 1: being human. He had killed giants, written psalms, but he
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Speaker 1: still felt abandoned in the silence, and still he wrote,
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Speaker 1: but I trust in your unfailing love, Psalm thirteen five.
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Speaker 1: Even when God seemed hidden, David clung to his heart,
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Speaker 1: even Jesus, Yes, Jesus. In gathsemone, he prayed, Father, if
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Speaker 1: it be possible, let this cup pass from me. But
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Speaker 1: heaven was still. No voice thundered, no angel explained, no
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Speaker 1: fire fell, And then on the cross he cried my God,
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Speaker 1: My God, why have you forsaken me? The Son of
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Speaker 1: God felt the silence of God, and if he did,
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Speaker 1: so will we. But friend, hear me. Silence is not absence, hidden,
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Speaker 1: This is not abandonment. Stillness is not neglect. So why
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Speaker 1: why does God go silent? Sometimes because he's testing the
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Speaker 1: word of the Lord tested Joseph, Psalm one hundred five,
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Speaker 1: verse nineteen. Joseph had dreams visions of greatness, but years
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Speaker 1: in a pit and prison made those promises feel like lies.
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Speaker 1: What was happening, The silence was forging the man who
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Speaker 1: could carry the dream. Other times, silence is because God
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Speaker 1: is building maturity. You used to need immediate signs, you
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Speaker 1: used to need a loud voice, but now God is
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Speaker 1: growing you into someone who can walk by faith, not
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Speaker 1: just by feelings. Silence becomes the soil of strength, Waiting
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Speaker 1: becomes the workshop of wisdom. He is teaching you to
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Speaker 1: trust what he said last, even when he hasn't said
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Speaker 1: something new. Sometimes the silence is strategic. Think of Lazarus.
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Speaker 1: They beg Jesus to come. He waited days and laz
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Speaker 1: Rus died. But Jesus wasn't late. He was planning a resurrection.
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Speaker 1: This sickness is not unto death but for the glory
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Speaker 1: of God. John eleven. Four. In your silence, God may
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Speaker 1: be setting up a miracle. So what do you do
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Speaker 1: while you wait? One? Anchor yourself in what God already said.
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Speaker 1: When you can't hear him. Now, go back to what
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Speaker 1: he said before. The Bible is not a history book,
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Speaker 1: it's your survival kit. If he hasn't spoken something new,
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Speaker 1: return to the old, because the promises of God don't
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Speaker 1: expire in the silence. Two talk to him honestly. God
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Speaker 1: is not offended by your ache. You can pray like David, Lord,
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Speaker 1: where are you? Why are you silent? Do you see me?
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Speaker 1: God would rather hear an honest cry than a fake hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: He already knows your thoughts. Speak them and and your vulnerability.
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Speaker 1: You'll begin to feel his nearness again. Three. Worship anyway,
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Speaker 1: not because you feel it, but because He's still worthy.
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Speaker 1: Worship is not a reward for answered prayers. It's an
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Speaker 1: act of war against despair. When you sing through the silence,
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Speaker 1: you declare that your faith is not built on feelings
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Speaker 1: but on truth. Four. Refuse to give the enemy the
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Speaker 1: last word. The enemy speaks loudest. When God is quiet,
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Speaker 1: he'll say, God forgot you. You must have done something wrong.
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Speaker 1: It's too late. This waiting is punishment lies. Silence is
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Speaker 1: not judgment. Silence is space, and what you fill that
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Speaker 1: space with will either deepen your faith or drown it.
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Speaker 1: Speak back and say, son, may I still believe. I
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Speaker 1: know he's working. I will not give up. And may
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Speaker 1: be the most beautiful truth of all. God's silence often
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Speaker 1: comes right before his voice. Moses waited forty years in
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Speaker 1: a desert before the bush caught fire. Elijah hid in
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Speaker 1: a cave before the whisper came. Paul sat blind for
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Speaker 1: days before the scales fell. The silence isn't the end,
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Speaker 1: it's the set up. So if you feel like Heaven
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Speaker 1: has gone quiet, if you sit in your chair and
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Speaker 1: feel forgotten, if your prayers have gone unanswered for so
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Speaker 1: long you're afraid to pray again, don't quit. If he's
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Speaker 1: still with you, He's still speaking even in the silence.
