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God is speaking to us—for a reason. We can doubt or reason away God's voice. Some Christians believe God no longer speaks, but John 10 reassures us, "My sheep hear My voice." As a believer, it is not a matter of whether God is speaking but a question of whether we are listening. Can you tell the difference between God's voice and the enemy's? Between God's voice and your own? God's voice is a gift. We are to seek, listen, and train ourselves to hear His voice.

Rebellion is disobedience with an attitude. Our culture is full of rebellion because we have forgotten that God is truly working for our good and to remove destruction from our lives. Is God's Word your final authority? God's Word gives us general commands, and good leadership is the blessing of specific commands for your life. God speaks through prophets, good leadership, and His voice to give you the exact direction and correction you need. Give God your willingness, your joyful obedience. His commands are for your good. Obedience is truly better than sacrifice because sacrifice is what you have to give up when you don't obey God the first time. It is the willing and the obedient who will eat the good of the land. - Isaiah 1:19-20. Complete obedience to God is the greatest adventure in life. 

God desperately wants us to obey so He can bless us. He is working to lead us away from traps and rebellion because He cares for us more than we currently see. We must get rid of overt and covert rebellion in our lives. Drive out the generational curses and the demonic spirits in your life so it becomes easy to obey God. His ways are truly higher than our ways, and His blessings are on the other side of obedience. 

What we do affects the next generation. Family curses are an inversion, a perversion of what God intended to be family blessing. We want the ability to be blessed as a group but don't really want to consider that our actions create consequences for the next generation. God's blessings go for 1000 generations. The curse lasts for 3 or 4 generations...unless we act. If sin in your bloodline has brought about a curse, your repentance can bring about redemption and a blessing through the blood of Jesus.

Are you serving the purposes God has for you in your generation? Every generation has a judgment, and past generations will judge us. Jesus thinks in terms of generations and groups and the responsibility of each. Do we? We are meant to make a generational impact like William Tyndale, C.S. Lewis, Smith Wigglesworth, and the ones who have gone before us. But the crowd rarely gets it right. It takes those who are willing to stand and serve the purposes of God who have the power to turn a generation to the right path. 

There are mindsets that cause us to win or lose in life. Fools never win because they don't learn from pain or from success. Most people learn from pain because we are open to relearning everything when there is a big enough failure. God wants us to come up higher. You can continue learning even while winning. There is still something higher: hearing and learning the voice of God.

Replacement theology states that God's promises in the Bible are no longer for the Jewish people but only for Christians. There is so much deception and propaganda spreading in our time. We are truly in a spiritual war, and we must be fighting for truth to prevail. Narratives are growing in popular culture that the current Jewish people in Israel are not Abraham's Biblical descendants, but before you follow the loudest voice, let's look at what the Bible has to say. 

If you know God's Voice, the Lord will use you for assignments when no one else knows what to do. Hearing God is not magic nor rigid. It must be searched out to be truly found. Other people's methods won't work for you. There is something unique God wants to birth in you. There are different methods and ways the Lord will speak to you. He wants to reveal Himself more so we can take in what He is saying. Hearing God's Voice is meant to be personal and intimate. We cannot demand or manufacture an answer from God. His voice is both familiar and unique every time we hear Him speak.

Pressure, pressure, pressure. Everyone faces it. Some people are comfortable applying it; others are working to remove it, but pressure is unavoidable. When the enemy puts the squeeze on you, what do you do? God has an answer, but it can only be seen from above the enemy's lies. 

Recorded in India - Psalm 91 is a family affair, and it was written for the dangerous days we live in. Do you know how to dwell in the secret place of the Most High? There is a secret place in God where we can find refuge. The world is in chaos, but you do not have to be. Work to get the promises of Psalm 91 deep down in you so the Word comes out of your mouth when you face trouble.