WASHINGTON — Prominent megachurch Pastor Mark Batterson says many Christians “have hearing problems” when it comes to God’s voice and his new book shows them how to tune in and hear God speak to them.
A New York Times best-selling author, Batterson, who leads National Community Church, a multi-site church community with eight locations spread across the metro area, explained how one hears the voice of the Lord, the subject of his latest work, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God, in an interview with The Christian Post.
Prayer is a dialogue, Batterson says, yet too often when we pray what we fail to do is listen. And if you never stop to listen you are certainly not going to hear His voice and thereby able to discern His will. For the Christian, nothing is more important than this, he stresses.
The first and foremost language of God is the Scripture, Batterson writes in Chapter 5; the Bible is “the key of keys” to hearing Him. But he is quick to caution against the impulse of “bibliolatry” because God speaks in seven love languages, including Scripture.
“I think there are people, well-meaning people, who believe that God only speaks through Scripture, but they are really undermining Scripture because in Scripture God speaks through desires, doors, dreams, people, promptings and pain,” Batterson told CP, naming the other six love languages.
Whisper contains chapters where he unpacks each one of those languages, demonstrating…
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