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Using a spiritual map to hear from God

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “I will remember the Lord’s work; yes, I will remember your ancient wonders. I will reflect on all you have done and meditate on your actions.” Psalm 77:11-12 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Using a spiritual map to hear from God ”

This morning I want to return us to the example of my friends I mentioned in a previous devotional who serve on the Samaritan’s Purse medical disaster relief team. I can’t say that they had an actual spiritual map, on paper, which they used to help them understand God’s direction on about what to do, but I do know they utilized the concept of a spiritual map to help them understand what God was saying to them.

I had the privilege of being part of that conversation in those early years as they were prayerfully thinking through the situation. They considered the fact that God had led them into the field of emergency medicine and then to decades of experience in it. God doesn’t waste experience like that, He uses it for future purposes. They also considered how God blessed them in some other special ways, which put them in the unique position of having the freedom and flexibility in their lives to be able to drop everything and quickly respond to a disaster situation in another part of the world. Then they thought about how God had, over the years, involved them in both domestic and international short-term missions and humanitarian relief work, and how they had both developed a deep love and passion for that kind of work.

Taking all of that into consideration, along with the clear teaching of Scripture for God’s people to aid others as the opportunity presents itself, along with what they were hearing in prayer, and the confirmation they were getting from others they sought counsel from, the way forward was clear – God was telling them to serve in that special and unique way for this season of their lives. (Since then, God has repeatedly confirmed that call for them as they have served in that capacity.)

This is the concept of a spiritual map being used in an actual life situation. Your circumstances and history are probably very different from theirs, but the concept works the same way in your life as it did for my friends. To help illustrate that, tomorrow we will consider one final example of how to apply the concept of a spiritual map in order to understand what God is saying to you. Then we will move on to thinking about how God speaks to us through the counsel of close friends and Christian leaders. For now, I encourage you to begin constructing your own spiritual map. You will find it to be a very helpful tool for understanding how God is guiding and directing you.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Do you have a spiritual map?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “I remember the days of old; I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on the work of your hands.” Psalm 143:5 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Have you made a spiritual map?”

One of the most helpful homework assignments I have ever been given came while doing the Bible study “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God” by Henry Blackaby. In the lesson, Henry was explaining how it is that God is amazingly consistent in how He works in our lives over time. He guides, directs, and brings things to pass that lead us as His plan for our life progressively unfolds, with one event or situation serving as a stepping stone that leads us to the next.

The events of our lives – especially the major events – can then serve as spiritual markers that point out and highlight the work of God in your life. Henry urges us to sit down with a pad of paper and think back over our lives, identifying all the moments that seem to be of some significance, especially turning point moments that determined the course of your life. Those could include things like influential teachers; intense interest in a subject, skill, or hobby; educational achievements; marriage; the birth of children; areas of employment; significant successes; etc.

If you lay all of that out chronologically, a picture will emerge and you will see how one event led to another, and that one to yet another, and so on over the years until ultimately, you ended up where you are today. All of that creates a picture of God at work in your life over the course of years and decades. Now you have a spiritual map that helps you to see not only where you have been and how you got to where you are today, but also it can help to point the way forward as well.

The way you use the map is, as you are considering your options and preparing to make choices, consider how those options align with the rest of the map up to that point. The choice that is most consistent with what God has already been doing in your life will probably be the one God is leading you too next. (This is true most of the time but not always. So, make sure you also look for confirmation of this leading through the other ways that God speaks to us such as prayer, the Bible, and the counsel of trusted Christian leaders and friends. Remember, God will usually speak to us – especially about something important – in more than just one way.)

Tomorrow we will consider some specific examples of how to use this concept to gain a better understanding of how God is speaking to us about what He wants us to do.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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When God speaks, we must listen

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “If you want to be perfect,” Jesus said, “go, sell your belongings and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” When the young man heard that, he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.” Matthew 19:21-22 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “When God speaks, we must listen”

In Matthew 19:16-22 a young man encountered Jesus and expressed interest in following Him. But there was something holding him back. He valued his worldly possessions more than he did whatever else Jesus had planned for him. The young man had a choice to make. Would he surrender his own desires and follow Jesus on the path the Lord had chosen for him, or would he cling to his own plans and go his own way? The Scripture tells us that this young man decided against the life Jesus had for him and he went his own way. We can only assume it ended badly for him.

