Four Keys to Hearing God’s Voice

00:00 grateful tonight to have two guest
00:02 speakers and if you got this handout on
00:05 how to hear God's voice I encourage you
00:09 to pass that out to other people but
00:10 there is a correction on it they have
00:13 not been married 40 years they've been
00:16 married 50 years 49 okay and so that's a
00:24 big move they come from Jewish
00:27 backgrounds as you as as it has been
00:29 noted on that sheet but what I'm really
00:32 excited about tonight is that they come
00:35 with a wealth of experience and what
00:38 when we were praying back there for them
00:42 what we really sense for each one of you
00:45 is that there's going to be an anointing
00:47 that if you have not been hearing God's
00:51 voice you will begin to hear God's voice
00:54 for the first time or if you've already
00:56 been hearing his voice he's gonna kind
01:00 of do a spiritual upgrade as you go
01:03 ahead and just sit under this teaching
01:06 and then especially as you put what they
01:10 are giving you into practice especially
01:13 on a daily basis so I'm going to open
01:14 with a word of Prayer and then we're
01:17 gonna give the full-time to Norma and
01:19 Michael Letinski let's just stand
01:23 father we thank you so much for tonight
01:26 we thank you for Jesus who has made
01:31 everything possible and it Jesus it's
01:34 your voice we want to hear you carry the
01:37 voice of our loving and kind father and
01:40 Holy Spirit we thank you for opening up
01:43 ears to hear tonight we thank you that
01:48 we are your sheep and that we do hear
01:51 your voice this is our declaration over
01:54 our own lives and we thank you for
01:56 Norman Michael lute insky we praise you
01:59 for them and we thank you for a special
02:01 anointing that the words that they bring
02:04 us are the words from your heart father
02:07 to us tonight
02:09 and we thank you that we will now be
02:12 transformed
02:13 formed into your likeness and image and
02:15 walked in a deeper way because of the
02:19 teaching we received this night in
02:21 Jesus's name a minute hello good to see
02:31 you guys thank you for coming and thank
02:35 you for inviting us this is something
02:38 that we love to teach and I want to
02:42 start though by talking a little bit
02:43 about who we are as you heard we've been
02:45 married for a long time we were married
02:48 for seven years before we met the Lord
02:52 we met the Lord really dramatically and
02:58 over 40 years ago and it was by signs
03:01 and wonders and so once we met him we
03:04 knew that he was real and we haven't
03:06 stopped since so we have served the Lord
03:11 in leadership and administered for most
03:13 of our Christian life so maybe a little
03:16 background Norma is certified teacher
03:19 and she has a master's degree and right
03:22 now she's a semi-retired faculty member
03:25 at Moorpark College I have a PhD and I
03:31 spent 22 years on the faculty UCLA
03:34 Medical School teaching and doing
03:37 research so I had I taught medical
03:40 students graduate students I also did
03:44 research I spent my time studying the
03:47 development of the nervous system and my
03:51 career was really moving along well the
03:53 only problem was God had other plans for
03:55 me
03:55 and in fact in 1997 he completely
04:01 changed my life
04:02 because I left my academic career and
04:04 became a full-time pastor that would
04:08 that's exactly what a lot of people said
04:09 Wow
04:10 and my colleagues thought I was crazy
04:13 currently I'm an associate pastor at the
04:17 fountain Foursquare Church in Moorpark
04:19 also in 2003
04:22 Norma and I started our own ministry
04:24 called kingdom partners and
04:27 what we do is we minister with pastors
04:30 and churches in the region leaders in
04:32 the region to help them fulfill the
04:35 Great Commission our passion is to make
04:38 disciples and what we love to do is
04:41 equip the Saints for the worth of
04:43 service and to live out their lives in
04:46 the kingdom so that's our goal we work
04:49 with different churches as I said and we
04:52 teach classes workshops seminars I'm
04:55 also a prophetic life coach so I spend
04:57 one-on-one time with people and we
05:00 really enjoy helping people figure out
05:05 who they are in the kingdom and grow as
05:09 who they are and then live it out
05:10 so Norman to talk a little bit about
05:12 tonight and what's happening also we
05:17 pray and we're part of a family healing
