January 2015
FLORIDA'S PASTORS' WIVES BIBLE STUDY
The Power of A Whisper - By Bill Hybels
CHAPTER 3 / EVIDENCE FROM EVERYWHERE 
Reflection by Lisa Williams
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CHAPTER 1 / 1-13-15
Samuel's Ear

CHAPTER 2 / 1-15 -15
Our Communicating God

CHAPTER 3 / 1-20-15
Evidence From Everywhere

CHAPTER 4 / 1-22-15
How to Know When You're Hearing From God

CHAPTER 5 / 1-27-15
God's Written Whispers

CHAPTER 6 / 1-29-15
Light For Dark Nights of the Soul

CHAPTER 7 / 2-3 -15
Promptings for Parenthood

CHAPTER 8 / 2-5-15
When God Speaks Through Others

CHAPTER 9 / 2-10-15
Whispers That Change the World

CHAPTER 10 / 2-12-15
Just Say The Word 
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Lisa Williams

 

 I always taught my children that obedience is obeying the first time, every time.  As I read this chapter, "Evidence From Everywhere," and meditated on how often God speaks to His children, I thought how much easier life would be if we listened for God's whisper and responded the first time every time.

 

Chapter three contains some great testimonies of ordinary people recounting times God spoke into their lives.  Bill Hybels asked his congregation at Willow Creek Community Church to "describe a time when they have heard a whisper from heaven" and to "explain how they responded to that whisper." The author categorized these testimonies into Whispers of Admonition, Whispers of Action (Relational Actions, Financial Actions, Spiritual Actions) and Acts of Service.  Bill Hybels challenges the reader to allow the testimonies to inspire "to start living wide open to God in all areas of your life."

 

As I read the testimonies, I was moved by how much God loves His children and the tenderness He shows each day. He knows what we are in need of and "meets us at our deepest points of need."

 

Hybels shares the testimony of a young mom who responded to the voice of God and heeded the instruction she received from her heavenly Father regarding the way she was speaking to her children.  Responding to God's whisper can change the legacy you leave just like it did for this young mom.  "There is no more critical goal in life than to keep a pliable heart before God. God cannot be seen by spiritual eyes that are shut, God cannot be heard by spiritual ears that are plugged, and God cannot be followed by a heart that stubbornly stays hard."

 

These testimonies are confirmation of God's great faithfulness to us and how He loves us so much that He still speaks into our lives today, guiding and directing those who will listen. Hybels answers the following question: "How important are whispers that prompt people to actions God wants them to take." "They are absolutely critical, they are the crux of the Christ-following life."

 

These testimonies also challenge me to be open and to listen, to hear and to respond to the whisper. Jesus said in Mark 4:9, "Whoever has ears to hear let him hear."

 

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