Hear God

How important is it that we hear God? Your life depends on it! God speaks in many ways, but if we don't take it to heart our lives will show it. If you don't like the direction your life is going then it's time for a course correction. Proverbs 4:23 tells us to, "Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life." A word from God taken to heart means hearing and doing what God speaks. But how do we know which one is God's voice with so many voices competing for our attention? This is your year to simplify your life and cut out the clutter so your heart can know God's voice!

Branch Family Church

Get Planted

Psalm 27:8 - My heart has heard you say, Come and talk with me. And my heart responds, Lord, I am coming.

Grow Strong

How to hear the voice of God...

1. Turn down the volume of other things. Matthew 6:6 Message - Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.
2. Be still. Psalm 46:10 & Psalm 37:7
3. Listen. John 10:27 – To the Word (Mark 9:7 & John 1:1, 14) To the wise (Proverbs 12:15)
4. Do it! James 1:22-25 - Obedience will open the eyes of your understanding.
   

Branch Out

Romans 10:9-10 NLT & Message - The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It's the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—"Jesus is my Master"—embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!" Scripture reassures us, "No one who trusts God like this—heart and soul—will ever regret it."