Hearing God Through the Year

by Willard

Being close to God means communicating with him-telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and understanding what he is saying to us. The second half of this conversation is so important-and so difficult. How do we hear God?

In these daily devotionals Dallas Willard helps us understand how we can know the voice of God and act on it. Each day you'll read Scripture on this topic and find suggestions for prayer, journaling and reflection to draw you into God's presence. You may be surprised-and even transformed-by what you discover.

Dallas Willard is also the author of 'The Divine Conspiracy' and 'The Spirit of the Disciplines'. This devotional is based on his bestselling book 'Hearing God'. Jan Johnson, who compiled and edited this devotional, is also the author of the 'Christian Disciplines Bible Study Series', 'Enjoying the Presence of God' and co-author of Dallas Willard's Study Guide to 'The Divine Conspiracy'.

Genres: Devotional, Christianity, Christian, Theology, Nonfiction, Christian Living, Spirituality

336 pages, Paperback

First published June 21, 2004

Reviews

[Jeremiah · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book just plain sucks. This woman needs to stop trying to turn Willard's books into devotionals. She ruined this book (Hearing God-which is a good read) and nearly ruined another too. If you want the goods that this book offers I'll offer you a three step plan which will be ten times better than what you'll find here: First, go buy Hearing God; Second, listen to what God impresses upon you while you read it; Third, implement what you've heard until it becomes a habit. I guess there's a fourth point too: take the ten dollars I just saved you from preventing you from buying this book and mail it to me.

[Salomon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hearing God was an absolutely amazing book and I understand why someone would want to do a 365-day devotional book based on that work. But this one is doing a bad job at it. You may find this book helpful and useful but I've had really hard time going through it and I can't recommend it. So instead of this, grab the original book and read one chapter per month. It should be a way better option for approaching what Dallas wanted to say about prayer and walking in a relationship with Christ.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Take the time to let this book saturate into your life, you will be better for it.

[Ian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This devotional is based on the book of the same name. I've only read a small amount of the latter but don't feel I missed anything from not having read it.

The beauty of this book is that Willard and Johnson explore the one topic: hearing God and we get 365 days to learn more about how to do it with lots of repetition and explanation using Bible verses as the foundation. Willard and Johnson's words are gentle but convicting.

Each day's devotion starts with a verse, some thoughts to reflect on in relation to the verse and then ends with a prayer prompt which guides you to respond to the reflections with God.

I expect I'll be reading it again in another year.

[Ryan Garrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. At times, the construction and flow of the entries were a little odd; but overall, the messages from Willard’s great book (Hearing God) were timely with great insight and reminders. (Side note - the format of these books with days of the week noted instead of the sequential numbering of days means the days never quite match up with a calendar year. It’s an odd formulation, which is why I finished it on Dec 26.)

[Maribeth Van loon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great way to digest Dallas Willard - in small, meditative bites. There are reflections or prayers as well as scripture for each day's passage. The book is full of wisdom about what it means to be in communication with the God of all.

[Matthew J MacKay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read a daily devotional every year. It is a great framework for the day, and I recommend you try this easy habit.

Dallas Willard had the gift of making the life of faith practical and this book of distilled gems is a great introduction to this intellectual giant who makes the complex simple.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Makes me want to read the original from which these excerpts were taken.

[Pixismiler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh DW is so over my head. I bought this book years ago and always gave up mid January. I wanted to finish it so I can get rid of it. If you like DW you may like this.

[Kyle VanEtten · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved the book Hearing God - but did not enjoy engaging with it in this format at all.

[Kirk Weikart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent devotionals that followed themes for several days.