How well have you learned to hear your Father’s voice?

[Living Stone]

How well have you learned to hear your Father’s voice?

God really does have a voice and currently speaks to anyone who can hear Him:

Jer 7:23 (God)…Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people… that it may be well with you.

Joh 10:27 (Jesus) My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Heb 3:7-8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His (God’s) voice, do not harden your hearts…”

Who is your real Daddy, the Father of your spirit – Do you always recognize His voice?

Heb 12:9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits (and the Father of my spirit) and live?

Jam 1:17 …The Father of lights…(are you one of the Father’s lights?)

John 8:12 (Jesus) "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." (how does His light get into us?)

2 Pet 1:19 …The prophetic word…which you do well to heed (hear) as a light that shines in a dark place…(Jesus, the word of God, in our hearts is our light)

Mat 5:14-16 You are the light of the world…Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matt 23:9 And don't address anyone here on earth as 'Father', for only God in NLT heaven is your spiritual Father. (Don’t you know your own Father’s voice? What kind of a child doesn’t know his Father’s voice? Only a prodigal child)

Perhaps you have a major (or minor) decision to take, perhaps you are facing a crisis, or perhaps you are troubled by some habit or a relentless pattern of thought – the first question will always be: What does God say? What does your own Father have to say?

Matt 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God (in your heart) and His righteousness (His word is righteousness) and all these things shall be added to you.

Every Christian has personally heard God’s voice at least once. Otherwise they couldn’t have been born again as a Christian:

Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door (of a person’s heart) and knock. If anyone hears My voice (My word) and opens the door (by believing Me), I will come in to him and fellowship with him…That’s how we’re born again

1 Pet 1:23 Being born again…by (hearing the voice of) the word of God… KJV

Some Christians can recall the very first time God spoke directly to their hearts through a scripture and they were born again – others may not have such a recollection but virtually every Christian has experienced, even if just very occasionally, a scripture seeming to come alive to them, to jump off the page and resonate deep within them. And the words of that particular scripture became to them extremely precious and different from the rest of scripture. That was the voice of God speaking personally to them. Sadly, this hearing God speak, which should happen every day, is for many Christians only a very rare occurrence.

With what part of me can I hear my Father’s voice?

Matt 11:15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (and they all had natural ears)

Jesus repeats this statement about 14 times in the New Testament, more than any other statement. It must be important. What type of hearing was He talking about? What kind of ears was He referring to? Four times in scripture this answer is given:

Heb 3:7-8 …Today, if you will hear His (God’s) voice, Do not harden your hearts

So, we can only hear God’s voice with our hearts, meaning we can only hear God, who is a spirit, with our own spirits – which is the part of us that He is the Father of.

1 Pet 3:4 But let it be the hidden person of the heart…the beauty of a meek (hearing) and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Prov 20:27 The spirit (God uses spirit and heart interchangeably in scripture) of man (or woman) is the lamp (place of illumination, the entrance of His words spoken by His voice brings light) of the LORD...

Jer 24:7 (your Father speaking) I will give them (you) a heart to know Me…

But even then, we will only hear Him with our hearts if they remain tender and we haven’t allowed them to become hardened. When our hearts become hardened we become dull of hearing or spiritually deaf – we cannot hear God:

Heb 5:11 Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing… AMP

And what is it that we do that makes us dull of hearing and unable to hear the voice of our Father? Only one thing, which is why our Father wants to keep us from it – sin.

Heb 3:13 Speak to each other about these things every day… so that none of you will become hardened against God, being blinded by …sin. TLB

Is My Father’s voice audible to my natural ear?

We hear God’s voice only with our hearts. The Holy Spirit is the living voice of God. He may speak through the word of God, through another person or directly to me. When He speaks through the word of God, I may be at the time reading it with my natural eyes or hearing it audibly with my natural ears, but the only important question is; are these words silently speaking to my heart? God will always speak to a heart that is tender and meek toward Him, that therefore can hear His voice. All Christian growth, and all Christian ministry, depends on hearing, believing and obeying the voice of God.

Ps 89:15-16 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound (of God’s voice)They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance (the light of the words you speak). In Your name (your word) they rejoice all day long…

You and I will also face many critical moments in life, the outcome of which will depend entirely on whether we heard and then held fast to what God said to us. These pivotal moments can alter the course of our or other people’s lives. Our loving Father wants us always to hear the wisdom of His words. He even invites us to ask Him in prayer:

Ps 143:8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness (Your loving words) in the morning, For (because) in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For (because) I lift up my soul (my will) to You.

If I can’t hear God speaking to me, am I listening to other voices, completely unaware?

John 10:5 (Jesus) Yet they (My sheep) will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.

