Hearing God is never a method but how do you learn to hear the voice of God?
I'll share a little bit of my personal experience in this episode of hearingGod.
Part of the Battlefield of
the Mind is that you want to hear His voice, His direction and plans for
your life. He knows best, right?
First things first... we
need to understand that the Word of God is true. If we hit some grey
areas then we need to seek God and ask Him to show us, and then be open
with all of your senses to how He shows up.
Hearing God is a relational
lifestyle. You do some talking, you do some listening. Do your
friends like to hear vain repetition from you? You certainly don't
appreciate not being listened to. Well, you have to view your
relationship with God just the same. I'm not big on 'methods', but it's
pretty clear in the scriptures that God tells us what to do.
Mat 7:7-8 "Ask, and it will
be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened
to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to
him who knocks it will be opened."
So, lemme share some stories with you...
The person that brought me
to the Lord was so on fire for God. He'd ask God every single thing...
and one day he was sharing a testimony about how he asked God if he
should have a snack or take a nap... and He had an impression of the
answer and so he did it, & then all this drama happened later &
it caused him to have to stay up all night or something so because he
took this nap, he was 100% physically unfazed the next day. So he was
just praising God because of something so simple... that he asked God,
that he heard God and because of that obedience, in any circumstance he
was kept in perfect peace and in strength.
So how does God speak? Can
you use your imagination? Anything of your senses, including dreams.
Things that repeat in your day... you might not get it the first time
or two, but when He keeps putting it in front of you, you have to ask
yourself is this really coincidence, or is this something I need to pay
attention to?
Another bit of sharing of something that happened to me recently...
I had a person contact me
over a comment I had in one of my videos where I was saying that the KJV
is the best all-round version to stick with. So he was dogging that a
bit saying that there was omission/replacement of the Creator's true
name with Lord... yadada, yadada. Go check out this website the actual
name is Yâhuwshúa` or Ya-hweh. So I asked God that night, cuz I was
feeling a little unsettled and then that night He gave me a dream...
In the dream I was at a
track... preparing for a race. People were getting dressed for the final
run. The female coach was bent on a sort of favoritism for 2 of the
other runners... they were good at running. The coach didn't seem to
care for anyone else.
When it got real close to
race time, I asked "where is my jersey & shorts?" & the coach
snottily said I wasn't allowed to race because my previous race times
were not totaled up and signed by a coach. Suddenly I was forbidden to
run because of a technicality? I was angry... the coach clearly would
not help me over this issue that wasn't my fault, and wouldn't allow me
to approach the start line to appeal to judges over a very simple
matter. End of Dream...
When I awoke I had a parable play out like a waking dream... a vision, if you will.
There was a big party and I
met a gorgeous man there and we had the best time together. We were
immediately in love. Before the end of the night we made plans to go out
on a date... to meet at a certain place at a certain time. After we
parted, friends asked me his name... but I was unsure of his name so
they began to badger me that it wouldn't work... attack me for not
knowing and trying to talk me out of everything to destroy us. But I
knew it didn't matter because we had already made plans and we were in
love... I only had to follow our plans and show up. End of Vision.
Case in point.... I have a
copy of 'the scriptures' bible which has 'proper' biblical names in it. I
am well aware of the 'proper name of God' debate... but every day
people cry out "Jesus" and He saves them.
And this was the ironic reply I received after sharing what God spoke to me:
"If you were the known
beneficiary of an inheritance, but the person who made the will put down
a nickname for you that only he or she was aware of, who do you think
would receive the inheritance? Whatever your real name is, that is who
should receive the inheritance, but because a nickname was used, you
would get nothing. The point is that while even I was originally saved
under Jesus Christ, after learning of the original name of Yahuwshua, I
believe that calling on the commonly known name (Jesus) is no longer
valid."
BAM BAM. Let him who has
ears HEAR! See, God already addressed all this in what I shared... the
dream being that this person was like the coach... trying to discredit
and rob me from racing based on a technicality, and prevent me from
going higher to resolve it. And with the vision... He's saying it's
about the heart. It's an individual thing. Guess what, HE knows my
nickname!!!! And guess what, if we discredit our foundation, what are
we built upon? God says this name thing is a run to a fro chase after
the wind!
So let me elaborate the hearing process...
I didn't run off to that
website, because I could feel in my spirit that something about this
wasn't kosher (the Holy Spirit began to churn). So basically, I asked
God FIRST. Then, after asking... the listening begins. A thought entered
my mind of a poster a friend gave me that has many names based on
attributes of God--- many names, not one. Then the next thought was God
speaking to Moses and presenting Himself as 'I AM' through the burning
bush. Can you see how the dream, the vision, the feeling or impression
within my spirit & the thoughts are all building to a conclusion
here? This is a great example of how God can speak. And note it's on
many levels.
Sometimes when I'm really
not sure of something, and have been crying out... I apologize, "God,
I'm sorry if I missed you, could you please say it again, say it
louder... or give me the patience I need to hear You out?
I'll give you another
experience, and this is regarding hearing a song playing in my head over
the course of a few days. This is an example where I wasn't asking God
anything, but God was telling me something.
So I'm getting this song
and it's disturbing because it's saying I'm in danger and it's with
someone I haven't talked to in a while. So BAM BAM... suddenly 3
different people show up in my life that I hadn't talked to in a while;
one of them even as long as in 8 years!
Now you know we are not to
feed our pearls to swine... (Mat 7:6) but on the same token... we can
screw up a whole heck of a lot if we jump the gun and don't wait on God
for His full answer. In this situation can you see there are some
talents or some treasure of the kingdom to be earned here? To what
honor and length will I go in pursuing His voice? Yes, part of this is a
test. My natural man wants to ignore all three people or probe them to
try and find answers by my own power.
One of the people said "Hey
I can come over sometime with my friend"... and the Lord had shown me 6
months ago that this friend is bad news. So oh, is it this person?
The one I hadn't seen in 8 years... and have a lot of catching up to
do... is it this one?
If I would allow fear to
enter in, instead of patiently waiting upon His next release of
information... I could really destroy some relationships here. Instead I
continued to seek Him. I prayed for each of these people, and then
when the telling circumstance came up... again, I felt that disquiet in
my spirit the Holy Spirit rising up again..., THEN I knew exactly which
person it was and what the 'danger' was about. Then I found myself so
happy like my friend from so long ago that was all happy about asking
God about eating or taking a nap! Jesus, Adonai, El Shaddai, I AM...
whatever nickname God has shared with you... HE knows what's to come,
and He's always there speaking to us. We just need to listen.
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