"Does God speak to people today?" "I need God's guidance at this crucial point in my life but how do I recognize God's voice? What if his voice is just a figment of my imagination?"

These are a couple of questions often asked by those who are searching for God in today's world. Many people regularly seeks God's guidance and desires to know how God talks to them.

Well, this book enhances your relationship with God. It describes how God speaks in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. It also emphasizes that the Scriptures tell you that God wants to be involved in his people's lives by talking to them. God speaks to us through His Word, through the Holy Spirit, through other people, and through circumstances. 

The book is interspersed with helpful anecdotes, conversion testimonies and personal examples from the authors' lives. One of my favorite chapters deals with how to meditate on God's word. Meditation allows me to savor each word of God and find joy whenever I get fresh insight from a passage as I mature in my faith. Truly, the Bible is the living Word of God. New riches are brought forth each time I read it.

This book also places importance on praying and re-orients us on what prayer is and isn't. It emphasizes the need to show respect and awe of God when we pray and not to treat him as a sounding board for our problems and worries. The primacy of prayer is to know what is in God's heart and so we end the prayer with, "Not as I will but Your will" (Matthew 26:39). Prayer draws us to his holiness. It glorifies God.

Another helpful chapter is Questions Often Asked that voices some of our common concerns. These are also some of the questions often asked by Christians. Examples are "What does it mean if there is silence when I pray and what should I do?" " What should I do if I know what God wants me to do but my family is unwilling to obey?""Am I less spiritual than my friends because unlike them, I do not have a clear word on my future?"

Each chapter ends with two sections: Conclusion and Questions for Reflection. Questions allow you to probe deeper into your inner self, hear what God is saying to you, respond in love and obedience and be closer to God.

This book is written by the authors after an earlier work, "Experiencing God". The thesis of both books is that God created us to fellowship with him through an intimate, personal relationship. More important, this book stresses daily reading of the Bible. Recommended.