That story reminds me of another young man I knew personally. I will call him Mike. He was a talented musician, singer, and songwriter. He played multiple instruments well, he had a talent for writing beautiful songs, and he had a voice that sounded a lot like Michael W. Smith. Even as a teenager he was an effective worship leader, and he could have had a ministry career as a worship leader and /or youth pastor.

But Mike had visions of being a big star in Christian music. He wanted fame and fortune, and he became frustrated when it didn’t come his way quickly. He was willing to have his dream come true in the world of Christian music – as long as that included record deals and concert halls. But when that didn’t seem to be happening, he shifted his sights to the world of secular music. He moved to Los Angeles (about two hours from our town) and became involved in the music and movie industry.

And he did find success. He and a couple of partners even wrote and performed the title song for a movie starring James Earl Jones. But Mike also got sucked into the dark side of life in Hollywood, including drugs and especially alcohol. It destroyed his life. Family and friends reached out to him repeatedly, trying to help him see what was happening, but he wouldn’t listen. I personally spent many hours with him trying to help him see how, if he would rededicate his life and his talents to the Lord, he could have a wonderful life serving God and the Christian community on a church staff. Unfortunately, he wasn’t receptive. Instead, he continued on the wrong path and, sadly, I ended up performing his funeral.

God was speaking loudly and clearly to Mike through the circumstances of his life. First, all that talent and all that experience leading worship services served as a spiritual map pointing him to what God had waiting for him next. Second, the disastrous consequences he was experiencing as a result of deviating from God’s plan were also circumstances through which God was speaking very loudly. But Mike chose not to listen to God, and the consequences were tragic.

The lesson for us in that story is that when God speaks, we had better listen. Tomorrow we will consider how each of us can better learn to pay attention to the circumstances in our own lives and to hear God speaking to us through them.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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God speaks through our circumstances

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “For I know the plans I have for you – this is the Lord’s declaration – plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “God speaks through the circumstances of our lives”

Circumstances can be a powerful way in which God speaks to us. Sometimes he allows the circumstances of our lives to be painful and even crushing, and He then uses those circumstances to get our attention so we will change our ways. We often speak about an alcoholic or drug addict hitting rock bottom and finally making the life changes that have been needed all along. Or perhaps we have gone for years or decades eating poorly and not exercising and we end up with a stroke or heart attack. Then, finally, we begin taking better care of ourselves. Those are examples of circumstances in which God will often speak loudly and clearly to us.

Another way God speaks through circumstances is through the patterns of His activity in our lives which He establishes over a long period of time. God is amazingly consistent in our lives, and He is always in the process of preparing us for whatever it is He is leading us too next. This often occurs over years and decades, with one set of circumstances serving as stepping stones that lead us to the next set of circumstances in God’s ongoing and unfolding plan. In the Bible study “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God,” Henry Blackaby refers to that history of circumstances as being spiritual markers that make up a spiritual map. By recording the history of God’s activity in our lives over the years, we end up with a chronological map that shows us not only where we have been, but were God intends for us to go.

I have two friends who spent their careers in emergency medicine, him as a paramedic and her as an ER nurse. They both started young, completed a full career, and went into semi-retirement while only in their 50s. They also made a series of smart financial and lifestyle choices which resulted in them being unencumbered in this new season of life (and therefore flexible in terms of what they could do with their time). They both also have a love for missions and for humanitarian work.

Today they serve on the Samaritan’s Purse medical disaster relief team. They are part of the very special and very small group of medical professionals who can drop everything at a moment’s notice, get on a plane and fly to a disaster situation in some remote corner of the world, staying there for weeks or even months. All of that resulted because of a long work of God in their lives which unfolded over decades, step-by-step, and brought them to this point. Once all those events were laid out like that, with all the dots connected, there was little doubt in their minds what God was calling them to do now.