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Speaker 1: He's shaping you. And when the time is right, you'll
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Speaker 1: hear him again and you'll realize he was never gone.
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Speaker 1: He was just waiting for the silence to finish its work.
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Speaker 1: There's a certain kind of silence that doesn't mean absence,
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Speaker 1: It means training. Just like a pianist learns to hear
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Speaker 1: the difference between one note and the next, just like
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Speaker 1: a sailor learns to reach the winds by feel, the
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Speaker 1: believer learns to hear God, not just with their ears,
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Speaker 1: but with their spirit. You don't wake up one day
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Speaker 1: fluent in the voice of God. You learn it, you
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Speaker 1: train for it, if you grow into it, And this
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Speaker 1: growth doesn't depend on age, It depends on posture. The
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Speaker 1: same way a child can learn to recognize their mother's
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Speaker 1: voice in a crowded room, you can learn to hear
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Speaker 1: the still small voice of your Father, even in a
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Speaker 1: world drowning in noise. Let's be honest. Many older believers
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Speaker 1: never had mentors who taught them how to hear God's voice.
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Speaker 1: They were taught to obey the Bible, to pray, to
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Speaker 1: attend church, and these are beautiful, but they were rarely
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Speaker 1: shown how to build a daily spiritual listening life. So
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Speaker 1: they lived decades guessing, hoping, feeling guilty for not knowing,
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Speaker 1: and eventually assuming something was wrong with them. But it's
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Speaker 1: not too late. It never was. If you're breathing God
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Speaker 1: can still sharpen your hearing. Let's walk through the ancient
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Speaker 1: sacred disciplines that train your soul to hear one. Stillness
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Speaker 1: the furnace of discernment. Be still and know that I
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Speaker 1: am God some forty six ten. This is not poetic suggestion,
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Speaker 1: it's a command. You cannot hear a whisper when you're sprinting.
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Speaker 1: You cannot discern his leading if your spirit is flooded
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Speaker 1: with noise. Stillness is the first discipline of the listener.
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Speaker 1: Set aside five minutes each morning. No agenda, no asking,
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Speaker 1: no planning, Just be Breathe slowly and acknowledge His presence,
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Speaker 1: and let your soul slow down to Heaven's pace. That
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Speaker 1: over time your heart will begin to settle into silence,
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Speaker 1: and the whisper will get clearer. Two. Scripture the vocabulary
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Speaker 1: of the spirit. The more you read the word, the
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Speaker 1: more you'll recognize the tone of the one who speaks it.
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Speaker 1: God will never say something that doesn't reflect what He
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Speaker 1: already wrote. So reading scripture isn't just about knowledge, It's
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Speaker 1: about familiarity. It tunes your heart to the rhythm of
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Speaker 1: God's voice. Start with Psalms or John's Gospel. Read slowly
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Speaker 1: read aloud, let the words linger, and when something stirs
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Speaker 1: you pause, that may be God speaking. Three. Obedience the
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Speaker 1: amplifier of his voice. If any one loves me, he
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Speaker 1: will obey my teaching. My father will love him, and
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Speaker 1: we will come to him and make our home with him.
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Speaker 1: John fourteen twenty three. A God doesn't speak just to
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Speaker 1: satisfy curiosity. He speaks to invite us into obedience. When
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Speaker 1: you obey the last thing God said, you often hear
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Speaker 1: the next thing more clearly. Disobedience doesn't just grieve the spirit.
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Speaker 1: It dulls your ears. If you're wondering why God seems distant,
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Speaker 1: ask did I respond to what He already told me?
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Speaker 1: Four Journaling the record of revelation. Keep a small notebook
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Speaker 1: with you, physical or digital. When you sense something, write
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Speaker 1: it down. When you pray something, record it when you
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Speaker 1: feel conviction, Capture it. Over time, you'll start to see patterns.