05:20 teams and so we know what you guys are
05:22 all about and it's so important to be
05:25 able to receive input from the Holy
05:27 Spirit and insight when you're praying
05:29 in it so I hope you know hopefully we
05:32 know a lot of you are pretty experienced
05:35 and mature in the Lord but we think
05:37 you're going to get some some good tips
05:40 and some good practice and all this even
05:42 even if you've walked with the Lord
05:43 forever okay so usually we teach this
05:46 class as we've taught how to hear God's
05:49 voice many many times over the last few
05:51 years we usually do it in two hour
05:54 sessions for 10 weeks and now we're
05:57 gonna try to do this in 45 minute
05:59 sessions okay so so for six weeks well
06:02 make Mike anymore we'll see how it goes
06:03 but basically you're going to be getting
06:06 the Reader's Digest version okay and so
06:09 but we're really what we don't like to
06:12 be talking heads to play as as sue
06:14 mentioned we're gonna get you guys
06:15 involved because that's how you learn
06:17 you learn by doing so we're gonna be
06:19 practicing hearing God's voice so I'm
06:21 gonna go real quickly go through the
06:23 goals for this sessions it's on your
06:24 handout the first one is we want to help
06:27 you tune in to the still small voice of
06:29 God and recognizing his thoughts in your
06:31 mind and this really will bring your
06:34 relation
06:34 should put the Lord to a whole new level
06:36 for some of you it's just going to
06:38 reinforce and confirm what you already
06:40 know and what you're already
06:42 experiencing and for others of you it's
06:45 going to give you some new approaches
06:47 and tools for ministry and for your
06:50 personal walk with the Lord can the next
06:52 goal is that you will develop greater
06:55 intimacy and friendship with God that
06:58 really is his goal he wants to be close
07:01 to us and it's not not as hard as you
07:05 think the next goal is that you'll move
07:07 from knowing God intellectually to
07:09 having a real heart knowledge and
07:11 they'll get to know the father's love
07:13 for you that's really significant and
07:16 also that you will learn how to quiet
07:19 your mind so you can be in his presence
07:22 and receive revelation from the Holy
07:24 Spirit and last but not least we want
07:27 you to be able to hear his voice every
07:29 day every day not just in your quiet
07:32 times your devotional times with him but
07:34 on the fly and sure out and about doing
07:37 your life okay and and one thing we'd
07:40 also like you to be able to do is to
07:42 teach these principles that you're gonna
07:45 learn in this class and we want to
07:47 encourage you to come to every session
07:49 because they do build one upon the other
07:51 so if you miss a couple of them you're
07:53 gonna be a little bit lost so try to
07:55 come to every one and then you can teach
07:57 them to others we have taught
07:59 excuse-me taught these principles
08:01 particularly to our younger son and he
08:03 has run with it he has a really nice
08:05 walk with the Lord and he hears from God
08:08 very clearly okay and now Michael
08:11 actually he sat with the Lord today and
08:13 he asked him if he had something that he
08:16 wanted to share with you so he's gonna
08:18 read that yeah this is from my
08:20 journaling and you'll see that we talked
08:24 about journaling a lot as a tool to help
08:27 you hear God's voice so when I was
08:30 praying today I simply asked him what do
08:33 you want to say to the people tonight
08:34 and this is what he gave me he said I
08:38 have seen you you people over the months
08:42 pray for my children in need
08:44 I'm very pleased with your dedication
08:47 and your servant hearts each of you hear
08:50 my voice and minister life from the
08:53 words from my words to you however I
08:57 desire to take you higher and deeper
09:00 I want to deepen our relationship I want
09:04 to expand the intimacy of your
09:06 relationship with me I want to enhance
09:09 your confidence and hearing me so that
09:13 you don't doubt me so you don't doubt my
09:16 input as you pray my desire for you
09:20 there too for these several weeks is to
09:23 take you to a higher level of hearing so
09:26 that you know me more than ever before
09:29 my voice will become a comfort and a
09:32 strength to you in all you do in all
09:36 your ministry I want you to know and
09:40 experience my love for you as I work in
