How to hear God

How to hear God (Luke 8:4-15)
We need to tune to Him in order to hear.

Seed: Word of God
Farmer: God
Soil: Mind (Mine, yours)

1) I must Cultivate an open mind (Vs:5,12)

Hardened Path: Closed Mind
What causes us to have a close mind?
- Pride (Closes our mind when we think there is no need of help)
- Fear
- Bitterness


2) I must Allocate time to listen (Vs:6, 13)

Shallow Soil: A superficial Mind

3) I must Eliminate distractions (Vs:7,14)

- Must make time for God.
Weed: Sign of negliet
Soil with weeds: Preoccupied Mind

Three examples of Distractions:
- Worries
- Riches: We are to be a blessing to others. Not to get distracted.
- Pleasures

4) I must DO What He says (Vs:8,15)

Good soil: Willing heart

James 1:22 -


2 Aspects of God's calling:
- Primary Calling: The calling "to be"
- Secondary Calling: The calling "to do"


Some quotes from Famous People:

"Most people don't want to know the Will of God in order to do it;
they seem want to know it just in order to consider it" - William Pettingill

"Ruthless eliminate hurry from your life" - John Ortberg

CHOICES

Everybody in this world has a choice or choices to choose. Choosing a choice to live, sleep, eat, cry, career, where, how, when, who. We are given choice to choose God, devil or GK.

God has given us the liberty to choose. We are to choose wisely of our own choices. If we don't, we may be directed to a wrong direction and may meet in dead-end.

Choose what we want in our life. Choose wisely.

There are some people believe in God, some associate with the devil and some do not believe the existance of God. I will show you the statistics the rising of atheist. You can look at the website given :

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

http://atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.php

I feel very sad to know about this. These atheist made their choice not to believe in God. But believe in science and their own knowledge.

There are some information saying that some christians claimed to be christians are shifting their beliefs to another religion. This is a shame for us. You can find it in : http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_prac2.htm

You, me have a choice to make. We are to choose wisely. If we do not choose wisely, we tend to blame others and even God. But we don't blame ourselves. Because we think that we are not at fault. We are not to blame others instead accept the mistake.

We, humans think that we are smart, intelligent, thinking we can do by ourselves. We likely to have pride and ego, going ahead with our choices instead of asking opinion from others but the best is to ask God. We are not putting God as a captain for our ship/boat. God is our creator. He knows the best for us like our parents.

Seek God for everything you does in your daily life. Sometimes we fail to seek God. No matter what He is always there with us like a shepard finding His lost sheep(that's us)...

Listen to His Still Small voice. Obey His word. There is no better and brighter future without God. God can make our life better and beautiful.


What is your choice? GOD OR DEVIL OR BE AN ATHEIST.
CHOOSE WISELY. REMEMBER GOD IS THERE FOR YOU, WAITING PATIENTLY......