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    Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You
    Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You
    Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You
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    Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

    By Shawn Bolz and Bill Johnson

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    Translating God serves as an inspirational guide book that puts God’s great love back into prophetic ministry as a primary goal full of real life stories that articulate the culture of love behind God's heart for the prophetic. As an internationally known prophetic voice who has ministered to thousands—from political leaders to those on the streets—Shawn shares everything he has learned about the prophetic in a way that is totally unique and refreshing. Shawn aims for the higher goal of loving people relationally, not just pursuing the gift or information, and he activates you to do the same.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 12, 2015
    ISBN9781942306306
    Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You
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    Shawn Bolz

    Shawn Bolz is passionate about seeing individuals and groups learn how to be the most connected, best version of themselves through their relationship with God. Shawn has been a pioneer in ministry, including the prophetic movement, since he was in his teens. His focus on having a genuine relationship with God, creativity through entertainment & social justice have brought him around the world to meet with churches, CEO's, entertainers, and world leaders. Shawn is an author of several books including best-selling Translating God & Keys to Heaven's Economy. He is also the founding pastor of Expression58 Christian Ministries, a ministry focused on the entertainment industry and the poor in Los Angeles California where he lives with his wife, Cherie and their two daughters.

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    • 5/5
      incrível, im amazed, it's absolutely wonderful✨?. Thanks God and Shawn
    • 5/5
      This is an awesome book. Thank you, Pastor Shawn Bolz!
    • 5/5
      Very practical & thorough. Learnt a lot from his testimony.
    • 5/5
      Very insightful about the prophetic ministry and overall communication with God
    • 5/5
      I was encouraged to grow deeper in relationship with God, and to listen out for Him…for myself and for others. God desires to connect with the world! I want to be part of Him reaching out to let my friends and family know that He loves them way more than we imagine!
    • 5/5
      This is an amazing book for anyone who seeks to demonstrate God's love in their spheres of influence.

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    • 5/5
      An amazing book! God bless you Shawn! Completely changed and transformed mentally and spiritually!

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    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It's an easy read but I found that the devil wanted to keep me distracted, so I had to reread many portions to make sure I was getting the message. I especially appreciated the transparency the author revealed about his own shortcomings at the beginning and his gentle exhortation for all the step out in faith and take risks. I admired how he helped the reader to debunk false prophecies and question people who quickly give themselves the title, "Prophet So-and-so," to smoke out false prophets in a loving way. I will revisit this book again and encourage others to read it as well. Thank you.

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    • 5/5
      This book is incredible! Shawn's testimonies of prophecy and words of knowledge blew my mind and have inspired me to seek the prophetic gifts! A worthy read!

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    • 5/5
      This book is very centered on loving God first and others which takes away the focus from ourselves to actually see God's heart for people in a prophetic culture.

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    • 5/5
      The simplest, least religious and must understandable book about the prophetic that I have read. Shawn lives this stuff. Love is the Center of his message.

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    • 5/5
      Very inspiring and practical book on hearing God and stepping out. Highly recommend it!!

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    Translating God - Shawn Bolz

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    A SIMPLE GOAL OF LOVE

    I was sitting next to a man on a plane ride to Australia, so I struck up a conversation with him and found him to be very engaging, even though he seemed a little distracted. We talked about life and family and careers. He was working for oil companies, and this was his last month traveling the globe for them. He was particularly fascinated by our work against human trafficking and had not heard of the current research or grass roots efforts by groups like ours. He appeared very touched.

    At one point he got up and went to the bathroom, and that’s when I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit: He hasn’t told you the whole truth. He is not working for oil companies but is the air marshal. I want to encourage him about his retirement, which is coming fast. I also heard a word of knowledge and got his wife’s name; the place he always wanted to visit in Europe in his retirement; and knowledge about his daughter, who was pregnant with complications. I was so overwhelmed that when he got back, I didn’t know what to say.

    He initiated though, not knowing what he was inviting, and started right in about God. You were talking about your relationship with God and how you felt called to what you were doing. How did you know you were called?

    I loved the lead into my word for him. I began to explain how real Jesus is and how he has so much love for us and is present in our lives. Then I asked him if I could share with him some things I felt God was showing me in order to encourage him. He was very excited and said yes.

