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hope for the hard of hearing

Explore the importance of listening to God through Scripture in the midst of distractions and distorted images of God. Discover the four kinds of soil that impact our ability to hear from God and reflect on our perception of God as a loving parent versus a distant clockmaker. Prepare your heart to seek and find God by aligning with His will and pursuing a deeper relationship with the Creator. Join us as we journey toward a life of loving God, one another, and our neighbors. Our mission is to live out the countercultural teachings of Jesus through the empowering presence of the Spirit.

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hope for the hard of hearing

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  1. Jeremiah 29:13 hope forthe hard of hearing

  2. We’re going to be looking at listening to God… …in the silence …in community …through Scripture But first… …we’re going to check our hearing. On Listening to God…

  3. “Whoever have ears to hear, let them hear.”

  4. Acts 28:26-27 ESV "'Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand,   and you will indeed see but never perceive.For this people’s heart has grown dull,   and with their ears they can barely hear,   and their eyes they have closed;lest they should see with their eyes   and hear with their earsand understand with their heart   and turn, and I would heal them.'

  5. Distracting junk Distorted pictures of God What causes hearing loss?

  6. Hard—don’t receive seed Stony—give up in times of testing Thorny—choked out by cares, riches, & pleasures Ready to hear We are all selfish, arrogant, and short-sighted most of the time—until God changes our hearts. But we may be the last to catch on, and we may have little idea how much our selfish and short-sighted choices are hurting us and the people we care about. Four kinds of soil (Luke 8:4-21) What kind of soil are you today?

  7. We probably won’t care about hearing from God if… …we think God is angry at us …we feel like we have to earn God’s approval …we feel like God doesn’t care about us Distorted Pictures of God

  8. If our parents… • We may see God as angry and impossible to please. Yelled at us a lot or hit us… Praised us when we achieved and seldom at other times… Were not there for us, physically or emotionally… We may find it hard to believe that God feels great affection for us, just because we’re his kids. We may feel like we always need to do more to to earn God’s approval.

  9. We may not be interested in hearing from God if we picture God not as a loving parent, but as a clockmaker who wound up the universe and then went on a long vacation, leaving us on our own. A Clockmaker God? What is God like? “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” (John 14:9)

  10. …I first need to trust that • God loves me—wants what is best for me even more than I do • God is wiser than I am, knows better than I do what choices will truly satisfy me. We can only find deep satisfaction when we live for something much bigger than ourselves. We are too small to make satisfactory gods. To be eager to hear from God…

  11. Jesus came to show us how to live in tune with the Song with the Creator of the universe..

  12. Are you ready to listen? Next week: Listening to God in the silence. “You will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13

  13. To be a reproducing family living out together by the Spirit’s power the countercultural way that Jesus lived and taught— loving God, loving one another, and loving our neighbors asourselves. Our Mission

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