How to Hear God’s Voice

The problem is not God speaking. The problem is us listening. We shut the door and then cry, God, speak to me. The Lord is saying, I am speaking. He speaks most of the time in a still small voice. I appreciate that it is challenging at times to hear Him. All of the...

A Speaking God and a Walking Relationship

All the other gods are dead. They are not gods. They are made of wood or stone, or data, or concepts, or ideas. We have a God who is real, and we have a God who speaks. In the evangelical world we talk, rightly so, about having a relationship with God. We push back...

Hearing God in the Dark Glass

We do not like subjectivity. We like objectivity. We like to be sure and certain. If we are going to move forward in hearing from God, we have to grab hold of the subjectivity of it. We have to embrace it. Over the years I have come to the conclusion that there is a...

Hearing God’s Voice

There is not a lot of good teaching in the body of Christ on hearing from God. I remember being a young minister in the mid-1980s. I went to work for the Assemblies of God around 1986 or 1987, traveling all over the United Kingdom, helping with church plants and...

Hearing the Voice of a Speaking God

There is a teaching abroad that Jesus died, rose from the dead, went to heaven, and left us with a book. Get on with it. Many sincere, born-again people have been told the only safe way God speaks is through printed pages, and that it is dangerous to try to hear Him...

Clearing the Confusion Around Intercession

Intercession is simply praying for somebody else. End of. Yet more unbiblical, nonsensical teaching gets attached to this subject than almost any other. You will hear people claim they hold the office of an intercessor. Where is that in the Bible? It is not. Everybody...