Sermon Resources on God's Voice

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Inviting God's Voice into Life

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1 Kings 19:11-13, Mark 4:18-20, Psalm 46:10, Luke 10:38-42, Romans 10:17, Isaiah 55:2-3 , James 1:19-21

Gracious God, the noise of this world drowns out the beauty of your voice. You invite us to listen, but we deny you time and space. Forgive us for ignoring you. Create in us the desire to listen to yo...

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Listening to God’s Voice

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Frank Buchman

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God's Voice

We accept as commonplace a man’s voice carried by radio to the uttermost parts of the earth. Why not the voice of the living God as an active, creative force in every home, every business, every parli...

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God’s Voice: A Disruptive Force

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G. Campbell Morgan

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Genesis 12:1-4, Exodus 3:1-10, Acts 9:3-6

G. Campbell Morgan offers some sharp insight on the topic of hearing God’s voice. He observes that when God speaks to us, His word often arrives as a disruptive force in our lives. He elaborates furth...

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Charles F. Stanley

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When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

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Imagine God’s Voice

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John Piper

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Zephaniah 3:17, Psalm 29:3-5, Isaiah 40:9-11, 1 Kings 19:11-12

What do you hear when you imagine the voice of God singing? I hear the booming of Niagara Falls mingled with a trickle of a mossy mountain stream. I hear the blast of Mt. St. Helens mingled with a kit...

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The Voice of the Shepherd

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Richard J. Foster

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1 Kings 19:9-13 , Exodus 33:12-23, Habakkuk 3:17-19, Luke 10:38-42, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 , Psalm 46:10

One evening I was taking a stretch break from study, walking out into the night. Soon I began speaking prayers of complaint . . . a little like the lament psalms in the Bible. I wasn’t angry, really, ...

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Hearing the Voice of God in Jesus

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Mark D. Roberts

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If we want to hear the voice of God, we should pay attention to Jesus. We hear God’s voice in the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the biblical gospels. We hear God’s voice through the acti...

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The voice of the Lord is over the waters

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Allen Thompson

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Psalm 29:3, 9, Mark 1:11, Isaiah 43:1, Ephesians 1:13-14, Romans 8:15, Isaiah 42:1, Psalm 29:9

The voice of the Lord is over the waters and in his temple all cry, “Glory!” the heavens were torn open and the Spirit descended And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son Fear not,...

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Hearing God’s Voice is no Small Matter

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Dallas Willard

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1 Samuel 3:9-10, John 10:27, 1 Kings 19:11-12 , Acts 9:3-6, Isaiah 30:21

Sunday dinner was finished, but we lingered around the table, savoring the good food and reflecting on the morning’s service at church. The congregation—where I then served as a very young (and very g...

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Oswald Chambers

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1 Kings 19:12, Romans 8:26, John 14:15-17, John 3:8, 1 Kings 19:11-12

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr… So gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

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A Voice They Could Trust

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Genesis 21:14–19, Luke 15:1–7 , John 10:1–16, Psalm 139:7–12, Exodus 3:1–12 , 1 Kings 19:1–13, Psalm 91:14-15, 2 Peter 2:9, John 10:27, Romans 10:17, John 5:37, John 8:47

On May 1, 2023, a small aircraft carrying seven passengers crashed deep in the Amazon rainforest, one of the most remote regions on Earth. The Cessna had been flying between two villages in southern C...

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Hope in God's Forgiveness

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Romans 8:24-25, Psalm 40:1-3 , Lamentations 3:22-24 , Jonah 2:1-7, Mark 10:46-52, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 130:1-5

Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgivenes...

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Following the Good Shepherd’s Voice

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Kenneth E. Bailey

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Psalm 23:null, Revelation 7:17, 1 Peter 5:2-3, Hebrews 13:20-21, Luke 15:4-5, Ezekiel 34:15-16, Isaiah 40:11

In his excellent study of the famous Biblical passage on shepherds, ( The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament) , scholar Ken Bailey provides context to the 23rd...

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Inspired by 1 Kings 19:11-13

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Cody Sandahl

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Leader: A great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and broke the rocks in pieces. People: But the Lord was not in the wind. Leader: After the wind there was an earthquake. People: But th...

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Heavenly Father, we come before you as

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Charles Teixeira

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Psalm 119:105, John 10:27, Hebrews 4:14-16, Romans 8:26-27, Lamentations 3:22-23, Ephesians 2:4-5, 1 Samuel 3:1-10

Heavenly Father, we come before you as beggars in need of your voice. As we lift up our thoughts, songs, and prayers, we lean in to hear how you would speak back to us. We yearn to hear the voice of J...

