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Week 3: Teach Me Your Ways

(John 10:10b) I have come that (you) may have life, and have it more abundantly (to the full).

“abundantly” (Gk) periossos—to be above, to go beyond, extraordinary, exceeding, beyond measure, even superfluous

(Exodus 33:12b–13) “You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ 13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”

Ways God Speaks to Us

1. The voice of God (the exception, not the rule)

2. The Word of God (the rule, not the exception)

Hearing from God is not about newness but about nowness.

(MULTILINE)

3. An inner

Thoughts—words or mental pictures that you sense to be special, or that grow with increasing awareness, clarity, unfolding, intensity, conviction, or volume in your mind

Emotions—a gut-level feeling, desire, impulse, impression, arresting concern, or insistent nudge.

Intuition—knowing spontaneously the right thing to do or say.

Memory—the Holy Spirit brings to your remembrance (John 14:26) an event, a thought, or scripture that you previously had experienced

4. Ordained , spiritual leaders

5. A word (MULTILINE)

6. of the Spirit

(1 Corinthians 12:4, 7-11) There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit… …  7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

7. (although you may not be aware it’s an angel)

(Hebrews 13:2) Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

8. and

(Joel 2:28) “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

9. and

(Hebrews 2:4) God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

10. around you

Others—reasoning, conscience, liturgy (communion, baptism), nature, pain, music, meditation, reading, friends, journaling, the collective voice of believers (MULTILINE)

Prepare yourself to hear from God.

√ Believe that God wants to communicate with you often and in various ways.

√ Abide in God, loving him with all your heart, walking with him, doing life together every day.

√ Keep your “vessel” clean through a life of obedience and quick repentance.

√ Stay humble and willing to admit when you miss it. (MULTILINE)

Three Important Points of Reference

The prompting of the Holy Spirit

The Word of God

The of our lives

When these these things point in the same direction, we can be confident that we are hearing from God and moving in the right direction.(MULTILINE)

(1 Samuel 3:1) In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions…. everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 21:25)

(Proverbs 3:5–6) Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.