How can you listen to God?

How to practice listening prayer
  1. Come to God with your request for guidance. ...
  2. Wait in silence for God to speak for 10-12 minutes. ...
  3. Jot down any Scripture, songs, impressions, or pictures God gives you. ...
  4. Share how God spoke to you with your prayer partners and follow God's will.
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How do you listen to attentively to God?

God might be trying to get our attention but we are focused on other things. We don't slow down enough, quiet ourselves enough to catch what he's telling us.
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  1. Presence. Invite God to be present as you pray.
  2. Gratitude. Think of two or three things that happened today for which you are grateful. ...
  3. Reflect. ...
  4. Sorrow. ...
  5. Grace.
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How do you sit and listen to God?

1) Find a quiet place and simply sit in silence with God.

Sit in the silence for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. Use this time for listening prayer. Resist the urge to fill the space with words. Simply ease into the silence and just be.
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How can I hear God in the silence?

7 Ways to Hear God's Voice in the Silence
  1. Reading his Word. The number one way to hear God's voice is by reading his word. ...
  2. Through Wise Counsel. God speaks to us through our leaders and through the wise counsel of friends and family. ...
  3. Prayer. ...
  4. Worship Music. ...
  5. Silence. ...
  6. Nature. ...
  7. Dreams.
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How do you hear God's voice when making a decision?

Prayer Points On Hearing the Voice of God
  1. Lord Jesus, come into my life. ...
  2. Father give me the grace to hear you and heed to your voice.
  3. Lord take away every hindrance to hear from you.
  4. Holy Spirit I pray that you come into my life, let your spirit fill me.
  5. Father, let me hear you and heed to your instructions.
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How do u know God is listening?

Through the scriptures, we are taught that God will always hear our prayers and will answer them if we address Him with faith and real intent. In our hearts we will feel the confirmation that He does hear us, a feeling of peace and calm. We can also feel that everything will be fine when we follow the Father's will.
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How do you recognize God's voice?

How to Know If We're Hearing God's Voice
  1. God's voice doesn't obsess over our problems. ...
  2. God's voice doesn't gossip. ...
  3. God's voice will usually speak with you about your own heart, not others' hearts. ...
  4. God's voice focuses more on the heart of the issue, than on direct answers. ...
  5. God's voice will never contradict Scripture.
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What does God's voice sound like?

The Bible more often portrays God's voice as sounding ordinary and meek than as booming and thunderous. The critics who are deriding Scott's decision as heretical, blasphemous, or somehow unfaithful to Scripture seem to be overlooking Scripture's actual descriptions of God's voice.
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Does God get mad at me?

So while God is not human, he does get angry. And he has good reason for reacting to human behavior with anger. In fact, God wouldn't be good if he didn't have strong reactions to evil and injustice.
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Can God hear me cry?

God absolutely responds to the tears of everyone! The trials and tribulations of this world can certainly bring us to tears. In times like these, we can find strength, solace, and comfort by crying out to God in prayer. He is there to ease our sorrows and help us to deal with pain and suffering.
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How God hears our prayers?

1 Peter 3:12 - "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." 3. 1 John 5:15 - "And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him."
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Do not pray in the open?

Summary. Jesus taught, “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.”
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Should you pray every day?

It provides a greater sense of purpose, betters your mood, and helps you cope with and overcome the difficulties life brings your way. Prayer is a great way to find social support by getting involved with a community of spiritually like-minded people.
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Is there a right or wrong way to pray?

There is no right or wrong way to pray during Adoration. It may be helpful to use a prayer book, or read Scripture, or another spiritual book, or pray the rosary. But, as many people would recommend, avoid filling the entire prayer time with these things.
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Why does it feel like God is not listening to me?

When it feels like God isn't listening He may actually be saving us from ourselves. Saving us from our own desires that will lead us astray and potentially not turn out well. When we get into those moments where we feel like God isn't listening we need to trust Him even more.
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Why are my prayers not answered?

- As long as your prayers are for selfish motives, driven by pride hidden in your heart, God will not answer them. - Other versions start this verse with “don't be anxious” in place of “Be careful…” - Once you know God has said yes, you know you will receive it.
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Does God want to hear from us?

It is so beautiful to know that God cares about every detail of our lives and He wants to know about what is important to us. "Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge." God wants us to pour out our hearts to Him in prayer.
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Can we hurt God?

Theologians believe that humans can harm God in similar ways: They can't hurt God, but can still do God an injustice. But unlike human beings, God can't feel upset or otherwise emotionally dissatisfied.
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How can we make God happy?

Loving God is expressed in the same way, by spending time in his presence — listening for his voice, thanking and praising him, or reading and contemplating his Word. You also make God happy in how you respond to his answers to your prayers. People who value the gift over the Giver are selfish.
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When did God get angry?

In part two (9:30–31:00), Tim walks Jon and Carissa through the first three times God is described as angry in the Hebrew Scriptures. The first instance appears in Exodus 4, when God commissions Moses to confront Pharaoh, but Moses objects five times.
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What is the voice of God called?

Originally, however, such Divine communication was also in the Hebrew called kol (voice) as is shown by the Biblical phrase "There fell a voice from heaven" (Daniel 4:28 [A. V. 31]); and occasionally in the Talmud it is briefly given as kol (voice).
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Who has heard God's voice?

Samuel heard the voice of God, but did not recognize it until he was instructed by Eli (1 Samuel 3:1–10).
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