The Heavens Are Telling is the third album by gospel singer Karen Clark Sheard, released on November 4, 2003.

[2] Though the previous album, 2nd Chance, performed well on the charts, the slick contemporary R&B production was not openly embraced by Sheard's core audience of traditional gospel music listeners.

This release returns to the formula of her hugely successful, well-received and Grammy-nominated first album, Finally Karen, by offering half of the album as a collection of live tracks and half as a collection of upbeat studio productions.

Leaning more toward embracing a contemporary worship audience, Sheard covers two previously popularized songs written by Israel Houghton and Martha Munizzi.

In a nod to the mainstream[R&B audience that the previous album's style catered to, Sheard brings her daughter Kierra in on a gospelized live cover version of Jill Scott's signature song, "He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat)".