{"id":6285,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hearing-the-flutes\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:36","slug":"hearing-the-flutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hearing-the-flutes\/","title":{"rendered":"HEARING\n  THE FLUTES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Hearing God; Holy Spirit; Quietness; Spiritual Disciplines; Spiritual Perception<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> 1 Samuel 3:1\u201314; Psalm 16:7<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A child was told by his father during a concert, \u201cListen for the flutes in this song. Don\u2019t they sound beautiful?\u201d The child looked up at his father with a puzzled look, \u201cWhat are flutes, Father?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A child first needs to learn what flutes sound like on their own, separate from the whole orchestra, before he can hear them in a symphony. So it is with us as children of God. Unless we take the time to hear his voice in the quiet moments of life, we will not be able to hear him in the symphony sounds of life.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Stephen Macchia, <i>Becoming a Healthy Church<\/i> (Baker, 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Hearing God; Holy Spirit; Quietness; Spiritual Disciplines; Spiritual Perception References: 1 Samuel 3:1\u201314; Psalm 16:7 A child was told by his father during a concert, \u201cListen for the flutes in this song. Don\u2019t they sound beautiful?\u201d The child looked up at his father with a puzzled look, \u201cWhat are flutes, Father?\u201d A child first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/hearing-the-flutes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEARING<br \/>\n  THE FLUTES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}