    He told me you are the air marshal and that your wife’s name is Patricia. He also told me that he wants what you want more than you ever wanted it—like going to the Italian vineyards in southern Italy when you retire. He also told me about your daughter, Anna, and how she is pregnant but experiencing difficulties, and how you prayed and asked him to help her. You told him you would do anything if he would just help her. He wants to help her more than you do, and she and her baby are going to be okay.

    He had tears in his eyes the whole time, and when I talked about his daughter, tears streamed down his face. He was gripping both seat handles intensely. I am not the air marshal! he said.

    I laughed, because he had just received a direct communication from God that impacted him deeply and he was trying to cover his base about his job. Well, is anything else true of what I felt from God?

    Yes, all of it! he said, but I am not an air marshal. He was covering again.

    I just laughed because I knew he was, but thought maybe he was required to say this. We prayed together and exchanged information, and when the rest of the passengers got off of the plane, he stayed behind. I didn’t get to say goodbye, because he went up into the cockpit.

    When I was at baggage claim I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around and it was my new friend.

    I can’t believe God showed you I was an air marshal! I had to go and do a background check on you before I talked to you! That was amazing that God showed you all of that! I want to hear from God like that! I feel like everything is right again in my world.

    What a statement! I knew he had never felt more loved and connected to God than at that moment, and I knew both of us would never be the same.

    The prophetic is one of the greatest tools of love we have. Picture how technology has created a platform of connection in one generation. We can communicate virtually anywhere in the world through smart devices, Internet services, streaming, virtual reality, etc. Technology has created the connection for anyone to talk anywhere to any of his friends, and to even make new ones. You can become part of an online community that you would have never had access to without it.

    The prophetic is meant to be like this; it is the technology or smart device to our spiritual love. It is the tool that accelerates relationship and creates connection with people, cities, countries, industries, and the world. Through it we see a very real glimpse of God’s heart and get to treat people exactly the way God intended them to be treated from the beginning.

    As with technology, revelation was not just meant to inspire prophetic gifts, but to help us live with a connection to how God feels and what he thinks. It is supposed to be our way of life—to see people the way God always longed for them to be seen and, from that revelation, to treat them out of his culture of love so that they will want to be the version of themselves we see. (More on that later.)

    Having a deep relationship with God that includes authentic friendship will definitely lead you into sharing that kind of relationship and friendship with others. Many people pursuing prophetic gifts are about as close with God as they are with their yearbook friends, but they still insist on trying to use prophecy on others. Then they get discouraged about the lack of relational depth developed through the experience. It’s because prophetic ministry is about your being a gateway to God’s thoughts, emotions, and heart for others through your connection to him.

    The world is full of 7+ billion pieces of God’s heart, and as you get to know him, you begin to absorb his affection for humanity. Your relationship with him is the primary source and goal of revelation.

    Throughout this book, I am going to focus on why we should highlight love rather than information as the goal of prophetic ministry. I will bring insight into why God speaks, how he speaks, and how to steward and develop a track record of revelation. I will also challenge other philosophies of how to move in the prophetic that might violate this principle of love. Lastly, you will find pieces of my own journey here so that you can learn from my strengths and failures. I want you to take huge risks, but to do that you might need my examples of how I survived some very real misses.

    There is nothing like being a translator who brings good news—news that not only is feel good but can transform. I love seeing people connect with God, family, friends, their life purposes, and even just nature because of a useful prophetic word. It’s like the puzzle pieces come together in love for them.

    On a negative side, though, I have been around so many types of prophetic ministries that I could tell you thousands of stories that would make you laugh, cry, and wonder at what people were trying to accomplish while prophesying. We will definitely get to some of these, but the prophetic gets a bad rap because of the types of personalities that get involved. If God really was responsible for every word that people were claiming were his, then the God of insurance companies truly would exist (with their acts of God).

    I digress. Let’s get into this exciting subject and hopefully, even for the experts, I will offer a new twist on a developing subject in the church.

    MY NANNY

    Before our nanny, Tammy, started working for us, she was one of the leaders in our school of ministry (at our church in Los Angeles). I didn’t know her very well, but she and her husband have great friendship chemistry, so I always felt a connection. I taught at the school one evening and I said in front of her class, I have a list of names for you, Tammy. It’s crazy…just a bunch of names. Tell me if they make sense. I named all of her children, their spouses, and her grandchildren. At the end I even said, One more, and discovered her daughter was currently pregnant. Then I told her, "You have given up your family to move out here because God told you to. He will take care of them and bless them while you are blessing his family. He loves them more than you

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