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How To Hear God

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"For God does speak, now one way, now another, though man may not perceive it." Job 33:14

God is speaking to you in ways you often overlook. He has many ways of speaking and He doesn't always speak in the way that you expect Him to; that is one of the reasons why you don't realise that you already hear God more than you think.

Most people hear God through the Bible, His peace, a still small voice, circumstances, other Christians, wisdom and common sense. God speaks in many other ways too.

It is important not to get bogged down with how God speaks. The important thing is to expect God to speak and be ready to hear Him speak in unexpected ways.

If you want to hear God, the first thing you need to do is learn how to tune in to His voice. The better you get to know God and His ways the easier it is to tune in and recognise when God is speaking.

Learning to recognise when God is speaking takes time and effort. The more often you meet with God and talk with Him, the easier it will be to recognise His voice. When you become familiar with God's presence and His voice it will be much easier to hear God speaking.

Sometimes you don't hear God because you're not really expecting Him to speak or because you're expecting Him to speak in a certain way. When He speaks in a way you don't expect, it's easy to miss what He's saying.

God is full of surprises. Never forget that He isn't human, it's a mistake to limit Him to what you know or expect. You need to be open to God speaking to you in any way He chooses and not just in ways that are familiar.

People 'hear' from God in different ways. God's 'voice' isn't limited to words. He speaks through all of His creation.

Many people 'hear' God speaking through circumstances or their surroundings. In the Bible, God spoke to people in ways that they could see and experience in their daily lives. God communicated with people through what was obvious and all around them. He does the same with us today.

Larry Randolph tells us

"the human body is like a giant ear drum that processes thousands of pieces of information from every spectrum of life"

You hear God through all of your senses. The 'sound' of His voice comes in many different ways. There is no set way of hearing God.

These are some of the ways God speaks to you and some of the means He uses to get your attention:

An inner voice

An inner witness of the Holy Spirit

Inspired thought

Impressions

Dreams

Visions

Visitations

Conscience

His peace

Wisdom

Mental pictures

Physical senses

Nature

The heavens

Symbolic language

Other people

Prophecy

Events in the secular world

Films

Billboards

Fiction

Songs

Apparent coincidences

Circumstances

His written word

Even an audible voice, though I have to tell you, that's rare.

God often speaks in a combination of different ways; creating a symphony that you begin to hear once you discover how to tune in to God's voice.

Psalm 119:105 says that God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.

I'm sure you have had a Scripture suddenly come into your mind or a Bible reference, which, when you look it up, speaks directly to your situation. God often speaks through His word. You need to read it, study it and meditate on it. It's a lamp to your feet and a plumb line to measure everything by.

On the back cover of Larry Randolph's book, 'Spirit Talk', it says,

"It was in the garden of Eden that the creator first communed with His creation. Since that time, generations of men have forgotten that God is a talking God, and as a result many live in a vacuum of spiritual silence. Thus, the age-old question: Could the Creator really be speaking today? And, if so, how do we perceive the sound of His Voice?"

I hope you're encouraged to believe that God is speaking to you. You can hear God's voice every day, it iss much easier to hear God than you think.

How To Hear God

It is possible to learn how to hear God. God will teach you how to know and recognise His voice when you ask Him to help you hear from Him.

And as you grow in your relationship with God, you will become more aware of when you are hearing from God and when it's simply your own thoughts. The more you communicate with God, the more familiar His voice will become and the more you will hear God speak.

How do you know when you are hearing from God?

It is very easy to confuse your own desires with God speaking to you, especially when something is really important to you. One of the ways of turning down the volume of your own voice is by laying down your own agenda and being open to whatever God wants to speak to you.

When your thoughts or other people's opinions don't line up with what God's word says, you need to be prepared to lay your own thoughts aside and go with what you hear from God.

The enemy's plan is to confuse you and take you off course, and he will do that in any way that he can. The Bible tells you to resist him, you can easily silence him by speaking the word of God as Jesus did.

Here's another clue to knowing whether what you hear is from God - if it is God speaking it will lead to peace.

Learning to recognise God's voice is a process.

As a believer and follower of God you have the Holy Spirit living within you. If you ask the Holy Spirit, He will help you to discern when you are hearing from God.

When you renew your mind with God's written word and spend time in God's presence - you have the mind of Christ. The more time you spend renewing your mind with God's word, the easier it is to discern when it's God speaking and when it's just your thoughts.

"My sheep recognise my voice. I know them, and they follow me." John 10:27

"The Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and cause you to remember all that I have told you." John 14:26

You are one of His sheep and you can hear God's voice. You can be confident that you will hear God and recognise His voice if you belong to Him and follow His ways.

It takes effort, but you can train yourself to recognise when you are hearing God. You learn by practicing and being prepared to make mistakes. Don't let the fear of making a mistake stop you from stepping out in faith. God is your Father and He will take care of your honest mistakes.

As you stop and spend more time listening for God speaking, you will soon learn to distinguish between the different voices.

The key is to evaluate everything you hear in the light of God's word.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the Lord in everything you do, and he will show you the right way. Never let yourself think that you are wiser than you are; simply obey the Lord and refuse to do wrong." Proverbs 3:5-7

Sometimes you will struggle to hear God or you won't hear God speaking as clearly as you would like. At other times, you'll think you've heard God and respond to what He says only to find that you made a mistake.

If that happens, find out where you got it wrong and don't let making mistake hold you back from stepping out in faith the next time. God will teach you through your mistakes. It's much better to allow yourself to make a mistake than never to step out in faith.

The problem for most people is that they've been living with abnormality for so long that they don't even recognise that it's not normal to go through life without hearing God.

'Normal', is hearing God every day.

Is that what you expect? Do you actually schedule time to spend with God every day? Or, do you just try to squeeze Him around everything else you do?

Do you struggle to believe that God will speak to you and that you can hear Him? If you do, then simply confess your lack of faith to God. Ask Him to increase your faith and He will.

Prepare to exercise faith and grow stronger in the things of God. Overcome your doubts and keep on listening for God's voice.

Stop and give time to listen to God; it's worth taking time to to discover how to recognise His voice because He has the words of life.

God is speaking to you - choose to believe it. You can learn to how to hear God.

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