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S.I.T. For the week of 6/3

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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.

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God's Voice Speaking through the Frustration My first conscious experience of hearing the voice of Jesus occurred when I was a college student. It grew out of a period of genuine frustration. Bec...

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Even More Powerful Than E.F. Hutton

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Mark D. Roberts

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Genesis 1:null

In the 1970s, the brokerage firm of E.F. Hutton ran an unforgettable series of TV commercials. The set up was always similar. Two people in a crowded public place are talking about financial matters. ...

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Father God, you come to us in the

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Laura B. Murray

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James 1:22-25, Isaiah 30:21, Proverbs 2:1, Hebrews 4:12, Matthew 7:24-25, Romans 10:17, 1 Samuel 3:, Isaiah 55:3, Matthew 11:15, Acts 16:14

Father God, you come to us in the everyday. You give us your Word and your Spirit that we might hear your voice, and follow your ways. We confess that we have neglected your words to us and pretended ...

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Gracious God, the noise of this world

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Laura B. Murray

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Isaiah 30:21, Psalm 46:10, John 10:27, Psalm 119:105, 1 Kings 19:11-12, Psalm 62:1, Jeremiah 29:13

Gracious God, the noise of this world drowns out the beauty of your voice. You invite us to listen, but we deny you time and space. Forgive us for ignoring you. Create in us the desire to listen to yo...

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Loving God, you spoke the earth into

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Austin D. Hill

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Loving God, you spoke the earth into motion. Your words have that much power. So instead of continuing to speak to you, we silence ourselves. Please show us our sins and forgive us for them as we list...

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Speaking And Acting

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Timothy Keller

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We humans may say, “Let there be light in this room,” but then we have to flick a switch or light a candle. Our words need deeds to back them up and can fail to achieve their purposes. God’s words, ho...

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Adapted from Psalm 29:1, 3-5, 7-9, Luke 2:14, Revelation 4:8,11

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Psalm 29:1, Luke 2:14, Psalm 29:null

Leader: Then let us wait for the Lord, and in this season of Lent, let us wait by the cross. "Ascribe to the Lord, glory and strength." Glorify God's holy name. People: We worship the L...

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Hearing God in our Deepest Struggles

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Psalm 34:17-18, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Hebrews 4:15-16, Hebrews 2:18, Matthew 26:38, Matthew 11:28-30

When do we hear God’s voice most clearly? It is often in our deepest struggles that we hear God’s voice. In the 1640s, George Fox, who would later establish the Quaker or Friends movement, wandered th...

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Responsive Prayer from Psalm 29

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Psalm 29:1-4, Psalm 29:9

Give the Lord the glory due his name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: The God of glory thunders: The Lord is upon many waters. The voice...

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Trevor Hudson

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Genesis 22:1-18, Isaiah 50:4-7 , 1 Samuel 3:1-10, Matthew 3:16-17 , John 5:19-20 , Psalm 40:6-8

In stark contrast to ourselves, when Jesus needed to know who he was, he listened to his Father’s voice, trusted that voice and claimed its truth for his own life.

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The Gentle Whisper of God

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Richard J. Foster

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1 Samuel 3:1-10, Isaiah 30:21, 1 Kings 19:11-13 , John 10:27, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 32:8

In the early days of my experiments in listening to the Lord, I sensed a distinct word to call a friend, a chaplain at a local college, and see how he was doing. The word carried with it the marks of ...

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Heavenly Father, we confess that we fill

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Allen Thompson

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Heavenly Father, we confess that we often fill our lives with noise that obscures our ability to hear your voice. We do not even realize how many opportunities you give us to see your glory and to glo...

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Loving and grace-filled God, we confess

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Chip Hardwick

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Loving and grace-filled God, we confess that it is difficult to keep you first in our lives. There are so many urgent demands on us that we find it hard to focus ourselves on you. The culture around u...

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Help us in this time of worship to be

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Help us in this time of worship to be still and know that you are God. In quietness we would hear your voice calling us away from the discordant noises of the everyday world, that our spirits might be...

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Glorifying God with One Voice

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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Acts 2:1-4, Isaiah 6:3b, Psalm 150:6

Pastor: We worship today in the name of God the Father, People: Praise to our creating God! Pastor: In the name of His Son, Jesus Christ: People: Praise to our redeeming God!...

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