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Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (The IVP Signature Collection) Reviews

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  George J. Hicks

  There is so much useful and beautiful treasure here I find myself struggling to hold on to it all. Having finished a single reading with lots of highlights, I hunger to go through it again. Hearing God is our birthright as children in the kingdom. God so loves us. He wants to deeply communicate to you and me, and it takes practice and experience to learn this. The vision of a deep conversational intimate relationship with our Trinity God is breathtaking and life giving. I find the scriptural grounding and experiential guidance rings solid and true.
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  Margilee LaBorde

  This book was for a church class. Just what I expected.
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  goodreads Customer

  Excellent book to ponder and grow in faith. Slow read is best. Allowing time to participate in the suggested activities.
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  umlungu

  Willard has many good and important things to say about developing a conversational relationship with God. He doesn't repeat himself or reduce his writing to a 3rd grade level so some reviewers find the book "difficult" or "boring". It is not.
  
  However it is only half the story. Willard assumes that there are only two types of Christians, those who hear God speak just like Willard does, and those who haven't yet heard God speak just like Willard does. He assumes that others don't hear God speak the way that Willard does because and only because they don't know it is possible. Willard tells us that his preferred way of God speaking, through an interior impression, is better than other ways that God speaks to us, such as through dreams. He also assumes that we can always hear God.
  
  Willard has nothing useful to say to anyone who has heard God but then experiences a time when he longer hears God. That possibility is simply not imagined in his world. The problem seems to be the flaw of the excluded middle in Willard's world view. In Willard's world view there is God and Man but he ignores spiritual powers.
  
  Sometimes people who believe that they can hear from God, and have heard from God do not hear from God for a time because of spiritual war. For an account of hearing from God in the midst of spiritual war from a non charismatic I recommend
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  Derek "Geeks-on-zon" Reinhard

  Insightful and encouraging. Dallas Willard at his best: Explaining the Holy with relevance and without gimmicks or oversimplification. My giving the book only four stars is because the kindle edition is of the 1999 book, while there is an Updated smile and have the added study questions/thoughts. If it's important to have the book on your kindle for ease of access and portability, then the electronic edition is fine and equally a blessing. Just be prepared to hear differences when in discussions and comparing notes.
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  goodreads Customer

  Are you kidding me? If those who read this and reviewed saying that it was too hard or difficult to follow had been allowed to post regarding C.S Lewis, we might never had read him. OF COURSE Dallas Willard is difficult.so is SCRIPTURE! But if one asks God's guidance while reading he or she will find that this is positively the work of someone who has practiced the Christlike art of hearing God over a lifetime.
  Second only to the Bible, this book has guided me to a daily conversation with God which I find to be irrefutable and irreplaceable. What is life without conversation with the One we love most?
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  Mathias Bavay

  After quite a few hints that I should improve my listening to God's voice, I looked for a book covering this topic. I stumbled upon this book, and I now see that this is one of the few keys books in my Christian life. The author starts from the sad fact that most devout Christians would love to live in a conversational relationship with God but just don't experience it. He then explains how this should be part of the normal experience of Christians, using multiple examples from the Bible. And then, he explains where and how we should look for God's voice. The book is very stimulating and helped transform my Christian life. After reading this book, I started experience this conversational relationship with God, and grow in this relationship. I liked the book so much that I offered several copies of it.
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  Corvin Rok

  I stopped recommending a platitude of books for people to read who are trying to get a common sense grasp of one of the most conjectured topics in Christendom hearing God. Now I recommend they read this book first. It has such breadth and practicality to it, it really leaves no stone unturned on this topic. Well organized and well thought, the book is not simple, but is simply read. Some books on this topic easily burp with sectarian or thoelogical bias, but Willard doesn't fall into that trap. Instead, he retains clear convictions while being spectacularily Biblical. In the end, he gives excellent fore thought for the person who might want to actually take his book to task through action. Like Divine Conspiracy, this book has many generations in shelf live. No serious investigation into this topic should pass over this book.
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  jim

  All aspects excellent
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  Noah

  The author is quick to admit that pastoral visits are to do with "what is God's will for my life" than almost any other issue. He looks with a consistent approach at all the issues and takes the reader on a journey with a relational God.
  Willard looks at the wide variety of issues surrounding hearing from God every method, every scripture and then grounds himself firmly and squarely in the Bible revealing that God is a relational being and if we don't hear from him then this is to do with lack of expectancy or refusal to listen.
  The reality is that God is talking to us, and we need to make time to listen and Willard leads us on a journey to a relational and conversational pilgrimage.
  Willard was one of the great Christian authors of the 20th/21st century and it is sad that he has left us, but this work is one of his great ones and should be on your bookshelf.
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  pathlight

  What I got from this book: God
  Out of His love, desires to straighten, inform, correct us for our good as well as to comfort and encourage
  Calls us to a life of personal interchange with Him
  Generally will not compete for our attention
  Speaks to us individually in many ways
  Often speaks in ways we must struggle to understand
  Has not abandoned direct communication with humans despite the presence of the church and Bible
  Does not intend to make us infallible
  Through Jesus gave us our highest calling – to love Him with all our being and our neighbour as our self
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  Barbara Rogelstad

  Recommend this book by Dallas Willard to anyone who is seeking a closer prayerful life with God. Great insight into how to have an intimate relationship in prayer with the Lord. Although challenging to read, it is well worth the purchase and effort to read every valuable chapter.