Ears to Hear
God is still speaking. The question is whether we’ve made room to hear it.
That’s the thesis Pastor Kap Chatfield built this week’s message around, using a story most of us know but rarely apply: King Jehoshaphat, three armies, and nowhere to run.
Pastor Kap opened with something closer to home — his son Brave, an eight-year-old who wanted a $300 Lego set with no money to buy it. Instead of coming up with his own plan to get the money, Brave prayed. Then he had a dream about money falling from the sky. Within thirty minutes of bringing that dream back to God, Brave had designed a kids' art class, charged $20 a seat, and walked away with $300 in profit — enough to buy the Lego set with his own money.
Brave didn’t go to chatgpt to look up how to make money. Pastor Kap said, “He went to god.”
From there, the message turned to 2 Chronicles 20:1–15, where King Jehoshaphat receives word that three armies are marching against Judah. His first move isn't strategy — it's fear, followed immediately by prayer and a nationwide fast.
"He was terrified by this news and he went straight to the word. He begged the Lord for guidance."
Pastor Kap drew a distinction that shaped the rest of the message: the difference between the Logos (God's written word — fixed, eternal, already spoken) and the Rhema (God's now word — fresh direction for the present moment). Both matter. But only one of them tells you which city to move to, which job to take, or who to marry.
"Omaha, Nebraska is not written anywhere in the Logos. Not once. But God spoke to me three times in Scripture and a dream to tell me to come to Omaha in 2014."
Pastor Kap gave seven practical ways people hear the Rhema word of God:
Scripture — still the first and most reliable voice.
An audible voice — rare, but real; Pastor Kap shared hearing this only three times in his life.
Impressions and thoughts — the most common way, and the most missed.
Visions and dreams — increasing, not decreasing, under the new covenant.
Signs and wonders — meant to confirm the word, not replace it.
Other people — a word delivered through someone in your small group.
Inner peace — the quiet confirmation that guards your heart even when the answer is hard to hear.
But the method, Pastor Kap said, isn't the point. The posture is.
"The secret place is the secret sauce."
He pointed to Jahaziel, the man in 2 Chronicles 20 who delivered the word to the king — not a prophet, not a priest, just a man in the crowd with a lineage that traced back to Asaph, a worship leader known for hearing God clearly. The lesson: God doesn't require a title. He requires a place.
Pastor Kap closed with a story about a fellow pastor whose intimacy with God had gone quiet after years in ministry — until one morning he sensed an invitation to simply pull up two chairs and sit with Jesus. No agenda. Just presence.
"Ministry, your destiny — it's the overflow of intimacy."
So what do you do this week?
Where is your secret place — the car, the closet, the early morning — and when did you last actually use it?
Of the seven ways to hear from God, which one do you tend to miss? What would it look like to pay attention to it this week?
Is there a decision you've been waiting on 100% certainty for? What would it look like to move at 10%, trusting God to redirect you?
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