HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD III: POSITION YOURSELF TO HEAR

The reason why most people do not hear God is because they underestimate the diversity of ways in which He speaks. They are seeking for the spectacular through a loud and thunderous voice yet God speaks in more ways than that. . . Listen for His voice in His Word, through sermon teachings, through the counsel of a man or woman of God, through your fellow brethren, even in His silence He is speaking!
~ Ap. G.L

 
A while ago we started a series called #ItsYveTheSheep. If you missed the previous posts click this link to catch up. I have taken time to continue / finish it because everytime I would want to, I would learn something new that I want to include... But I think I'm ready now ...

One of the questions I received from the series is:
Yve, how do I position myself to hear and how can I be sure it's God's voice I heard?

Well,
Ideally, as His sheep, we should just hear the voice of God by default, all the time. However due to the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, hearing now requires, uumm... let's call them: hearing aids👂 and guiding lights💡... 

In this post we will discuss what the  hearing aids are/how to position oneself to hear and then the guiding lights in a next...

👂 Being born again

You don't have to be born again to hear the voice of God. Yes, you read that right! (refer Gen 4:9). However, there are certain limitations to how much a nonbeliever can hear. Whenever a nonbeliver encounters God, the conversation is almost always about sin. Why?

The first thing we notice about a person is their outfit. God is clothed in Holiness and righteousness, while the sinner is dressed in sin or at best: his own righteousness, which equates to filthy rags. And because of that, they may go ahead to find out more about how to have clothes like Him or they'll feel too guilty and run off with their filthy rags😅. 

God however, wants to relate with every human being beyond the conversation of sin... Remember he is a King – with a kingdom. He wants us to enjoy the other aspects of his kingdom also, and not only righteousness and holiness. There is wisdom, love, joy, peace... 😁...prosperity too...

If you are reading this and are not born again and desire to be, check out our previous post on true happiness which includes a guide to  getting  born again  then come back next Tuesday as we move on to part 2 of this post with the rest.

In the next post we discuss four other hearing aids to hearing the voice of God.