3. Listening in the silence
Be still and know that I am God.
Psalm 46:10

4. On Listening to God… We’re going to be looking at listening to God…
…in the silence
…in community
…through Scripture
Last week…
we checked
our hearing.

6. What do we do in the silence?
Be still.
Read the Bible devotionally (listening for what God is saying to us).
Worship with music.
Write a letter to God.
Take a walk with Jesus.
Read something that helps you listen.
Pray for people you care about.
During longer sabbath times: sleep.

7. To make it a habit Set a goal you can reach regularly.
For example—4 to 5 days a week
Experiment with time of day
Morning? Lunch break? Before bed?
Start small
10 minutes a day, 4 days a week is better than an hour once a month

8. What is a personal sabbath?
Uninterrupted time alone with God
To rest
To worship
To be restored
To hear from God
To get in touch with what is going on inside ourselves
To receive vision for ministry
To pray for others

9. Getting started with a Personal Sabbath
Give yourself a half day each month
A morning, afternoon, or evening—3 ½ to 4 hours
If half day is too painful, work up to it.
Beware of measuring productivity.
Camp out by the train track.
Partner. Give each other the gift of solitude.
Where?
Hilltop Quiet Place
Great Plains Nature Center/Botanica
Park/lake
Library/bookstore

10. Greatest barrier?

11. Hilltop DNA 120: Family gathering (“worship”) 12: House church
7: Ministry Team
3: Triad
1: Sabbath
What if these 5 relationships were built into the regular life rhythm of every HUC leader?

12. Are you ready to listen? “You will seek me and you will find me
when you seek me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13

13. Our Mission
To be a reproducing family living out together by the Spirit’s power the countercultural way that Jesus lived and taught— loving God, loving one another, and loving our neighbors as ourselves.