God speaks to you like that as well, and in the days to come we will consider what that might look like in your life. Tomorrow we will consider the sad story of someone who God was speaking to through their circumstances, but who chose not to listen.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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God speaks to us through prayer

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you.” Jeremiah 29:12-14 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “God speaks to us through prayer”

The primary way that we speak to God is through prayer, and the primary way God speaks back to us is through the Bible. But God does also speak back to us through prayer. Does He do so with an audible voice? Not in my experience. I have never heard the audible voice of God in prayer or in any other manner, and I don’t know anyone who has. But still, He does speak to us through prayer. In my experience, God speaks through prayer in three ways:

First, through what is sometimes called, “The still, small voice of God.” That phrase is a reference to the subtle impressions God gives us in our heart. It’s an inner sense that God is impressing upon me a realization regarding the thing I have been praying about. However, a word of caution is in order here. This still, small voice of God is subtle and it requires a good deal of discernment and spiritual maturity to distinguish it from our own feelings. It is an easy thing to convince ourselves that we are hearing a word from God when in reality, it’s just our feelings. More cautionary still is when this suspected word from God just so happens to match perfectly with the answer we were hoping for.

It’s so easy to confuse our own feelings with an answer from God that we should almost never take this as our sole source of concluding that we have heard from God. Always compare what you believe you are hearing from God in prayer with what the Bible says on the issue. If what you believe you are hearing from God does not squarely align with Scripture, then you have not heard from God.

Another way God speaks to us through prayer is by answering the prayer. If the thing you have prayed about comes to pass in some tangible way, then give God the glory and take it as His answer.

A third way God speaks to us through prayer is by means of prayer partners. This is why we have others pray about things with us. If we are all praying about the same thing, and if God is answering the prayer, and if we are all accurately hearing God, then we will all get the same answer. If you ask three friends to pray for God’s guidance about whether or not you should change jobs, God isn’t going to tell two of you one thing and two of you the exact opposite. If all four of you are indeed hearing from God on this issue, then all four of you will get the same answer.

God does speak to us through prayer. But because those answers can so easily be confused with our own feelings, this method of hearing from God has to be confirmed in other ways, such as checking Scripture, relying on prayer partners, or through the other common ways God speaks to us, including circumstances and the counsel of wise Christian friends. Seldom does God speak in just one of those ways. Usually, He will confirm for us what He is saying by saying it in two or three different ways. So, listen for Him in prayer, but be careful not to confuse this with your own feelings. Be sure to take the time and make the effort to seek confirmation.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00 – in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville)

Does God speak through mothers?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also praises her; “Many women have done noble deeds, but you surpass them all!” Proverbs 31:28-29 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Does God speak through mothers?”

The question is: “Does God speak through mothers?” And the answer is an emphatic “Yes! Yes, He does.” As we will learn in a future devotional in this series, one of the ways God speaks to us is through the wise counsel of fellow Christians. Without question, a godly mother falls into that category. So, God most certainly does speak to us through our mothers.

Sometimes a mother’s voice can even sound like the voice of God itself. I have a vivid memory from childhood of my very perturbed mother with her hands on her hips and in a booming voice yelling, “James William Mersereau, you had better get over here right now!” I knew I was in trouble and that judgment day had arrived!

But despite moments like that (which I totally deserved), I remember the words of love and compassion that were much more common from my mom. She was such a good mother, so kind and loving and wise. I experienced the love of God, and I learned about God, from my mother. Over-and-over again, God spoke to my heart through the words of my mother.

This Sunday is Mother’s Day. It is the special day each year dedicated to honoring the mothers who make such an important difference in our lives, in our homes, in our churches, and in our nation. And it’s not just our own mothers that we pause to honor. We want to honor all women who have been good mothers, and who have served as a mother figure to others.

Join us this Sunday at Oak Hill Baptist Church as we honor the godly women who have played such an important role in our lives. Join us in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you can’t make it, join us online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville. The service begins at 10:00.

Does God speak through mothers? Yes. Yes, He most certainly does.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

God speaks through a Biblical worldview

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “God speaks through a Biblical worldview”

We have spent many days now thinking about how it is that God uses the Bible as His primary means of communicating with us. On the pages of the Bible God speaks very directly through explicit dos and don’ts. He also provides us with many general principles that apply broadly to a broad spectrum of life situations. Beyond that, in the Bible we read about faithful men and women of ages past who can serve as role models for us. And then, we also read stories about God’s people involved in a wide range of situations and circumstances that are often similar to situations we find ourselves in. Those scenarios can be a useful guide for us, helping us to know how God would have us conduct ourselves in those similar situations.

