When you are in training, you need the Holy Spirit as your trainer to help you. He will help you to develop spiritual disciplines, and set your goals. Have a fear of the Lord, love His commands, and a hunger for the Word.

You need to have a training mentality your spiritual life. If you try and fail, you will quit. But failure is part of the training process, when you fail you will get up and keep going. Set your spiritual goals, stay consistent, disciplined, and focused -- and with God's grace and your effort, you will get great results in your life.

We should make hearing from the Lord daily, a priority in our lives. You do not earn your right to hear from God by your actions, you would never be good enough to stand before Him. But God loves you and wants to speak to you, you can hear from God. He has called you into a relationship with Him, through the blood of Jesus. Learn who you are, and who you are called to be.

When you hear from God, you need to make sure you manage well what you feel the Lord has told you. How you hear is important for you to be able to obey what God says to you. Humble yourself and submit to God, and He will bless you.

There are different filters you can use to be sure you are hearing from God. God's Word, godly advice, peace in your heart, or signs. God wants you to be confident in your relationship and that you can know His leading for you.

As a child of God, you can hear from your Heavenly Father. He wants to speak to your heart, and guide your life. So you need to be confident of who you are, and what your identity is as a believer - you are a Child of God! So you can hear from God.

God is speaking to you, but hearing from God is something that you make the adjustments to do. What you do each day determines how well you hear from the Lord. These principles are the way you put yourself in a place to be hearing from God in your life.

God wants to be the one you serve, but He also desires to be your friend. You need to take time in His presence daily, and your friendship will become more and more real to you. You can have a relationship with the Lord that is so real, that He can become your best friend in life.