Listening to God
Creating the right environment to hear
Part II
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Quick Recap from Part I
Faith
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Humility
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.Psalm
25:9
Humility
The example of King Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 20:2-172 Chronicles 20:35-37
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Clean Heart
If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened
Psalm 66:18
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Being Still
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
Psalm 37:7
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Silencing our agenda
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding [insight]. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Silencing our agenda
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Silencing the enemy
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
Creating the right environment to hear7 Conditions
1.Faith2.Humility3.A clean heart4.Being still5.Silencing our agenda6.Silencing the enemy7.Patience
Patience
Saul’s impatience
1 Samuel 13:7-13
Patience
As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision.
Daniel 9:23