Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute
    I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute
    I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute
    Ebook146 pages2 hours

    I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute

    By Viktor Sizov

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    If you are struggling with hearing Gods voice in your everyday life, you are not alone. Today, many Christians are having difficulty hearing His voice too. But Jesus said, My sheep hear My voice.

    The author invites readers, exposing true, real-life reasons for not hearing His voice. The issue is not with His voice but within us, issues in our lives, issues in our society.

    The author has written to help those who are enduring struggles similar to the ones he has experienced. He speaks about the voice of God and fine-tuning our abilities to hear and listen to Gods voice. The author breaks it down to a step-by-step, simple-to-comprehend process. This book is easy to read and understand for anyone from adults to teenage readers.

    Are you ready to exchange two to three days of reading for the life-changing event of hearing Jesus speak into your life?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 12, 2014
    ISBN9781490828497
    I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute
    Author

    Viktor Sizov

    Viktor Sizov emigrated from Russia in 1993 with his parents. His father, Nikolay, was a pastor during the difficult Soviet era. Today, Viktor lives with his wife and two children in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina.

    Related to I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute

    Related ebooks

    New Age & Spirituality For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jul 22, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      9 min read

    • Article

      Bob Goff

      May 27, 2022

      Bob Goff
      2 min read

    • Article

      Getting to Know God

      Mar 16, 2020

      Getting to Know God
      3 min read

    • Article

      Modern-Day Bodhisattvas

      Sep 18, 2018

      PEMA CHÖDRÖN: There’s an ideal in the Buddhist teachings called the bodhisattva. Bodhisattvas are people whose purpose in life is to alleviate suffering. The main thing they want to do is soothe the sorrows of the world. I’m sure that Father Gregory

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Sep 23, 2022

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jul 21, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Mar 10, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      8 min read

    • Article

      Bring God’s Light Into Your World

      Apr 22, 2019

      Lately, wherever I go I seem to encounter people who are so unhappy or worried about something. Many are filled with tremendous anxiety and never seem to overcome their problems. It’s as if they are going from one crisis to another. I am not only tal

      1 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Oct 21, 2019

      Well done JOY Magazine for daring to ask the question, “Was Jesus White?” Not that it matters one little bit. The Holy spirit, who lives in every born-again believer is colourless and loves and empowers each one of us in exactly the same way. I feel

      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Nov 25, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Oct 30, 2020

      It’s such a relief to read a magazine that the whole family can enjoy. May God continue bless you all. Shirley Hoshe What a joy to open the magazine and see all the beautiful organs of the world. Wow! They are true masterpieces. I am sure that each

      3 min read

    • Article

      Pastor Jo Swart

      Aug 26, 2022

      Pastor Jo Swart
      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Feb 10, 2023

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      May 20, 2019

      Are you discouraged? Many times we become so discouraged by our situation, our circumstance, our trial, or our tribulations, that we forget that we are part of something bigger than this, something bigger than what we are going through, something bi

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Chat With Ashley Simpo

      Mar 3, 2022

      A Chat With Ashley Simpo
      8 min read

    • Article

      Spend More Time In The Word

      Mar 18, 2022

      Several people whom I have met and spoken to in recent weeks seem to be quite down, disillusioned, aimless, unenthusiastic, or feeling a sense of being ‘out of sorts’. For all who are feeling like this, it is a very unsettling place to find yourself

      1 min read

    • Article

      Do You Feel Guilty When You Aren’t Stressed?

      Aug 25, 2023

      Just because you aren’t stressed out or anxious about a task, job, goal, or project does not mean that you are doing something wrong. Maybe it means that you have finally figured out how to do it right? I was wondering why I wasn’t feeling more stres

      1 min read

    • Article

      How To Tame Your Inner Voice

      Jan 5, 2022

      How To Tame Your Inner Voice
      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Apr 14, 2023

      Send your letters to editor@joymag.co.za Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Nov 19, 2021

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Dec 29, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      7 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Jan 17, 2023

      Q&A
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      I, Like a Deaf Man and Like a Mute - Viktor Sizov

      Copyright © 2014 Viktor Sizov.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1 (866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2848-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2850-3 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2849-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014903968

      WestBow Press rev. date: 03/11/2014

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      PREFACE

      I was puzzled, and I struggled with many questions about my Christian life, my God, and my purpose. I was relentlessly seeking God’s voice for my questions.

      Well, God has set me on a seven-year-long journey for an answer. This journey was full of unexpected, unpredictable events, sharp turns and even U-turns, more puzzles and more questions, unexplainable resolutions, difficult losses, and unusual revelations.

      I was able to come out of this long journey only with the help of Jesus and by listening to His caring voice.

      I believe that we Christians were made to help each other. One way we can do so is through sharing our experiences. By sharing, we can learn from each other and overcome struggles with the help of people who walked the walk before us.

      I don’t have a pastoral degree, I didn’t go to a college to be a Christian speaker, and I didn’t take any special ministry courses to write this book.

      I am simply a regular Christian guy, just like the majority of my readers, but one who experienced the amazing hand of God and His voice at work. I am just a regular guy who wants to share his experience with fellow Christians in hopes that this book helps even just one reader with the questions he or she struggles with. If it does, then the book will have served its purpose, and I mine.

      INTRODUCTION

      This book was inspired by events that we all experience at some point in our lives—events that we have to deal with that do not make sense. Sometimes we start to question whether we have done the right thing or should have not done anything at all. With too many questions and no answers, we can get overwhelmed.

      In times like this, we find ourselves in need of wise advice. We seek opinions from others regarding how they would deal with a certain situation if they were in our position. The more important or respected a person is, the more we value his or her counsel.

