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March 20 - May 3, 2024
the “five Ms” of correctly hearing God, helping us be more certain that we’re accurately discerning the voice of our Spirit as He molds our conscience.
Look for the MESSAGE of the Spirit.
Search the MODEL of Scripture for guidance.
Live in the MODE of prayer.
Submit to the MINISTRY of Eli.
Expect the MERCY of confirmation.
Gendered illustrations like men meeting Bible studies and women being staying at home moms or homeschool parents
A good discussion about personal discernment and instructions from God, not obligating others to hold to our own personal instructions. Still feels a bit individualistic in that there can be corporate instructions from God, but I assume that’s going to be brought up in another place.
She talks about her own personal conviction against drinking alcohol and knowing that that’s not a universal prohibition, but there’s no discussion of how her upbringing and culture influenced her understanding of her personal conviction is that from God or is that a personal conviction as a result of a culture that she was brought up in in
There’s a good discussion about God’s voice being loving and the enemies voice being condemning and that generally, we can tell the difference between how it impacts us and makes us feel. I think that fits Ignatius is instructions fairly well.
This is another point where she interprets God putting challenging things for the sake of the challenge, and it ends up being that she interprets doing the hard thing as the Will guy seems to be that doesn’t have the evidence
One of the difficulties here is that she overtime has come to understand how to voice of the Lord speaks to her, but I’m not sure that that is always true of God having a sense of what she supposed to say before God is one thing but that gets interpreted in other situations or by other people it isn’t clear to me that God calls us to do. The hard thing is the right interpretive plan.
asphalt chamber quote is precisely the problem when we interpret guided only saying the hard thing and we missed the character of God
Have you ever heard the Master say something very difficult to you? If you haven’t, I question whether you have ever heard Him say anything at all. —Oswald Chambers
her section keeps being easy and difficult way, but there’s not a discussion here of the character of God seems to follow. She has did say that earlier, but it needs to have a conversation again in this difficult hard thing because culturally easy is different than the way that God acts for culturally hard is different than the way that God acts they just easy and hard is just a amorphous of a category
We deceive ourselves if we claim to want to hear His voice but neglect the primary channel through which it comes. We must read His Word. We must obey it. We must live it, which means rereading it throughout our lives. —Elisabeth Elliot
My friend and mentor Anne Graham Lotz once said, “I never make a major decision in life, especially one that will affect another person, before I have received direction from God.” Yes, I expected her to say that. I feel conviction that I should expect it of myself. But what penetrated my heart was what she told me next—that for every major decision she’s made in life, there’s a specific Scripture verse she can point to as the one that God used to personally direct her. “When circumstances would have made me doubt a decision,” she said, “His Word has carried me through. And not once has He led
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But here’s what I want to encourage in you—the big message of this chapter, perhaps the big message of this book. Try never to forget it. Here it is … There’s no code for you to crack. No puzzle He’s waiting for you to put together. No stick He’s dangling in your peripheral vision, then snatching away when you turn your head toward it. He’s not sitting up in heaven with the cameras rolling and stopwatches ticking, testing whether or not you’re spiritually sharp enough to figure out the next move He wants you to make.
When God speaks and causes your spiritual ears to hear Him, it is for the purpose of making Himself known to you. And not just in a textbook way. He wants to turn your knowledge of Him into your experience of Him. So when He speaks, you’ll recognize His voice because in following its directive, you will be put into position to experience God’s character in your life.
God miraculously supplied them with free housing and job opportunities that replenished their once weakened financial position. They became His hands and feet on the ground in a historic disaster zone by helping those in need in very practical ways, and He became the guardian and provider they might never have experienced if they had resisted His voice and concentrated all their energies on alleviating their own problems. He became for them Jehovah-Rohi—“God our shepherd.” They didn’t just know it now because they’d read it in the Bible.
This is a real thig but what about those who dont have that experience of god
The Enemy would never ask you to do such a thing—would never require you to trust God more fully, to rely on Him so desperately and completely.
Is this true? Deception is varred.
for intance beliving you must submt to abus to save your spouce is a lie that can sound true
When the “five Ms” begin aligning themselves into an easily-read invitation—the “message” of the Spirit, the “model” of Scripture, the “mode” of prayer, the “ministry” of mature believers, the “mercy” of confirmation—you should consider yourself part of something only God could dream up and put together.
Wonder how many years Elizabeth and Zachariah disagreed with God’s timing on providing them a child. They never stopped praying until the days had obviously passed for them to conceive and bear children.
Where is this biblically?
Nothing catches God off-guard or alters His agenda. So when you feel rushed and hurried to make a decision, God is probably not the one speaking.
Instead, God gently encourages and woos. He patiently and persistently gives us enough clarity before requiring our obedience.
God does not speak just to be heard. He speaks to be obeyed. If you take away only a few nuggets of truth from the time we’ve spent together in these pages, let this be among the most trusted and treasured of them all. Obedience is the alpha and omega of discerning God’s voice. He speaks; we obey. It’s not that easy. But it is that simple.
Suffice to say, when instructions from God are difficult—like Abraham’s were, like yours and mine often are—we tend to be slow to obey. Yet when God told him to do the unthinkable, Abraham immediately left for the mountain. And because he obeyed at once, he experienced God’s divine intervention.