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Speaker 1: You'll begin to notice that God was speaking far more
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Speaker 1: than you realized. You just weren't recognizing his voice in
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Speaker 1: the moment. Journaling helps you look back and see the
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Speaker 1: finger prints of God. Five. Worship the tuning fork of
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Speaker 1: the soul. Worship isn't just music, and it's the environment
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Speaker 1: where God's voice is magnified. When you worship, he aligns
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Speaker 1: your heart, he softens your pride, he quiets your fear,
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Speaker 1: and off in the middle of a worship song, a
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Speaker 1: line will suddenly pierce you. A phrase will feel aimed
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Speaker 1: at you, and that's not coincidence. That's His whisper riding
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Speaker 1: on the wings of praise. Sixth spiritual counsel the echo
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Speaker 1: of confirmation. In the multitude of counselors, there is safety
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Speaker 1: Proverbs eleven fourteen. Sometimes God will speak to you through others,
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Speaker 1: a mentor a sermon, a godly friend. You'll hear a
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Speaker 1: phrase and feel something leap in your spirit. That's how
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Speaker 1: God confirms. But be careful seek godly voices, not just
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Speaker 1: agreeable ones. God confirms not through flattery, but through people
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Speaker 1: who are steeped in His word and walk with him. Seven.
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Speaker 1: Fasting the clearing of spiritual clutter. Fasting isn't about twisting
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Speaker 1: God's arm. It's about removing distractions so you can hear
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Speaker 1: Him again. When you fast, your spirit becomes more sensitive.
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Speaker 1: You recognize cravings spiritual and physical, and in that emptiness,
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Speaker 1: God often speaks Even a one day fast from media
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Speaker 1: or food can recalibrate your senses. Eight. Repentance the clearing
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Speaker 1: of static sin. Doesn't make God stop loving you, but
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Speaker 1: it does interfere with your ability to hear Him clearly,
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Speaker 1: Like static on a radio. Repentance is the clearing of
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Speaker 1: spiritual interference. It humbles the heart, it reopens block channels,
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Speaker 1: and it invites the spirit to speak with freedom again.
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Speaker 1: Don't wait until you feel like repenting, just begin. His
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Speaker 1: kindness will meet you there. Let's end this with a
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Speaker 1: sacred reminder. Hearing God is not about becoming a prophet.
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Speaker 1: It's about becoming present. God isn't hiding, but he speaks
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Speaker 1: to those who slow down, to those who lean in,
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Speaker 1: those who say, like Samuel, speak Lord, for your servant
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Speaker 1: is listening for Samuel. Three ten Not performing, not earning,
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Speaker 1: just listening. You're sitting on your porch at sunrise, a
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Speaker 1: quiet moment, a cup of coffee, no noise, but something
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Speaker 1: inside you feels different. You're not panicking like you used to.
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Speaker 1: You're not rushing to fix everything, and you're not spinning
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Speaker 1: with anxious thoughts. You feel anchored, not because life is perfect,
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Speaker 1: but because finally you know his voice and Once you do,
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Speaker 1: everything begins to change. This is the fruit of hearing.
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Speaker 1: The shift is not always loud. It doesn't always bring
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Speaker 1: fireworks or thunder, but it brings clarity where there was
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Speaker 1: once confusion, Peace where there was once panic, conviction, where
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Speaker 1: there was once compromise, courage where there was once fear.
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Speaker 1: You begin to live from his presence, not just in
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Speaker 1: pursuit of it. You don't beg for signs. You walk
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Speaker 1: with a shepherd. You don't chase confirmation. You rest in communion.
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Speaker 1: This is not mystical, this is not elite. This is
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Speaker 1: the normal life of a believer walking in step with
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Speaker 1: the spirit. Let's walk through what changes when you begin
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Speaker 1: recognizing God's voice. One peace returns even without all the answers.
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Speaker 1: Before you needed clarity, before you could rest, You had
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Speaker 1: to figure it out to sleep at night. Now you
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Speaker 1: still ask, You still wrestle, but you also surrendered because
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Speaker 1: you've heard Him say I've got this, and that whisper
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Speaker 1: becomes louder than your waifs. You will keep in perfect
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Speaker 1: peace those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in
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Speaker 1: you Isaiah twenty six three. Two decisions become aligned, not
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Speaker 1: just logical. You used to weigh every decision by pros
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Speaker 1: and cons, by fear and pressure, by money and comfort.
