Do you like to talk out your problems with a friend? Do you like to hear other people’s problems? Why do we always need to share our problems with someone? The truth is, humans are weak. We’ve always known that we can’t live by ourselves. So, it’s not a question that we need to share our burdens with someone else. We want someone to feel what we’re going through. And we’re hoping that that friend of ours has a way out of it, right? Whatever it takes, we want our problems to be solved. Unfortunately, it’s not every time can we find someone who wants to hear our problems L. Well, that’s the way humans are. We’re not perfect. But our Father in heaven is. He will faithfully listen to everything we’ve got on our minds. He is the only one who has the way, the truth, and the life. Of course, He knows how to solve our problems and He will help us with them. Now, doesn’t that sound good? Well, don’t you want to learn to hear God’s voice? The question is…how does He talk to us? Here are a few ways:
1.) He talks to us in audible voice. Wouldn’t that be totally cool? Can you imagine what His voice would sound like? Would it be deep like in the movies? Although not everybody could hear His audible voice like Paul and Samuel, there are many other ways for us to be able to hear Him.
2.) He could speak to us through our surroundings. How? Well, let’s just say we’re going to go somewhere, but on the way there, there’s so many things that stands on our way. There could be an accident or traffic jam, or something. At a time like that we should probably ask God again if we should continue or not because we never know what’s going to happen there.
3.) God also speaks to us through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit usually talks to us from our hearts. Have you ever experienced that? Like, sometimes, just out of the blue, you get this little voice or urge in your heart telling you to pray or read the bible? That’s the voice of the Holy Spirit and you shouldn’t ignore it. Or you could also be in the middle of a test and you’re stuck on one problem. You know you’ve seen the problem before, but you just can’t remember the right answer although you’ve prayed right before taking that test and all of a sudden the answer just came to you?
The book is titled "When God is Silent" by Barbara Brown Taylor. This book has three main points titled famine, silence, and restraint. On the first chapter she starts out by asking, "How shall I break the silence?"(pg.3). This first chapter focuses on "famine" which is the scarcity of food, but what she really means is the hunger that we have for God these days, how we try to find him and seems like we can't because God is silent. She states that according to a survey of people’s greatest fears, fear of public speaking rates much higher than fear of sickness or death (pg. 5). The person who is giving the sermon must listen as well as talk performing an act that is more complicated than solitary creation (pgs.5-6). Language can be porous and not solid even our best most carefully chosen words are not sturdy enough to bear the real truth. (pgs.6-7). She also states that nowadays language has taken a terrible hit, but what does she mean by that? First of all the assault of consumerism which forces words to make promises they cannot keep (pg. 9). Places and things such as on billboards, newspaper ads, television and the telephone. In her message she feels people have lost their connection and therefore the language cannot be trusted. She states that the moral is that there is no sense in getting attached to the news, or not the realities a reporter's words represent, just don't ask, and just let go (pg. 11). Another assault on the nobility of language is the sheer proliferation; the democratization of language has had effect of making good grammar sound fussy and the use of any word over three syllables a sure sign of the elite (pgs. 12-13). There is so much noise around us that we don't stop and be silent, and the saddest and unfor...
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There is no doubt that God has always had the right to transmit their truths to humans, but especially those who have been called to participants of His Kingdom. It is very interesting that humans are only interested and focused so often on their own reasoning, God has had such patience that always He has used His prophets to communicate which will be His divine purposes, be those for blessings or for judgments, “Besides, the eternal God of Israel isn't a human being. He doesn't tell lies or change his mind." 1 Samuel 15:29 (CEV) and what He speak will be fulfilled no matter what.
Also, how He gives us the things that we ask for, and how He is faithful to the end, and will never leave or forsake you. Therefore, that is the reason we worship Him, because He is worthy of all of our praise, therefore, deserves to be glorified in the highest form of praise, which is, “Hallelujah!” As it states in the Bible, “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God” (Revelation 19:1). We can never fully understand God because our minds cannot comprehend who He is
B. See how God helps? It is in our distress, when we feel weak, the Spirit prays for us. It is all about trust and dependence on God. God will work things out. So stand firm in truth that God assigns no blame, truly forgiven of sins. No condemnation for those in Jesus (Rom.8:1 ff.) So the Spirit of life dwells in all true believers and it is His Spirit that continues to help. Apart from God we have no life.
The Lord's Prayer Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
God sees us, his children, as his spiritual fax machines. He gets his message through to us through prophets. Prophets are sent by God to bring his words to his people. They were sent to Israel to warn the people of coming disasters if they people did not return to their belief in God. After all of the disasters that were foretold by the prophets, they were sent back to share the news of comfort and promising that God would come and save all his people out of the bondage they were stuck in. In the Old Testament, there are foreshadows of the New Testament idea that we are all organs in the Body of Christ. God is the handy feet, prophets are the body's big mouth. Prophets are not people who predict the future, but people who God trusts to share his word of coming events.
finding the problems and circumstances must always lead to the scriptures and allow the client to see the work of God being uplifted in the situation
We can see Scriptual truths come alive and God can speak to us through his creation, like in my experince, this couldn’t have happened inside my
...ble. If God really is the most important thing in our lives than we must communicate with Him (Harper, 2008, p. 199)
A question that is asked by many Christians is whether or not God is currently working within their immediate life. Most if not all Christians are aware that God is a being that does have a presence within His creation, however some question if he actually is involved with their actual life. For me I would say that I do believe that God does have an immediate presence in my life, and has set a hand in my vocation. I plan to be a lawyer, U.S diplomat, or possibly a politician. I believe that God is actively involved with law and politics. Law and politics are the core policies that keep the country and most of society together as a whole. Overall, God has made a plan for me to enter into this vocation to not only maintain social order, but also to clear the corruption that has been escalating over the years.
Many of us see the manifestation of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. These become more and more evident as we read the Bible, and grow closer to God through His Son Jesus.
At one point or another in one’s life you are faced with God, eye to eye and you know it. You can feel the Holy Spirit’s presence, like a humming sound that’s too low to hear, but it’s there and you can feel it, a feeling that you are not alone. For some, this feeling lasts for eternity, and for others God works within them again and again because the Lord’s love is persistent. The feeling I had came and went, for it was not strong enough as a child. But now, I am the strongest I have ever been.
He does not indwell believers just for the sake of it. He is fully Divine, as the Council of Constantinople ruled. He is omnipresent (Psalm 139:7-10), omniscient (John 16:13, I Cor. 2:10-11), eternal (Hebrews 9:14), and equal with both other Persons of the Trinity (Matt. 28:19, I Cor. 12:4-6, II Cor. 13:14, I Peter 1:2). Jesus sent Him as a “Helper” (John 14:16, ESV) and the Holy Spirit fulfills this role in a myriad of ways. He fills the believer, leading, sanctifying, and inspiring them (Sutton Class Notes, Pneumatology Handout, 3). He is the “Life Giver,” a Christian’s direct access to the presence of God. (Pocket Dictionary,
My personal vision of God is a spirit made up of power, wisdom, and goodness that can’t be fully understood by any amount of writing or philosophical studies. I think God’s ultimate concern is to teach us to help one another to serve our fellow neighbor. In today’s society we have tried to better each other by using different tactics, some good, and others bad. We need to reevaluate our actions on how to enhance our society, starting with eliminating the bad tactics we use. To do this, we should revise the bible and how we perceive the two different Testaments, based on moral values then and now. By doing this, we will enhance our definition and understanding of morality.