5 Steps To Hear God In Your Business

He wants the stewardship of this so that it can be used not only to provide for your family and future generations , but also to promote his kingdom on the earth . So today we're going to talk about okay , what does that practically look like ? Yeah , we're going to give five steps , five keys on how to practically make God your business partner .

Hey , let me say this real quick too I got to give a shout out to a lady that I love in terms of following her for her content Christine Lee . She's great . She's based in I think she's in Los Angeles . Yeah , she's Los Angeles , san Diego . She's in Cali , out there , missionary yeah , actually I think she's Los Angeles but fantastic entrepreneur .

She's incredible , and I signed up for her newsletter and I don't do newsletters , but she is so fantastic in terms of teaching you practical steps on how to make decisions with God .

And you know , david and I if you read Expert Ownership or if you've ever done one of our masterminds , if you've done one of our retreats , you know we spend time at least an hour at the beginning of each day during those things in listening prayer , where we'll turn on some William Augusto soaking music and we listen for the Lord .

And all of us have our notepads there ready to write what the Lord wants to say about our business , about our family , about our personal lives . And I just did a marriage intensive couple days with Becca and Kyle Quill . They own an HVAC company crushing it in South Carolina .

So they went and we did listening prayer on the day two of that marriage intensive and they told us at the end that that was the most powerful moment . It is for everybody . Because when you get quiet you know we live in an age of distraction , and let's just break that word down . Distraction , yeah , god wants us to move forward .

Think about the wheels , the tires on your car . They have traction , they're moving you forward , you're going places . But the devil wants to like throw an oil slick out there and get you distracted , like get no more moving forward .

And we live in a day and age where distraction is everywhere around us and quite often it's a bunch of good stuff , especially if you're a kingdom entrepreneur and you truly do want to serve the Lord and you're walking up rightly , with your family and all these other things . That's great .

But there's still the ploy of the enemy to get you distracted doing so many good things that you don't just stop , settle the noise and hear the voice of God . Yes , and why would you want to hear the voice of God ? Remember he is your partner . We're talking to faith-filled entrepreneurs here .

Okay , there's so many different ways that we can apply hearing the voice of the Lord , but we're going to apply it to your business today . And Christine Lee in her newsletter , she listed out five steps to making a decision with God and it was fantastic and I'm like you know what . I love those . We actually use those .

But since she jogged my memory , I want to go ahead and share these with you guys Now . Step one so you want to make a decision with God , you want to partner with God , you want to make sure that you're hearing from him . Step number one you got to find a quiet place . You got to find a quiet place where you can hear your own thoughts . Because ? Why ?

Because , well , the Lord says , when you delight yourself in him , he will give you the desires of your heart , which means he will give you certain desires . So when you have desires , those are actually his desires . So your thoughts are his thoughts . So you're like , oh , is that my thoughts , that God's thought ?

No , don't worry about that , they're God's thoughts , because you're delighting yourself in him . Now , if you're tickling some tent , some temptation , some sin , and and you're trying to keep it secret , or whatever , your thoughts ain't God's thoughts , let me just tell you , because you're not delighting yourself in him . But you got to start by finding a quiet place .

What is that place early in the morning that you can spend some good time with Lord . David and I had a couple quiet places . He had one in his house , I had one in my house .

Of course , we always had to wake up for the kids got up , because that's when it was quiet and then we would get into our office early before anybody else showed up , and we get on our knees in our office and it was quiet and we would spend time praying and listening to the Lord .

You know , it's interesting as you look back in Scripture at the patriarchs Abraham , isaac , jacob , you know , moses and Joshua , caleb and all of these . They would build altars . You know , early on it would say that Abraham left and he built an altar to the Lord . Isaac would then sojourn and build an altar to the Lord .

Jacob , when he left , built an altar to the Lord . These were quiet places . These were places where they said , well , I'm gonna meet with God now . Look , you can actually meet with God in your car . It can be mobile , it can be anything .

Look , I mean we don't have to straight up go grab some rocks and build an altar Like they did back in the Old Testament , but you do want to , on a consistent basis , find a place in your home . Where can I meet with the Lord ? And it doesn't make that that place anymore Holy .

