How to Make God Speak to You (Series 3)

We are gaining height in our topic under analysis this month, divine direction by the power of God’s voice. If you have missed any of the topics prior to this article, you can check series 1 here and series 2 here.

Although it is customary for God to speak to every believer, there is an attitude you can maintain that will ensure the flourishing of the voice of God in your ears. It is the intent of this article to examine some of the ways you can make God speak to you. By the end of this article, I believe that you can provoke the voice of God in your ears.

The Attitude of Obedience

If you will hear the voice of God, learning the attitude of obedience is unavoidable. It is as simple as that. There is no complexity in the statement above. If you really want to hear the voice of God, you must learn the attitude of obedience. By simple definition, obedience is doing what the Lord has commanded. We can see that in the book of John 2:5 when Mary told the people that whatever he commanded you to do, do it.

It is, however, sad that many of us are desiring to hear the voice of God but have completely failed him in the obedience front. If you want to know whether you possess the attitude of obedience, check on the previous instructions that God has given unto you. Have you obeyed them? Or are they laying in abeyance? Having answered the questions above, you will be able to tell outrightly if you are an obedient child or daughter of God. The day you change your attitude towards the instructions that God has given you that is the moment that God will begin to speak to you. God’s voice will sound and continue to sound in the ears of the obedient. The Bible clearly makes us understand that the rebellion will live in a dry land.

Psalms 68:6

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Dry land is a place that the voice of God can’t be heard. Want to hear the voice of God, then you must learn the basic fact that obedience is the first place to begin.

The Attitude of Inquiry

This, of course, remains the place where many of us fail. We are just generally allergic to asking questions and receiving answers. We are okay asking people but God’s opinion doesn’t matter. David was a great man of God, and his life challenged us to arm ourselves with the attitude of inquiry. When a believer inquires, he will surely receive his answers.

1 Samuel 30:8

And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

2 Samuel 2:1

And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.

There was never a time that David inquired of the Lord that he didn’t get an answer from the Lord. In fact, the Bible says that we should ask, and we will receive. God is committed to answering all your inquiries if you can direct them to him.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

The requirement is for us to make our inquiries and God will surely answer. But if you don’t want to talk as if the words of your mouth will cost you $1 billion, then you will surely not receive the things you are asking for. After all, it is only a question that can require an answer.

Friends, it is our obligation to ask God, and it is God’s faithfulness to answer us.

The Act of Meditation

The opening words of the book of Joshua 1:8 has an instructive word we must pay attention to. The Bible says this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, you shall meditate on it day and night so that it will make your ways prosperous. What is the last word of the Scripture? It is prosperous. The burning question is, what is prosperity? Does it mean when you are blessed with money in your bank? Does it mean when you are healthy? Does it only mean when all is going well with you? To my mind, prosperity is way beyond that. It also includes the ability to have God direct you by his voice daily. It means if you meditate on the word of God or even the acts of God in the Scripture or in the lives of men, you are fertilizing your ears for the voice of God.

There are several instances in Scripture where meditation provoked the release of the voice of God.

Acts 10:19

While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

It was as Peter was meditatively thinking on the vision which he had seen, that the Holy Ghost spoke to him. What would have happened if he wasn’t meditating? I leave you to answer that question.

Matthew 1:20

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

The voice of God in the two Scriptures we have just looked at were triggered by meditation. If you can meditate on the word of God or on the act of God, the voice of God must surely sound in your ears.

The Different Ways by Which God Speaks to Us

The several avenues of divine direction by the power of God’s voice abound in Scripture. Although it is very wonderful for God to speak to you by the inner ear of your spirit man, that does not mean that those who hear God through dreams, visions, trances, aren’t hearing the voice of God.

Dream

This is one of the avenues for hearing the voice of God. For some believers, that is the primary way by which they are led by God’s voice. The method by which God uses to talk to you is not important for now, what is relevant is that you are hearing the voice of God.

Matthew 1:20

Joseph heard the voice of God through a dream.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Vision

A vision can occur at any time of the day. It can also occur in the night.

Daniel 2:19

Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Trances

A trance is a divine interruption with the normal way of seeing and understanding in order for a message from God to be communicated.

Acts 10:10

And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

This is what happened to Peter in the book of Acts 10:10, God had to interrupt his own faculties in other to pass a message. The person who fell into a trance may not even know about that encounter until after it has ended. I remember the first time I had trance about angels, I didn’t even know until when it has ended.

Inner Witness

The inner witness is a divine knowledge about the state of a particular thing. That is where you hear many people say, I just knew something wasn’t right about that guy or something wasn’t right about that decision. Did God expressly told you that something wasn’t right about the decision or the guy? Certainly no! God was bearing witness to your spirit man concerning that particular thing and that is why you knew that something wasn’t right about it. That is what the inner witness means.

Mark 5:30

And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

God bless you. Don’t miss any of the teachings this month for your spiritual ears to be opened for God’s voice or for you to get to the next level of hearing God.

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