Foothills Christian Ministries
Freedom Class - Week 4 - Hearing God
Locations & Times
Foothills Christian Church
365 W Bradley Ave, El Cajon, CA 92020, United States
Wednesday 6:30 PM
We are made in the image of God to be God's "representatives."
To "RE- PRESENT" HIM to the planet.
To "RE- PRESENT" HIM to the planet.
IMPORTANT POINTS
1. Faith comes (not by trying really hard) but by hearing the Voice of God.
1. Faith comes (not by trying really hard) but by hearing the Voice of God.
IMPORTANT POINTS
2. God WANTS to talk to you about who you really are.
Levels of Change: Environment, behavior, capability, belief, identity
He uses the stuff on the planet to capture our attention.
2. God WANTS to talk to you about who you really are.
Levels of Change: Environment, behavior, capability, belief, identity
He uses the stuff on the planet to capture our attention.
IMPORTANT POINTS
3.Hearing God's voice is the primary way we disconnect from our knowledge and reconnect to the Source.
3.Hearing God's voice is the primary way we disconnect from our knowledge and reconnect to the Source.
WAYS GOD REVEALS HIMSELF
1. God has given us SCRIPTURE as the PRIMARY REVELATION for who He is and who we are.
1. God has given us SCRIPTURE as the PRIMARY REVELATION for who He is and who we are.
2 Tim. 3:16… from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correcting, training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Jer. 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you have not seen before.
2 Cor 6:18 I will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me
Lev. 26:12 I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
Jer. 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you have not seen before.
2 Cor 6:18 I will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me
Lev. 26:12 I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
WAYS GOD REVEALS HIMSELF
2. Prophetic Words: Someone hears the Lord speak and they proclaim it from their mouth.
2. Prophetic Words: Someone hears the Lord speak and they proclaim it from their mouth.
WAYS GOD REVEALS HIMSELF
3. Personal Revelation: Spirit to spirit exchange
3. Personal Revelation: Spirit to spirit exchange
3 questions I need to ask when I perceived God is speaking to me:
1. Does what I have sensed, or seen, or heard – line up with the nature of God as taught, revealed in the Scripture?
1. Does what I have sensed, or seen, or heard – line up with the nature of God as taught, revealed in the Scripture?
3 questions I need to ask when I perceived God is speaking to me:
2. Does it produce the fruit of the spirit?
2. Does it produce the fruit of the spirit?
3 questions I need to ask when I perceived God is speaking to me:
3. Does your revelation have the result of releasing you from the power the circumstance has over you?
3. Does your revelation have the result of releasing you from the power the circumstance has over you?
What language does God speak?
He speaks reality into existence by His Words.
Romans 4:17 God gives life to the dead and calls into existence that which is not. And against all hope, he believed….
He speaks reality into existence by His Words.
Romans 4:17 God gives life to the dead and calls into existence that which is not. And against all hope, he believed….
The World is Made by the Word of God
Col. 1: 17 He is BEFORE all things, IN all things, and all things HAVE THEIR BEING in Him.
Col. 1: 17 He is BEFORE all things, IN all things, and all things HAVE THEIR BEING in Him.
Heb. 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
THE POWER OF CONFESSION
Confession is more than forgiveness of sin.
Confession is more than forgiveness of sin.
To confess is to HEAR, BELIEVE, SPEAK AND ACT
Confession begins with God and is fulfilled by God
The point of confession is the completion of a circuit
Kingdom of God come to me, inhabits me, and then goes through me to the world
WE MUST TAKE THE TIME TO HEAR!