09:44 and through you that's what he does when
09:50 we speak with him when we spend time
09:52 with him hear his voice he's always
09:54 encouraging even when he's telling you
09:56 something you shouldn't be doing he
09:58 doesn't no way that you can't wait to
10:00 make it right because he's so loving and
10:02 that's what you're going to see over
10:04 these weeks is how much he loves you now
10:07 we I think all know that God can
10:10 communicate in many different ways okay
10:14 here's the key verse this is John 10:27
10:17 and I'm sure that you all know this
10:20 verse my sheep hear my voice and I know
10:24 them and they follow me
10:28 my sheep hear my voice what that means
10:32 is if you're a sheep you hear his voice
10:35 you've already heard it at least once if
10:37 you're saved because you couldn't be
10:39 drawn into the kingdom without hearing
10:41 his voice so I want to ask you how many
10:45 ways can you think of that he
10:47 communicates with us what do you think
10:49 how does he communicate speak up any
10:55 thoughts
10:55 yeah the thoughts in your mind how else
10:59 what ladder through the Word of God
11:03 absolutely right yes through nature
11:07 through dreams through circumstances
11:12 correct anything else there's something
11:16 else
11:17 what through other people absolutely
11:21 pardon through feelings absolutely you
11:24 want to pay attention to that one
11:26 how about through visions images in your
11:29 mind sometimes it's like a panoramic
11:32 view sometimes it's very subtle
11:35 yeah dreams we heard that anybody else
11:39 yes through pain mm-hmm here's all of
11:45 your senses all five of them right so
11:49 what this means we need to simply start
11:52 paying attention yes
11:54 through fire yes that's how I got saved
11:59 it's through fire so norm is gonna talk
12:04 a little bit more about kind of the keys
12:07 to hearing God's voice because that's
12:10 really where we're going tonight
12:19 tonight's session actually we're gonna
12:21 be talking about two-way journaling
12:23 which is something that you can do do
12:25 your devotional times of being alone
12:27 with the Lord and in future sessions
12:30 we're going to be talking about how you
12:32 get your God's voice in ministry
12:34 situations and just in in your day to
12:37 day life in the places where you live
12:39 and work but I hope you all you all have
12:41 a pan and something to write on
12:42 okay I don't know if you if anybody
12:45 doesn't have one you're gonna be just
12:46 sitting there twiddling your thumbs at
12:47 the end of the session but anyway
12:49 hopefully we'll have enough to go around
12:50 okay
12:51 we're gonna talk about the four keys to
12:53 hearing God's voice and this all comes
12:56 to from a man named Mark burglar have
12:59 any of you heard of him before okay good
13:02 because when we were first exposed to
13:03 him we had no idea who this
13:05 I was all right and he is the president
13:08 the founder and the president of it's
13:10 called communion with God Ministries CW
13:13 TV ministries org we gave you the
13:15 website and I would really encourage you
13:17 to check it out because he's got a lot
13:19 of really good and a lot of free
13:21 information on his website anyway let me
13:25 just give you a low background when I
13:27 Mike and I you know we're we have a lot
13:30 of education and we like to write excuse
13:34 me
13:34 so I journaling kinda came easy to us so
13:38 we would have our quiet times then we
13:39 would write but the thing was it would
13:41 be like 95 percent me and maybe five
13:45 percent Holy Spirit okay now with do a
13:48 journaling what we want it to be is more
13:50 like 90 percent him and ten percent us
13:54 okay so it's really designed to to get
13:57 you know his input and you writing it
14:00 down so you have a record of it okay I'm
14:03 going to tell you a little bit about how
14:05 we came to to know this to learn this
14:08 method it's about I would say it was
14:10 probably bout 15 years ago a friend of
14:12 ours gave us a set of tapes of his
14:15 probably audio tapes back in those days
14:17 and we were we went to a conference in
14:19 San Diego and we listened to them on the
14:21 way down and we thought wow you know
14:23 this is it the irony is Mike was a
14:26 pastor at the pastor in charge of
14:30 spiritual growth and a church in Simi
14:32 Valley at that time and he taught
14:34 classes on how to hear God's voice so we
