Vox Dei

Can You Hear Him Now (Impressions/”Inner Voice”)
September 11, 2022
Chris Seidman, Lead Minister, The Branch

Isaiah 55:3a, 6 (NIV)
“Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.”

(vs.6) Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 55:8 (NIV)
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

Isaiah 55:12 (NIV)
“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace … .”

Isaiah 55:13b (NIV)
“This will be for the Lord’s renown … .”

Ways God Speaks To Us From Within Us …

• Through impressions.

Ezra 7:27 (NIV)
Praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s heart to bring honor to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in this way … .

Nehemiah 2:11-12a (NIV)
I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 7:5a (NIV)
So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families.

2 Corinthians 8:16 (NIV)
Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you.

Luke 24:32 (NIV)
“… Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Proverbs 20:27 (NIV)
The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord that sheds light on one’s inmost being.

Ways God Speaks To Us From Within Us …

• Through an inner “voice” (not heard in our ears but in our heart/mind).

Ezekiel 14:1-4a (NIV)
Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me. Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all? Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says … .’”

John 14:16-17, 26 (NIV)
“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever – the Spirit of truth … for he lives with you and will be in you.” (vs.26) “But the Advocate, 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.”

Romans 8:14-16 (NIV)
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Isaiah 33:3a, 6 (NIV)
“Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.”

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.