WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:10.420 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey listen we're talking about 3 00:00:10.420 --> 00:00:15.720 the voice of God and now we're talking about hearing from God. Do you have ears to 4 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:20.260 hear what the Spirit of God is saying to you? We're gonna find out in just a 5 00:00:20.260 --> 00:00:26.120 moment. You can get the outlines of this podcast by 6 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:32.960 going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and 7 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:37.100 encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave 8 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:43.040 us one of those five star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes. Then 9 00:00:43.040 --> 00:00:47.720 that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's 10 00:00:47.720 --> 00:00:54.440 word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibs. All right so here we are talking 11 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:59.420 about in fact last time together we saw and I don't know if you viewed it or 12 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:03.700 not it'd probably be better if you viewed the first installment of this where 13 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:07.740 we talked about how do we hear the voice of God? How was that discerned? We 14 00:01:07.740 --> 00:01:13.300 talked about his voice. How does he speak to us? That was in our first episode. 15 00:01:13.300 --> 00:01:19.820 So now we're following up with hearing or ears. So we've got the voice of God 16 00:01:19.820 --> 00:01:26.340 and secondly in this installment we're talking about the ears. Not the ears of 17 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:34.540 God. Your ears, my ears. It's amazing to me how often Jesus announced in 18 00:01:34.540 --> 00:01:38.780 scripture to the churches to the seven letters to the seven churches. He who 19 00:01:38.780 --> 00:01:46.540 has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the churches and 20 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:50.460 that's not just limited by the way to the seven letters to the seven churches. 21 00:01:50.460 --> 00:01:57.020 It's often challenged when Jesus in the gospels would say things like this. If 22 00:01:57.020 --> 00:02:04.420 you can handle this this is what was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah saying or he 23 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:11.140 would reference Jeremiah or Moses. What was Jesus doing? He was saying can you 24 00:02:11.140 --> 00:02:19.220 hear me? Are you listening? So here's the funny thing about spirituality. It's 25 00:02:19.220 --> 00:02:26.700 completely irrelevant, our fleshly ears obviously. I mean in the technical 26 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:32.420 scheme of things your ears matter in the sense that they process the sound waves 27 00:02:32.420 --> 00:02:35.500 that are being spoken but here's the beautiful thing about what God does when 28 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:42.540 he speaks and how we can hear is that we begin to nurture not our ears to hear 29 00:02:42.540 --> 00:02:47.980 from God. We nurture a heart to hear from God. So I want to paint this corny 30 00:02:47.980 --> 00:02:53.100 picture but it's going to help you remember. Imagine your heart right now from 31 00:02:53.100 --> 00:02:59.980 this time forward having ears on it. Your heart has ears and so how does your 32 00:02:59.980 --> 00:03:06.380 heart hear? So again Jesus warned us be careful two things he said by the way 33 00:03:06.380 --> 00:03:12.260 in the in the gospels. Be careful what you hear and he said be careful how you 34 00:03:12.260 --> 00:03:20.780 hear. This is great. So how do we nurture a hearing heart? And that is something 35 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:26.260 that is going to be I think really difficult for us not because God made it 36 00:03:26.260 --> 00:03:30.780 difficult. It's because we've made it difficult and that is what we need to 37 00:03:30.780 --> 00:03:36.700 discipline ourselves to be able to receive. This is tough for us. We have got to 38 00:03:36.700 --> 00:03:43.220 get into the habit of watch. In fact I'll just do I'll just do it now unscripted 39 00:03:43.220 --> 00:03:49.020 like this. This is how we hear and by the way this is Bible roulette. I didn't 40 00:03:49.020 --> 00:03:57.020 know I don't know where I'm at right now even. This is Psalm 14. The full has 41 00:03:57.020 --> 00:04:02.220 said in his heart there is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable 42 00:04:02.220 --> 00:04:12.060 works. There is none who