Priscilla Shirer: Hearing the Voice of God (Part 1) | TBN

Priscilla Shirer speaks on TBN’s speacial, Hearing the Voice of God. Listen as she teaches how to better prepare yourself to hear the voice of God, and the importance that she places on positioning yourself to directly hear from Him.

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i want to tell you this before i share

with you some principles that actually

have

transformed the way i spend time in the

word of god

the enemy wants to convince you

he wants to convince me that god has

some sort of hotline connection

between he and certain people that it’s

just our spiritual leaders our pastors

our bible study teachers the folks that

are on staff

the people that are in full-time

ministry the folks that have you know a

microphone on their jacket

the people that are in the spotlight the

folks who we go past their instagram

feed and we

are um admonished or encouraged because

they are teaching and preaching

to masses the enemy wants you to think

that it’s a seminary degree

that is required before you can actually

have a fervent

ongoing relationship with god where you

yourself can

open up the word of god and know that

the holy spirit can illumine the

scriptures and give you

guidance and direction and insight

and clarity and encouragement and

comfort he wants you to think that that

kind of

fervent friendship with god is only for

certain people

because he knows that as long as you and

i are not convinced that we

can hear a fresh word from god for

ourselves

then at best we’ll be handicapped in our

faith

because we’ll always be waiting on

somebody else to spoon feed us the word

of god

instead of knowing that we can have

confidence

in our friendship in our relationship

with god himself

and i want to share them with you

position yourself to hear from god

i’m going to say it again position

yourself to hear from god

there is power in your positioning

in your posture okay i mean this in a

spiritual sense but i also mean it in a

physical sense i want to tell you about

both

when you come to god through his word

that you’re going to meet with him

through the pages of scripture

so this is your own personal quiet time

you know you maybe have just sat up in

bed and you’re going to have 10 or 15

minutes that you’re spending with the

lord

or you’re going to come out of your room

and to the kitchen table maybe in the

quietness of the morning or in the

quietness of the evening when all the

activity in your house

has died down just a little bit you’re

going to position yourself

over a portion of scripture and i’ll

tell you in just a few moments how you

can choose a portion of scripture to

dive into

but when you make that commitment to

posture yourself

to position yourself i mean that in a

spiritual way

meaning the position of your heart has

to be

in a perspective and a frame of

reference that is

eager to hear and expects to hear the

voice of god speaking to you

it’s a.w tossier a great theologian that

put it this way

the person that does not expect to hear

god

won’t because every single time god

speaks they’ll just discount it as their

own idea

they’ll think that it was just a

coincidence they will attribute it

to anything and anybody else except what

it is

god’s breathed word coming to life

through the power of the holy spirit

to speak to you to give you guidance and

direction in your own personal life

and so you have to have a heart i have

to have a heart

that is filled with expectation that i

am one of the sheep of god’s fold

and i can hear the voice of god john

chapter 10

jesus said my sheep hear my voice

listen to that again he basically says

the default position for anybody who’s a

part of the fold the flock

the family of god what my sheep do

is hear my voice it’s one of the schemes

of the enemy

to get you to think that you need to be

something more

be something else have a different

perspective or a different personality

or be someone other than you are to have

excelled in some way to not have made

the mistakes that you’ve made

it’s the scheme of the enemy to get us

to think that we have to be

anything other than a son or daughter to

have this

right this privilege to hear god

speaking to us through the word

so we have to pray and say lord would

you carve away anything in my heart that

is a roadblock that’s keeping me

from having an expectation that in my

own

regular quiet time while i’m in my

pajamas or in my jogging suit while i’m

in my house shoes

whatever i’m doing and no matter what i

look like i have the privilege to

keep company with you that you want to

cultivate lord jesus thank you

a friendship with me that you want to

speak with me that you gave me a love

letter so that i can hear your voice

and know you and know who you are thank

you lord for that privilege

and if my heart doesn’t expect it would

you begin

to mold in me a holy expectation

that desires and anticipates that i have

the privilege

to hear the voice of god posture your

heart with expectation

the psalmist put it this way in psalm 27

it’s one of my favorite verses verse 13

and 14.

he says i would have despaired

unless i believed that i would see the

hand of the lord in the land of the

living

did you see that expectation there he

says i would have despaired

i would have been hopeless i would have

been down my countenance would have been

downcast

man except that i expect that i’m gonna

see god

i expect that i’m gonna hear god so i

can wait

patiently on him because i have an

anticipation

and expectation that god is going to

come through on my behalf the prophet

habakkuk spoke to this as well

if you look at his little book that is

named after him in the old testament

you’ll see

that the entire first chapter of

habakkuk

is habakkuk calling out to god mostly

him calling out to god and saying lord

how long are you going to let this go on

he’s looking around him at the

destruction that he is seeing happening

in his culture in his nation man if that

don’t speak to us right now i don’t know

what

is you and i can’t flip past all that’s

happening on our twitter

feeds our instagram feeds the news

channels that we’re watching and not

see the vortex of chaos that is swirling

all around us habakkuk knows exactly how

you feel

and he calls out to god and says how

long lord

it seems like you’re just sitting back

idly letting all this go on and so lord

i’m going to vocalize

my concerns to you my cares to you

i’m going to be authentic i’m not going

to hold back and that’s the privilege we

have

in relationship with god he lets us ask

our questions

voice our concern he knows that in our

humanity we have

some worries and some issues and some

fears and

he lets us come to hear him and bear it

all

but after habakkuk bears it all chapter

2

he says now i’m going to climb up on the

watchtower

and i’m going to wait to see what it is

that my king is going to

say to me how god is going to respond to

me do you see that

he positions himself to hear from god

he says i’m going to climb up on a

watchtower back in biblical days there

was a stronghold or a citadel that would

sit at the front of a

of a city and it was designed so that a

soldier

or a watchman could climb up to the top

of this watchtower

position himself above ground level

circumstances

in other words he was saying there’s too

much chaos swirling around

down here i’m going to be distracted if

i keep myself positioned here

so i’m going to climb up on the

watchtower where i’m up above

ground level distractions and i’m going

to position myself here

because from this vantage point i’ll

have a clear view to the horizon

and i expect that god is coming i have

expectation

that there is someone coming who’s going

to deliver an answer for me

and so because of that expectation i’m

going to position myself

in a place and in a posture where i can

hear god

where i can see his hand where i have

clear view

and there’s nothing to distract me

position yourself

spiritual expectation and anticipation

but not just spiritually

like habakkuk position yourself

physically

do you see that he climbed up somewhere

he went to a place

where there was some silence and some

solitude

you