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# Connecting to the Shepherd
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/connecting-to-the-shepherd/
- Published: 2026-01-30T11:01:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:50:30.000Z
- Description: There is only one Voice worth listening to.
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThank you for your prayers.  
  
God has a wonderful plan for your life:  
getting connected.  
  
In twenty years  
I have been asked one question more than any other.  
**"How do I learn to listen to God?"**  
  
The answer is found on page 251  
of my book  
*Artists at a Shift in Time. (https://a.co/d/0lO2GjR)*  
  
Jesus said,  
apart from me  
you can do nothing.  
  
A lot of people do things  
apart from Jesus  
**and call it Christianity.**  
This is why visions and ministries  
only last three to six years.  
If you want to do things that last,  
you have to be connected to Jesus.  
  
You get connected to Jesus  
by **listening to His Voice.**  
  
Agnes Sanford taught her prayer team to do  
"prayer experiments."  
In other words,  
try things out,  
and if they work keep doing it.  
  
A lot people do things that don't work,  
but they keep going because "theology."  
  
Jesus said   
**that he is going to judge your fruit.**  
In other words,  
is what you do working,  
making things better,  
and is that improvement lasting longer  
than the latest fad?  
  
Fads are just books and beliefs  
that are promoted for three years  
and then they go away.  
No fruit.  
  
And so,   
I ask people to read the daily gospel lesson.  
You can find it here at https://almanac.oremus.org  
or here https://universalis.com/mass.htm  
**Someday we will have a link to it on our website.**  
  
If you listen to the Gospel,  
**you will hear the words of Jesus.**  
And if you listen to the words of Jesus  
you will hear the voice of the Father.  
And you will be tuned to the way God speaks.  
And you will start to know the difference  
between the voice of the world, the flesh, and the devil,  
and the Voice of God.  
  
And I promise,   
if you follow my directions on page 251,  
you can start hearing God in thirty days or less.  
And you will see fruit.  
  
I dare you to try.  
  
He Never Fails,  

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