{"id":3499,"date":"2016-12-01T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augustinianheartblog.wordpress.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:31:33","slug":"god-speaks-to-us-in-ordinary-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/augustinian-heart-blog\/vocational-reflection\/god-speaks-to-us-in-ordinary-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"God \u2018speaks\u2019 to us in ordinary ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-832\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agostinjani.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/knowing-and-doing-gods-will-1-638.jpg?resize=638%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"knowing-and-doing-gods-will-1-638.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christians talk about how God \u2018calls\u2019 us to do something, and perhaps we think this means that one day we will literally hear a voice telling us what to do. Sometimes God does speak to us in clear and dramatic ways, but more often <strong>he \u2018speaks\u2019 to us in ordinary ways<\/strong>. He guides us <em>through the<\/em> <em>deepest desires of our hearts <\/em>(calling us \u2018from within\u2019) and <em>the events and circumstances of our lives <\/em>(calling us \u2018from without\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Beneath everything, you are trying to know God\u2019s will for you, to listen to the stirrings of the Holy Spirit deep in your heart, and trying to respond generously. It is about a personal relationship with the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><em>How to Discover your vocation \u2013 Stephen Wang<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians talk about how God \u2018calls\u2019 us to do something, and perhaps we think this means that one day we will literally hear a voice telling us what to do. Sometimes God does speak to us in clear and dramatic ways, but more often he \u2018speaks\u2019 to us in ordinary ways. He guides us through the deepest desires of our hearts (calling us \u2018from within\u2019) and the events and circumstances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocational-reflection","category-words-of-wisdom"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Provin\u010bja Agostinjana","author_link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/author\/agostinjani\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Christians talk about how God \u2018calls\u2019 us to do something, and perhaps we think this means that one day we will literally hear a voice telling us what to do. 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