Hearing The Voice Of God

Hearing the voice of God takes a little practice, but it can be done! Just listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, which is identical to your conscience.

We all have a conscience, which is God's voice within us. God uses our conscience to show each one of us what He does not approve of.

Your conscience is God guiding you every day, and is an extremely important part of your "guidance system". Your conscience is not a loud voice, but is usually a very gentle voice.

If you have doubts about a certain action, do not ignore your conscience. Our God is a loving Father, who is warning you not to go down a particular planned course of action.

After Jesus was baptised, "The Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him and a voice came from Heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased," Luke 3:22

A dove in the natural world is a very gentle bird and will fly away if disturbed. Our conscience is God the Holy Spirit, speaking quietly to each of us throughout our lives.

If we persist in sin, the Holy Spirit, like a dove, will depart. This is how some people seem to become so insensitive to sin in their lives.

In John 8:7-9 a woman was caught in adultery, The Jews were about to execute the woman, and Jesus said, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first...Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one." Note that the onlookers were "convicted by their conscience."

In John 16:8 Jesus said, that the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, would convict everyone of sin: "And when He (the Holy Spirit) has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement."

The voice of the Holy Spirit is gentle, like a dove. His voice is identical to your conscience. When you pray, approach God like a little child and ask Him to show you the sin in your life. He will.

You will hear the quiet voice of the Holy Spirit revealing sin in your life and those things in your life He wants you to stop doing. He may reveal things from many years ago, or things about your present lifestyle He wants you to change.

He will also reveal to you those people who you need to forgive. You must forgive anyone who has sinned against you or your family, in any way.

Jesus said, in Matthew 6:15, 'If you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.' According to Jesus, you must therefore forgive everyone, or God will not forgive you.

The conscience is an inward awareness of right and wrong. Those who may have hurt you were actually listening to and obeying the voice of an unholy spirit or demon.

Romans 12:1-2, list some things that are God's will for you to do. Required advise to help you come to know God’s voice and His will for your life.

In the natural world you do not recognize the voice of a stranger. You recognize voices of those you know and have developed a relationship with.

The same is true in the spiritual world. If you are to come to know God's voice, you must first come to know God and you cannot develop an intimate relationship with Him with sin in your life.

Feeling is the voice of the body. God does not use how you feel to direct you. The flesh is an enemy of the spirit, so feelings can deceive you.

Reason is the voice of the mind. God's ways are often beyond human reason. His thought processes are much higher than yours.

Conscience is the voice of the spirit of man, convicting and directing you to the perfect will of God. The Holy Spirit speaks to your spirit. The spirit convicts the conscience. Through this you will grow in grace to the will of God.

When the Holy Spirit speaks to your spirit, the conscience is convicted, but if you continue to ignore it, your conscience can become "seared". This means it becomes hardened to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. That's what I Timothy 4:2 is talking about . . . having their conscience seared with a hot iron...

Sin separates us from God's presence. Because of sin, we have difficulty hearing the voice of God. If you sin, don't run from God! Run to God!!! ...and don't listen to the devils voice, "Now You Did It, God's Mad At You Now!"