What does First B Jackson teach about hearing god's voice?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on hearing God's voice starts with Jesus himself. In the series on living as a new creation, the speaker pointed to John 10, where Jesus describes his sheep recognizing his voice as a present, ongoing reality, not something that belonged only to the early church. If the goal is to walk in Christ's image, and Jesus only spoke what the Father told him and only did what he saw the Father doing, then learning to hear God has to be part of that life.
Pastor Casey, teaching from First Samuel 3, grounded the whole idea in Samuel's story. Samuel grew up in the temple and knew about God accurately, but the knowledge had not moved from his head to his heart. Pastor Casey said that is the condition of many people in well-taught congregations: they know about God thoroughly and yet live as though they know nothing. The turning point in the chapter is the phrase Eli taught Samuel to say: "Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening." Once Samuel said it and meant it, God spoke with clarity and purpose, and the text says God let none of Samuel's words fall to the ground afterward. The teaching here is that hearing God is not something a person simply has. It is a skill learned by doing, the same way a child learns to walk, and it begins from a posture of submission rather than a person's own agenda.
The teaching from the new creation series was honest that the big question is not whether God speaks but how anyone can know it is him and not their own thoughts. Scripture was named as the essential plumb line, not one or two isolated verses but the whole of it together. And the speaker described the many different ways God speaks, drawing on personal experience as much as scripture. Norris, speaking from years of missions work and from something that happened inside his own family, showed what this looks like when it costs something. He described hearing God tell him plainly that his words of cursing over his son-in-law carried authority and were aiding the enemy. He had to repent and replace every curse with a spoken blessing, dozens of times a day, for roughly a year and a half before he saw what God could do when the right weapons were used.
Taught from John 10:1-16 · John 10:27 · 1 Samuel 3 · Acts 8:26-29 · Philippians 4:6-8
The passage taught · Acts 10:9-16
9 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
10 He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
12 in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- March 3, 2015 Living As a New Creation - Who do You say that I am (Wk. 4) (2) A Wyoming woman teaches her small group how to recognize God's voice through Scripture, prayer, dreams, and imagination, with stories and practical exercises.
- September 25, 2011 Speak Lord, Your Servant Is Listening A Wyoming pastor opens a 40-day series on love by teaching a Jackson congregation how to recognize and respond to God's voice, drawing from 1 Samuel 3.
Mentioned along the way
- August 6, 2023 Love Bless Forgive Missionary Norris shares how love, blessing, and forgiveness are transforming lives from Lebanon to Uganda, and even his own family, as kingdom weapons that actually work.
- February 24, 2015 Living As a New Creation - Who do You say that I am (Wk. 3) (2) A Wyoming pastor teaches on embracing your God-given identity in Christ, renewing your mind, and letting the Spirit transform how you see yourself and live.