As Christians, we all have battles that occupy our minds. We may have a stray thought about something relatively unimportant while we’re sitting in a church service. We then instantly feel guilt as a result of the thought because we thought it.

During this episode, Terry and Scot will talk about the thought attacks that Satan wages in our mind. Satan has the power of suggestion. He can plant thoughts in our minds, just like the ones that pop up during a church service. Terry and Scot go to scripture to prove this point, but also to point out how we don’t have to accept those thoughts or the guilt that Satan throws at us.

In the previous podcasts, we talked about the initial three ways to hear the voice of God - 1) Read Scripture; 2) Become a doer of the Word; and 3) Pray in the Spirit. All three areas, if practiced daily, will help you cultivate a posture for hearing God’s voice.

In this podcast, Terry and Scot touch on the fourth, and final, way on How to hear the voice of God - sensitizing your spirit to the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit. Terry calls it a “hunch”, and some call it a “nudge”, but it is essentially keeping your spiritual antennae up.

Pay attention to not only the sublime, but also the absurd. God will bring people and instances across your path, and you must be ready to receive it when it comes. God is often speaking to you through His Holy Spirit. Are you daily quieting yourself to hear what it is that He has to say?

We all want to hear God’s voice. This is especially true when we need to hear from him about things that are important to us.

 

In the previous episode, Terry and Scot discussed how important it is to mediate on scripture to hear God’s voice. In this podcast, they talk about a subject that is not very often discussed today: praying in our prayer language, or praying in tongues.

 

What does it mean to pray in tongues? Praying in tongues is when a person prays in a language that is unknown to the one praying, and led by the Holy Spirit. A prayer language is a gift given to believers by the Holy Spirit that anyone can receive but not everyone does.

 

Have you received the gift of speaking in tongues? If so, when was the last time you dedicated yourself to praying in your prayer language? When Terry was a young Christian, he spent hours praying in the Spirit and often received very clear direction from God. Today, Christians often don’t have the patience or discipline to linger in the presence of God long enough to really hear from him. The Holy Spirit is asking for our time and willingness to wait on him. If we are willing to give him our time, he is willing to reveal the secret things of God and to perform miracles.

 

We challenge you to pray in your prayer language, if we have received it. Listen to what God is saying to your spirit, and don’t be shy about sharing what he says with people in your life. May you experience breakthroughs as you commit to linger with God in prayer.

What scriptures are you meditating on today?

 

In this episode, Terry and Scot discuss two spiritual disciplines that help us hear the voice of God: 1) Meditating on scripture and 2) Doing what the scriptures say to do. Chewing on scripture like a cow chews his cud is key to sensitizing our spirits to hear from the Lord.

 

Here are three key verses from today’s talk to meditate on:

 

Joshua 1:8, “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”

 

Psalm 34:1, “I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.”

 

Matthew 7:24-27, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Remember the duck! (What does that mean? Listen to find out).

 

God’s love keeps no records of wrongs! I Corinthians 13:5

 

This is the third and final podcast with Terry’s best friend, Ray Bevan of Wales. In this episode, Ray dives deeper into the subject of grace.

 

How many Christians are forgiven but they still live enslaved to guilt, as Satan whispers past sins in their ears 24/7? God keeps no records of wrongs, but Satan does. Satan knows he can’t steal our salvation, so he tries to steal the joy of our salvation. His goal is to keep us from living the abundant life Christ has given us.

 

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Today is a good day to remind ourselves of this truth: “There is therefore (right) NOW no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1. The only qualification for receiving the grace of God is that we are IN Christ Jesus.

 

Ray Bevan of Wales joins Terry and Scot for a second episode to share his journey to receiving the grace of God. Ray says, “If you can explain the Grace of God with words, you’ve never really experienced it because it’s beyond words. Grace is a revelation in the heart.”

 

In the US, the Protestant work ethic has infiltrated our churches. The idea that “the harder you work, the more you'll receive/achieve” somehow applies to our faith has kept the Body of Christ from fully walking in the grace of God. There is nothing we can do to earn grace.

 

“The harder you work, the more you'll receive/achieve” does not apply to the grace of God. The Kingdom of God is grace plus nothing else. “My grace is sufficient for you.” Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 12:9. At the end of the day, Ray says it best that, “it is not what we do. It’s what He (Jesus) has done.” This is the true message of grace.

Do you have that one friend you can always count on to make you laugh? For Terry, Ray Bevan was that friend. Not a conversation passed between the two when they didn’t have a good hearty laugh together. Terry and Ray were friends for nearly 40’s years, and supported each other through many life challenges.

 

In this episode, Terry and Scot talk with Pastor Ray Bevan of Wales. Ray shares his testimony of how the Lord saved him as a young vocalist in a rock and roll band, and called him into the ministry. Ray’s outlook on life, the church, God’s grace, and his passion to win souls for Christ, will not only make you laugh but also bless your soul. We hope you will take a few minutes of your day to listen.

America, it’s time to hope in God!

 

Romans 15:13 says, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”

 

If a stranger were to walk up to you today and ask you how you’re doing, what would you say? Terry’s response would have been, “I’m full of hope.” Romans 15:13 was one of his favorite verses in the Bible.

 

God wants to fill us with an abundance of hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. When we abound in hope, it bubbles over and blesses everyone in our life. It is our greatest source of motivation, energy, and creativity.

 

Believe that you can abound in hope today!

“You know what? I think it’s time for us to say a prayer. He knelt down by my bed, prayed a prayer, and invited Jesus into his heart. That totally befuddled the Communists. They had sent this guy to find out what was motivating us, and he became a Christian and follower of Jesus. That shook the church everywhere throughout Poland. We had crowds of 20,000 people and couldn’t fit them all into the cathedrals. We filled the streets and ended up doing a concert in Poland with 300,000 people. Pope John Paul II was there. The grace of God opened a tremendous door in the heart of the communist world.”  

 

In this podcast, Terry and Scot take a trip down memory lane to 1972 behind the Iron Curtain in Krakow, Poland. Terry and a group of musicians from Oral Roberts University had formed a music ministry called Living Sound. Under the impression Living Sound was a rock and roll band from the US, the Communist Youth Party of Poland invited the group to sing in their nightclub. Living Sound boldly stepped through the open door and shared the Gospel in song and testimonials. One special soloist that night was Terry’s wife and Scot’s mother, Jan, singing “He’s My Rock, My Sword, My Shield.” Her voice lifted the name of Jesus and brought the power of the Holy Spirit to the unsuspecting crowd. That significant night was the beginning of a revival in Poland that spread like wildfire through the region and is credited for the eventual fall of communism.

God’s not done!After receiving a call from God and spending months raising money to take the Gospel to South Africa, Living Sound left the United States with high hopes and expectations. Upon landing in South Africa, due to political circumstances outside their control, customs officials deported the group back to the US, leaving them with crushed hopes and dreams.During that time, God sent an encourager to the discouraged young people who prophesied: “God’s not done with you yet. He still has a plan for you. You’ll be back in Africa in a week’s time.”There are times when God is silent on purpose. If He gave an answer for every question, how would people ever learn to trust Him?If you have given up on a dream, perhaps doubting whether God even spoke to you in the first place, this episode will remind you to revisit those dreams. God’s not done with you yet!