God Conversations

Stories of How God Speaks and What Happens When We Listen

By: Tania Harris

Narrated by: Tania Harris

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

"How do I know it's God?" is one of the most commonly asked questions of new and mature Christians alike, and the aim of God Conversations is to both equip and inspire the listener and show them that hearing the voice of the Spirit is accessible to everyone who chooses to follow Jesus.

Most Christians know that God speaks, yet struggle with how to recognize his voice in their everyday lives. What does God's voice sound like? How do we know if what we're hearing is from God?

Stories of God talking to his people abound throughout the Bible, but we usually only get the highlights. We read; "And God said to Joseph, 'Go to Egypt'", and then, "Mary and Joseph left for Egypt." We don't get a blow-by-blow description of how God spoke. We don't receive a detailed explanation of how they knew it was God, and we don't get to see what was going on inside their heads as they acted on what they'd heard.

In God Conversations, international speaker and pastor Tania Harris shares insights from her own journey about hearing God's voice. You'll get to eavesdrop on some contemporary conversations with God in the light of his communication with the ancient characters of the Bible. Part memoir, part teaching, this unique and creative collection of stories will help you to recognize God's voice when he speaks and how to respond when you do.

©2017 Authentic Media Ltd (P)2020 Authentic Media Ltd

Really wanted to get something out of this...

I purchased this audiobook in order to find out the doctrine behind hearing from God, as well as the method proposed for doing this; how do I know I'm hearing from God? and How DO I hear from God?

Turns out this book actually really put me off of the whole idea.

What I thought I would get is this:
- scriptural teaching on the doctrine of hearing God's voice
- a way of doing this
- a way of discerning the voice or my own voice

What I got instead was this:
- lots of stories
- lots of anecdotes
- lots of the author singing (no thank you, its not helping the book)
- lots more detailed (and I mean detailed) stories (which add nothing but length to the book).

I don't mind some stories that hook me so that I can understand a teaching. But there was no real teaching. No real how-to. (If there was, it was delivered so poorly that someone really wanting to find it [me] could not extract it).

I ended up being PUT OFF of the idea because as the stories and anecdotes go further and further into the book, they got stranger and weirder and more subjective. And it became more of the same old "God wants to take you to the next level, and you just need to push through" - with lots of pictures and visions of cars and trains and bicycles and odd ways of hearing God. Ok, that doesn't help me at all. It just makes the whole endeavor quite confusing, subjective, and untestable.

Clearly there's something that the author is hearing from somewhere, somehow... but I didn't get any scriptural reasons to think that this way of living the Christian life is the way to do it. Lots of nudges, impressions, odd dreams, riddles, and clues that are pieced together that makes sense after the fact. Oh, and how is someone supposed to hear like this? No scriptures for that.

Not a helpful book. I should have paid attention to the subtitle: "stories of how God speaks" -- well, it's at least stories from someone who thinks they heard from God, and they surely are interesting. But don't expect to have a scriptural basis for any of it. And don't expect any instruction, teaching, or discernment. You'll have to go to the author's website and pay 30 dollars for her to teach you HOW to do it. No thanks.

SOO disappointing. But maybe God is using this book to tell me that what the author is offering is not of God? Hey, if I think that's what God is saying, it must be right!