How To Listen When God Is Speaking & When God Is Silent (2 Book Set)

• 2 Book Set
• How To Listen When God Is Speaking: A Guide for Modern-Day Catholics
• Learn how to listen when God speaks to your heart
• When God Is Silent: Finding Spiritual Peace Amid the Storms of Life
• How God is closest to you even when He seems farthest away

How To Listen When God Is Speaking: A Guide for Modern-Day Catholics

How do we listen to God speak to our hearts, minds, and wills--especially above the noise and stress of the modern world? What is the process of discerning God's will?

Best-selling author and popular EWTN host Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, tackles these and other questions in this comprehensive book on discernment. He says that first we need to believe in God and his moral laws and make a commitment to please him in all that we do. Then we need to pray so that we can experience the peace that can come only from God.

Fr. Pacwa draws from St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises, using plenty of everyday examples as well as stories from Scripture to help clarify his points. He encourages readers to develop a rich prayer life and says we can learn to listen to God's powerful voice and hear him speaking lovingly to us even when we are suffering in some way. A book that confronts modern-day assumptions that can prevent us from being open to God's will for our lives.

 

When God Is Silent: Finding Spiritual Peace Amid the Storms of Life

When God Is Silent shows you how to trust God even when He seems unresponsive and remote — even when, as in the famous incident in the Gospels, He seems to sleep while you are buffeted by the storms of life. 

Author Luis Martinez quotes that beautiful line from the Song of Songs — “I sleep, but my heart is awake” — and confirms that with Jesus this is indeed the case: His love for you never sleeps, no matter what.

Martinez shows how you can make better sense of your life once you realize that God has actually been closest to you when He seemed farthest away; and once you learn why He often speaks to you only in silence. Best of all, Martinez teaches you the secret of true happiness, which you can achieve even amid the troubles that are inescapable elements of every human life. With sober realism and simple faith, this book will show you how to discover — and then to take refuge in — the comfort our Lord offers you, even when He seems to sleep. 

Learn to get through the times when God seems distant, as you discover: 

• Jesus’ thirty “hidden years”: the important lessons they hold for your life today
• Why worry? Two common reasons why people do worry — and remedies for each
• A simple, effective, and gentle procedure for becoming holy in your daily life
• Prudence: why it’s one of the most difficult — and most important — virtues that you must acquire while Jesus sleeps
• The three paths to spiritual peace: are you taking them? Do you know what they are?
• Two times that Jesus grieved — and what He meant to teach you in each
• Three surprising things that promote your spiritual welfare — if you know how to use them
• How the presence of Jesus in your life can transform your experience of suffering
• The medicine of the spiritual life: why it must often be bitter
• And much more that will help you endure the storms of your life with confidence that even as Jesus sleeps, He cares for you! 

 

Dimensions & Specifications

How To Listen When God Is Speaking: 

• 5 x 8¼ inches
• ISBN: 9781593251833
• Format: Softcover
• Pages: 176
• Language: English
• Author: Father Mitch Pacwa, S.J

When God Is Silent:

 

• 5 x 7 inches
• ISBN: 9781622822201
• Pages: 144
• Author: Archbishop Luis M. Martinez
• Format: Softcover