      The truth is that we seek direction so we can find the easiest, most effective, and fastest resolution for the issue we are dealing with. Deep down we want someone to just tell us, Do this or that for this result. All your problems will go away, so you can go on with your normal life. Your issue is resolved.

      Our lives are too busy for us to deal with our problems. We want to resolve them right away and move on. We desire a quick fix so we can continue our normal lives.

      But one question always pops into our minds: How do we make the right choices—choices we will not regret but will find rest in? No one wants to make a wrong one, and people around us, as we know, will not always give us the right guidance.

      It’s so difficult to live like this—constantly doubting, battling in our minds between the two options, wondering which is right.

      My hope is that this book will help you find your way to the right choice—that after reading this, you are able to hear the right answers to your questions.

      CHAPTER 1

      THE NEED FOR HIS VOICE

      We hear too many voices all around us. When we are searching for answers, friends give us their opinions, and the world tells us something else. Media, family, church, spiritual leaders, TV, inner voices, etc.—they all tell us something different. It’s so easy to get overwhelmed and confused as to what is the proper response to a certain issue we are dealing with.

      But for a child of God, it’s important to hear His voice. The truth is that when we go through tough times, we followers of Christ search for God and hope He will speak on the issue we are encountering so that we know God’s will.

      Jesus said in John 10:27, My sheep hear My voice. If you are a child of God, you know this promise, and you desire to hear His voice. Sometimes we forget that Jesus said we would hear His voice—not that we would hear it sometimes, eventually, someday, or when we mature or grow up. Jesus said that His sheep hear now.

      When you search for His voice, do you ever think that He shares your desire for you to hear His voice? His desire is for you to hear Him. He wants to be heard.

      Psalm 32:8 says, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. In other words, God says, I want to personally give you advice for the way you should handle your issue. I want to be involved. If we don’t ever hear His voice or never had a desire to, I think we need to refocus on His title for us: His sheep.

      God desires a personal, intimate relationship with you in which He offers you His opinion and advice and gives you direction. Not only does God want to be heard, but He also wants to hear from you. He wants to be in mutual communication whereby you hear Him and He also hears you. When was the last time you asked Him a question, and what was it about? Maybe you forgot how to ask God or don’t know how, and you live your life just the way it is, not giving any thought to the fact that God wants to be part of your decision-making process every day, in every little detail of your life. Yes, He wants to be involved in every little detail of every little decision of your life. But for God, there is no little when it comes to a relationship. Sometimes God works great miracles through little things.

      For example, can you imagine a life in which a son spoke only one word—Dad—to his father, and then never spoke to his father again? The son grew and aged, doing whatever he wanted. He acquired knowledge from somewhere else or based it on personal failures. He learned from his own experiences or from other people’s experiences. He never asked his dad about anything all his life.

      It’s sad to see that sometimes followers go through life just like that. We say Dad on the day of our redemption, and then our lives go on without ever talking to Him again. We think we have been saved. That’s all we need to get there. We do not give any thought to the relationship He desires with us. Would you desire such a life with your child?

      When children are very young we get pleasure from hearing them say, Dad. Later we hear, I love you, and then in the years following, we begin to explain the answers to questions like Why is the sky blue? or Why is two times two four? We get pleasure even from those simple interactions. Later we might hear more difficult questions that we might not have the answers to.

      God also takes pleasure in even the simplest of interactions. He wants to hear from you and talk to you. God wants to hear every question you have, whether simple or difficult; He wants to be involved. He gets pleasure from interacting with you.

      He is not like earthly fathers, who get puzzled by some of the difficult questions. God will have the right answer for you every time, guaranteed. You cannot out-question God.

      Even from the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, He talked to them, conversing audibly, interacting in an open, intimate relationship. That’s His desire. It’s the very reason He created you—to be in relationship with you.

      If this relationship is so important, then why is it sometimes so difficult to hear God? Maybe you are waiting for a prophet or some sort of revelation to tell you how to speak to God. God doesn’t need a prophet, nor does He give some sort of a sign from above when He wants to speak to you. Remember, when Jesus ascended to heaven, He promised that He would send us the Holy Spirit to dwell within us. Now you have God Himself living within you. It’s so difficult to understand how this happens. But it is very simple.

      The Bible says that on the day of your redemption, God filled you with the Holy Spirit.

      But you know what? The One living inside of you will not talk if you are not willing to listen or if you ignore His existence completely. Remember that the Holy Spirit works in a quiet, gentle way, and only when you desire to hear from Him.

      There may be some of us who think that we have a proper relationship with God, but for some reason, we struggle to hear His voice. Even worse, sometimes we hear too many voices, and we don’t know which one of them is God’s. We get confused and overwhelmed. We cannot distinguish between the voices.

      Sometimes we truly seek His voice, but for some reason we get nothing. Perhaps when we get an answer, we don’t know if it is truly an answer from Him. We doubt this to the point where we finally stop seeking Him in our decision making, because it’s too difficult to hear His voice.

      Here is the good news: God didn’t make His voice difficult to hear. From the beginning, He created us to have a relationship with Him. The Bible says that God does not change. Let me remind you again—the Bible doesn’t say that it is difficult for His sheep to hear His voice. In fact, it’s easy to speak to Him and hear back.

      My sheep hear My voice, said Jesus Christ.

      Most importantly, hearing His voice is a required condition for all of His children before we do anything else. Really, before you attempt to do anything, you need to stop and hear God. Why? In Leviticus 8:23, we read about how Moses consecrated Aaron: Moses took some of [animal’s] blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. The same rite was administered to a leper when he was cleansed in Leviticus 14:14. What are the purpose and the meaning of this? Blood on the ear relates to the hearing of God’s voice, blood on the thumb to serving

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1