How To KNOW GOD'S VOICE (PART 1)

What is God's tone of voice?  What does God's voice sound like?

• Once you know His tone of voice, You know His voice once and for all.
• Just like the voices of your father, or mother, or lover, or best friend.

A boy named Samuel heard God calling him and thought it was his mentor Eli.

Twice God called Samuel.
Twice Eli told Samuel it wasn't Eli.

Then Eli perceived that Samuel was hearing God.

So Eli told Samuel what to say:  "Speak LORD, your servant is listening."
God spoke to Samuel a third time, and from that point on Samuel knew God's voice.

• What if by the end of these blogs you could know God's tone of voice?
• What difference would it make in 2014 if you knew the voice of God?

You can.
It is written,

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 
Hebrews 4:12

God's tone of voice has three characteristics:

1. It's alive.

2. It's active.

3. It's penetrating.

 

This is how God's voice sounds.

 

When you hear God speaking to you, it will be energizing and activating.  You will feel more alive and active than you've ever felt, because Life Himself will be speaking to you.  If you feel dead or passive when hearing any spirit, it is not The Spirit of God.  This is crucial.  In séances and other demonic supposedly spiritual experiences, the condition is passivity, like in hypnotism.  Mind altering drugs and situations seek to put you in a comatose state in the name of entering the spiritual. This is the devil.  God's voice will not render your mind or will passive.  His voice will energize and activate your mind and conscious free choice. 

 

God's voice is also supremely penetrating. 

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How To KNOW GOD'S VOICE (PART 2)

God's voice is alive, active, and penetrating.

It is distinguishing.
It is clarifying.

--When you hear God's voice, you won't mistake Him for you. 
(Dividing soul and spirit, self consciousness and God consciousness.)
--When you hear God's voice, you'll distrust your abilities and trust his abilities.
(Dividing joint and marrow, the core of your mobility.)
--When you hear God's voice, you will feel liberatingly naked, as it is written,

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.  Hebrews 4:13

(Your real thoughts and intentions of the heart will be revealed.)

If the voice is unclear, it is not the voice of God!

If the voice is ambiguous, it is not the voice of God!

 

You now know God's tone of voice:  how He sounds.

 

Now know what kinds of things He says.

Now know the character of God.

 

• When God speaks by His Spirit, He will focus you on Christ the Lord.
• When God speaks by His Spirit, He will be true to all of His promises, as it is written,

 

 



God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name forever,

the name you shall call me

from generation to generation.

Exodus 3:15

 

He is who He is.

He is who He was.

He is who He will be.

 

• God's tone of voice is alive, active, and penetrating.
• God's character is trustworthy, honoring Jesus, honoring His promises.

 

You can know the voice of God.

You can follow His voice for the rest of your life.

Starting now.

Starting this year.

Starting tonight.

The Man, The Woman, And The Serpent



He listened to her.
She listened to it.
Neither listened to God.

This is the source of all of our problems:
Ignoring the voice of God.

This is the solution to all of our problems: 
Listening to the voice of God.

 

But the serpent said to the woman, 

"Did God really say not to eat from the trees in the garden?"

DID GOD REALLY SAY?

The serpent was the first to put doubt in our ears about the voice of God.

Does God really say...anything?

If so, can we trust what He supposedly says?

There are so many interpretations and translations and denominations, right?

Does God really say that homosexuality is sin?
Does God really say that abortion is sin?
Did God really say that division is sin?

Who can know the voice of God, today?

This is what Jesus says,

"For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world:

To bear witness to the truth.

All who are of the truth hear my voice."

 

 

 

God and Yusef's Accident (Another True Story)

Yusef laughed and joked and talked, not seeing the car coming towards me;  the car hit us on my side, totaling Yusef's car.

I sat at the table in my apartment.  Yusef sat on my couch, looking off in silence.

"God, how can I encourage Yusef?"

"Take him to the neighborhood you like to go to with the big beautiful houses.  Take him at night, playing jazz music."

This didn't seem like something Yusef would like at all, let alone something that would encourage him.  He seemed like a tough guy kind of guy. 

I felt a choice in me.  Perfect freedom and liberty:
Listen to the Spirit.  Ignore the Spirit.

I listened.

Night came.  I took Yusef for a drive, in the neighborhood with big beautiful houses that I liked, listening to jazz.

"Why are you doing this?" Yusef asked.

"No reason," I responded, embarrassed.

"I used to do this all the time!  I used to go driving at night in neighborhoods with big houses, listening to jazz.  But I never thought anyone would want to do that with me."

"The Spirit told me to do it."

We continued to drive and talk.

I felt honored by God, who revealed these secrets to me:

• He was with Yusef all those nights when Yusef drove.
• He was with Yusef during the accident. 
• He was with Yusef right now.

If I hadn't listened to the Spirit, I wouldn't have received this honor.
I wouldn't have encouraged my brother.
I wouldn't have come to know the beautiful presence of God.
In Yusef's life.
And in mine.

God and Cari's Pennies (A True Story)



My worst imagination happened:  Cari left me.  All I had were her basket of pennies.  I don't know how many.  It was a small basket.

One night, as I sat alone in what used to be our apartment, the Spirit said to me, "Take Cari's pennies and go to the movies."  I really didn't want to do this.   I was at the lowest point of my life, and I didn't want to use pennies for movies.  But The Spirit insisted.

So I got into what used to be our red Jetta and drove to the nearest theater...which was shut down. A condemned building.  What now?  "Wait here until I tell you to go," The Spirit said. So I waited...and waited..."Now Go."  I went.

Then it happened.

As soon as I pulled up into the parking space of the Avondale Dollar Theatre, Pastor Sands pulled up right in front of me.  He came to me and told me how I was hurting him.  I was leaving his church, and he felt deeply hurt.  I told him not to feel hurt, or that I was leaving him.  We were both following the Spirit, and I was following Him in a different direction.  I don't know if my pastor understood, but his quiet wife lightly touched my hand as they walked away.  I didn't know that would be the last time I saw her.  She passed away some time after.

I went to the ticket window and took out Cari's pennies. "Just go in," the movie employee told me.  So I went to the movie for free.

I go to buy snacks.  I pick what I want, not paying attention to the cost at all.  The cashier rings up the price of my snacks.  I hadn't counted Cari's pennies at all.  I gave the cashier the pennies, letting her count them.  When she finished counting, it was the exact amount needed to pay for my snacks.

My worst imagination happened:  Cari left me.  But her pennies showed me that God was with me, and that meeting her, somehow, was my destiny.