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HEARKEN EXAMPLE

Hearing His Voice Through A Child

1. Create Margin
   
2. Hearken!
   
   • God Leads Us Through What We Know
   • Hearing His Voice through the Din
   • Hearing His Confirming Voice
   • Hearing His Voice through a Child
3. Invite the Lord’s Chastening through Obedience
   
4. Believe and Abide (3 parts)
   
5. Simply Surrender
   
6. Worship and Pray Without Ceasing
   
7. Be Content and Hope in Christ
8. Wisely Steward Your Liberty in Christ
   

Four of my children were playing outdoors with six of our neighbor children one beautiful spring afternoon. They were having such a good time on the swingset—laughing and sliding and climbing on top of the little playhouse roof—that I left the quietness of my house, took my library books on shade plants out to the bench near the swingset, and began reading.

Our little five-year-old neighbor boy was happily swinging as high as he could when he sweetly shouted to me, "Mrs. Miller!!"

"Yes, darlin’!"

"Why are you reading out here on the bench?"

"I think I just wanted to enjoy this beautiful spring day with all of you."

Over the hubbub, he shouted, "Is it just more peaceful out here?"

I had to laugh at that. Ten children—ages 2 through 14—playing together outdoors isn't usually what you'd think of as peaceful, but I answered him, "Yes, sweetie, it IS more peaceful." And I began to tear up.

Why would I tear up over that comment? I wondered.

I realized that God had brought my life from a place of such disarray to a place of indescribable peace; and He spoke to me in a child's voice to remind me that peace is not what's happening around you but what He has done in you.

1. Create Margin
   Purposefully develop an environment that fosters spiritual growth.

2. Hearken!
   Cultivate discerning the meaning of His message to you.
   
   • God Leads Us Through What We Know
   • Hearing His Voice through the Din
   • Hearing His Confirming Voice
   • Hearing His Voice through a Child

3. Invite the Lord’s Chastening through Obedience
   Obey—through your personal conduct—the seemingly little things God has set before you.
   
   • Distinguish Between Works and Obedience
     A practical example
     
   • Love is Born of God
     A Failing Marriage Testimony

4. Believe and Abide, Part 1 of 3
   Believe and Abide, Part 2 of 3
   Believe and Abide, Part 3 of 3
   Believe Him as you abide and be released to love.

5. Simply Surrender
   Now that the flesh has no power over you, walk in the Light and simply surrender.

6. Worship and Pray Without Ceasing
   God seeks you to worship in spirit and in truth moment by moment.

7. Be Content and Hope in Christ
   Serve the Living God, in Whom you find your contentment.

8. Wisely Steward Your Liberty
   You are free indeed! Praise the Lord!

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