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Speaker 1: Now you ask, what is the spirit prompting me to do?
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Speaker 1: And sometimes his way doesn't make sense on paper, but
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Speaker 1: you follow it because peace confirms what logic cannot. This
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Speaker 1: is the fruit of spiritual maturity. Obedience when it's costly,
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Speaker 1: confidence when it's unclear, and movement without fear. Three. Temptation
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Speaker 1: loses its volume when you know his voice. The voice
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Speaker 1: of the enemy becomes easier to recognize and reject. You
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Speaker 1: start to hear the difference between the guilt of accusation,
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Speaker 1: the conviction of the spirit, the pull of the flesh,
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Speaker 1: the quay, the whisper of the father. You're no longer
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Speaker 1: confused by every feeling. You test it, you discern it,
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Speaker 1: and because of that that you stand stronger. Not because
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Speaker 1: temptation disappeared, but because you finally know which voice leads
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Speaker 1: to death and which voice leads to life. Four. Your
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Speaker 1: regrets begin to shrink. Think of how many years were
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Speaker 1: spent saying I wish I hadn't done that, I should
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Speaker 1: have waited, I didn't listen to that nudge. But now
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Speaker 1: as you walk in tune with the spirit. You begin
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Speaker 1: to experience fewer regrets because when you recognize his whisper
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Speaker 1: you make better choices. You speak more gently, you act
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Speaker 1: more wisely. You pause when you feel unsettled, you move
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Speaker 1: when peace comes, and over time, your life becomes marked
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Speaker 1: by godly decisions that compound in goodness. Five You begin
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Speaker 1: to sense his nearness throughout the day. Before you only
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Speaker 1: felt close to God in worship services or during dramatic
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Speaker 1: prayer moments. Now you feel him in the ordinary. You
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Speaker 1: feel him in the kitchen while doing dishes. You feel
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Speaker 1: him prompting you to call someone. You feel him nudge
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Speaker 1: you to pause and pray before responding in anger. You
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Speaker 1: feel him highlight a scripture at just the right time.
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Speaker 1: Suddenly your life is no longer divided between spiritual and normal.
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Speaker 1: Everything becomes holy. You realize He's always been near you
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Speaker 1: just didn't know how to listen to. Six. You become
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Speaker 1: a voice of peace to others. Something begins to shift
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Speaker 1: in the people around you. They notice your calm. They
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Speaker 1: ask where your wisdom comes from it They seek your
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Speaker 1: counsel because your life is not frantic but focused. Why,
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Speaker 1: Because you're not just reacting to life, You're responding to God.
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Speaker 1: This is when your life becomes a light for others,
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Speaker 1: not just because you quote scripture, but because your presence
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Speaker 1: reflects someone who walk with God. Seven. You step boldly
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Speaker 1: into purpose. When you hear God's voice, Fear loses its grip.
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Speaker 1: You stop asking what if I fail? You start saying
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Speaker 1: God is with me. That's enough. You begin that ministry.
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Speaker 1: You forgive that person, you invest in that child. You
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Speaker 1: speak up when it's uncomfortable. You leave the safety of
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Speaker 1: routine to follow the call. This is the fruit of hearing.
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Speaker 1: You're not driven by fear or applause. You're led by
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Speaker 1: the whispers. Eight. You walk in greater authority and faith.
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Speaker 1: Hearing God's voice consistently grows your faith. You begin to
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Speaker 1: trust him faster, obey him quicker, believe him deeper. You
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Speaker 1: no longer wait for your emotions to catch up. You've
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Speaker 1: tasted the security of his voice, and that's enough. This
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Speaker 1: kind of faith doesn't come from hype. It comes from history,
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Speaker 1: from walking with him, from knowing that the one who
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Speaker 1: spoke before is still speaking now. And perhaps most beautiful
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Speaker 1: of all, Nine, you realize you've never been alone. Every whisper,
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Speaker 1: you missed, every nudge, You ignored every prompting, you didn't
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Speaker 1: understand he was still with you. You have not missed
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Speaker 1: his voice. You are finally learning to recognize it. And
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Speaker 1: now that you do, you begin to walk, not perfectly,
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Speaker 1: but consistently, not without pain, but with peace, not with
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Speaker 1: every answer, but with a clear direction. You stop wondering
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Speaker 1: if God is speaking, you start expecting it, and the
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Speaker 1: sound of his voice becomes the soundtrack of your days.