14:37 sort of thought we had a handle on it
14:38 but then after listening to these tapes
14:41 we thought wow this is really
14:43 interesting and so he had what he called
14:45 the four keys to hearing God's voice and
14:47 so when we got to the hotel room I was I
14:50 had my Bible and I thought well I'm
14:51 gonna check check this out and see if it
14:53 really works and so I was reading in
14:56 that time I like to read straight
14:58 through the Bible I was reading in the
14:59 book of Deuteronomy and it's not the
15:03 most thrilling you know chapters in the
15:05 Bible and now it happened to be in a
15:07 section that was about the ceremonial
15:09 sacrificial law okay
15:12 so I'll read this to you
15:13 and then I said ok god I would like you
15:15 to speak to me about this chapter and
15:17 then I just followed his approach and I
15:19 just sat down and wrote and then I went
15:21 back and read it and I was blown away it
15:24 was there was so much insight that I had
15:27 gotten from the Holy Spirit stuff that I
15:29 had never thought of before I knew I had
15:31 never read it it was straight from God
15:33 anyway wow there's really something to
15:34 this I was impressed so we started using
15:37 this approach this 2-way journaling like
15:40 about 15 years ago we have filled up
15:42 dozens of journals haven't we and you
15:46 know we haven't that's that's journal
15:48 number 36 but he writes big ok so I
15:51 don't have that many journals and anyway
15:54 so that's what we've been doing and
15:56 we've been teaching other people how to
15:57 do it and it can be really an amazing
16:01 amazing simple simple process
16:03 so mark Berkeley was pretty much unknown
16:06 when we first heard about him and now he
16:08 I think he has a at least a nationwide
16:10 and possibly a worldwide reputation he
16:13 has been on the sit roth it's
16:15 supernatural TV show he's been on he's
16:19 been featured in charisma magazine so I
16:21 think you know he's he's pretty
16:22 reputable guy and he's also impacted
16:25 thousands of believers including Michael
16:28 and myself now he what we would do if it
16:30 was one of our typical two-hour sessions
16:33 as we would show you his videos but we
16:36 really don't have time for that so his
16:38 first video is like a whole hour on how
16:40 he learned to hear the voice of God and
16:42 it's really very funny he's got a cute
16:45 sense of humor so I'm gonna give you
16:46 that the really abbreviated version
16:48 basically he was a Pentecostal pastor he
16:53 spoke in tongues he you know he was a
16:56 Bible School graduate and all this
16:58 business and he realized that he didn't
17:01 hit know how to hear God's voice and he
17:03 was really embarrassed about it because
17:05 he knew that as a pastor he should be
17:06 hearing God's voice so you would ask
17:08 people that seem to be able to hear
17:11 God's voice how they did it and the
17:13 answers they gave him were just like
17:14 really vague and not helpful and so he
17:18 had a frustration he says well I'm just
17:21 gonna devote a whole year of my
17:23 I still learning how to hear God's voice
17:24 and that's what he did and so he read
17:28 the Bible from cover to cover and you
17:30 read every book he could find on it and
17:32 that still didn't quite get him where he
17:35 wanted to go he thought he was going to
17:37 hear the audible voice of God in fact
17:40 you could hear it now you're the where
17:43 does that an airplane or thunder but
17:45 anyway we'll take it as a sign from God
17:47 and so he he ends up pretty much giving
17:51 nowhere until he out of out of
17:54 desperation he signs up to go to a
17:56 Catholic retreat that was run by a
17:58 couple of Jesuit priests and he had some
18:01 reservations about Catholic theology but
18:03 he thought well nothing else has worked
18:05 so I'm gonna go so he goes to this
18:07 retreat and this is where he has a
18:08 breakthrough and it's very funny the
18:12 story that he tells us really cute but I
18:14 don't have time to tell you that but he
18:15 he learns the first principles about
18:18 hearing God's voice that it comes to you
18:20 in spontaneous thoughts and it's not the
18:24 audible voice it's not you know thunder
18:26 from heaven and what I would encourage
18:27 you to do is he's got there's quite a
18:29 few of his videos on YouTube so if
18:32 you'll just go to youtube and look for
18:33 marker Clure and he's got one called our
18:36 message in eight minutes so you have no
