It's time to hear the knock

Proverbs 14:12 (NLT)

¹² There is a path before each person that seems right,
    but it ends in death.

We need to learn how to hear God to get and stay on the right path. 

John 10:4-5 (NLT)

4 After he (Jesus) has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 

5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”

We must learn to identify and follow God's voice.  When we study the Bible, we learn how to identify God's voice because He wrote it. 

Whatever voice that you hear the most you respond to it the quickest. You'll start to sound like whatever voice you hear the most.  

To hear from God, we must become more God aware and less self aware.  To hear from God, we must walk with Him wherever He's going.  You've got to let Him lead.

  

1. God loves you!

2. God has a plan for you!

3. God leaves positioning up to you!

The sovereign will of God.  

(Things God is going to do no matter what).

Daniel 4:35  (NLT)

³⁵ All the people of the earth
    are nothing compared to him.
He does as he pleases
    among the angels of heaven
    and among the people of the earth.
No one can stop him or say to him,

    ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’

God is uses people to establish His sovereign will.  God looked for a girl, Mary, who was completely sold out to Him to have His Son.

  

The moral will of God.   It's like the 10 commandments.  It's God's house rules.  We must not shift the will of God to fit our desires. We must yield our will to God's will.  

The personal will of God.  

It's not God unwillingness to speak.  It's our unwillingness to obey.  God's will is not multiple choice, but fill in the blank.  We start serving God by serving other people. 

   

Matthew 23:11-12  (NLT)

11 The greatest among you must be a servant. 

12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

You're not waiting on God.  God's waiting on you.  

Revelation 3:20(NLT)

20 “Look! I (Jesus) stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

Jeremy Foster, Hope City Church

https://hopecity.com/sermons/its-time-to-knock-pastor-jeremy-foster/