MY FRIENDS, HOW HARD IS IT TO HEAR GOD’S VOICE?

March 4, 2016

MY FRIENDS, HOW HARD IS IT TO HEAR GOD’S VOICE?

My friends, the privileged  of Gods actual voice would be one word away from the Lord responding to us as we respond to our children. But Is it possible for a Child of God to actually hear an all knowing, all powerful, Omnipresence Being.

Christ tells us Himself “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” John 10:27 (NKJV) Acts 4:13 (KJV) gives a narrative of two of God’s disciples who lived in the very presence of Christ for three years. “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.?”

So to be in the very presence of God gives us a distinctive quality or character that tells the world “that we serve a risen Savior,” and He lives within us, and we hear His voice through His word and Spirit, and because of our faith and endurance He is always there. And we won’t go back, to the way it used to be Before God’s presence transformed our life.

My friends, I can only tell you because of my faith, and that is, to hear the voice of God, we must ask God’s Spirit to give us a clear and precise understanding of what that would mean to our salvation as God leads us personally in the direction He wants us to go? Learning to clearly distinguish God’s voice as the prophets of old would probably guarantee most of the world an easy path to Gods kingdom.

But God seeks a personal relationship that tells Him and the world, that we will carry our own cross because of what the cross Christ carried to Calvary means to our salvation, and how it has transformed our lives. Samuel a prophet of God had been entrusted to the care of Eli the priest as a child. From his, bed he heard a voice calling out to him.

Twice he went to Eli and ask him if he had called, and Eli said no. On the third time the Lord called, “Samuel.” Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; ”Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling Samuel. So Eli told Samuel, if He calls you again, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’”

So Samuel laid down. And God speaks again and in a vision tells Samuel that he will become the voice through whom he would speak to his people.” My friends, what is God telling us today? And can we be still long enough to distinguished Gods voice from the god of this world? The more time we spend intimately with God and His Word, the easier it is to distinguish that still small voice and His leading in our lives.

“The Employees at an airport are trained to recognize counterfeit ID’s by studying genuine id’s so closely from various states, and countries, that it will be unimaginable not to recognized a fake one, simply because they have studied diligently the real from the fake.”

My friends look all around you and ask, can we distinguish the sound of God’s voice from the sound of this world as grace still abounds? And if not are we willing to seek the presence of God and listen to see where He leads? Because soon God will come for His Children and “His reward is with Him,” to give to each person who has responded to His voice.

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.