Day 4 How You Can Hear God Speak Through His Word
Know this, God loves to develop our character to match our calling.
God speaks to us often through His Word. Listen as you read. Write down anything you feel is like a message from God. Perhaps ask a few questions as you read:
Am I making progress with this passage?
Am I regressing, that is am I going backwards?
Am I digressing, am I in some sort of full blown rebellion with this teaching?
Is there anything that this verse is prompting me to confess?
Is there someone that has violated this verse with me and I need to practice forgiveness
Once you make confess and you practice forgiveness, you make progress.
Perhaps remember this tool then: progress, regress, digress, confess and forgiveness.
As we pray and fast, there may be some things in our lives in which we need to extend forgiveness to others. Perhaps we have hurt others or possibly they have hurt us.
Luke 11:2
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say:“‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. 3 Give us each day our daily bread.4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”
How do we pray?
Jesus put so much emphasis on confession and forgiveness.
When Jesus says “give us today our daily bread”, this is something we do every day.
When we pray, what do you do when you get up from your prayer? I would say live with great expectation. Listen and look for his activity and prompting.
His answers to our prayer may not look like what we think it will be, so look with expectation on how God will provide, bless and act.
How many times have I looked for a loaf of bread, walking through fields of mana wondering when God might provide.
So go, listen, and with great expectation watch Him move.
*Today’s teaching by Lisa TerKeurst
