EP. 29: Jan Johnson | Spiritual Direction, Hearing God’s Voice

Jan and I chat about enjoying Jesus, quieting the mind, ridding your life of life-draining behaviors, and God’s invitation. 

4:12 Jan shares how she came to know Jesus as Lord and Savior

“I always had a sense that Jesus was everywhere.”

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

Enjoying the Presence of God

• During the time of writing Enjoying the Presence of God is when Jan began to ask what it was like to meditate on Scripture, to hang out with God.  God’s Word became less of a checklist and more of a relationship.
• God became the companion of her soul during this time.

6:55 Jan discusses spiritual formation, partnering with God in caring for the voiceless, and living with purposeful intentionality. 

“Spiritual formation is really discipleship, but it’s not just doing practices. It’s about letting the Spirit transform you into Christlikeness.”

Spiritual practices = different ways of connecting with God

8:35 “The focus of attention in spiritual formation isn’t on me and how I am doing….It’s always about oneness with God, union with God.”

“What would it look like to love God for the next 10 minutes?”

10:50 Jan talks about having a voice for the voiceless

“That is what Jesus did.  The people nobody wanted to hang out with, there He was.”

13:36 “What breaks your heart that breaks the heart of God?….Different things break people’s hearts differently, which is great, because then we are all the hands and feet of Jesus in so many different ways.”

“Ask God for a next step?”

SHOW NOTES continued

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