18:38 excuse for not listening to his message
18:41 in eight minutes he gives you a quick
18:43 summary of the whole of that okay now
18:45 I'm going to teach you the four keys to
18:47 hearing God's voice okay the very first
18:50 one oh I have to give you the key
18:51 scripture too this is the one that
18:53 really impacted him and we really don't
18:56 have time to go into you know all of the
18:58 details about why this was so important
19:00 to him but it's Habakkuk 2 verses 1 and
19:04 2 I will stand my watch and set myself
19:07 on the rampart and watch to see what he
19:10 will say to me and so all of the 4 keys
19:13 are there Habakkuk is quieting himself
19:17 down he's standing he's setting himself
19:19 in a position to receive when you're on
19:22 the ramparts you're looking you're
19:24 looking for the enemy so he's you know
19:27 using vision and he's watching to see
19:30 what God will say
19:32 to him so he's using all of his senses
19:34 he's using his spiritual eyes and his
19:38 spiritual ears so that's that that
19:40 that's a key verse for mark Gertler and
19:43 a key verse for us as well
19:45 so here are the four keys the first one
19:48 is you have to quiet yourself down and
19:52 just to say it in one word its stillness
19:55 and there are hand motions that go with
19:57 this and this'll help you to remember it
19:59 so it's just stillness quiet yourself
20:02 down this is harder than it sounds
20:07 isn't it because our brains are always
20:09 full of thoughts and we learn a very
20:13 noisy culture and there's a lot of
20:15 distraction and there's a lot of
20:17 everything going on around us and we
20:19 have we have busy lives most of us and
20:22 so it's a common problem and it's
20:24 difficult sometimes to block out the
20:27 intrusive thoughts and distractions and
20:29 we don't really have time to talk about
20:31 it much tonight but we're gonna really
20:33 deal with it next week how to learn how
20:35 to quiet your mind
20:36 okay so first key is stillness the
20:40 second key is to look for vision and
20:43 here's your vision we're gonna be
20:46 looking to Jesus we're gonna be
20:48 expecting him to speak to him now we can
20:51 do this to speak to you you can do this
20:53 different ways you can imagine Jesus
20:56 right there with you sometimes I see him
20:58 right there in the bedroom with me he's
21:00 wearing jeans and a play and a flannel
21:02 shirt
21:02 you know he's usually not decked out in
21:04 his white robes I just like to be really
21:06 kind of relaxed and cozy with him and
21:09 he's okay with that
21:10 um you can imagine him on the screen of
21:13 your mind you know just close your eyes
21:16 and see if you can visualize your living
21:18 room okay if you can do that you can
21:21 visualize Jesus it's not that difficult
21:23 okay you everybody can do this and some
21:26 people are more gifted envision a
21:29 spiritual vision than others and if your
21:31 this is really foreign to you we're
21:33 going to talk about it for one of our
21:34 sessions if this is if you're not one of
21:38 those people that sees it in the spirit
21:40 real easily that's okay just focus your
21:42 thoughts on Jesus just focus your my
21:45 Jesus okay so and then what you want to
21:48 do is you want to ask him a question
21:49 because we're gonna have a dialogue
21:51 we're not just sit there and say talk to
21:54 me we're gonna ask him a question so
21:56 like my guest what was the question you
21:58 asked what do you want to say to the
22:03 piece of the group tonight okay so that
22:05 was that that was like the prompt and
22:07 then and then they had a conversation
22:08 okay so you're gonna then you ask them a
22:11 question because you want to have a
22:12 conversation and then the third step is
22:15 that you want it to tune to the flow of
22:18 spontaneous thoughts or pictures that
22:21 are going to come into your mind so this
22:23 is spontaneity spontaneity so it is
22:27 stillness vision spontaneity and so what
22:33 you will find is ideas will light upon
22:35 your mind effortlessly the first time I
22:39 heard God speak to me I so wanted him to
22:41 speak to me and we've been believers for
22:44 a few weeks the gal that led us to the
22:46 Lord would always say Oh God so told me
22:48 this and God told me that I mean how
22:51 come God I'm not telling me anything you
22:52 know and I one day I was just we were
22:55 very church phobic we you know coming
