If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.

Because God wants to take you in ever-increasing measures to know Him. And the only way you can know Him is by experiencing Him. So He's going to ask you to go with Him in dimensions that require more faith and more activity than you have ever used before. Otherwise you will never grow in your faith in Him. The only way you can grow in your faith in Him is to accept the next assignment which is always greater than the previous one. Don't ever feel that you will get to the place where you'll never be scared half to death.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom

It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.

We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).