All of that taken together helps us develop and maintain what is known as “a Biblical worldview.” A worldview is simply a philosophy of life and a way of understanding the world. It provides an orientation for evaluating what we are seeing and hearing in the world, and it is a measuring rod, litmus test, or standard against which everything is measured and determined to be good or bad; right or wrong; true or false.

There are many worldviews out there being promoted by a wide variety of cultural influencers. However, a “Biblical” worldview means that as the people of God we measure everything against the Word of God. The Bible is the measuring rod, it is the litmus test, the standard against which everything else is compared. We take all that we see and hear, all that we are being told, and we lay it alongside the Word of God to see how it compares. Then, the issue is determined to be good or bad; right or wrong; true or false, based upon how it compares to what God has said about it in the Bible.

That is God speaking to us. If up to that point we were having trouble discerning the truth or rightness of the issue, now we know what God has to say about it. And for the Christian, that’s all we need to know. The issue is now settled. We have heard from God.

In Romans 12:2 the Apostle Paul urged us to resist the cultural pressures on us and to instead have our thinking transformed by renewing our minds with the Word of God. God speaks to us through the Bible and He gives us a Biblical worldview that will help us to determine good and bad; right and wrong; true or false.

When you have checked the Bible, you have heard from God. That is a Biblical worldview.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00 – in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville)

You have to do your homework

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “The people here (Berea) were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined the Scripture daily to see if these things were so. Consequently, many of them believed …” Acts 17:11-12 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “You have to do your homework”

In Acts 17:11-12 the Apostle Paul was experiencing a little bit of heaven on earth for a preacher and teacher. He had a group of Bible students who were eager to be taught and who were happy to do their homework. The passage tells us that the Bereans listened closely to the Biblical truths Paul was sharing with them, and then they opened the Scriptures and searched for themselves to be sure Paul was being accurate and that they were understanding correctly. Yes, they searched the Scripture for themselves (and all the preachers out there said, “hallelujah!”)

Far too many Christians do not search the Scriptures for themselves. They don’t compare what they’re hearing to what the Bible actually says, nor do they search the Scripture for guidance from God regarding making important decisions. Sometimes it’s because we’re lazy; in some cases, it’s because we don’t know how to search the Bible like that; and also, all too often, Christians simply assume they know what God has to say on any given subject when in fact, they don’t – or at least they don’t know for sure and accurately.

When needing Biblical guidance on an issue, the primary way to find what you’re looking for in the Bible is to do a word search. Select key words pertaining to the issue and then use a concordance to direct you to all the places in the Bible that pertain to that subject. Then prayerfully let the Holy Spirit impress upon you verses and passages that pertain to your situation (but be careful not to take the Scripture out of context). You can even Google it. No kidding, it turns out that Google is a helpful Bible search tool. Just type in “Bible verses about …” and almost instantly you will be directed to multiple Christian websites that provide lists of verses and passages that pertain to your issue.

Another important way of seeking and finding guidance from God’s written Word is to be thoroughly familiar with Biblical principles (as discussed in a previous devotional in this series). Know basic Biblical principles so well that when faced with situations in life that require decisions and actions, you already have a general sense of how God would have you act. Then go to the Bible and review those principles (in context) to be sure you are remembering them correctly and applying them accurately to your situation.

Knowing the Bible that well and frequently referring to it for this kind of guidance results in having what we call “a Biblical worldview. Tomorrow we will think about how God uses a Biblical worldview to speak to us and to guide us.

But our lesson for today is: if you want to hear from God you have to do your homework.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00 – in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville)

God speaks through the scenarios in the Bible

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction …” 1 Corinthians 10:11 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “God speaks through the scenarios recorded in the Bible”

Right now, on Sunday nights at Oak Hill Baptist Church we are studying the parable of the Prodigal Son. It’s a deep-dive into the intricacies of the parable and we’re learning a lot from it. When telling a parable, Jesus took a spiritual truth and He laid it alongside a scene or example from everyday life to help illustrate how the spiritual truth is lived out in the situations of our lives. The parable paints a picture or describes a scenario that is typical in life and through it, God speaks truth that we can then apply to our own lives.

