By the end of this video, you will have 7 keys to help you tune into God’s voice and to be confident that you hear him clearly. I’ve taught others to hear God in online and face to face courses. I believe nothing will improve your life more than hearing God clearly.
Psalm 27:8 (NLT)
My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”
00:00 7 Keys to Hearing God Clearly
3:06 1. God still speaks to people today.
4:02 2. God speaks from His dwelling place, our hearts.
4:39 3. God gives us the privilege and the responsibility of hearing His voice.
5:30 4. If you want to continue to hear from Jesus, do what He told you to do.
6:39 5. Silence other voices.
7:31 6. Does it sound like Jesus?
8:52 7. Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
9:51 ACTIVATION
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I’m looking for You, Jesus
I was 32, a recovering alcoholic, and a new Christian living in Tallahassee, Florida. I wanted to really know Jesus. I asked Jesus to take me out of my busy lawyer life so I could get to know Him. To have relationship with Him. He sent me to China.
Over the next year, I went all over Beijing asking missionaries, “Do you hear God?” “How do you experience Jesus?”
I began to have precious times with Jesus, all alone, in my room at a small college over an hour north of the heart of Beijing. I felt His presence. He talked to me. Not long conversations, but I began to “hear” Him more and more. He highlighted scripture that answered my questions. I had “impressions” and sometimes saw images that He explained. I heard words and short phrases that were full of meaning.
Over time, I learned to know His voice and the ways He “spoke” to me. I realized he had been “talking” to me for years. I just had not realized it was Him.
My Sheep Know My Voice
If you are a Christian, You hear Jesus.
John 10:27 (NLT)
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me."
You are a Christian today because you heard His voice. Keep listening. He's still speaking.
Train Your Heart to Listen When I Speak
7 Keys to Hearing God Clearly
1st. God still speaks to people today.
To hear God, you need to believe that God speaks to people today.
God often speaks to us when we are reading the Bible. The Bible is the Holy Spirit talking to us. God sometimes talks to us in a “still, small, voice” (see 1 Kings 19).
2nd. God speaks from His dwelling place, our hearts.
Before I began to clearly hear God, I listened for an outside voice – like a person talking to me. The Holy Spirit lives in us once we are born again. So, it is only natural we would hear Him within ourselves.
1 Corinthians 3:16 (NKJ)
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
When God speaks to us it is often a quiet thought or impression that flows out of our hearts and into our minds.
3rd. God gives us the privilege and the responsibility of hearing His voice.
Jesus calls us His flock. He doesn’t drive us like you drive cattle. He walks ahead of us, and we follow Him. How can we follow Him and not someone else? We know His voice.
John 10:27 (NLT)
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me."
4th. If you want to continue to hear from Jesus, do what He told you to do.
You may have to learn this the hard way. I did. Once Jesus tells you something, act on it. If you don’t, He may just quietly wait for you to obey. Quietly. I’ve had times when I couldn’t hear Him. I asked why and suddenly I remembered that He told me to do something. Once I did it, I could hear Him speaking to me again.
Jeremiah 11:5 (TLB) Psalm 66:18 – NIV
5th. Silence other voices.
There are 3 voices we can hear in our heads: our own voice, Satan’s, and God’s.
Our path to silencing other voices is found in James: “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7 (NIV)
6th. Does it sound like Jesus?
Everything Jesus says to you will always be consistent with the Bible, with Jesus’ character, and heart. Jesus will sound like the Jesus you find in the Bible. Just as you and I have unique voices – voice recognition is a security feature on many of our phones. Jesus still has the same “voice.”
When I first began to hear His voice, I sometimes wasn’t sure. So, I asked Him to confirm what He had said. He did .
7th. Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Jesus told the disciples who had already received the Holy Spirit to wait for power to do the work of sharing the Gospel and discipling nations. A big part of that is hearing God more clearly than ever before. I did a video on this. It’s here. Nothing helped me hear God more than this deeper yielding to God, which is what the 2nd baptism really is.
Do the Activation.
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