{"id":117,"date":"2013-12-10T05:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-12-10T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:52:07","slug":"knowing-gods-voic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Knowing God&#8217;s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing the voice of God, for most, is something that God teaches us.\u00a0 I\u2019m aware how crazy this may sound to some, but it is found in His word (the bible) that God desires us to know His voice \u2013 <b>John 10:27<\/b> &#8211; <b><sup>27\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.\u201d\u00a0 In the Old Testament, when the prophet Samuel was a child servant of the high priest Eli, God woke Samuel, calling to him.\u00a0 Samuel did not know the Lord\u2019s voice and thought that when he heard his name being called, that it was Eli.\u00a0 Finally Eli recognized what was happening and told the boy to say, when called, \u201cSpeak,\u00a0Lord, for your servant is listening.\u201d\u00a0 So began Samuel\u2019s very intimate walk with God, knowing God\u2019s voice and God himself (see <b>1 Samuel 3-11<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p>God also wants a close, intimate relationship with all of us.\u00a0 He calls to us and wants us to hear and know His voice.\u00a0 God said in <b>James 4:8<\/b>a &#8211; Come near to God and he will come near to you&#8230;<b> \u00a0<\/b>So the journey of knowing God\u2019s voice and walking with Him begins with Jesus, who came to earth to make a way for us.\u00a0 <b>John 14:6<\/b> &#8211; <b><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Jesus said to him,\u00a0\u201cI am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So come to hear the voice of the Almighty God, come to know Him intimately, come to Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing the voice of God, for most, is something that God teaches us.\u00a0 I\u2019m aware how crazy this may sound to some, but it is found in His word (the bible) that God desires us to know His voice \u2013 John 10:27 &#8211; 27\u00a0My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,7,62,8,13,1024],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-father","tag-god","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus","tag-love","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}