Hearing God’s Voice Above All Others

Crash the Chatterbox Hearing God’s Voice Above All Others by Steven Furtick

I will admit that curiosity lead me to choose this book. Steven Furtick is a larger-than-life pastor of a mega church in Charlotte with branches in my home county. He was featured on the news and some people question his actions. How odd of God I had chosen this book before I knew he was the lead pastor and founder of Elevation Church.

The Chatterbox in your head speaks so loudly condemning you for mistakes you've made that you can’t hear God offering you forgiveness along with mercy and grace. I definitely have a chatterbox in my head so I totally get what he is saying. He is a young pastor and appeals to the younger generation. At my age I am not familiar with some of his illustrations using current vocal artists, writers, and even WWF tag team members.  Near the beginning of the book I was about to give up on some of his self dialogue.

I am so glad I stuck it out. Steven’s heart is for God and reaching others for Christ. His transparency and honest replays of his failures and blunders ring true with me. (After all look who Christ chose for His disciples.) The author uses commonly known characters in the Bible to prove his points. This man is right on in his theology and knowledge of the Bible. I readily identify with the story of the Christmas trash and packing peanuts blowing all over the yard. I have been there myself and Pastor Furtick makes a wonderful point of our enemy Satan trying to drown out the voice of God speaking forgiveness and saving grace. I think this is an excellent book for those who are bound by the lies Satan puts in our head.

I received this book free from Multnomah Press to review for Blogging for Books.