Nothing can replace reading it for yourself, but hopefully this can give you a taster and encourage you to read it.

How to Hear God is perfect for individuals who want to explore the different ways of learning to hear God’s voice, communities who want to grow together, and anyone who is looking for an easy-to-understand guide to this often-confusing area of faith. Having addressed God's silence in God on Mute, and then How to Pray in his previous bestseller, Pete Greig is back to bring wisdom and guidance to one of the most pressing and perplexing aspects of universal Christian experience - How to Hear God. Learning to hear God’s voice – his word and his whisper – is the single most important thing you will ever do. The follow up to Pete Greig’s How To Pray is a practical and encouraging guide to the other side of the prayer conversation: how to hear what God might be saying in response to the prayers we pray.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This book will do a solid job helping them listen for the voice of God in everyday life, by way of a broad range of spiritual traditions, while remaining alert to the loopier and more manipulative claims of some would-be channellers of the Almighty.

I discovered, rather late in my walk with God, tools like The Examen and Lectio Divina, developed by early church fathers for growing in our faith. Nothing could possibly matter more than learning to discern the authentic voice of God, but few things in life are more susceptible to delusion, deception, and downright abuse.Pete is such a leader, and the truth contained in this book answers one of the most common questions: How do you hear God?

Greig's main readership is likely to be young adults in the Charismatic Evangelical wing of the Church. The Emmaus Road story of Jesus drawing alongside the two disciples is a great model for learning to hear God.The following is my slanted summary (it inevitably reflects my take on it) of the first chapter, Hearing God’s Word in Jesus. This is a book to make your faith come alive by turning your ordinary, everyday prayers into a real, conversational relationship with the God who is speaking, more than you know.

The most important prayer of the Old Testament – the ‘Shema’ means ‘hear’ or ‘listen’ – begins with hearing God (Deut. Having addressed God’s silence in God on Mute, and then How to Pray in his previous bestseller, Pete Greig is back to bring wisdom and guidance to one of the most pressing and perplexing aspects of universal Christian experience– How to Hear God. Exploring the story of Christ's playful, poignant conversation on the road to Emmaus, Pete draws deeply from the insights of a wide range of Christian traditions.He weaves together the evangelical emphasis upon hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God’s “still, small voice” within. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.