John 8:47-He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason why you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.
God delights to speak to us.
He spoke to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, to Abraham and the other patriarchs, to the Judges, King and prophets. God was in Christ speaking to the disciples.
How does God speak to us? God speaks through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, the Church, or through fellow believers. Hebrews 1:1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
God will use us to speak to others. When God spoke, it was usually unique to that individual for God is a personal God. When God spoke, He will confirm it. That person knows that what God said is clear to him/her. When God spoke, that was a divine encounter.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
John 13:14 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. He will remind you of His spoken words.
WHAT IS NOT TO KNOWING GOD'S VOICE?
It is not a miraculous sign. It is not a formula, not a step-by-step process. It is not a name it and claim it method. It is not open and close doors (stop me when I am wrong and bless me when I am right).
The key to knowing God's voice is only through a love relationship. It needs time and effort to build it up. It needs to be nourished. There is no shortcut in this kind of relationship.
John 10:2-24 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
Corinthians 2:9-12 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived—the things God has prepared for those who love him—these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
When God spoke to Moses, what Moses did is crucial. After Jesus spoke to the disciples, what they did is crucial. When you receive the word, your move is crucial—you need an immediate response.
If God speaks and you hear but you did not respond, a time could come when you do not hear His voice.
Amos 8:11-12 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
When God gives direction, accept it, understand it, work on it, even if you think it is small. If you cannot be faithful in little things, God cannot trust you with many things.
Matthew 25:21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Learn to appreciate little assignments. It is your preparation for bigger ones. Do not despise your humble beginning.
God delights to speak to us.
He spoke to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, to Abraham and the other patriarchs, to the Judges, King and prophets. God was in Christ speaking to the disciples.
How does God speak to us? God speaks through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, the Church, or through fellow believers. Hebrews 1:1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
God will use us to speak to others. When God spoke, it was usually unique to that individual for God is a personal God. When God spoke, He will confirm it. That person knows that what God said is clear to him/her. When God spoke, that was a divine encounter.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
John 13:14 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. He will remind you of His spoken words.
WHAT IS NOT TO KNOWING GOD'S VOICE?
It is not a miraculous sign. It is not a formula, not a step-by-step process. It is not a name it and claim it method. It is not open and close doors (stop me when I am wrong and bless me when I am right).
The key to knowing God's voice is only through a love relationship. It needs time and effort to build it up. It needs to be nourished. There is no shortcut in this kind of relationship.
John 10:2-24 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
Corinthians 2:9-12 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived—the things God has prepared for those who love him—these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
When God spoke to Moses, what Moses did is crucial. After Jesus spoke to the disciples, what they did is crucial. When you receive the word, your move is crucial—you need an immediate response.
If God speaks and you hear but you did not respond, a time could come when you do not hear His voice.
Amos 8:11-12 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land—not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
When God gives direction, accept it, understand it, work on it, even if you think it is small. If you cannot be faithful in little things, God cannot trust you with many things.
Matthew 25:21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Learn to appreciate little assignments. It is your preparation for bigger ones. Do not despise your humble beginning.
