This book is a rare gem full of spiritual wisdom, practical insight, and personal examples of how God converses with us in our daily lives.  I was captivated from the first to the last page. 

Sam Williamson is a great natural story teller, a sound biblical narrator and armchair theologian, and a wise counsellor with spiritual depth and insight. He is also an excellent writer – easy to read and joyful to follow. Reading his book is more like carrying on an enlightening conversion with an experienced and faith-filled friend while sitting in an easy chair enjoying one another’s company.  You can’t savor enough and you want to come back for more and more.

The book drives home a key Scriptural truth - God speaks to us at all times. Our challenge is learning how to recognize his voice and tune in to the conversation he desires to have with us.

This book covers a wide range of topics related to hearing God. Several chapters are devoted to the Scriptures - how to meet God personally in the Scriptures, how to recognize the voice of God, how to interact with Scripture to understand the truth in God’s Word, how our conversational relationship with God is born in meditation, the role of the Holy Spirit in witnessing with our spirit, and how to hear God for others.

God wants a two-way relationship with us – not only when we pray and read his Word in the Scriptures, but in every area of our lives as well. The book gives numerous examples on how God speaks to us in the ordinary circumstances of daily life, in our conversations with others, in our detours and disruptions, how he shouts to us in his silence, how he teaches us through our emotional curiosities, and questions us to draw us into a conversational connection with himself.

The book is balanced in dealing with potential pitfalls and aberrations. It treats the need for discernment, how to distinguish God’s voice from other voices, how filters and biases can shape and bock our ability to hear God’s voice, and the role of community in helping us discern and confirm God’s word for us.

For many years I have been reading with delight Sam Williamson’s essays in his online journal, Beliefs of the Heart. And I’m delighted to see this book in print. I think it will go a long way to help, inspire, and encourage many Christians to grow in their personal walk with the Lord. Read it, savor it, and give it to your friends. And let it awaken in you a deeper desire to better know, hear, and understand the Lord as he converses with us and draws us into a deeper heart-to-heart relationship with himself.