You Talk, I’Ll Listen

By Nancy Brinkley Weems

So often people pray and wonder if their prayers, or even thoughts, have been lost to the atmosphere. Nancy Brinkley Weems came to a relationship with Christ as an adult with many questions. Not wanting mans answers, she sought out Gods voice. When a friend read a God conversation, she was taken aback that someone would freely chat with God and hear from Him directly.

In You Talk, Ill Listen, Nancy Brinkley Weems will use her teaching skills and knack for bringing new information in at a level that anyone can grasp. Sharing her battles of spiritual growth through growing up, and growing old; chatting with God about the trials in life, including losing her husband of thirty-eight years, and hearing Gods voice are some of the themes of this book. God spoke us into existence and is still speaking to us now.

I have to say I was amazed with this book. I found it amazing that you so honestly bared the truth of your soul and your relationship with God, so that others could find theirs.

Angela Lowe, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

God uses you to speak to others, and he is allowing that to happen in a very meaningful way. Your words, which I believe are inspired by God, have provided insight and comfort during a tragic time in my life.

Lauren Canary,Physicians Assistant, Wauchula, Florida

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490857367

Nancy Brinkley Weems

Nancy Brinkley Weems is a high school and college instructor with over 28 years experience. A native of Florida, she grew up in Miami during the less challenging 1960’s. After retiring five years ago, she has returned to teaching which is her God given passion. She resides in rural Hardee County Florida, along with her two grown children and two grandchildren.

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Contents

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Hearing or Listening

Chapter 2 Speak Lord, For Your Servant’s Listening

Chapter 3 You Can’t listen if you continue talking!

Chapter 4 What exactly are we speaking?

Chapter 5 Hearing God in Real-Time

Chapter 6 Trust is Faith tested

Chapter 7 God’s Word or God’s Words

Chapter 8 Listening With Intention

Chapter 9 Listening In A Time Of Grief

Chapter10 Are You Always Listening?

Chapter 11 More Conversations

Chapter 12 Analogies

Chapter 13 It’s not the End, Just Keep Moving

Chapter 14 The End

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my parents who taught me to believe in myself. When I felt the world did not see my worth, my parents assured me the world was short sighted. As I grew and learned of God and his wonderful grace through Jesus my Lord, I realized that my parents were setting the ground work for my understanding of God’s love and belief in little ‘ole me.

In addition, I dedicate this book to Keith (my patient husband), and Aunt Joan whose lives and deaths taught me so many things about faith in God and listening to him. Their quiet strength and outspoken strength, respectively, modeled what God wanted from me in His name.

Finally, I would also like to dedicate this book to all those people who told me that they never understood God the same way after our discussions about speaking to Him directly. Because the personal greatest blessing for writing my first book and this book comes from hearing from those who have experienced healing and a new understanding of their Father, I must continue to share. To all of those wanting to better understand what it means to pray ‘24/7’ and hear Him as He directs our lives, it is my hope this book will light up the corners of your spirit.

When you get, give…When you learn, teach. Maya Angelou

Preface

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. (Confucius)

Suddenly all the students, in my tiny 6th period sign class, looked at Summer who had been engrossed in a book since the ‘tardy’ bell rang.

Wow, Summer said, that is so neat. She read it again with a British lilt in her voice, taking in its every word.

The other students repeated it in various order, some getting confused with the number of ‘knows’.

It is funny but I have that in my third book, or is it my 2nd book, I said with pause. Summer smiled as if my words were just ambient sounds floating past her head.

But it is true…

I know there is a God, almighty creator of all that is.

I know He created me and sees my every twitch, listens to every thought and longs for me to ‘get it right’.

I know He wants His creations to be with him in a realm that I can’t conceive of.

I know He provided a plan A, which was to walk among us to set the example of how we must live.

I know He promised with an unbreakable covenant to spare us the penalties due us, for our wrongs, if we would accept Him and His way.

I know there is eternal life either with Him or without Him.

I Don’t know what plan B is for those who died long before His coming.

I Don’t know who He will show mercy to.

I Don’t know how a person can deny His existence and believe that finite man (or Chaotic mass) could have been responsible for all that is.

I know He speaks to me and I need only to listen.

I still search for true knowledge. It is not from books alone, nor brilliant theories from mortal minds, but from His voice in the stillness.

An unexamined life is not worth living

-Socrates

Introduction

Knowledge of My truth…

I am the Way, the truth and the life No one comes to the Father except through me." John 6:14(NIV).

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. John 8:12 (NIV)

…Pathways toward truth (eternal life). This is positive light…you are enlightened. The path could be many different roads all leading to the one Truth. I have often considered the shortest distance between 2 points to be a straight shot! I always walk straight lines. Maybe I am lazy, or efficient (depending on a person’s perspective). However, I see a trend in my searching that shows that I tend to take a straight across path as far as seeking answers from God rather than man. However, from another’s view, I am sure it appears a winding road.

Consider, if you will, a trip to Miami, Florida from Tampa, Florida. If you and I both decided to leave the same day we may decide on different routes. You may choose the interstate, a straight less complicated route. I may, however, decide to take the back roads, the more obscure path. My scenery will be quite different from yours.

The people I come in contact with may be in need of assistance. Or, on the other hand, I may need assistance to ensure that the winding roads are still leading me in the right direction. Even wrong turns can turn out to be scenic though a delay from the destination. Even though in the reality of my choices to take short routes to my destination, I believe God sends me off on the twisting and turning path. God allows me to grow and learn from Him.

I worked as a teacher for a Senior High School for over 13 years. I walked from my ‘back of the campus’ classroom to the office often. This is quite a jaunt, as the office is in the front of the school, and I am in the farthest building in the rear of the school property. Some teachers who also have classrooms in what we affectionately call the ‘lower 40’ will automatically go to the nearest sidewalk, winding around buildings, in front of other classrooms and then through crowds of teens; eventually ending at the office door.

I, however, enjoy walking a different trek. Mine allows me to walk on the grass and through the