The Voice Inside | Voices
Voices: “The voice in all of us.”
Daniel 4
The VOICES we LISTEN to INFLUENCE what we DO.
Anytime you are in an ALLIANCE with someone, they gain LEVERAGE in your life.
Are the PEOPLE CLOSEST to me people who will speak the WORDS of my HEAVENLY FATHER to me?
This is the voice that both ‘Keeps you FROM…’ and also ‘Causes you TO…’
This voice DIMINISHES our capacity to LOVE.
This voice has the greatest potential to crowd out the PRESENCE of GOD in our lives.
Daniel 4:4-37 pg. 1,376
v.1 “I Nebuchadnezzar, was at home in my place, contented and prosperous, and I had a DREAM that made me AFRAID.”
v.17 “The MOST HIGH is SOVEREIGN over ALL KINGDOMS on earth and GIVES them to ANYONE HE WISHES and HE sets them over the lowliest of people.”
v.25 “Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the MOST HIGH is SOVEREIGN over ALL kingdoms on earth and GIVES them to ANYONE HE wishes.”
v.26 “The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored when you ACKNOWLEDGE that HEAVEN rules.”
v.31 “Even as the words were on his lips a voice came from heaven….Your royal authority has been TAKEN from you.
v.34 “At the end of that time, I Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my sanity was restored. Then I PRAISED the MOST HIGH. I honored and glorified Him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; HIS KINGDOM ENDURES from GENERATION to GENERATION.
v.37 “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the KING HEAVEN….those who walk in PRIDE He is able to HUMBLE.”
More than any other voice, its the voice of PRIDE that SHUTS OUT the voice of GOD in our lives.