In this episode, Marnie and Beth Guckenberger discuss how listening for Jesus can bring questions. God promises that He will speak to us, but sometimes we feel unsure of what we’re hearing. After discussing Beth's journey of learning to hear God’s voice, we walk through a handful of “listening scenarios” – questions that can come up when we’re seeking to hear Jesus, like what do we do when we don’t hear Him? What happens when we do what we thought we heard, but it didn’t turn out how we hoped? What if what we hear and what someone else hears don’t match? Beth’s stories and experience and wisdom will encourage you for when you have these same questions.
Marnie and Beth discuss:
- How she learned to recognize God’s voice, even as a teen
- Practical ways we can learn to listen for Jesus.
- What to do when we don’t hear Jesus.
- How to reconcile being faithful to do what we think we heard, yet seeing an outcome we didn’t want.
- How to handle when two people hear differing direction from God.
- What we do when God answers us way outside the box we put Him in.
Beth and her husband, Todd, live with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they serve as Co-Executive Directors of Back2Back Ministries. After graduating from Indiana University, the Guckenberger’s moved to Monterrey, Mexico where they lived for 15 years. Between biological, foster, and adopted children, they have raised eleven children.
Beth is the author of thirteen books including adult and children’s titles. She travels and speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings and church services about reckless faith. You can find Beth at her
Website, on
Instagram, and at
Back2Back Ministries.