Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how." (11)

We followed the Three Steps to Hearing God that I had first learned from Joy Dawson in New Zealand. First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited…believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.

Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide.

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.

Elisha instructed the young man to go back to the place where he last knew he had it. There, at that spot, God gave the young man the tool he needed. Sometimes, Duncan said, we momentarily lose our axheads—our best cutting-edge tool for ministry, which is the clear voice of God. It helps to go back to the place where we last knew we had heard the sharp edge of God's voice.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.