22:57 from a Jewish background we didn't
22:59 really want to go to church that was
23:01 pretty low in our priority list and so
23:03 all of a sudden I got this thought in my
23:05 mind very it was kind of crystal clear
23:08 it was it's time for you to go to church
23:10 and I knew that wasn't me thinking that
23:14 was not my thought but I knew that that
23:16 was God and so that was my first time
23:17 that I know that I heard God's voice and
23:19 so it will just come to you effortlessly
23:22 I wasn't trying to make it happen it
23:24 just popped in so it could be full
23:26 sentences
23:27 it could be pictures in your mind it
23:30 could be actually you could see a video
23:31 play in your mind
23:33 it could just be thought impressions or
23:35 or like you know face images in your
23:38 mind it can come in all different ways
23:40 but what you have to do is you have to
23:42 tune in
23:43 without striving that's
23:45 II if you go I need to hear from you God
23:49 you know I can hear anything you just
23:51 have to be really relaxed and that's how
23:53 it will just kind of flow in because
23:55 remember Jesus said living waters will
23:58 flow from your innermost being it's the
24:01 voice of the Holy Spirit within you he's
24:03 in you we just have to just tune into
24:06 the flow and so you want to tap into it
24:09 I'm gonna tap into what God has already
24:10 given you so that spontaneity and then
24:14 the last step is you just want to write
24:16 it out without judging you just write in
24:19 childlike faith and next week we're
24:23 going to get into in depth how you
24:26 discern and test is this really God is
24:28 this really is this the enemy is this my
24:31 flesh is the pizza I had for dinner you
24:34 know we're going to get into discernment
24:36 later on but we're gonna just trust that
24:38 God's gonna speak to us and we're gonna
24:40 be able to discern his voice because my
24:43 sheep hear my voice that's what you
24:45 promised desperate okay now what's
24:47 important is that you were just going to
24:49 keep writing without worrying about
24:52 spelling or your handwriting or grammar
24:55 or anything like that you're just right
24:57 and what you don't do is stop and go hmm
25:00 I wonder if that's God because you're
25:03 gonna stop the flow you just right okay
25:07 don't go back and read what you've
25:08 written until you're all done alright so
25:11 you just write and childlike faith no
25:13 time to go laugh okay so let's let's go
25:16 over the the four steps and I want you
25:19 to do this with me if I'm going to
25:20 embarrass myself doing this I want you
25:22 to embarrass yourself - okay so we'll be
25:24 embarrass together all right the first
25:26 one of her step is stillness and say it
25:29 with me to stillness vision and look to
25:34 Jesus spontaneity and writing okay one
25:39 more time still this vision spontaneity
25:46 is that simple okay now we're gonna do
25:50 it yep
25:52 I noticed some of you are her break when
25:56 you got to writing you went right to
25:58 left rather than left to right yes so
26:04 we're gonna we're actually gonna do it
26:05 right now and the first thing you need
26:09 to do is get some paper and a pen
26:11 something you can write with everybody
26:14 have that and then at the top of that
26:17 page I want you to write the question
26:20 Lord what do you want to say to me about
26:24 our relationship
26:27 Lord what do you want to say to me about
26:29 our relationship so that's the question
26:34 that you're gonna ask him at the end but
26:38 what we're gonna do first is I'm gonna
26:39 we're going to use the four keys and so
26:43 we want you to be actually put them into
26:46 practice and I cannot stress enough that
26:50 you want to just write do not try to
26:54 figure out judge it or anything just
26:57 write what you get and the thing that's
27:00 amazing is you will get things from God
27:02 so I'm gonna paint a little picture for
27:05 you to kind of put you in the right
27:06 frame of mind and the quiet your mind a
27:08 little bit and then when I finish the
27:11 picture you're going to pause for a
27:14 second ask the Lord that question in
27:17 your mind and then write what he says to
27:21 you some of you may not get words but
27:24 you might get pictures or you might get
27:26 a video play in your mind and that's
27:28 perfectly fine but some of you that are
27:30 more gifted in that way and so what you
27:32 want to do just let it play out and then