If my heart is hard because of sin it is likely that I will not hear the voice of my invisible Father – recognizing it doesn’t have to stay that way one moment longer, for receiving God’s forgiveness will immediately soften my heart. But while it stays hard, there will be other voices from equally invisible beings, called strangers, speaking to me through thoughts. Thoughts, contrary to God, suggesting what I should do and say. I will likely assume that these thoughts are my own, but they are not, they are from evil spirits.

Hearing and knowing God’s voice is something a son or daughter must constantly learn.

It takes time to learn to hear our Father’s voice. But if we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, who is the voice of God, He will teach us. His “still small voice” is not burdensome and driven. He teaches us with a comforting gentleness, feeding us our daily bread through the words He speaks to our hearts. Initially it will be only at live meetings (where the Holy Spirit is leading) of the Church, then through inspired writings and audios that all teach me how to hear My Father’s voice, both from the Bible, by His Spirit, and directly from the Holy Spirit, all through the day.

John 8:47 (Jesus) He who is of God hears God's words; …

John 18:37 (Jesus) …Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led (because they hear His voice) by the Spirit of God, these are the sons (and daughters) of God.

Are you getting to know the voice of your Father? Do you hear Him, through scripture and in direct conversation, better and more clearly this year than last year? Are you, by faith and under His teaching, constantly allowing Him to improve your daily communication with Him?

Praise the Father of our spirits, we have ever increasing faith in Him as we hear His voice speak to our heart through His words! Amen

[Faithbuilders]

He is my Father, my Brother, my King, my best Friend, my Lord.... I talk with Him as such; that means both talk, and listen. He speaks to me, and I hear his voice; when I listen.

[LadyKay]

I know his voice. It is hard for me to describe it.  The best I can do is that to me at times it sounds like thunder. Other times it is a gentle whisper, kind of like a soft breeze.  Sometimes it seems his words are spoken through someone else. Who says what I needed to hear. Sometimes it is a Bible verse, that shows up out of no where at just the right time. A few times it has happen in a dream.  There are so many ways his voice speaks to me. 

[frienduff thaylorde]

46 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

I know his voice. It is hard for me to describe it.  The best I can do is that to me at times it sounds like thunder. Other times it is a gentle whisper, kind of like a soft breeze.  Sometimes it seems his words are spoken through someone else. Who says what I needed to hear. Sometimes it is a Bible verse, that shows up out of no where at just the right time. A few times it has happen in a dream.  There are so many ways his voice speaks to me. 

I heard the voice of GOD in a dream too .    It seemed to have come right too me and yet from within me . 

You know how we know its From GOD .    WHEN it don't contradict scripture , the approach of How GOD was in SCRIPTURE .  

I have heard many say OH I hear from God all the time .    You probably have too .    ONLY to find out their message ,  IS DEAD set contrary to the GOD of the BIBLE .

Which means , YEAH it was not GOD they were hearing .

I say that cause I keep hearing many so called prophets and dreamers of dreams ,   And they keep speaking of a unity THAT contradicts TRUTH

THEY keep showing dreams and visions and planting ideas that God is fine with the worship of others gods .    

But even if a dreamer of dreams has a vision or a dream and STILL it comes to pass ,   HEED THEM NOT if they ones who bring messages of a unity with gods and other gods

ITS ALL WICKED and vile .    THE LORD will allow us to be tested .  AND I warn us all , these inclusive ones will increase in gifts , signs and wonders , BUT ITS ALL A SHAM

allowed .   THUS let us learn the BIBLCAL GOD .  LEARN the BIBLCAL JESUS well.  LEARN the biblical apostels well .    For a massive delusion has arisen and will get only worse

deceiving and deceiving , till all whose names are not in the lambs book have come to worship the beast .    Its ugly lady kay ,  but folks are fallin for it big time in these last days .

[enoob57]

I find after all God has told us through Scripture that I have no need of my sensual aspects to be exercised whatsoever... I know He is not keeping any of this and the stimulation of the intake of His Word plus the depth of His Person within is totally sufficient for anything that comes to my senses. It is as though I am already with Him on the right hand of His Father with the inconvenience of a body still tied to the death on earth. 

Col 3:1-10

3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
KJV

I so love the movement of my God both now and forever!

[LadyKay]

9 minutes ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

I heard the voice of GOD in a dream too .    It seemed to have come right too me and yet from within me . 

You know how we know its From GOD .    WHEN it don't contradict scripture , the approach of How GOD was in SCRIPTURE .  

I have heard many say OH I hear from God all the time .    You probably have too .    ONLY to find out their message ,  IS DEAD set contrary to the GOD of the BIBLE .

Which means , YEAH it was not GOD they were hearing .

I say that cause I keep hearing many so called prophets and dreamers of dreams ,   And they keep speaking of a unity THAT contradicts TRUTH

THEY keep showing dreams and visions and planting ideas that God is fine with the worship of others gods .    

