Is it time?
turn over a new leaf
Have you ever HEARD from God?
1999 Gallup Poll
What percent of all Americans had heard a voice or seen a vision in response to prayer?
23%
These experiences were brief: at the most, a few words or short sentences. They were rare. Those who reported them reported no more than a few of them, if that. These experiences were not distressing, although they were often disconcerting and always startling. On the contrary, these experiences often made people feel more intimate with God, and more deeply loved.
Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Hearing the voice of conversion.
Conversion: A turning or
returning to God.The New Bible Dictionary
Paul’s Conversion – Acts 22:6-16
Hearing the voice of conversion.
It is:
1. ConvictingA. comforts
Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
Hearing the voice of conversion.
It is:
1. ConvictingA. comforts
B. challenges
“Why do you persecute me?”
Hearing the voice of conversion.
It is:
2. Calling
You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.
Acts 22:15
3. And brings new VISION
It is:
1. Convicting2. Calling
But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may
gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is
through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on
the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his
death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:7–11