How to Hear the Voice of God

Hearing God's voice is something we all long for-but did you know that it's not hard to do? In fact, God wants you to hear His voice! He doesn't speak to us through a quiver in our liver or through vibes or mediums.

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Hearing the voice of God is as natural as hearing your best friend talk to you. What's more, we can hear Him everyday and not just on special occasions or by chanting special incantations. He speaks to us in the natural moments of life. Do you want to hear God's voice?

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Then you must be ready to listen. Why do you want to hear God's voice? That may sound like a silly question, but motives are important in anything we do. The Bible says this about God's Word: Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. If you do, it's possible you're hearing Him already, for He may be the one giving you the longing to hear Him. Packer says, "God has spoken to man, and the Bible is His Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation.

In another place, we read: You may hear people say that the Bible is just a book written by men, but the Bible itself claims to be God's Word! Can we rely on it? The evidence of history, archaeology, fulfilled prophecy and personal testimony over thousands of years is overwhelming that the Bible is, indeed, God's Word.

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Then read the Bible. Find a good daily reading plan, and stick to it. Hearing God's Voice through Prayer When you want to have a conversation with someone, how do you begin? Do you stand in front of the person and hope they will talk to you? The idea of God speaking in a whisper—gentle and accessible—causing us to lean in towards closeness is one of the beautiful ways God speaks to us.

We can count on him to meet us in ways we might not expect, with the words we most need to hear. God can and does speak to us in familiar ways, like the Bible and prayer. But the more we get to know the one true God of the Bible, the more we see him everywhere in the world around us. Psalm 29 is one of the many places in the Bible where God is not whispering.

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Um, excuse me Lord…can we please whisper again?! I used to think it was goosebumps or miracles or something like a light bulb moment for God to appear. A baby in a manger? A stranger walking on the Emmaus road? A squishy, wiggling baby or a coincidental bump-in with a stranger feel all too ordinary to be sacred interactions with God—until the blinders come off.

Once we learn how to recognize his voice through the Bible and experience and prayer, we may be surprised that we begin to hear him everywhere—even in baby cries and the stories of strangers who interrupt us. Discernment—or that ability to judge and determine truth—is absolutely essential.

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When we start slowing down to listen, we might be surprised how many voices we hear. Our minds are noisy places! Practice is really important: I recently saw a book of wise sayings people had gleaned from their parents. The quotes and quips were profound, inspiring, and funny. I forgot all of them.

I cannot remember a single one to say here. God wants to fellowship and communicate with us. Because you can't really have a relationship unless there is true dialogue.

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How do we get to know a person? By communicating with them. By talking and listening. It's the same with our relationship with God.

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He talks, we listen. We talk, He listens. God loves us so much that He sent Jesus to take our place and to die for us. He did this so that we could once again have fellowship with Him. In the book of Hebrews we see that we can have access to God's very presence, " He also wants us to be fulfilled, blessed and successful in the plan that He has established for our lives -- so that we can be a reflection of His love and blessing in the Earth. It is God's desire to walk with and to communicate with His children.

He wants to talk to us. And He wants us to listen and talk to Him, too. There is more good news -- we can hear His voice. The Bible, God's love letter to mankind, makes it clear that we were created to have two-way communication with Him. Jesus tells us in John One day the producer and I traveled to a video shoot with a young woman who worked in the donor relations department. Along the way she told us that, at the urging of her father, she had recently purchased a flat with two apartments.

Still uncomfortable with the big step she had just taken she thought out loud, "How do you know if you are making the right decisions in life? But as a child of God we don't have to walk blind. We can have confidence that we will hear His voice. The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8: We have further assurance of this promise in Psalm Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholds him with His hand.