Shh Listening For God

Faith is a little girl who wonders about God. Unable to see or hear God herself, Faith asks her mother how she will know God is with her every day. Her mother tells her she must be quiet, listen, and thank God for all she has each day in order to feel Gods presence in her life, and soon Faith begins to learn how easy it is to talk to God. As Faith wakes up the next morning, she remembers to be quiet, listen, and thank God for being with her. After she arrives home from a busy day at school, Faith reminds herself to be quiet, listen, and thank God for being with her at schooland again as she helps cheer her team at a game, visits her grandparents, and gets ready to go to sleep. This story tells the tale of a little girl who learns that all she needs to do to be closer to God is simply be quiet and thank Him and know that He loves her.

We live in a noisy world. Yet to meet the God of the Still Small Voice, it will take a quiet place, a stilled soul in order to hear, even more, to listen for the Divine to speak into our darkened void. But speak God will. Create the space. Solitude and silence are necessary gates of opportunity on the pathway to encounter. Experienced and practiced by Jesus, they are the secrets of the ancients. Most often, both are feared because it seems before we ever meet God in these sacred disciplines, we will first meet ourselves. In the silence, inner thoughts once suppressed raise their condemning tones and must be intentionally quenched before we can move further and deeper. It is because, on the other side of the fray, are the more meaningful things of the Spirit, the transformational waters of engaging spirituality. Thus, the battle is fought in the simplicity of the sequestered life, in the barren wilderness, where we are alone with God, where our adversary has lost his edge, and the victory of God's creative Voice finally breaks through to heal and make whole. Neal W. May is Founder and Senior Pastor of Faith Fellowship Church in Macedonia, Ohio, and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary. He attended Kent State University during the turbulent '60s and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a minor in education. Pastor May has experienced the balance of both Spirit and Word, illumination and reason. He is Founder and President of Hosanna Bible Training Center and instructor of Biblical Interpretation and Contemporary Preaching. In addition, he has served as an adjunct professor for Ashland Theological Seminary where he has taught Small Group Ministry, Communication and Conflict in the Church, and Archaeology of the New Testament.

When it comes ti your relationship with God, you probably have many questions: Does He ever really speak to His children? Does He want you to know the plans He has for your? Can you know that God hears your prayers and will answer your prayers? Join the author Jeanelle Brown as she shares her journey to an intimate dynamic relationship with God. You can use His guidance to determine if He wants you to tkae that job offer, marry that person, pursue that career, and much more. By listening to God, He will lead you to salvation from rternal separation from Him, he will inspire you to accomplish great miracles and discover the power of faith and great prayer. Brown demonstrates how listening to God helped her become a doctor and receive a vision from God describing God's future plans for her life. Along the way, she discovers the many miracles God already performed in her life, as you can too. It starts with being quiet and listening to the words of the Lord Jesus.

God still speaks to us. Often it is a quiet whisper, a gentle nudge, a hunch we seem to have. As we look back at our journeys, we notice the places where the Lord has spoken to us, guiding us and encouraging us to press on. Maybe we haven't always listened to that "Still Small Voice," but He has been there the whole time, speaking words of encouragement to our spirits. Inspired by the Lord to write this devotional during prayer and meditation time, Minister Shearon D. Hurst believes these messages will speak life to the "weary warriors," "the despondent pursuers," and those who want to know Him in a more intimate way. These words from the Father's heart will encourage and comfort you as you battle through the days when you trudge through the valleys of life.Words of encouragement, either written or spoken from the Lord, will inspire you to live a life most pleasing to the Lord. Let this devotional journal will become a source of inspiration and encouragement in your life every day.

He Speaks in the Silence is about Diane Comer’s search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And He did. But first He took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf. Using vivid parallels between her deafness and every woman’s struggle to hear God, this book shows women not only how Diane, as a deaf woman, hears in everyday life, but also how she can learn to listen to God in the midst of her own loud life, finding intimacy with God and the deep soul satisfaction she longs for.

Listen to My heart in the quiet of your heart . . . More. Life is full to overflowing, but we crave an illusive more. Via social networking, airwaves, and TV, our culture tells us to strive for more stuff, more activities, more adventure--you name it. Yet we are often left feeling unfulfilled and wanting. Empty, even. With so many demands for our attention, it is difficult to quiet our minds long enough to hear the still, small voice of our loving Father, and to listen to the One who desires to bring us so much more than the noise of everyday life. Judy Gordon Morrow discovered the more when her world was turned upside down and she knelt before God to seek Him and ask for His help. More than a decade ago, in tear-stained notebooks, she began to pen God's responses to her desperate prayers. Now, in The Listening Heart, Judy invites you to spend a year hearing from the God Who Speaks--the God who wants to speak to you. Each daily devotion echoes the Father's love and care for you, offering hope, comfort, encouragement, and more--a rich closeness with God that will satisfy the longings of your heart.