Catholic · Emmaus course
How Do I Know It’s God? Recognizing the Lord’s Voice in Prayer and Daily Life
Stop waiting for a clear feeling. Learn to recognize God’s voice the way you recognize a friend’s — through a relationship you actually live.
- Length
- 1 hr
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
About this course
How do you know it’s God, and not just you?
It is the question every directee eventually asks, and the one that can leave even seasoned directors reaching for an answer too quickly. In this short, practical lesson, a Divine Mercy University faculty panel of experienced spiritual directors answers it the way the saints always have: you recognize a voice you know.
You will learn the ordinary practices that make the Lord’s voice recognizable over time — knowing Jesus deeply in the Gospels, a daily life of mental prayer, real silence, and the hardest lesson of all, letting God love you instead of performing for him. You will also learn why the surest sign a word is from God is often that it is not what you wanted to hear and not something you could have produced yourself, and why his voice frequently becomes clearest in suffering rather than consolation. Grounded in the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person and in the tradition of Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Augustine, the lesson speaks to spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, and mental health professionals who accompany others.
Curriculum
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Module 1
Knowing His Voice: Recognizing God in Scripture, Silence, and Suffering
- 1.Lesson: Recognizing God’s Voice: The Gospels, Silence, and Letting God Love You
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