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The Joy of Listening to God

Joyce Huggett, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1986, 227 pages, $6.95, paper.

Reviewed by Lillian Guild, Bible counselor, Voice of Prophecy radio broadcast in Thousand Oaks, California.

The Joy of Listening to God will motivate you to spend more time with God, not just speaking to Him, but allowing Him to speak to you. It will also teach you to open your ears and eyes, as well as your heart to Him.

Joyce Huggett, a counselor on the staff of St. Nicholas' church, Nottingham, England, draws from her evangelical knowledge and love of the Bible, the contemplativeness and silence of a monastery, the enthusiasm and spontaneity of a charismatic, and combines all these into a spiritual formula for communing with God.

One may not agree with all her theological concepts, but there is no denying that Joyce has found a new understanding of communion with God. Her deep insights are invaluable for one who wants to truly know God through his or her prayer life. She eagerly shares her ideas with delightful enthusiasm, generated by her own joy of discovery.

A list of 50 books in the appendix provides a tremendous resource for further study.


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Reviewed by Lillian Guild, Bible counselor, Voice of Prophecy radio broadcast in Thousand Oaks, California.

July 1988

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