Book Review: Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer
Book Review: Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer
How to Recognize When God is Speaking
Ms. Shirer does an excellent job in explaining how we hear God through His Word. She speaks from personal experience and empathizes well with the reader. She includes personal stories and stories from friends to back up the concepts. Of course, plenty of scripture is used as well.
I like the way she emphasizes that God speaks primarily through His Word. But she also does briefly go into some other ways He speaks and the need for confirmations. She believes in prophetic words and included an example for that but this book is not about prophetic things in general. What is not included is any discussion of dreams or visions or anything along those lines.
In general I found this book to be challenging, true, honest, and real and a good way to solidify your grounding in the Word. She included talking about the importance of obedience and not only the how to hear God but the why He wants to talk to us, too.
This book would be excellent for someone who thinks they’ve never heard God’s voice before and would be a very good refresher for those who have heard His voice. It would also be good for charismatic/prophetic people who may be focusing too much on the spectacular and have lost their mooring in the Word.
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