I always pray for God to speak to me. I usually follow up with something like “and give me ears to hear when You are speaking.”
I can’t say that I’m one of those who has ever heard God speaking audibly. Typically, I can’t say I’m very good at discerning God’s voice. I usually have too many other noises and voices in my head.
Other times, I’ll see a social media post that just so happens to hit me square in the feels. It will be something that speaks specifically to me in the moment.
The above meme is an example of me reading a meme or a post that stops me dead in my tracks because it’s so accurate to where I am in my current situation. Then I wonder if it could possibly be one of the ways God speaks to me.
I wonder if I limit my ability to hear from God by limiting the ways He can speak to me. Obviously, the primary way God speaks is through His revealed Word, but I think God can communicate through other ways as well.
I also wonder if I took something as just a really neat coincidence when it was actually God’s way of speaking to me. Like one of those timely posts or snippets from a sermon. Or maybe it was a line from a song or a movie.
I wish I could remember how C. S. Lewis put it. He said that sometimes we’re too busy banging on the door to God’s throne to hear from Him. We’re too anxious and occupied with our pleading to be still enough to listen.
I think sometimes the prayer goes like this: “Lord, calm my mind enough to hear from You. Still all other voices so I know it’s You. Give me enough sense to recognize You speaking when I ask You to speak. And help me really to hear and obey what You tell me. Amen.”
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Some time ago, I learned to listen to God. I found he had spoken to me many times but I did not recognize his voice. The boy, Samuel had God call him, while he was in bed, next to the Ark oh The Covenant. God’s voice was not common at that time. Samuel thought it was Eli, his foster father calling him. It wasn’t until Eli told him to say, “speak Lord, your servant is listening,” that Samuel heard the message. Samuel was open to listen to God but Eli had ignored the Word of God and those nudges to his conscience. God is unlimited in how he will speak to each person. I might say, “Holy Spirit speak the truth to me about—-“. Then I listen and quiet thoughts will flow to me that gives me truth I had ignored. Or I might say Father God what do you want to say to me and again I wil hear flowing throughs come to me, from a simple I love you or truth I had ignored. Sometimes it is to pick up my Bible and read and meditate on a certain passage. Lately, he has told me to cast all my cares and problems on him, trust him, and quit taking them back. Jesus said, “my sheep hear my voice and come at my call. The Holy Spirit lives inside us to guide, teach and show us Jesus. All he asks is we listen and have a conversation not a monologue.