Have You Already Decided What You Want God to Say? - TBH 322
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's hard to hear God's voice when you've already decided what you want Him to say. Someone has said that Moses went up the mountain to see God while holding blank tablets. When we have blank tablets we have open hearts. God reveals Himself in Scripture. God reveals himself in the Commandments.
God, in these 320+ episodes of TBH, continues to reveal the same truths. He continues to reveal a mind that does not think like ours. He continues to reveal love and mercy beyond all comprehension. He continues to nudge us toward what will truly make us happy. He does this by restating the rights and wrongs of our journey in this life.
A song bubbled up in Trapper's head this week that also reminds us that if your God seems boring, you've got the wrong God. He remains dazzling in these ongoing collisions of heaven and earth. These flare gun moments that grab our attention and invite us into relationship with Him.
In prayer, Trapper was drawn from one past TBH episode to another. In what felt like a greatest hits album, volume 1, your stories link together, demonstrate God's love, mercy, forgiveness, and, oh yes, that He is God, and we are not.
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| 0:00.0 | And she tells me again, the Blessed Mother is calling you into her army. |
| 0:11.8 | Mary appeared to me, and she smiled at me. And it was a smile I knew I did not deserve. |
| 0:17.9 | I was acutely aware of my 146 assisted abortions, and she took me by the hand, |
| 0:23.6 | and she turned me around, and divine mercy Jesus was standing behind me. He looked at me as |
| 0:29.8 | like pure love. He was like, it seemed like he was imploring me to accept him. |
| 0:34.6 | This is touched by heaven. Everyday encounters with God because God is speaking to you. |
| 0:41.0 | And me and the church and the world. |
| 0:43.2 | And here we get to listen in on the conversations, these collisions of heaven and earth. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm your host, Tramper Jack. |
| 0:50.5 | It's hard to hear God's voice when we've already decided what it is we want him to say. |
| 0:56.9 | I heard someone else today, same day, because my wife found that quote, and I heard someone else say it this way. |
| 1:03.1 | When Moses went up the mountain to talk to God, he had blank tablets. He had blank tablets. |
| 1:10.5 | They weren't already filled out. God, if you just initial, right about |
| 1:13.9 | here, because he thinks like we don't think, right? He doesn't think like we think. It's hard to |
| 1:20.1 | hear God's voice when you've already decided what it is that when we've already decided what we |
| 1:26.1 | want him to say, or whatever the title is that you see. Okay. And I'm having that moment. I've already decided what we want him to say or whatever the title is that you see |
| 1:28.8 | it okay and I'm having that moment I've already decided what this episode is going to be a |
| 1:33.4 | greatest hits volume one kind of thing where I'm clicking around and I take the very first episode |
| 1:38.1 | and all these other stories and and I'm getting a no and it happened in the midst of |
| 1:43.1 | of editing we're gonna we're going to, we're going to |
| 1:45.4 | forget what I was going to run. So what he wants is actually better than a greatest hits episode. |
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