God does that all throughout Scripture – He creates scenarios or He records for us scenes of His people involved in the things of everyday life, and from those scenes we receive guidance for living our own lives. The parable of the Prodigal Son is one example of that.

We see another example of God using a scene or scenario to speak to us in Acts 2:42-47. There we find the early church in Jerusalem gathered for worship, prayer, and fellowship. They were united in purpose, they were generous with their resources, they were taking care of each other, and there was a powerful spiritual dynamic at work among them. Through this scene God is speaking to us about the attributes He wants us to be cultivating in our own church life.

In Numbers 14:1-4 God shows a negative scenario that He intends for us to avoid. In that case, the people of God disobeyed His clear command to go forward and take possession of the Promised Land.

In that scene we see the psychological phenomenon known as “groupthink” at work among God’s people. “Groupthink” is a dysfunctional decision-making process whereby one influential person convinces someone else of something; then the two of them go to work on a third person; and then the three of them convince others; and soon, everyone is coming to the same flawed decision. But they’re doing so because they have been influenced by others and the more who come into agreement, the more powerful the argument seems because so many others agree with it. In a church setting the group will usually conclude that “this is obviously the will of God because we are all in agreement.” (There is actually an easy way to avoid this, and we will discuss it in an upcoming devotional.)

For now, the lesson for us here this morning is that God speaks to us through the scenarios recorded in the Bible. We can learn both positive and negative lessons from how God’s people conducted themselves in those situations. Tomorrow we will conclude our thinking about how God speaks to us through the Bible. We will consider some ways to search the Scripture for the answers we need in specific situations.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00 – in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville)

God speaks through examples in the Bible

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Lord, your word is forever; it is firmly fixed in heaven. Your faithfulness is for all generations …” Psalm 119:89-90 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “God speaks to us through examples in the Bible”

In recent devotionals we have been thinking about the fact that God’s primary means of communicating with us is through the Bible. As the Psalmist indicated in Psalm 119:89-90, the truths of the Bible are for all people, in all places, at all times. God speaks most directly through the dos and don’ts given in specific commands. But He also speaks more broadly through Biblical principles, also known as precepts. These are general rules of thumb that apply across a wide spectrum of situations and circumstances, and which provide us with clear guardrails to help keep us in the center of God’s will.

Another way God speaks to us through His written word is by the example of people in the Bible – both good examples and bad. For instance, in Joshua chapter fourteen we find a healthy, spry, and feisty Caleb at 85 – still vigorous and living life large. All throughout scripture God teaches us to be good stewards of our bodies by avoiding gluttony, laziness, and other bad habits. Caleb is just one of the positive examples of that. There are other examples of Biblical figures who did not take care of themselves and it is always portrayed as a bad thing (The priest Eli in 1 Samuel 4:18; King Eglon in Judges 3:22). What we learn from Biblical examples on this topic is that God expects us take proper care of our bodies.

God also expects us to faithfully attend worship services. We find that modeled for us by God’s people all throughout both the Old and New Testaments. Nowhere in either the Old or New Testament are we given examples of people skipping those services and it being portrayed as a good thing, or even as something God allows. Not only does God tell us in the Bible to go to church, but then He gives us example after example of people doing exactly that.

Both positive and negative role models are given to us all throughout Scripture, and they teach us lessons about a wide variety of life issues. This is God speaking to us. Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Deborah, Samuel, David, Mary, Jesus, John, Paul, Dorcas, and so many others are all good Biblical role models. Korah, Absolom, Ahab, Judas, and many others are not. Their examples all teach us something about how God wants us to conduct ourselves.

God does speak to us through the life stories of people in the Bible – both good examples and bad. But again, we have to take the time to carefully study those examples, learn from them, and then prayerfully and thoughtfully apply those lessons to our own lives.

Tomorrow we will consider how it is that God speaks to us through the scenarios, situations, and circumstances we read about on the pages of the Bible.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00 – in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville)