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This is an honest question that many of us ask. First
of all I want you to know that God speaks to us all the time and everyday its
just that God speaks to us differently to people. It has often been said that
God moves in mysterious ways, well I can tell you right now that God speaks to
us in mysterious ways too. It is up to us to see what God is doing and to hear
what God is saying.
In Matthew
13:15-16 (English-NIV) it says the following Revelation
2:7 (English-NIV) The point that I am trying to bring out is that we have eyes and we have ears
and we have understanding, yet some cannot see or hear or understand God because
of the hardness of their hearts. I am not saying that you personally have a
hard heart toward God, but a bad attitude toward God can blind us from him.
He reveals himself to the innocent and to those that honestly seek him with
all their heart. Another possible reason for not hearing God can be ignorance.
What I mean by this is that we do hear and see and understand what God is saying,
its just that we may not recognise it as God. We may think it is our own mind
for example. Let me explain further. All things happen because it is Gods will
or because he allows it even though it is not his will, but rather the will
of another. God the Father speaks to us all the time its just that he doesn't
talk to us directly most if not all of the time. God speaks to us in many ways.
He spoke to many people 2000 years ago when Jesus Christ walked the earth. See
2
Corinthians 5:19 Many people heard what Jesus said, it's just that they didn't realise that
it was God speaking though his Son. God has spoken through the prophets and
many heard what was said, yet many didn't attribute the message as coming from
God. Today God speaks to us by his Holy Spirit who convicts all men of sin,
righteousness and judgement. Many have felt the conviction of God and many have
known the right thing to do, yet they do not realise that it is God speaking
to them.
When I read the Book of Revelation I know that God is talking to me. Yet this
book came from God and was passed down the line to Jesus, then to the Angel
and then to John. John then sent it to the 7 churches and since then scribes
have copied this text faithfully down through the ages which is where my version
of the Book of Revelation came from. Yet I know that God speaks to me through
that book and his Spirit confirms his words. See the verse below. So yes God speaks to me but he speaks to me through many ways. This is why
it is so important to listen to what people are saying to you. God speaks though
people and I am convinced that we miss most of what God is saying to us because
we look at the vessel that the message came in and think that it isn't God and
yes that is true, but God speaks through these vessels.
Remember that God
is invisible and he is Spirit
and he also fills
the universe and resides
outside of his creation too. So why should we limit God to a human voice.
Our spoken languages are a series of verbal sounds and tones that convey a meaning
or picture to our mind, and our launguages are very limited. God usually bypasses
this, and gives us the understanding or picture directly into our minds and
spirits. This way it is less likely to be tainted by our own prejudices and
narrow mindedness and of course some things that God shows us cannot be fully
communicated by our limited language. This is why God gives us dreams and visions,
infact visions is his language. Usually when God speaks to us verbally, it is
usually because he needs our attention at that moment, perhaps to seize a moment,
or to help us avoid some kind of imminent danger. Otherwise he prefers to speak
to us by the language of his Spirit because it is a much richer form of communication.
I think we will be very surprised how many times God speaks to us in our dreams
for example. He probably speaks to us every night in this way and even though
you may not remember your dreams, I can guarantee you that what God has said
to you will be manifested eventually. Can you think of anything that doesn't exist or think of something that you
have never seen ? Well the answer is "no". You cannot. Why don't you try it
now........ Did you think of something that you have never seen or something
that has never existed. If you think you have, then I want you to look at that
thought and see that it is made up of things that you have seen. For example
I may have thought of a 50 foot monster made of marshmellow. Ok fair enough
this doesn't exist, yet the components of this monster are made up of things
that I have seen. Marshmellow, 50 feet, head, body, teeth etc. Or maybe you
thought of a worm hole that enables you to travel through time. Well worm holes
may or may not exist but it is made up of familiar concepts such as time, a
tunnel etc. Can you think of a colour that you have never seen. If you think
you can then I guarantee you that it is just a combination of other colours
that you have seen. Bearing this in mind and now going back to the thought that
you have on hold to do with dreams that you have experienced but cannot describe
in words, it becomes obvious that these types of dreams cannot be coming from
your own mind because you are experiencing and seeing things that you have never
seen or experienced before. This is not true for all dreams, but I just wanted
to show you that someone is communicating to us in our dreams and that person
is God who is the Father of our Spirits. Sometimes God may send and Angel to
communicate to us in our dreams or whatever, but regardless of who he sends,
it is God who is the originator of that thought or message or experience. Of
course I know that dreams are often our own minds, fantasies or fears and can
also have its origin in evil, but many do come from God. Listen to your dreams,
God is trying to tell you many things there.
I believe that if you seek God with all your heart then you will find him.
When I first gave my life to God, He put me through what I can best describe
as a training course that was designed for me to hear his voice. A couple of weeks later I was in a hurry again and driving quite fast down
a street because I was behind schedule in my job. I clearly heard God speak
to me. He told me to slow down. I said to God that I was in a hurry and needed
to drive fast to catch up to my schedule. He responded by telling me to slow
down as my schedule wasn't important in comparison to obeying his voice. I reluctantly
slowed down even though I was in a desperate hurry. I reasoned that it is alway
better to obey the voice of God rather than stick to my own agenda and I remembered
how God helped me out before when I listened to him. All of a sudden a truck
drove out of a driveway and onto the road without even looking and I knew without
a doubt that I would of hit the truck if I hadn't slowed down. I then thanked
God that he saved me from this potential accident and sped up again to overtake
the truck. Again God spoke to me and said slow down and do not overtake the
truck, so I obeyed him and slowed down. He then said to me pull back from the
truck, so I had to slow down to about 40 KPH. I then started to feel a bit rediculous
as I was sure that the cars behind me must be getting frustrated at my very
slow speed. I said to God, why do you want me to do this. The danger is over
isn't it ? Next I gazed in amazment as I watched the load on the back of the
truck fall onto the road. Boxes and containers of fish were sprawled all over
the road, but because I was a good distance from the truck and because I was
driving slow, I was able to stop without any danger to me or the cars behind
me. My message to you is this.
Don't ignore that still small voice in your heart. If you have never made
God your master, then you will need to first turn from your sins and turn to
him and serve him first. It is important that you seek him and that you know
his voice. God truly wants an intimate relationship with you and he wants you
to communicate with him as he communicates with you. This relationship will
take time to develop, like any friendship does. But a true relationship with
God is the most rewarding, fulfilling and intimate relationship a person can
have
In John
10:27 (English-NIV): Jesus is recorded as saying This scripture sums up what faith in Christ is all about. Its about knowing
him and following him. He will lead you to green pastures.
And again I want to remind you that God speaks to us all the time. If we cannot
hear him then we need to ask him to open our ears, we need to ask him to open
our eyes and we need to ask him to open our minds and hearts. If you genuinely
have put God first in your life, then you will inevitably move forward in your
relationship with him and and as a result, you will learn to know his voice.
As you obey him your discernment will be sharpened and as you mature spiritually,
you will be less and less likely to listen to the voice of another. In the same
way that sheep hear the voice of their shepherd, but will ignore the voice of
another.
Revelation
2:7 (English-NIV) If you do not know his voice today. Then start by praying to the Heavenly
Father in the name of Jesus Christ his Son. You can be sure that if you ask
anything in Jesus Name and according to Gods will then you will have it.
Luke
11:11-13 (English-NIV) says Being able to discern Gods voice is how we are lead into Gods will for our
lives. Being a friend of God and seeking him is how you will hear him. So I
encourage you to seek him with all your heart, and obey his voice. Remember
that God is Love and he truly wants to bless you with the riches of his life.
Some people have conveyed to me that they prayed to God and he never answered
them. The reason why God hasn't answered them is because they are not really
interested in having a true relationship with God and they are not willing to
repent. God sees their heart. God will speak to us when we are serious about
knowing him and remember that God always looks at our heart. He hears everything
we say, verbally or in our mind and he is always on the lookout for a heart
that is seeking him.
Matthew
7:7 Matthew 7:7 (English-NIV) says it all really.
15 For this people's heart has become calloused; they
hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they
might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.' {[15] Isaiah 6:9,10}
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to
the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree
of life, which is in the paradise of God.
that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,
not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message
of reconciliation.
Revelation
1:1 (English-KJV)
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,
to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent
and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Have you for example had a dream and been woken from that dream and remembered
it, only to forget it right away when fully awoke. Or perhaps you had a dream
and when you awoke you found that you could not explain the dream to anyone
because what you had just seen and felt could not be described in words. Now
just for a moment I want you to hold that thought as I show you something else.
I myself hear from God and his voice is an inner knowing in my heart of what
his will is or what he is saying to me. If I harden my heart to that inner voice
then I will most likely fall away from him slowly. But if I obey his voice then
Gods will for my life can be realised and my relationship with him will become
more intimate. I hear God speak to me many times, and I have also heard him
on few occassions actually speak to my mind verbally and very clearly in English.
One day when I was at work I was sorting through a pile of invoices that I had
processed ready for payment. I then heard what I thought was God speaking to
me. He was conveying to me the understanding that I had made a mistake in my
work and that I should check my work. So I did, yet I couldn't find any mistakes.
I was in a hurry to finish my work, but I could still hear God telling me that
I had made a mistake. I nearly ignored him because I was in a hurry, but I decided
that this was an opportune moment to actually see if I was really hearing from
him or not. I checked my work again and still couldn't find any mistakes. I
then started to get disillussioned because in the past I had taken this voice
to be the voice of God and he never let me down before. I decided that I would
check my work again and I found the mistake. It was small, but the ramifications
were quite big and I was very happy that I had listened to God because he saved
me from any trouble that I would have caused from this mistake.
After this I just thanked God and said to him that I would obey him when I heard
him speaking to me from now on. I reasoned that obeying God is not a chore it
is actually a good thing to obey him as he loves us and wants to protect us.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow
me.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to
the churches...
11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish,
will give him a snake instead?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask
him!"
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
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