HI there. You wish to hear God's voice?
First off I want to ask you a couple of questions. See, if you don't get the foundation right, there really isn't building the house...
These are simple questions, and in no means must you see that I am trying to offend you. I am merely trying to aid you to get to the answer you seek.
Do you believe in Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Do you believe God wants to talk to you? Did you give yourself willingly to Christ and ask for him for repentance? Have you ever been at a fortune teller? Have you ever been involved with the occult or witchcraft or any other false religion? Are you baptised with water? Are you baptised with the Holy Spirit? Are you willing to have patience to hear the words of God? Are you willing to adhere to His commandments? Are you willing to obedient to God? Will you serve Him?
Ok, enough questions. Now let me explain. To hear God's voice in a lot of times is a process. What needs to happen first is you need to be saved. If you were with a fortune teller or with the occult,etc. You need to go into your private chamber and pray, confess and ask forgiveness that you have done it and that God should set you free from ANY bonds that the devil might have placed on you or/and your family. You need to be baptised with water. Simple. You must choose to follow Christ and you must be baptised with water. You must be baptised with the Holy Spirit. If these 3 are done. (1 John 5), you can feel free without conviction to ask God to speak to you. Now, Why the other quesitons? Understand what you ask before you ask it.
If you want to hear God's voice. And you are extremely sincere. Then God will talk to you. But then you must be obedient. Then you must do what He says. And no God does not always tell you, take two steps forward, now stretch out your arm and make yourself some coffee. Don't be crazy. However God will sometimes say make yourself some coffee and go and sit so I(God) can talk with you. Or don't drive here, but take that road. Or take a left here and go to the second house on the right. Or God can say go to John and tell him this....
Patience? Well, part of it is also to be willing to wait for God to speak if you pray... Most people pray like a telegram. One tracked. Its like you pick up your cellphone, call your friend, rumble a couple of words and then before they can answer you put the phone down.
But to aid you, I'll try and tell you of the method that I was taught and maybe it will aid you. Again this is not the ONLY way...but if you are sincere, do this and you shall reap the rewards.
Understand the following:
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Understand that there is a communication channel between you and God. On God's side it is open, but you might still struggle to believe. So this method is to help you in gaining faith to hear God's voice. It happens in three phases. It is going to sound strange, and you might not at first understand why, but just do it.
Understand that God always speak within His fruit. Well technically He speaks, and the fruit accompanies the Word, but to put it plainly. When God speaks, you will feel the presence of the fruit of the Spirit. (Gal 5:22). In this you know whether or not the message is from Him or not. One last thing before we start. God is the King. God is God. God is not the level we are. When you adress God, do so with the utmost respect. Authority is extremely important in the Spirit.
Phase 1
This you must do for a week or two. The reason for the time period is so that your faith can grow in that which you experience. It might be longer, it might be less. Each day (every single day, more but not less) you ask God for a couple of verses. These verses will come up in your head and you must write them down. Now understand this is also a test, to see whether or not you adhere to the verses. WHat do I mean? Well say for instance hypothetically you make pirated movies. And God gives you a scripture saying, do not steal. Then you must go and delete all your pirated movies and ask for forgiveness. You must not just read therefore, but do. I cannot tell you what God is going to tell you to do, cause in every person's case it is different. If you do not do this, God will simply repeat and then keep quiet. Yes God will NOT waste His time if you are not going to listen to Him. He is Loving, but He is strict. So whatever God gives you in scripture and you feel His fruit accompany this, you know you must obey. You might think, but maybe. No you know what you must do. Don't worry how you are going to look in front of others, but think of how you will look in front of God. So do this for one to two weeks. It depends on God.
Phase 2
You must have a clear book and pen ready next to your bed or in your study. Somewhere where you know you are alone and are going to have some quiet time with God. Just to clarify clear book. Have a book with blank pages (a lot of them) ready so that you are going to write in it. Now when the time comes you must go to this book and pen. Just like in the previous two weeks you received
a couple of scriptures a day and had to work through them. These scripture came into your head. By now, you should be able to "sense" about a word at a time. Meaning that your faith would be of such that you hear one word after the other. Kind of like "1", "John", "5", "verse 4." per example.
So go to your book and ask God to speak to you. Wait. Don't rush it. Wait for the fruit. THen write each word , word by word as it comes into your head. The words will make sentences and paragraphs and you'll have an incredible experience.
Continue doing this as often as you can and believe and let your faith grow.
Phase 3
Now after a while (again God's decision) you will hear God's voice while you are doing something, just like you heard it in the previous phase except there will be no book. He will just speak to you in you daily life. Answer and communicate with God. Simple. And then as you walk in your daily life you hear Him and speak to Him and He to you and you learn from Him.
May God bless and keep you safe. Amen.
