It was Sunday dinner and his family (including his wife’s grandmother – Mema) gathered and was discussing the sermon. Willard starts with a story from his early days as an assistant pastor. It is not pleasure which we ought to seek in this exercise but let us do it from a principle of love, and because God would have us do it.” Brother Lawrence “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive. … Hearing God is but one dimension of a richly interactive relationship, and obtaining guidance is but one facet of hearing God. Isn’t it more presumptuous and dangerous, in fact, to undertake human existence without hearing from God. The fine texture as well as the grand movements of life show our need to hear God. But what if we are made for it? What if the human system simply will not function properly without it? There are good reasons to think it will not. Hearing God? A daring idea, some would say-presumptuous and even dangerous. Right off the bat, Dallas sets the tone of the book: I hope that this summary does the book justice and can encourage others to buy the book and gain what I gained from Dallas. Much of what I learned about Listening Prayer started here. Without a doubt, this was the most helpful book in developing my theology and my language for learning how to listen to God.
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