But even if a dreamer of dreams has a vision or a dream and STILL it comes to pass ,   HEED THEM NOT if they ones who bring messages of a unity with gods and other gods

ITS ALL WICKED and vile .    THE LORD will allow us to be tested .  AND I warn us all , these inclusive ones will increase in gifts , signs and wonders , BUT ITS ALL A SHAM

allowed .   THUS let us learn the BIBLCAL GOD .  LEARN the BIBLCAL JESUS well.  LEARN the biblical apostels well .    For a massive delusion has arisen and will get only worse

deceiving and deceiving , till all whose names are not in the lambs book have come to worship the beast .    Its ugly lady kay ,  but folks are fallin for it big time in these last days .

One time I was being critical of some of my fellow Christians and their inability to understand something that to me was clearly understandable. I came home from church in a huff saying to myself, "how can they be Christians and think that way"?  Then God's spoke to me and said to me "So  you think you are perfect?"  "Then I said no, I do not think I am perfect."   Then he said to me "Then why do you criticize your fellow Christians for not being perfect?"

Well all I can say is that shut me up real fast and put me in my place. 

[frienduff thaylorde]

4 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

One time I was being critical of some of my fellow Christians and their inability to understand something that to me was clearly understandable. I came home from church in a huff saying to myself, "how can they be Christians and think that way"?  Then God's spoke to me and said to me "So  you think you are perfect?"  "Then I said no, I do not think I am perfect."   Then he said to me "Then why do you criticize your fellow Christians for not being perfect?"

Well all I can say is that shut me up real fast and put me in my place. 

Well,  the only way I can test and see what spirit was behind this ,   is you might be specific and tell me two things  .  First what was it you thought you knew

and second were you seeing yourself as some wise and mighty thing . OR were you just trying to explain it .

See, it might not have been GOD that told you that at all.     What was it you thought you knew .  at least say that .

[LadyKay]

12 minutes ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

What was it you thought you knew .  at least say that .

I can't remember. I think it was an assortment  of topics that came up in Sunday School. 

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 were you seeing yourself as some wise and mighty thing 

Yes I was.  I was seeing myself as the most Christian like person among all these other Christians who were not as Christian as I was.  I was  being prideful.  

[Not me]

18 hours ago, Living Stone said:

How well have you learned to hear your Father’s voice?

God really does have a voice and currently speaks to anyone who can hear Him:

Jer 7:23 (God)…Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people… that it may be well with you.

Joh 10:27 (Jesus) My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Heb 3:7-8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His (God’s) voice, do not harden your hearts…”

Who is your real Daddy, the Father of your spirit – Do you always recognize His voice?

Heb 12:9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits (and the Father of my spirit) and live?

Jam 1:17 …The Father of lights…(are you one of the Father’s lights?)

John 8:12 (Jesus) "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." (how does His light get into us?)

2 Pet 1:19 …The prophetic word…which you do well to heed (hear) as a light that shines in a dark place…(Jesus, the word of God, in our hearts is our light)

Mat 5:14-16 You are the light of the world…Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matt 23:9 And don't address anyone here on earth as 'Father', for only God in NLT heaven is your spiritual Father. (Don’t you know your own Father’s voice? What kind of a child doesn’t know his Father’s voice? Only a prodigal child)

Perhaps you have a major (or minor) decision to take, perhaps you are facing a crisis, or perhaps you are troubled by some habit or a relentless pattern of thought – the first question will always be: What does God say? What does your own Father have to say?

Matt 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God (in your heart) and His righteousness (His word is righteousness) and all these things shall be added to you.

Every Christian has personally heard God’s voice at least once. Otherwise they couldn’t have been born again as a Christian:

Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door (of a person’s heart) and knock. If anyone hears My voice (My word) and opens the door (by believing Me), I will come in to him and fellowship with him…That’s how we’re born again

1 Pet 1:23 Being born again…by (hearing the voice of) the word of God… KJV

Some Christians can recall the very first time God spoke directly to their hearts through a scripture and they were born again – others may not have such a recollection but virtually every Christian has experienced, even if just very occasionally, a scripture seeming to come alive to them, to jump off the page and resonate deep within them. And the words of that particular scripture became to them extremely precious and different from the rest of scripture. That was the voice of God speaking personally to them. Sadly, this hearing God speak, which should happen every day, is for many Christians only a very rare occurrence.

With what part of me can I hear my Father’s voice?

Matt 11:15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (and they all had natural ears)

Jesus repeats this statement about 14 times in the New Testament, more than any other statement. It must be important. What type of hearing was He talking about? What kind of ears was He referring to? Four times in scripture this answer is given:

Heb 3:7-8 …Today, if you will hear His (God’s) voice, Do not harden your hearts

So, we can only hear God’s voice with our hearts, meaning we can only hear God, who is a spirit, with our own spirits – which is the part of us that He is the Father of.

