God desperately wants to speak to us

Jentezen Franklin: I think it all begins with understanding that God desperately wants to speak to us and it’s not a spooky or strange thing, the way that he speaks. The first introduction we have of God — the way he reveals himself to the human race is the bible begins with “and God said,” then the prophets always prefaced their words with “thus saith the Lord” over and over and over, then Jesus appears in the new testament and the bible calls him “the word.”

What a strange title for someone: “the word made flesh.” It’s almost like God is over-emphasizing the fact “I’m a speaking God and I want to talk to you.” Once you begin to understand that he really does want to speak to us, then we have to discern his voice from our own voice and the voices of other people and the voice of the enemy.

Joyce: I think it might be good to add here that God wants to speak to us about even the tiniest details of our life and I think that was a big transition for me back in the seventies because I’d been in church for a lot of years and been a Christian but I didn’t really have any kind of an intimate walk with God. It was more of a Sunday morning relationship. Some of my behavior was guided by the principles of God but I didn’t really understand that God wanted to be involved in every area of my life and that he would even speak to me about tiny little things that might just be personal only to me.

Joyce Meyer: I think so many people want an intimacy with God, they want a closeness with God but unless they can understand that he is a speaking God and he does want to speak to them and that they don’t have to be afraid of that, they’re never going to have that closeness.