Addison - Hearing God Every Day

Copyright 2019Doug Addison

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Acknowledgments

I want to give a special thank you to my wife, Linda, who has loved endlessly and walked with me in ministry for all these years. Linda is a gift from the Lord who helps keep me anchored and grounded; she has been completely supportive of me and endured the long hours of writing and preparation it takes to produce a book and curriculum of this nature.

The message in this book was birthed after a weekend away with some of my friends who helped pull it out of me and get it into an outline form. Special thanks to Elizabeth and Jon Nixon, Stephanie Olsen and Linda Addison for this. And to my Executive Assistant Apryle Borst who has helped free me up to operate in my creativity.

I also extend thanks to my team at InLight Connection who have helped me in their various capacities with keeping this project moving forwardKrista Abbott, Tanya Knobloch, Dee Collins, Arlene Brown, Bev Simons and Joel Maust. Their dedication to helping me get my prophetic words and written messages out to the world is astounding and I am very grateful for their love and support of me throughout this project.

About the Author

Doug Addison is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He is best known for his Daily Prophetic Words and Spirit Connection webcast, podcast and blog. Dougs message of love, hope and acceptance reaches people around the world! His powerful, lighthearted style of teaching and coaching helps open people to discover their spiritual identity and personal destiny as they experience Gods supernatural love and power. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where they are impacting the arts and entertainment and media industries.

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Website: DougAddison.com

Have you ever thought of something, and suddenly you hear a song on the radio that really speaks to what you were thinking about? Maybe you are thinking about someone, and then you hear from that person. Have you ever been driving and feel like you should slow down, and then you see the police? Have you been waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store and have a nagging feeling to move to another line, and then you see the other line move faster?

These are some examples of how God speaks to us. They are not coincidences, but are better described as God-incidences. Can you identify with any of them? If so, there is a good chance that you are already hearing God daily and may not realize it. God has placed in you His DNA, and you have a spiritual identity to hear His voice every day of your life.

Your Spiritual Identity

On December 26, 2009, I woke up after several dreams in which I saw the enemy trying to steal peoples destinies. As I prayed about it, I heard the words identity theft. Oftentimes, things that are happening in the natural realm reveal what is happening in the spiritual realm.

The rise of identity theft today is symbolic or prophetic of what is happening spiritually to people everywhere. In the dreams, I saw two covert strategies that Satan is trying to use against people to keep them from seeing, finding, and fulfilling their life purpose and destiny in God: 1) getting us to believe that we are our behavior, and 2) dying too much to yourself and losing your passion. Lets look at each strategy in more detail.

Strategy 1: Satan Wants to Convince Us that We Are Our Behavior

Bad experiences or painful pasts can negatively affect our present. There are forces of darkness that want us to believe that we are the only ones who suffer with these issues and that they are unchangeable. This is simply not true. Too often our sin and emotional baggage gets linked to what we believe about ourselves. In other words, our personality and identity become associated with the things we struggle with.

The strategy of the enemy is for us to believe that we actually are how we feel or behave, which is not true at all. Satan wants you to believe things like: you are depressed, unhappy, worthless, unable to change, stupid, a failure the list could go on and on. It is important to realize that our feelings and behavior can be changed, and they do not determine who we really are. They might be things that we struggle with, but they are not our identity, or who we are in Christ.

Most people do not see that there is a direct connection between the way they view themselves and their destiny. This includes the things that you may think about yourself at a deep level. You might not consciously believe them, but you find yourself thinking them or saying them about yourself on a regular basis.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV).

Strategy 2: Satan Wants Us to Die So Much to Ourselves that We Lose Our Passion

Satan wants to steal our identities, taking away any hope for a better future and convincing us we have no purpose for living. When he is able to get us to believe the lies about ourselves in Strategy 1, he then uses Bible verses out of context, as he did with Jesus, to release a second deadly attack against our destinies by getting us to over-respond to our sin.

It is interesting that, while writing about how to find Gods will for your life, the apostle Paul says that we must first change our thinking by renewing our minds.

Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Gods will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will (Romans 12:2).

Renewing your mind involves a principle called dying to yourself. There are several verses in the Bible that talk about dying to the sinful nature or old self and allowing God to live through us. This necessary process will transform your life from the inside out, revealing your true motives or reasons why you say, do, want, and believe certain things. God wants to heal whatever is not in line with how He sees you, and to replace every lie with the reality about who you are and your life purpose.