27:35 you write it down write down what you
27:36 saw okay
27:38 yeah and it's really important not to
27:41 compare yourself to somebody else
27:42 because some people are very visual some
27:44 people are not I'm a scientist by
27:46 training I am less visual than normal
27:49 but I do hear from God also quantity
27:54 does not mean anything okay Mike and I
27:56 will be
27:57 and he'll get like five pages and
27:59 they'll get a paragraph it'll say the
28:03 same thing about that thing I'm just
28:04 more and the interesting thing is - God
28:08 will speak to you in your own style you
28:12 know just like different authors look at
28:13 the four Gospels they all have different
28:14 styles different people so you know just
28:17 it's gonna be God speaking to you
28:20 through you the best right so it's gonna
28:23 sound just like you're thinking it's
28:25 just it's gods all right so what I want
28:27 you to do is close your eyes and just
28:30 focus on what I'm gonna share you want
28:33 to use your sanctified imagination to
28:37 visualize and sense what I'm saying so
28:40 just close your eyes and imagine you're
28:44 at of your favorite beach it's a warm
28:47 and sunny day and you and Jesus are
28:50 sitting on beach chairs looking out at
28:52 the ocean the sunlight is sparkling on
28:55 the water and several birds are flying
28:58 overhead and out in the ocean there are
29:01 some surfers on their boards waiting for
29:03 a good wave to ride you can smell that
29:07 special Beach aroma and you can hear the
29:10 pounding of the waves and you're feeling
29:14 so relaxed and so happy and at peace
29:17 being there with Jesus and sensing his
29:21 love for you so now you turn to Jesus
29:25 and you just ask him that question and
29:29 then start to write and we'll give you
29:30 about five minutes to write yeah the
29:34 question again is Lord what do you want
29:37 to say to me about our relationship all
29:42 right what I want you to do now is
29:46 quickly read through what you wrote and
29:49 then I want you to share it with
29:51 somebody else so break into pairs and
29:54 share this the Collegium were believers
29:59 were a family it's okay
30:04 if you didn't write anything to share
30:07 what your experience was okay yeah it's
30:11 alright you're just learning go ahead
30:20 and read what you wrote to the other
30:21 person or share it your and then and
30:24 have the other person say tell you
30:27 whether they think it sounds like God
32:13 one more minute
32:46 all right let's come back together for a
32:48 second all right how many of you felt
33:01 that you heard something from God just
33:04 raise your hand raise it high how many
33:08 people here felt they heard something
33:10 from God look at how men look around
33:13 look at how many people said that all
33:16 right some of you may weren't sure if
33:21 that was really God there he may be and
33:23 maybe some of you actually didn't write
33:25 anything I guarantee you that by the
33:29 time we are done you will be hearing
33:31 from God we have been doing this for
33:34 years and we have seen success with
33:37 everybody everybody is hearing from God
33:41 by the end and what we're gonna do is to
33:44 keep encouraging you and giving you more
33:46 and more information about how to
33:48 facilitate hearing the Lord's voice so
33:54 is there anybody here we would like to
33:56 share what they heard anybody brave
34:00 enough to come up and share what you
34:03 wrote come on up let us take 20 minutes
34:10 we're fine good I love our relationship
34:23 Jack you have grown so much I want you
34:26 to be a leader and draw many people to
34:28 me don't worry Jack I will give you the
34:31 words in the time when I want to use you
34:33 always depend on me for I am your
34:36 strength and I will always be with you
34:38 for I have brought you through your
34:40 trial for a purpose do you think that
34:43 was God that good that's wonderful is
34:46 great anybody else want
34:51 you're welcome welcome to you I'll do
34:53 that I just wrote some words when strong
35:03 is love knowing him his power his love
35:09 that keeps alive that he is my father in
35:13 heaven in Jesus Christ and the Holy
35:17 Spirit believing that he's the word the
35:20 power of his love for us to keep going
35:25 in this time of life gives us the
35:31 strength and for the strength no no it
35:39 gives us a strength for for I put flying
35:44 like the wind to take us for for