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Speaker 1: Do now we arrive at the end of this journey,
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Speaker 1: And yet perhaps it's really the beginning, because maybe for
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Speaker 1: the first time in years, you don't just believe God
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Speaker 1: can speak. You know He is not in li lightning bolts,
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Speaker 1: and not always in booming voices, but in something more powerful,
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Speaker 1: a whisper that reaches past the noise and settles into
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Speaker 1: your spirit. You've walked through the fear that God is silent,
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Speaker 1: at the wounds of unanswered prayers, the chaos of your
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Speaker 1: own thoughts, the lies of the enemy, the discipline of stillness,
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Speaker 1: the sharpening of obedience, the discovery of spiritual nudges, the
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Speaker 1: comfort of scripture, the closed doors that saved you, the
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Speaker 1: silence that shaped you, the transformation of hearing clearly the
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Speaker 1: weight of walking with the voice who never left. And
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Speaker 1: now you stand on holy ground because something has shifted.
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Speaker 1: You are no longer just a believer. You are a
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Speaker 1: listener and that changes everything. Let's pray fathom. We come
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Speaker 1: with reverence, not rushing, not assuming, but bowing our hearts
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Speaker 1: before you, and thank you for being the God who
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Speaker 1: speaks it. Even when we didn't ow how to listen,
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Speaker 1: even when our wounds round you out, Even when we
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Speaker 1: confused you with our fears, you never stopped whispering. We've
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Speaker 1: repent for the ways we ignored you, for the pride
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Speaker 1: that made us self reliant, for the fear that made
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Speaker 1: us doubt, for the wounds that made us defensive, for
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Speaker 1: the distractions that stole our stillness. God, we want to
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Speaker 1: hear you again, not just in church, not just in crisis,
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Speaker 1: but in the early morning hours, when we are alone
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Speaker 1: with our thoughts, in the middle of arguments, when we
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Speaker 1: need peace to break through, in moments of fear, when
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Speaker 1: your whisper steadies us in temptation, when your voice calls
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Speaker 1: us back in the ordinary, where you dwell more than
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Speaker 1: we ever knew. Sharpen our spirit, sanctify our ears, quiet
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Speaker 1: our chaos and align our minds and speak, Lord, Speak
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Speaker 1: in dreams, speak through your word, speak through conviction, speak
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Speaker 1: through godly counsel, speak through closed doors, speak through supernatural peace.
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Speaker 1: And Lord, when you speak, help us obey, not half
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Speaker 1: way and not when convenient, but immediately, with joy, with trust,
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Speaker 1: with fire. Let us walk as those who know the
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Speaker 1: sound of your steps. Let us be people whose decisions
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Speaker 1: reflect intimacy, not guess work. Let us be your sheep
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Speaker 1: who know your voice and will not follow another. For
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Speaker 1: the one who feels they've missed your will, remind them
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Speaker 1: you restore the years. For the one who fears it's
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Speaker 1: too late to hear you, remind them you speak clearly
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Speaker 1: to the humble. For the one who has walked through
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Speaker 1: decades of silence, here, let to day be the day
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Speaker 1: the whisper returns. You've been speaking all along, and now
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Speaker 1: we're learning to listen in Jesus Holy whispering wonderful name. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If you made it to the end of this teaching
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Speaker 1: on how to hear God's voice, thank you. It means
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Speaker 1: you're not just curious, you're hungry for the truth, and
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Speaker 1: that's rare. Our hope is that this didn't just inform you,
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Speaker 1: but awaken something inside you, a reminder, a warning, or
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Speaker 1: maybe an invitation back to God. If you want to
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Speaker 1: know the power God has placed on your tongue, watch
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