Accelerating Your Spiritual Growth

Learn How God Speaks to Me
September 3, 2023

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Job 33:14 - For God does speak — now one way, now another —though man may not perceive it.

HOW DOES GOD TALK TO US?

1. GOD SPEAKS THROUGH THE BIBLE.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 - Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

A GOOD PLACE TO START READING THE BIBLE: JOHN OR JAMES.

2. GOD SPEAKS THROUGH TEACHERS AND BELIEVERS.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 - And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:13 - This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

3. GOD SPEAKS THROUGH IMPRESSIONS.

John 14:26 - But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

Job 33:14 - “God speaks again and again, in dreams and visions at night when deep sleep falls… 18 as people lie on their beds. He opens their ears in times like that, and gives them wisdom and
instruction.” (GN)

Warning: Always TEST impressions!

4. GOD SPEAKS THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCES

John 5:17-20 - Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.” ¹⁸ For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. ¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.

KEY: THE ACTIVITY OF GOD IS THE CIRCUMSTANCES.

Proverbs 20:30 - Punishment that hurts chases evil from the heart. TLB

Why Is It Important To Hear God’s Voice?

A. IT PROTECTS ME FROM MISTAKES

Job 33:17 - God speaks…to turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride, 18 to preserve his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

B. IT IS THE SECRET OF A PRODUCTIVE LIFE.

John 15:5 - “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Hebrews 3:15 - As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”