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"God spoke to me." "The Spirit spoke to my heart." "God revealed the idea to me." Being close to God means communicating with him--telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing and understanding what he is saying to us. It is this second half of our conversation with God that is so important but that can also be so difficult. How do we hear his voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own subconscious? What role does the Bible play? What if what God says to us is not clear? The key, says best-selling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator. In this updated and expanded edition of Willard's beloved book, originally published as In Search of Guidance, you'll gain rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom. Including new material from Dallas Willard's teaching at the Renovaré Institute and reformatted to be even easier to read, this classic continues to endure as one of today's best resources for learning to listen closely to God.
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: IVP Books; Updated and Expanded edition (May 20, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830835695
ISBN-13: 978-0830835690
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (228 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #13,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #113 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Self Help #121 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual #196 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Theology
Dallas Willard's Hearing God, Updated and Expanded: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God is the most practical, straightforward, and helpful theological resource on communicating with God I have ever encountered. Communicating with God may very well be the most pressing and least understood aspect of the Christian spiritual life today, and too often, I have worked with people who do not expect to hear from God, or who believe hearing from God is a spiritual experience reserved only for select holy men and women. This is despite the fact they have been invited to enter a "personal relationship with God."Moving methodically and with precision, Willard introduces the reader to the "paradox in the contemporary experience and understanding of hearing God." On the one hand, "we have massive testimony to and widespread faith in God's personal, guiding communicating with us," and on the other we "find a pervasive and often painful uncertainty about how hearing God's voice actually works." Willard then gives guidelines for hearing from God, assurance that God is with us, an examination of God's speaking in the created order, and the nature of God's voice as "still and small" amidst competing voices. Then, Willard examines God's Word and God's rule, the transformation that comes through hearing and believing the gospel about Jesus, the ongoing role of Scripture in furthering that transformation in the life of the disciple, wisdom in how we discern God's voice, and, lastly, how we listen for God in the everyday, beyond matters of simple guidance, growing in friendship with him. This book is narrowly focused but incredibly deep, laser-like but possessing a unique breadth. It is a treasure.
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