does good. So this is how I hear from God. Lord speak to 43 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:17.220 me about what's being said in this portion of scripture. The full has said in 44 00:04:17.260 --> 00:04:23.580 his heart. Interesting. The full has said in his heart. That just backs up what I 45 00:04:23.580 --> 00:04:31.060 said a moment ago. The heart can hear. The conversation is internal. It's the 46 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:35.460 spiritual part of who you are. You're processing this. The full has said in his 47 00:04:35.460 --> 00:04:40.060 heart. It means there's a lot of communication taking place in the realm of 48 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:46.460 the heart. So there's voices in there. The full is speaking. But I just read that 49 00:04:46.460 --> 00:04:52.060 in the Bible me. Now we together. So the Bible's telling me the full has said in 50 00:04:52.060 --> 00:04:59.420 his heart. So the place of listening is the heart. So for my heart to listen it's 51 00:04:59.420 --> 00:05:05.820 got to be open. It's got to be tender. It's got to be tenderized. Meaning I need to 52 00:05:05.820 --> 00:05:11.900 discipline my heart to hear. I need to get away from the narrative from the 53 00:05:11.900 --> 00:05:19.020 noise of this world. And this is what almost seems impossible for us. Stop with the 54 00:05:19.020 --> 00:05:26.460 TV. Stop with the streaming. Stop with the radio. Stop with the other broadcast. 55 00:05:26.460 --> 00:05:36.380 Turn them off. Get alone. Do what you must. Listen, I guess today I mean I know I have 56 00:05:36.380 --> 00:05:44.220 a pair of these ear pods where you can squeeze them and they have noise cancelling 57 00:05:44.940 --> 00:05:52.060 characteristics to them. Everything goes quiet. Somebody invented that for a reason. Think 58 00:05:52.060 --> 00:05:58.220 about the guy that invented it or the Bose, you know, the headset to noise cancelling 59 00:05:58.220 --> 00:06:03.820 capabilities. Why was that important to somebody who invented that? Because they use the 60 00:06:03.820 --> 00:06:09.260 word noise and they use the word cancelling. Why? Gotta get quiet. 61 00:06:10.700 --> 00:06:16.060 And so for us, when we want to hear from God in our hearts, when God is speaking, 62 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:22.860 we need to put our place on the frequency of what God or where God is communicating. 63 00:06:22.860 --> 00:06:27.500 The frequency is so important. You know what I mean by frequency? Like dialing into that 64 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:31.420 channel? I know young people are wondering what are you talking about? You know you press the 65 00:06:31.420 --> 00:06:38.460 button or whatever it is. The the preset frequency broadcasting at you know at 107.9. 66 00:06:38.460 --> 00:06:43.180 Well that's how the radio systems work and other things work. Well what about your heart? 67 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:49.820 You've got to dial in your heart to a place where it's quiet and you determine I'm going to hear 68 00:06:49.820 --> 00:06:55.260 from him. And I believe what I'm about to tell you. Now look this is one reporter's opinion. 69 00:06:56.220 --> 00:07:01.820 It works for me. But I have to put my place. Listen in the attitude of hearing. 70 00:07:04.140 --> 00:07:08.700 So I have to engage the spirit of who I am. My mind. I'll use that. My soul. 71 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:17.580 Lord, I want to hear from you. Some people might say meditation. Some people might say 72 00:07:17.580 --> 00:07:21.420 contemplation. I don't care what they're talking about, whatever they do they do. 73 00:07:22.140 --> 00:07:26.700 I'm talking about you and I exercising the discipline to hear. 74 00:07:28.380 --> 00:07:36.460 And in that discipline is an automatic prayer life. But automatic. Lord speak to me. 75 00:07:37.660 --> 00:07:43.020 What is it that you want me to hear regarding this issue or moving forward or for today? 76 00:07:43.740 --> 00:07:49.100 God before the sun comes up, before the phone starts ringing, before things start happening, 77 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:53.580 what is it that you want me to hear? Now if you were with me last week, you know that when God 78 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:58.700 speaks, he uses the word of God. So when I open up the word of God to hear him speak, 79 00:07:58.700 --> 00:08:03.500 I am immediately making a grand assumption that when he's going to speak from the word, 80 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:08.140 my heart's got to be listening. You say, Jack, give me an example of when I'm not listening. 81 00:08:08.140 --> 00:08:12.620 It's very simple. Have you ever read a portion of scripture? It could be a verse. 