Then you know , when you're standing over the sink doing dishes and putting them into the dishwasher , you can meet with God right there as well . But just getting into that consistent routine really helps you . Helps you mentally , emotionally , spiritually , physically say , okay , I'm locked in .

When you're tired or distracted , you , you a hundred percent , are not gonna be in a good place to be alone with your own thoughts and be alone with God . So that's why early in the morning is important , because if you're tired , that's a that's a .

That's a tough place to be and I and I love David , I've used this example a lot if it's important to you to hear the fan motor on your refrigerator , then you have to make sure that you quiet everything down and get close and listen , otherwise you're not gonna hear it right .

If you got a ton of people over , if it's busy in the house and all that kind of stuff , you're not gonna hear that fan motor . The same is true with the voice of the Lord . He doesn't want to scream at you , he wants to whisper , which means you got to get alone and you got to get quiet . Okay . So , step one find a quiet place .

Step two Ask a question . This is so good because you need to go into your times with the Lord , specifically listening prayer . You need to come , come at it with pen and paper . Okay . So , pen and paper , you are ready to write , and what you're gonna do is you're gonna ask a question .

You're gonna pick a question that you would ask a business or life coach . What would you ask a business coach or a life coach ? Okay , just ask him and ask that to God . You can even write it down , lord , what would you do with this person that I'm thinking about having to fire ? What would you do ?

Like , lord , I've got this , this new vertical I want to go into in my business , and I'm not sure if I should launch out and do that . Is it too risky ? Like , write down that question and ask and then ask okay , what's the next step ? What do you think about blank ? You know what's your will regarding blank . Like , just start asking God questions .

Okay , so that's step two . So step one find a quiet place . Step two ask a question . Step three this is so important Wait . Okay , just wait and listen . That's a hard one , yep . Step three is wait and listen , close your eyes and listen , and You're gonna wait for however long it takes .

Usually , you know , whenever we're walking people through listening prayer , I'll do like a 15 minute period . So we'll say , okay , write down a question or two that you want an answer for , and then we're gonna . I'm gonna turn on this music , because that's one of the important things .

I've got some music , no words , william Augusto soaking music and we're now going to wait and we're just gonna listen . Okay , that's what we're gonna do . We're gonna listen . Now you want to hold that space and sit in it , okay , until something comes to mind .

And so At that moment , when something comes to mind , don't worry about the thoughts that are gonna go through your head . Is that my thought ? Is that just coming straight from me , like what ? I don't know if that's God's thought or or whatever . So we just wait and listen , okay . So step number one get to a quiet place . Step number two ask a question .

Okay , get ready to write . You've got that music playing . Step number three listen . Wait , okay , until something comes to mind . And when something comes to mind , there's step four write it down .

Now can I say this real quick in the period of waiting it may be two or three days I mean you may be driving in the car after this is all said and done , you hadn't heard anything or whatever , and then all of a sudden it hits you or you're sleeping . That happens to me most of the time . Yeah , because you're always listening .

I wake up in the middle of the night , at like 3.30 in the morning . It's funny , it's always sometime around the three ish and I'll wake up and I'm like , hmm , that's interesting , I hadn't thought of that perspective before , and it's often the Lord speaking to my heart .

Yeah , and here's the thing when you're listening and waiting , some things will come to mind . Just write it down . Okay , that's actually step four .

Step four is write down whatever you hear . So , with childlike faith , like a five year old would write down whatever comes to mind . Okay , don't judge it . Don't judge what you're writing down . Just write it down , because the temptation at that moment will be to judge it . Okay , so I did this .

My wife and I did this exercise with a couple , and I'm sitting there and I've got the music playing . I explained to them how listening prayer works . I'm like , hey , the best thing that we can do here is to not give you advice . The best thing that we can do is simply get you to a position to where you're hearing and getting advice directly from God .

