Intimacy With God Has Always Been A Choice

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Lifesaving Volume II Hardening Your Heart to the Voice of God

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This first book in this series talked so much about the importance of being able to hear the voice of God. This sequel talks in depth about the flip side of being able to hear from God, the ability to hear and ignore or disobey Him. The introduction may lead the reader to assume that this is a gloom and doom book, a hellfire and brimstone book. On the contrary, in this short book I try to convey that God’s great all-consuming love is so vast and wonderful and magnificent that it often pursues us when we have decided not to listen.
The topic of hearing from God, hearing the voice of God, is woefully incomplete without a discussion of our God-given ability to ignore what we hear.

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Author Biography

Ivan is a seasoned author with over 35 published titles. His books are available on Amazon.com, and many are available as audiobooks on Audible.com. Ivan’s Christian books give Scriptural advice on such topics as being a Christian in the workplace, being a better father, discovering your purpose, finding the “Next” step in your purpose, God’s healing power, growing in confidence, recovering from brokenness and increasing your skills and abilities in any area. Several of these books and audiobooks are also available in Spanish.
Ivan’s three exceptional books about diversity in the Air Force books have garnered rave reviews and are available on Amazon (one also on Audible). Ivan has over 25 years of experience consulting, conducting senior leadership off-sites, and strategic planning sessions. He served as Deputy Director of the Defense Business Practice Implementation Board. As the Deputy, he helped facilitate Task Groups for the Secretary of Defense comprised of senior DoD civilians and retired and active Fortune 500 CEOs.
Ivan is also a singer/songwriter, actor, business consultant, and inventor. He is a retired Air Force officer with five adult children and resides in New York City. He graduated with military distinction and as the Outstanding Cadet in Organizational Behavior from the United States Air Force Academy in 1986 and earned his Master’s in Management from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1995.

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Intimacy With God Has Always Been A Choice

Intimacy with God has always been a choice. I think we imagine Moses as being selected to have a higher level of intimacy with God than the rest of the children of Israel. While I do believe God chose him to be the leader of Israel and their deliverer, I believe that God’s plan has always been intimacy, a son/daughter/father relationship with whoever would desire it. I believe the Scripture in this book section showed that God extended an invitation to come closer to all the children of Israel. Moses pressed past the discomfort and fear. All the others were more comfortable with someone else seeking closer intimacy with God and telling them what God said. How is that any different from today? We don’t have a God that speaks with thunder and lightning side effects. But do we still sit back and let other “leaders” be responsible for intimacy with God, hearing from God, and trusting them to tell us what God said? This book is now available on Amazon!

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Lifesaving Volume II Hardening Your Heart to the Voice of God

This is an excerpt from the chapter entitled "Hardening Your Heart ":

Moses had greater intimacy with God than the other children of Israel chose to have. I need to pause here to emphasize that having an intimate relationship with God is a choice. It was a choice even for the children of Israel who, when presented with that choice, chose to let Moses be intimate with God and let him tell them what God said. Exo 20:18-21

“Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. Then they said to Moses, ‘You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’

And Moses said to the people, ‘Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.’ So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.”
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Ivan G Thompson

Lifesaving Volume II Hardening Your Heart to the Voice of God

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Lifesaving Volume II Hardening Your Heart to the Voice of God

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