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A few days ago I received an email that is a great example of what can happen when a group prays and listens to God corporately.  So this is a brief break from my thoughts on how to hear God.  The email is from Brenda Harkins. "I am chiming in on this kind of late,… Read More

tweetmeme_source = ‘felicitydale’; tweetmeme_service = ‘bit.ly’; tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.simplychurch.com/2010/03/how-do-we-hear-god.html’; God delights to communicate with us.  He loves to answer our questions.  He conveys His approval and acceptance of us.  He guides us when we do not know what to do.  He brings light when something is bothering us.  There are no shadows in His goodness. … Read More

Jesus told His disciples that it was better for Him to go away because if He did so, He would send the Holy Spirit to them (John 16:7).  Could anything be better than having the physical presence of Jesus with us?  Jesus thought so, because the Holy Spirit is not limited in time and space… Read More

In the last post, we saw that we are composed of three parts–body, soul and spirit. Each of the three parts of us is not independent of the others.  For example, most of us have experienced times when we get physically sick.  Sometimes this causes us to feel emotionally depressed.  This is the body impacting… Read More

Many believers are under the mistaken idea that when it says, “God spoke” or “the Holy Spirit said” that the people heard an audible voice.  But if you ask people who clearly hear Him on a regular basis, they will tell you this is not the case. Let’s take a look at how humans function… Read More

tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; http://www.simplychurch.com/2010/02/how-did-jesus-hear-god-speak.html.html It is notable that Jesus did not begin His earthly ministry until the Holy Spirit had come upon Him at His baptism.  From that point onwards, the Holy Spirit led Him.  Philippians 2:7, 8 says “When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status… Read More

Everything that we know about God teaches us that He desires to communicate with us.  It is a part of His very character.  Romans 1 tells us that God speaks to us even through the magnificence of His creation.   John 1:1 describes Jesus as the Word:  In the beginning was the Word and the… Read More

One of the main paradigm shifts within this movement of simple churches is the belief that ordinary men and women hear God.  They can be entrusted with the affairs of the Kingdom.  It does not need specially trained people to manage the church.  The Holy Spirit is able to run the church by speaking directly… Read More

A few days ago I posed this question on facebook.  "What does the infrastructure of a starfish look like.  Neil Cole was one of those who replied.  His comment: "Self-building and self-replicating, internal and decentralized." If we apply these principles to anything we try to put in place in terms of infrastructure, we won't go… Read More