God is constantly speaking to you. But too often, we can miss out on hearing what God’s saying to you because you're not familiar with His Voice. So you start to wonder how to hear from God and why you are not.
God wants you to hear his voice clear, and it is possible to do so. The key is to develop a personal relationship with God, which will empower you to hear him speak to you on a regular basis.
He tells you “Come near to God and He will come near to you.” (James 4:8) The more time you spend with Him talking to Him about All Things, both Listening and Hearing from Him, your relationship with Him becomes closer.
And God transforms you into a new person by using His conversations with you to change the way you think and He gives you new attitudes. Then you are able to test and know what God’s will for you is, when going through difficult or crisis or there is a major decision that you have to make. Romans 12:2
Listen God created you for a close personal relationship with Himself.
God re-created you in Christ Jesus. You are a New Creation in Christ, the Old Is Gone and the New Has Come. (2 Corinthians 5:17) You have been Born Again of the Spirit of God. (John 3:5-7) it is no longer you who lives, but Christ lives IN you. (Galatians 2:20) Your Body is Now the Temple of the Living God. (2 Corinthians 6:16).
God designed you for a close personal relationship with him. He came to live in the you to be personally present with you and talk to you on a moment by moment basis.
You can Confidently and Boldly come and talk with God – remembering he is your Heavenly Father Who knows exactly what you need even before you ask Him! Matthew 6:8
The Lord is constantly speaking to you and giving you His Direction. The Problem Is Nevertheless the Lord, but Rather Not Fixing Your Thoughts and Mind on Him to Hear. (Hebrews 12:2)
Jesus Said: “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd risks and lays down His own life for the sheep. John 10:11 “The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice; and I know them, and they follow Me.” John 10:27
Notice that He said in verse 3, His sheep hear His voice. He didn’t say His sheep CAN hear His voice or SHOULD hear His voice. He made the emphatic statement that His sheep DO hear His voice.
4 Steps to Hear clearly the voice of God
1. Meditate on the word of God. To meditate means to pay special attention. This means you sit still and quietly before the Lord and ask him what He is saying to you through His Word. Psalms 46:10
Joshua 1:8 gives you the instruction:
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 1:8
As a born-again believer, the Word of God Now Lives in you. The LORD says: I have put My laws into your heart, and in them in your mind.
Hebrews 10:16
2. Practice the word of God – be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. God and His Word are ONE.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”
James 1:22
For example he tells you in Philippians 4:6, Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.
Philippians 4:6
3. Give the word first place in your life.
My son, give attention to: My Words Incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:20-22
Always put the Word First. Ask What God Says about Your Situation or Circumstance. For the word of God which the Holy Spirit will reveal to you is guaranteed to come to pass. Just as God says:
So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11
For the word of God will never fail. For with God nothing will be impossible. Luke 1:37
This is because the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Hebrews 4:12
4. Act on the Word of God with Authority.
For the word of God, is the sword of the Spirit. The Sword That the Spirit of God uses. Ephesians 6:17
The Spirit of God Draws you to His Word of Promise. Spirit and power of God, operating on you and stirring your minds most holy emotions and thus persuading you. (1 Corinthians 2:4) To regulate your life and conduct yourself by the effective working of the Holy Spirit in you testifying with your own spirit what God would have you to do; thus you walk not by sight or making decisions based on the appearance of things, but by the Word of God Divinely Persuading You What God Prefers. 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 8:16
For you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you, directs and controls you because you belong to Christ and are truly a child of God. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Romans 8:9, 14
