LISTENING TO GOD
傾聽神的聲音
Gilbert Carpenter
吉伯·卡朋特
如果你指望聽到上帝的聲音,你必須接受他的聲音是不斷的發送他的消息,事實上你具備一個能聽到它的聲音的。沒有人可以奪去你指望聽到上帝的聲音,你無法聽到的原因是因為你缺乏思想集中力的事實,讓其他的事情佔據你的思想。
人將會聽到上帝的聲音,如果他想尋求和努力爭取的聽到,但他是沒有意識的做直到需求出現,他是不自覺的。當他聽到自己從來不知道的聲音,那麼他知道這是上帝通過他說話。所以,當你尋聽見神的聲音而無法聽到,不要失望。 每天打開你的思想努力讓上帝和你說話,如果你沒有意識他這樣做,你聽不到它或者甚至意識到這點,時機成熟的時候時你將能夠賦予它,並了解神在對你說什麼,相信它是被記錄在你的頭腦,奠定財寶在天上,你的屬靈的覺悟,並在適當時機到來時,你就能分給別人,知道上帝一直在對你說,你就能對別人說什麼。
If you ever expect to hear the voice of God, you must accept the proposition that His voice is now sending out its messages continuously, and doing this because you possess a capacity to hear it. No one can rob you of that, and the reason you do not hear it is because of your lack of focusing your attention on that fact, by letting other things occupy your thought.
Man does receive and hear the voice of God when he seeks it and makes the effort to gain it, but he is not conscious of having done so until a need arises. When he voices that which he himself never knew, then he knows that it is God talking through him. So when you seek to hear God’s voice and do not seem to do it, do not be disappointed. Every day make the effort to open your thought and let God talk to you, and if you are not conscious of His doing so, if you do not hear it with your material ears or are even conscious of it with your conscious thought, take it on good faith. Believe that it is being recorded on the tablet of your mind, that you are laying up treasure in heaven, in your spiritual consciousness, and when the right time comes you will be able to give it out, and know what God has been saying to you, by what you say to another.