Hearing the voice of God

That was our subject for this week. All I can say is WOW! After having such a hard weekend, I awoke on Tues. morning singing I Have Decided to Follow Jesus! I realized it was my choice to how I see the day. That is also what the speaker spoke on. Every day is a brand new day, we haven't lived this one before and its our choice on how we do. I always marvel how God works these teachings into my life. One of the statements that our teacher said that really struck me, was "It's our lack of faith that causes us not to hear God's voice." Hearing is the most important thing, then it is to obey! How often do we choose not to do that part? We had to do an exercise and ask God: 1)Who are you to me? 2)Who am I to you? We had to be still and ask God this and then write down what He says. I had really struggled with this, because what I felt God was to me, I had to ask myself if I truly believed it. This is a great exercise for anybody. Try it! We also learned that God asks 2 things of us: 1)to love Him 2)to love others. Should be easy right! The key is to put Him first. One thing that was a comfort to me was that when He calls you He will equip you! The speaker had us sit on the floor where she had a tablecloth down and a glass with liguid and she said that we are going to have a picnic with God. She said we needed to bring God down to our level and talk to Him as we would our friends. It was such a good picture. We later had to break up into teams and ask God these questions? 1)Who is it you want us to pray for? 2)What is it that you want us to pray? 3)How do you want us to pray? 4)How do we involve the other teams? That was quite the exercise. We asked God to empty out our minds and speak to us. We were to write down whatever came to us, no matter how silly it sounded. After that we were to ask God to confirm all of it, and then start tieing all the pieces together. That was so amazing! That afternoon we had to present it to the class. This is called creative intercession. I have experienced intercession before but not like this. I will not look at intercession the same again! On our last day of class, our teacher then spoke to us what God had placed in her heart. Mine fit me to a tee! I am finally enjoying a day off! Trying to catch up on everything. We have journals we have to keep up on and bible verses that we have to go over and write our thoughts on. Lots of thinking and pondering. I haven't done that for so long, so its taking awhile. But I'm definetely enjoying what I'm learning. Tomorrow is a brand new day!