82 00:08:12.620 --> 00:08:19.420 Could be a paragraph. Could be a chapter. And if you stop, you can't even, you can't even, 83 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:25.980 if I were to ask you, what did you just read? You'd go, uh, you read it, but you weren't listening 84 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:30.380 where you. You heard your voice. Maybe you were reading out loud. You heard your voice, 85 00:08:31.180 --> 00:08:35.180 but you can't tell me what you just read. You want to know why your heart didn't have 86 00:08:35.260 --> 00:08:42.060 its ears on. So your heart's got to have the ears to hear, but the Spirit is saying, 87 00:08:42.060 --> 00:08:48.060 the Spirit of God, listen, Jesus promised us. It's so simple. The Spirit of God will speak the word. 88 00:08:49.260 --> 00:08:53.340 Jesus said, there's a lot more guys I want to tell you, but you're not able to bear it. 89 00:08:54.140 --> 00:09:00.700 I'm going to go away to heaven. And when I leave, I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to you. 90 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:07.340 He will bring all things to your remembrance. And he will speak to you things 91 00:09:08.940 --> 00:09:14.460 that right now you're not able to bear. He's going to talk to you. And so by the way, that is 92 00:09:14.460 --> 00:09:20.780 the New Testament. That's what he put into print. The thing is this to, to hear God's voice, 93 00:09:20.780 --> 00:09:25.180 is to nurture a heart of listening. So friends, from this time on, from this time forward, 94 00:09:25.740 --> 00:09:31.900 what you really, really, what you must do is discipline yourself starting today to have time 95 00:09:31.900 --> 00:09:41.580 with God. Listen to where you sit with everything off. Listen, get everything away. 96 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:50.220 And just Lord, what is it that you'd like to say? And I'm going to tell you right now, 97 00:09:50.940 --> 00:09:55.900 that is one of the hardest things in the world to do, because you're going to drive yourself 98 00:09:55.900 --> 00:10:03.500 crazy at first. It's almost like detox. You're going to think, okay, Lord, just speak to me, 99 00:10:03.500 --> 00:10:11.020 and your mind is going to be swirling with your car needing servicing. What's for dinner? 100 00:10:12.460 --> 00:10:18.140 You know, did I mow the lawn? You don't even have a lawn? Your mind's going to go all over the 101 00:10:18.140 --> 00:10:27.180 place. Let it go. Just get that vomited out, purge it, detox the concerns, get them out there, 102 00:10:27.180 --> 00:10:33.340 clear the slate. By the way, this is a great time to do this is worship. Now, I don't have a voice. 103 00:10:33.340 --> 00:10:40.940 I wish I did. I don't. I, when God blessed, He left me out of that loop. But I don't care, 104 00:10:40.940 --> 00:10:47.660 because nobody's with me in this moment. I'm alone. So I will begin to sing Him praises. 105 00:10:49.020 --> 00:10:56.780 And I might even speak to Him and make a prayer or a request in a song to Him. And I'm not going 106 00:10:56.780 --> 00:11:01.740 to rehearse it. So don't even think I'm going to try. That's between Him and I. It's personal. 107 00:11:03.580 --> 00:11:10.620 That helps clear the webs out of the way. My heart then secondly begins to become more still, 108 00:11:10.620 --> 00:11:15.740 more calm. Few things pop up. Get those out of the way. Lord, I'm waiting on you. 109 00:11:16.780 --> 00:11:20.060 Think about it. If you say, Jack, I don't need to listen to this podcast. Well, let me ask you 110 00:11:20.060 --> 00:11:23.740 this question before you turn it off. When's the last time you waited on the Lord because we're 111 00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:30.620 commanded to wait on the Lord? See how bad you need this podcast? Exactly. We all need to wait 112 00:11:30.620 --> 00:11:38.540 on the Lord. And as we sit and be still, the Bible tells us, be still and know that I am God. 113 00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:43.500 I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. 114 00:11:44.140 --> 00:11:52.380 And that word be still and know in Hebrew is yada. Why a d a yada? Be still and here's the 115 00:11:52.380 --> 00:12:02.220 definition. Here's the meaning of the word. Be still and discover my will in that situation 116 00:12:02.300 --> 00:12:10.140 you're in. That's what yada means. Be still and discover me in the moments. Discover me in that 117 00:12:10.140 --> 00:12:18.780 situation. So we're called to be still so that we might hear and listen to what he's saying. 