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the holy spirit what he does is turn
your desires so that they are in
alignment with god’s will so you
actually want what it is that god wants
you to want that’s what i believe the
psalmist meant when he said that he
gives you the desires of your heart
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so john 10 27 to me is the most concise
and comprehensive verse in scripture
about hearing god
uh it is when jesus says my sheep
hear my voice i know them and they
follow me
he says you got to be my sheep to hear
my voice so you said new christians
listen that relationship right there is
the the connector that allows you access
to the voice of god so so to me the
first step is actually believing that as
an adopted son or daughter grafted into
the family of god that you have the
capacity innately because you’re part of
the family to now hear the voice of god
it’s like um
when we were growing up in our house i
don’t know about you guys but we didn’t
have access to a whole lot of cable
television my parents didn’t get cable
they didn’t get you know whatever
directv all that stuff we didn’t have
any of that stuff
and i i felt
a little mad about that i really wanted
to have more channels my parents chose
that we could really only watch the
cosby show on thursdays at seven o’clock
and then a different world so it wasn’t
until we were we were getting ready to
get married i moved out
i remember the day i had the cable guy
come over hook up the cable and after he
did all that hooking up he said here’s
the remote control push the guide button
and i pushed the guide button at i had
never seen so many channels in my life
on the screen i had no idea all those
channels were there now all those
channels didn’t just get created
that day
they had always been there it’s just i
didn’t have the right hook up so that i
could tap into them and bring them and
draw them down into my experience the
holy spirit is the hookup
when you place faith in jesus christ
ephesians chapter 1 says the moment you
believe you receive the hook up the holy
spirit now you are able to draw down
divine channels it’s not that you
created them no they were always there
god’s speaking he wants to reveal
himself now you have the the opportunity
to hear him so really the first step
especially if you grew up in an
environment where this concept is sort
of um unique and different and new for
you it’s to believe
that as a as a privilege of being a son
or a daughter you can hear from god it
is the deception of the enemy to cause
us to think we have to have a seminary
to degree we have to have some special
hotline connection with god like
somebody we may admire that we as
regular men and women can’t hear from
god that’s what the enemy wants you to
think he doesn’t want you to know it’s
your birthright and so believing that
you can is the first step to hearing god
so um one of the things i love about the
holy spirit’s work in us and this is in
regards to hearing god but his work in
us is to sanctify us sanctification is
the process by which we are molded into
the image of jesus christ
it is the process by which our mind
changes our ambitions change our desires
we start wanting stuff we never thought
we want we stopped wanting things we
never thought we’d ever not want to want
to to separate ourselves from all of a
sudden we find ourselves unnerved by
jokes that we used to laugh at or
company we used to keep it just doesn’t
work for us anymore that’s the work of
the holy spirit so in regards to
discerning the voice of god if anybody’s
ever concerned or afraid like i have
been that oh god might say to me
something i don’t want the holy spirit
what he does is turn your desires so
that they are in alignment with god’s
will so you actually want what it is
that god wants you to want that’s what i
believe the psalmist meant when he said
that he gives you the desires of your
heart he doesn’t give you what you want
he actually puts
his desires
in your heart so that you want what he
wants let me tell you a practical
application of that
when we were first married and before we
had children we lived in orange county
california i grew up in newport beach
california
so
l.a county was more like enemy territory
we
you know we we didn’t really understand
the big city of los angeles if you live
in a suburb of orange county l.a county
it’s real different because it’s a real
different environment
and and then the lord called us to
hollywood
so we packed up
our little kids and we went to los
angeles bought a home in l.a
and lived there for 15 years
lori told me
that
i’m so used to orange county when i need
grocery shopping
i’m going to get my kids put them in my
car i’m going to drive back down to
orange county how far a drive was at 35
40 miles
and i’ll do my grocery shopping and then
come back
we
had planned that so we bought a house
that felt like this kind of sanctuary up
on the side of a hill and
and we were very protected and it felt
really good when we were at home but we
just were very
you know the the surrounding was not
going to work for us
within days
the changing of our attitude and the
holy spirit that we fell in love with
this area we started it was when god
called us to hollywood he changed the
very inside of who we were