How To Hear God: A Conversation With John Brown, Pt. 2

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From the picture you may deduce that coffee is a wonderful conductor for hearing God’s voice. There’s only one cup – not because I’m inhospitable – but because John won’t drink it. At all. Nuts, huh? But he still hears God…somehow…


Join me, won’t you, for a second sit-down with my friend and mentor, John Brown. Our dialogue is about hearing the voice of God and distinguishing His voice from our own, or from a more nefarious source.

Oh No, He Didn’t! Did He?

In today’s episode, John gets downright personal, sharing two stories (of his many!), recounting crucial moments when the voice of God was needed – as much for others as for himself. These stories will have your jaw hitting the floor!

In the previous segment, we learned there is both the hearing of faith (God speaking in our time) and the obedience of faith (His love language is our obedience) to complete the circle of communication.

The Definition of Faith

The scripture tells us “faith comes by hearing and that such hearing comes by the RHEMA (the specific message we hear in a moment) of Christ (Romans 10:17).” Faith always starts with God.

We’ve already uncovered the truth that hearing is ineffectual without the doing, so, using this revelation we discover that faith is defined as both hearing the life-giving Words of Christ (which are never in conflict with the written Word) and carrying out whatever the message instructs.

A Freebie!

John references a book that changed his thinking on the matter of God speaking to us. That book, Remarkable Miracles by G.C. Bevington can be found here. I’ve too been greatly blessed to read it and will get a copy to the first one who emails me your request along with your mailing information.

Part 3 of this dialogue on hearing God will be posted on Friday as I’m running a day behind on my postings this week due to circumstances beyond my control.

Hey! Thank you for listening. If you have any gripes or criticisms, address them to John. Any praises, I’m all ears.

Here’s to HEARING!

Amen.

 

How To Hear God: A Conversation with John Brown, Pt. 1

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This week I sat down with my father in the faith and asked him about hearing God’s voice for ourselves. As per usual, John was insightful, humble and quotable. I’m honored to share with you, in these series of podcasts, my friend and mentor, John Brown.

This first episode looks at the foundation of our hearing. Is there scriptural precedent for the hearing of faith in contemporary, post-apostolic, times? I appreciate so much what John said in keeping balance with – and providing the safeguard against – the tendency of some to “hear” spurious words and count them as divine.

“The truth is, we cannot know whether or not it is God speaking  – that is, His speaking ‘in the now’ – without the guidance of what has been written in His Word.”

Does God speak today? Can we know Him intimately with such intimate dialogue as saints of old enjoyed? Thank you for listening to this edition of The Pasture’s Podcast: I pray some of your own questions will be answered on the subject!

(Parts 2 and 3 will be posted on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, and you DO NOT want to miss them!)

Music Credit: Máire Brennan, Follow the Word

Podcast: How Does God Truly Feel About Me?

Hosea

Have you seen Pretty Woman? You know, Richard Gere and a younger Julia Roberts. Perhaps the movie that made her a star and resurrected Gere’s career?

  • Rescued from the streets.
  • Clothed her in apparel fitting of a princess not a streetwalker.
  • The priceless necklace.
  • Playfully snapping the box lid shut before she can reach in.
  • Standing up inside the limo, through the skyroof, flowers in hand.
  • Climbing the fire escape to retrieve his damsel.

 

You remember.

But I’ve got a story on today’s Pasture’s Podcast that is even more stunning than Pretty Woman. It’s more romantic because it’s true, not a fabrication – and even more hard to believe.

It’s Hosea’s story…

Running Time: 26m, 52s