35:50 wherever he for for whatever he wants us
35:55 in our lives to be in the reason why I
35:58 wrote those things because I'm learning
36:01 to have a relationship with the father
36:03 in heaven that I never had before that
36:08 is absolutely wonderful what you were
36:11 hearing was truth he was sharing with
36:14 you who he is
36:15 and his truth that was wonderful that's
36:17 exactly what we want is just to write
36:20 what we hear because what he will do is
36:24 reveal to you how he sees you and the
36:28 thing that's amazing is he sees you much
36:30 better than you see you he's much kinder
36:34 he's more gentle
36:35 he's more loving and we just have to
36:38 trust that what you're writing
36:40 you can't sometimes it's hard to believe
36:43 it's so good but that's the Lord because
36:46 you're his children he loves you he
36:50 wants you to be in this intimate type of
36:53 relationship you want to share
37:09 you know Virginia that I love you so
37:11 very much I want you to trust me I've
37:15 seen the curses in your family in your
37:17 bloodline and those curses are broken
37:19 I'm going to deliver you I have changed
37:23 your name trust me with these difficult
37:25 tasks that I've placed in your hands you
37:28 have already I've already given you the
37:29 victory and I want you to remember that
37:31 I love you and you are an important
37:34 warrior on my team does that sound like
37:37 God yeah thank you
37:39 you notice that was very personal
37:40 speaking in the first person I love you
37:43 I have been this I have been that
37:45 because God is speaking to you directly
37:48 yes often when I journal the Lord always
37:51 says Michael my son and that's a very
37:55 significant thing for me because of my
37:57 family upbringing he knows exactly what
38:00 we need to hear like he said Virginia
38:03 took it you know he knows us so
38:06 intimately and that's what you're gonna
38:08 find out as you practice this as you do
38:11 the to a journal and you're gonna have
38:13 some really wonderful dialogues with God
38:16 and he's gonna tell you some amazing
38:19 things all right so you heard earlier
38:22 both of us are teachers so here's your
38:26 homework you know you couldn't get away
38:28 without having some homework we want you
38:31 to do this during the week take carve
38:34 out the time to sit with the Lord and to
38:39 journal so what you need to use a
38:42 different scenario you don't have the
38:44 one that I gave you can visualize
38:46 yourself in your favorite place if you
38:49 like to be in nature visualize yourself
38:51 in nature if you like to sit on the
38:53 couch of a cup of coffee I often sit in
38:56 a chair I have my chair and my coffee
38:59 and does visualize I'm having coffee
39:01 with Jesus and then we talk so I want
39:05 you to do this during the week as I'd
39:07 love to see you do it every day but do
39:10 it as often as you can
39:12 all right and remember to write with
39:15 childlike faith don't judge just right
39:19 because what you're gonna end up getting
39:21 is this permanent record in your journal
39:24 of God's love letter to you
39:26 and that's the goal also you want to ask
39:30 them a question so don't ask a bunch of
39:32 really difficult questions just ask
39:33 here's the question every day Lord what
39:36 do you want to say to me today that's
39:39 the easiest and it always works because
39:41 he always have something to say to say
39:43 that's right yeah okay so we bless you
39:46 and we pray that you will have a
39:49 fantastic time of listening to his voice
39:52 and remember the four keys okay use all
39:55 four keys stillness
39:57 listen spontaneity and writing and have
40:00 a great time have a great week we'll see
40:02 you next week that's awesome huh very
40:10 very simple but it's the very basics of
40:15 walking with the Lord hearing his voice
40:19 so I just bless you with that homework
40:22 assignment and I know you're gonna hear
40:24 God's voice this week and I'm excited
40:26 for each one of you growing deeper in
40:30 your relationship with the Lord your
40:33 Savior and he has things to say one of
40:35 the most common questions when people
40:38 come into our Healing Rooms this last 13
40:41 years is I want to hear something from
40:45 God and now you can hear everyday what
40:49 God says to you and I just love what you
40:52 shared about it being something
40:54 encouraging for each one of us so I
40:58 welcome you back next week