Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Dallas Willard

Jan 2005 · Christian Audio

About this audiobook

Being close to God means communicating with him--telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing and understanding what he is saying to us. It is this second half of our conversation with God that is so important but that can also be so difficult. How do we hear his voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own subconscious? What role does the Bible play? What if what God says to us is not clear? The key, says best-selling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator. In this updated classic, originally published as In Search of Guidance, the author provides rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom.

Ratings and reviews

Dallas Willard is a blessing to anyone who is studying or walking with our Lord Jesus Christ. His writing is at times difficult to follow, but his understanding is remarkable and well worth the little bit of digging or reading required to keep up with him to understand his point. He is a learned man and we can glean much from him. This is second Dallas Willard book. I will look forward to another.

I am listening along to this as I follow along in the actual book and there are often inconsistencies between them. I often have to stop and try to find where the audio book jumped to in the actual book sometime jumping multiple paragraphs. This makes reading this way very challenging.

About the author

Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was a professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for over forty years. His books include The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's Book of the Year in 1998), The Spirit of the Disciplines, Hearing God, Renovation of the Heart, and others.