And so they understood . It turned the music on , we're on our knees . They got their pen and paper ready and you know Tori and I are at one side of the room , they're at the other and I said just start writing whatever comes to mind , ask the question , whatever question that you wanna ask , and then start writing it down .

And Tori and I are gonna do the same thing , cause you can do listening prayer at any moment . And so I'm there , the music's playing three or four minutes , nothing was really coming to mind , you know , five minutes . And then I just I'm thinking seer , see , seer , like a seer in the scripture , like somebody who sees , and so I just wrote it down .

I felt it was specifically for the lady and I forget what the one I wrote down for the guy was . But then , as I just began to think through that it was like a seer , what is a seer ? So I started writing down what a seer was and , you know , really felt like the Lord was saying that she has the ability to see things that a lot of people can't see .

And so I'm writing it down . I'm like , is this my thinking , or is this ? Is this God ? I don't know , I don't have a clue . Okay , so the funny part is we get done and now I'm ready to go over their answers with them , and what the Lord had said because that's a very important part , you know is that we want to have an opportunity to share that .

So I'm having them share it . But I went first and I said , you know , I don't know what this means . But I really feel like for you , it's God is saying that you are a seer and that you can see things that other people can't see . And Tori goes .

Oh , that's crazy , because the one word that stuck out of my mind for her was the word see , and so and I was like that is so hilarious . Like here , I am worried that this word isn't the right word , and it's me and all that . But then the Holy Spirit just had a way of coordinating and she needed that word .

So , listening , prayer can be used like that . So you're gonna find a quiet place and when you do , grab a pen and paper , turn on some music , okay . Step two you're gonna ask a question , whatever the question is , as if you're talking to your business coach , your life coach , just whatever questions that you've got . And step three listen and wait .

It's during that time . That's when the music is important , cause you're gonna feel something in your body . Okay , then start writing down answers . Doesn't matter if you think they're your own answers or if they're coming from God , doesn't matter , you'll start to see patterns . Whatever you do , just write it down .

And then step number five ask God , follow up questions . Okay , follow-up questions , like you ask him . Okay , so you wrote down something , you wrote down a question , you wrote down an answer of what you think it could be , or whatever that God might be speaking to . You Ask a follow-up question , okay , so what do you mean ?

Can you make it clear anything else ? Like you're literally having this conversation with God . It doesn't matter how many multiple follow-up questions there are , but just talk with God like he is your business coach , okay , and then , when you ask that , write down whatever comes to mind .

Now , if you do this on a consistent basis in your business , even if you just do it for five minutes , okay , and you write it down . You ask question , write it down , ask question , write it down . You do it every day in your business . Let's just say , five days a week .

Okay , what you're gonna see at the end of two , three , four weeks is you're gonna start seeing patterns . You're gonna start seeing things like okay , well , I keep getting this answer , so maybe I should go this direction . That's how God speaks to you . And you're like well , I don't know if that was my thought God's like don't , don't go down that path .

Your thought is God's thought . Now , that's why you have to make sure that there's no impurities in your life in that moment . That's right . And secondly , it says in the scripture that there's a wisdom and a multitude of counsel . So you want to be speaking to the counsel that's in your life . If you're attached to a local church , which you should .

If you're a kingdom entrepreneur , you're involved in a local church where there's a , there's elders , there's a pastor , there are some leaders that you can connect with , there are some other . If you're a man , there's a men's group .

If you're a woman , there's some other women in the church that you can get some advice , for God allows us and actually I don't want to use the word yeah no commands .

He says for sake , not the assembling together he wants you involved in , because he wants you to be able to receive wisdom that God gives other people for you , yeah , which is so incredibly important . Now , my goal was to do this podcast in less than 20 minutes . I think we hit it in 15 . That was my goal and so .

But now here's the thing If you do this , david and I don't have to belabor the point and talk about all these different angles If you simply do this , then you will partner with God in a very powerful way .

We've talked about listening , prayer so much , but I love these five steps Find a quiet place , ask a question , listen , okay , and wait , write down the answer , ask follow-up questions . It's all you got to do and then you will be partnering with God in a very , very special and powerful way and watch what he does with your business . I love it .

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