118 00:12:19.900 --> 00:12:27.820 That is a matter of the heart. Far too many of us as Christians have not taken the time to nurture 119 00:12:28.700 --> 00:12:36.700 our hearts to hear. And so we don't do that. So we think we're hearing because we're busy. 120 00:12:37.660 --> 00:12:43.740 Or there's a lot of people talking to us. So friends, listen, before I wrap this up, keep this in mind. 121 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:54.140 It's highly suspect if you're hearing from God unless you have a disciplined alone time with God. 122 00:12:54.540 --> 00:13:02.780 So you're asking the question, is there a husband out there for you or a wife out there for you 123 00:13:02.780 --> 00:13:10.620 that God has? I don't know. Why don't you find out? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to the singles group. 124 00:13:10.620 --> 00:13:18.060 That's not what I said. Ask them. Talk to them about that. Well, I'm not I'm not fulfilled in my 125 00:13:18.060 --> 00:13:25.340 job. And I'm wondering if I should change jobs. Don't ask people that. Ask him that. 126 00:13:26.380 --> 00:13:31.100 Get alone. Get still. Listen to what he says. You're going to be shocked by the way. You're going to 127 00:13:31.100 --> 00:13:39.020 be blown away. I have discovered God's not all that concerned about the money part of things. He's 128 00:13:39.020 --> 00:13:44.620 well able to pay your bills. He's more concerned about you fulfilling the call that's upon your life. 129 00:13:45.020 --> 00:13:49.660 Feeding the kids in the home and the car and the 130 00:13:51.260 --> 00:13:58.300 those are those are things that he'll take care of. Matthew 6.33 says seek first the kingdom of God 131 00:13:59.100 --> 00:14:03.020 and he'll take care of all these other things that they'll he himself will add to you. 132 00:14:04.060 --> 00:14:06.300 So friends, listen, ending now with this. 133 00:14:07.260 --> 00:14:17.740 Pursue God for this request. God put ears on my heart. I want to discipline my life to be 134 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:27.420 able to hear from you. And friends, listen. This is a little insight for us personal. People will 135 00:14:27.420 --> 00:14:31.900 come to me so often I get phone calls and people will come and visit or they'll 136 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:40.380 put me on a speaker's lineup at a conference. Oh, Jack's going to speak to us about courage. 137 00:14:40.380 --> 00:14:45.740 He's going to talk to us about being courageous. Every time I hear that, I want you to know personally, 138 00:14:45.740 --> 00:14:52.140 I cringe. I just cringe because I don't have any of that stuff. 139 00:14:52.380 --> 00:15:05.980 But if I hear God's voice speaking to me about something, it becomes like an iron or steel rod 140 00:15:06.940 --> 00:15:14.540 in my spine. It's not, you know, courage is the management of fear. Did you know that? That's 141 00:15:14.540 --> 00:15:19.660 what courage is. It doesn't mean people who are courageous have no fear. It means that people 142 00:15:19.740 --> 00:15:25.420 who are courageous know how to manage fear. I don't know how to manage fear. I don't know how to do 143 00:15:25.420 --> 00:15:33.580 that. But my God knows how to speak. And if he says God, if he's a God who speaks, then it's up 144 00:15:33.580 --> 00:15:40.700 to me to figure out how to listen. And if I hear from him, when he says it, I'm going to know it. 145 00:15:40.700 --> 00:15:47.260 It's going to align 100% with the Bible. And it doesn't matter what anybody says to me, we hate you. 146 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:54.940 It doesn't matter. We love you. It doesn't matter. You're going to get in trouble with the 147 00:15:55.660 --> 00:16:01.820 governor or with the pope or with, I don't care. God said it. Do you understand that? It's so 148 00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:09.020 wonderful to live like that. God said it. I don't need to worry about anything else. Is it God's word? 149 00:16:09.020 --> 00:16:15.180 Did he reveal that and make it clear from the word? That's what he spoke to me. That's what I 150 00:16:15.260 --> 00:16:22.140 spoke to you, Jack. Well, then let's move forward. I don't have to understand everything. He said it. 151 00:16:22.140 --> 00:16:29.260 Let's do it. And then the final thing is once he has spoken because he's a God with a voice 152 00:16:31.260 --> 00:16:40.140 and our ears are able to hear with the heart, then the next thing is, what do we voice? What do we 153 00:16:40.140 --> 00:16:46.700 say? And that's next time in our third installment. So listen, tell everybody about joining us. 154 00:16:46.700 --> 00:16:51.420 We encourage you, obviously you're here at Jackibs.com, but tell other people, invite them. 155 00:16:52.060 --> 00:16:59.020 So we end here. It's time for you to live out what you believe in. It's time for real life. 156 00:16:59.020 --> 00:17:03.020 And until next time, just be bold for Jesus. 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