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Speaker 3: When we feel like God is silent, we assume that

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Speaker 3: He's not speaking to us. But what if He is speaking?

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Speaker 3: We are just not in a position to hear Him.

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Speaker 3: In today's episode, I want to share with you some

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Speaker 3: of the common reasons you are not hearing from God

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Speaker 3: and how to overcome each one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, friend.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to the Teach Us to Pray podcast,

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Speaker 3: where we teach believers practical and real life tips on

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Speaker 3: how to grow your faith and relationship with God through

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Speaker 3: the power of prayer. I'm Christine Patterson, host of the

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Speaker 3: Teach Us to Pray podcast and founder of Beloved Women,

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Speaker 3: where I have the honor of encouraging, equipping, and empowering

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Speaker 3: women all over the world in the love of Jesus

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Speaker 3: Christ and the truth of God's word. And I want

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Speaker 3: to remind you that we have an upcoming Bible study

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Speaker 3: called Crazy or Called, where we will be studying the

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Speaker 3: lives of 10 faithful men and women in the Bible

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Speaker 3: to learn how we can clearly discover God's purpose on

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Speaker 3: our lives and confidently answer his call on our lives.

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Speaker 3: You can learn more about that at BelovedWomen.org. But for today,

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Speaker 3: I want to talk about reasons why we cannot hear

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Speaker 3: from God. So the issue here isn't that God is silent.

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Speaker 3: I have an entire episode for you on the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Check it out about what to do when you feel

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Speaker 3: like God is silent. But there are certain times where

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Speaker 3: God is speaking, but we are just not in a

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Speaker 3: position to hear him. And so I want to talk

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Speaker 3: about what are some of those positions that we put

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Speaker 3: ourselves in that prevent us from being able to actually

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Speaker 3: hear from the Lord and how we can overcome those

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Speaker 3: challenges and ensure that we don't place ourselves in those

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Speaker 3: situations so that we can actually have a two-way conversation

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Speaker 3: with God that is the definition of prayer where we

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Speaker 3: are praying to Him, but we're also receiving words from

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Speaker 3: And so the first reason why you may not be

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Speaker 3: hearing from God is just simply you are not listening.

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Speaker 3: You're not putting yourself in a position to hear from him.

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Speaker 3: So you may make time to pray and list off

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Speaker 3: your request, but you're not making time to be still

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Speaker 3: and actually hear God's response because it takes time. And

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Speaker 3: so we have to make space to hear from God

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Speaker 3: in our lives, which leads to the second reason why

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Speaker 3: you may not be hearing from God. And that is

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Speaker 3: you don't have the space to listen to him because.

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Speaker 1: You're too busy or you're too distracted.

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Speaker 3: And this actually reminds me of Elijah. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be using Elijah for a lot of the examples in

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Speaker 3: today's episode.

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Speaker 1: But Elijah was a prophet of God.

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Speaker 3: And at the time of his ministry, the Israelites had

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Speaker 3: They were ruled by King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. And

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Speaker 3: to King Ahab and say, hey, there's about to be

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Speaker 3: because they had fallen away from truly following God, their

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Speaker 3: one true God. And God was trying to get their attention.

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Speaker 3: And so Elijah at one point becomes discouraged just in

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Speaker 3: the Bible says, and then there was this still small voice.

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Speaker 1: And that was God.

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Speaker 3: And so it's so interesting to know that we often

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Speaker 3: But oftentimes God's speaking to us in this still small voice,

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Speaker 3: If we are too busy, if we are too distracted,

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Speaker 1: You know what's interesting? I hear from the Lord.

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Speaker 3: Personally the clearest right when I wake up in the morning,

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Speaker 3: That's when I hear from God the loudest, the clearest,

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Speaker 3: so I want you to think about that. When do

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Speaker 3: in silence? Figure out what that is and make more

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Speaker 3: And that is because you are not being patient. And

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Speaker 3: so sometimes we can allow ourselves the space and the

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Speaker 3: doesn't mean we're immediately going to hear from him. If

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Speaker 3: Let me just get up and go and stop praying

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Speaker 3: this reminds me of Elijah. There was a time where

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Speaker 3: the drought in the land was about to end.

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Speaker 3: And so he knelt down and he started to pray

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Speaker 3: And so. Elijah sent his servant to go look by

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Speaker 3: Him until we hear from Him. Now, I'm not saying

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Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is pray without ceasing. And we

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Speaker 3: have an entire episode on how to practically do that.

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Speaker 3: Do not give up on hearing from the Lord, but

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Speaker 3: that you're not praying with expectation and you're praying, but

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Speaker 3: Elijah is on Mount Carman and he is confronting the

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Speaker 3: And Elijah actually starts to mock them. And he's like,

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Speaker 3: Because in order to have that faith, that expectation type

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Speaker 3: with yourself. Growing in your prayer life, as in growing

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Speaker 3: So you want to be patient with yourself. If you're

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Speaker 3: comfortable praying. And oh, I don't feel like I'm hearing

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Speaker 3: Just keep praying. As long as you are consistent, you

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Speaker 3: will get better. So be consistent in prayer. Be consistent

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Speaker 3: in your fellowship with God and growing to know Him more.

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Speaker 3: Because the more that you know him, the more.

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Speaker 1: You'll be able to recognize his voice.

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Speaker 3: that you're afraid. You are afraid. You've closed your ears

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