1 Pet 3:4 But let it be the hidden person of the heart…the beauty of a meek (hearing) and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Prov 20:27 The spirit (God uses spirit and heart interchangeably in scripture) of man (or woman) is the lamp (place of illumination, the entrance of His words spoken by His voice brings light) of the LORD...

Jer 24:7 (your Father speaking) I will give them (you) a heart to know Me…

But even then, we will only hear Him with our hearts if they remain tender and we haven’t allowed them to become hardened. When our hearts become hardened we become dull of hearing or spiritually deaf – we cannot hear God:

Heb 5:11 Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing… AMP

And what is it that we do that makes us dull of hearing and unable to hear the voice of our Father? Only one thing, which is why our Father wants to keep us from it – sin.

Heb 3:13 Speak to each other about these things every day… so that none of you will become hardened against God, being blinded by …sin. TLB

Is My Father’s voice audible to my natural ear?

We hear God’s voice only with our hearts. The Holy Spirit is the living voice of God. He may speak through the word of God, through another person or directly to me. When He speaks through the word of God, I may be at the time reading it with my natural eyes or hearing it audibly with my natural ears, but the only important question is; are these words silently speaking to my heart? God will always speak to a heart that is tender and meek toward Him, that therefore can hear His voice. All Christian growth, and all Christian ministry, depends on hearing, believing and obeying the voice of God.

Ps 89:15-16 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound (of God’s voice)They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance (the light of the words you speak). In Your name (your word) they rejoice all day long…

You and I will also face many critical moments in life, the outcome of which will depend entirely on whether we heard and then held fast to what God said to us. These pivotal moments can alter the course of our or other people’s lives. Our loving Father wants us always to hear the wisdom of His words. He even invites us to ask Him in prayer:

Ps 143:8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness (Your loving words) in the morning, For (because) in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For (because) I lift up my soul (my will) to You.

If I can’t hear God speaking to me, am I listening to other voices, completely unaware?

John 10:5 (Jesus) Yet they (My sheep) will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.

If my heart is hard because of sin it is likely that I will not hear the voice of my invisible Father – recognizing it doesn’t have to stay that way one moment longer, for receiving God’s forgiveness will immediately soften my heart. But while it stays hard, there will be other voices from equally invisible beings, called strangers, speaking to me through thoughts. Thoughts, contrary to God, suggesting what I should do and say. I will likely assume that these thoughts are my own, but they are not, they are from evil spirits.

Hearing and knowing God’s voice is something a son or daughter must constantly learn.

It takes time to learn to hear our Father’s voice. But if we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, who is the voice of God, He will teach us. His “still small voice” is not burdensome and driven. He teaches us with a comforting gentleness, feeding us our daily bread through the words He speaks to our hearts. Initially it will be only at live meetings (where the Holy Spirit is leading) of the Church, then through inspired writings and audios that all teach me how to hear My Father’s voice, both from the Bible, by His Spirit, and directly from the Holy Spirit, all through the day.

John 8:47 (Jesus) He who is of God hears God's words; …

John 18:37 (Jesus) …Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led (because they hear His voice) by the Spirit of God, these are the sons (and daughters) of God.

Are you getting to know the voice of your Father? Do you hear Him, through scripture and in direct conversation, better and more clearly this year than last year? Are you, by faith and under His teaching, constantly allowing Him to improve your daily communication with Him?

Praise the Father of our spirits, we have ever increasing faith in Him as we hear His voice speak to our heart through His words! Amen

Oh bless you. So true, hearing the “still small voice” or the “whispering of God” in our innermost being is part and portion of  being lead by the Spirit. This being lead by the Spirit is something for all Christians. It can grow, and will continue to grow in proportion to the depth and strength of our personal relationship with Christ. Meaning that the closer we walk with Him the louder “His whispers” are. This right here is the obedience we have been called to. That this “obedience” would grow and grow and manifest itself in a new and wonderful way in each of our life’s. Blessings 

Much love in Christ, Not me 

[Not me]

16 hours ago, LadyKay said:

One time I was being critical of some of my fellow Christians and their inability to understand something that to me was clearly understandable. I came home from church in a huff saying to myself, "how can they be Christians and think that way"?  Then God's spoke to me and said to me "So  you think you are perfect?"  "Then I said no, I do not think I am perfect."   Then he said to me "Then why do you criticize your fellow Christians for not being perfect?"

Well all I can say is that shut me up real fast and put me in my place. 

Thank you for sharing one of your experiences with God with us. I think we have all been there before, and probably, will be there again in the future. But His instruction does bring forth the “fruit of righteousness”. So a increase of Him is always a good thing. 

Blessings  

Much love in Christ, Not me 

Edited November 28, 2018 by Not me