Listening to Love Responding to the Startling Voice of God

by MEYERS, JAN

• ISBN13: 9781578568420
• ISBN10: 1578568420
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-21
• Publisher: WaterBrook

Summary

Love Is Calling. How Will You Answer? One of our greatest desires is to know we are loved by our Creator. Yet the depth of our apprehension is often equally strong:If I listen, we wonder, what will God say? If I open myself up to blessings, what will God require in return?As we trace this line of thinking, the God of all goodness becomes, in our minds, the God of our worst fears. Embrace a Love That's Worth the Risk. God is far greater than our most expectant dreams. While he does often ask everythingofus, he actually wants everythingforus. He doesn't want blind loyalty or bored religious compliance; he longs for nothing less than our entire passionate selfsomething most of us have yet to glimpse. God's desire is that people lean in, listen, and wrestle with him so that they can respond to him without fear. Can this God be trusted? Absolutely. Will the journey be easy? Not a chance. But once you learn to listen to love, you'll find that there's only one way you can adore this unmanageable, unpredictable, wild, and unruly God:with your whole heart.

Author Biography

<b>Jan Meyers</b> is a counselor, speaker, and author. She is on the counseling team for Wounded Heart ministries, is a consultant for several mission agencies, and is closely aligned with Ransomed Heart ministries. Jan is the author of <i>The Allure of Hope: God’s Pursuit of a Woman’s Heart,</i> and she conducts “Allure of Hope” seminars for women nationally.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
The Voice of Love	1	(20)
Listening to Sorrow	21	(24)
Relinquishing Our ``Control''
Listening to Our Need	45	(24)
Relinquishing Our Pride
Listening to Each Other	69	(18)
Relinquishing Our Autonomy
Listening to Reality	87	(24)
Losing Our Religion
Listening for the Threat of Love	111	(24)
Relinquishing Our Naivete
Listening to Our Exhaustion	135	(12)
Relinquishing the Pressure
Recognizing His Touch	147	(28)
Relinquishing Our Ideas About Healing
Listening to the Call	175	(20)
Living into Our New Identity
Listening to Beauty	195	(16)
The Sensual Side of Obedience
Listening to Love Despite Our Fear	211	(20)
Notes	231