People
often ask: How do you hear the Holy Spirit’s voice? Do you hear voices?
Does He speak in dreams, visions, pictures and parables? Does He show
you metaphors, puzzles, analogies, enigmas, rhymes and riddles? Could
you sense His presence and is it possible to smell His fragrance? Did He
really speak to Moses through a burning bush and could He do the same
today? The answer is yes to all of the above questions. Although it’s
rare to hear the audible voice of the Lord, He certainly could choose to
speak this way if He pleases. He wants to visit us, open our eyes and
give us encounters. The Holy Spirit speaks in so many ways but we must
learn to discern His voice. We must learn to filter out our own thoughts
and tune in to His.
Television
and radio stations are transmitting sounds at all times but we will
only hear them when we turn them on. In the same way the Holy Spirit is
constantly transmitting sounds and speaking to us but we must tune in to
the frequencies of heaven to hear Him speak. Our brains process sixty
billion bytes of information per second. All our thoughts converge from
what we hear externally and internally. Thoughts from our history and
our presence mingle together and create thoughts and emotions which
result in fear, anger, happiness, joy etc; A particular scent could
bring up memories from our past. So how could we learn to discern His
voice?
The other day I was playing a CD from 2002 in my car from John Paul
Jackson titled “I AM” 365 Names of God. The presence of God (The
Shekinah Glory) filled my car like a cloud just as it did when I played
this CD nineteen years ago. I was caught up and separated from the world
around me. I was thinking to myself, what happened that seemed to take
the body of Christ so far off course? We used to soak in the presence of
God for hours back in the day. I believe that Christians have taken
their eyes off Jesus. I’m not saying that is the reason why we are in
tumultuous times, but if we got back to that personal intimate
relationship with the Lord and spent time in His presence, we will be
able to shift the atmosphere once again and the world around us would
have to respond.
As
I was listening to this CD, I heard the Lord say, “There is a New sound
arising”. It’s a sound coming from heaven. It’s the sound of revival,
it’s the sound of restoration. It
may seem as if the body of Christ is on the titanic right now and we
are going down, but the Lord says, You shall NOT go down but My body
shall rise again.
Just as Lazarus was dead with no sign of life, you will rise again.
Just as Ezekiel spoke to the dead bones and they came to life, You will see the coming of the Glory of the Lord in the land of the living in these latter days says the Lord.
He
is calling us to get back into that secret place and fill ourselves
with His Word, then He will rise within us and overflow our being.
Storing up the Word of God in your heart is crucial in sensitizing
yourself to hear His voice. Store up His word as a treasure within your
spirit, then you could draw from it. Pray in the Spirit to strengthen
yourself and de-clutter your mind. Train your senses to discern good and
evil. He will begin to speak to you in a way that only you could
personally understand. When you ask Him for bread, He will not give you a
stone. Ask Him for wisdom and revelation so that the eyes of your heart
will be enlightened and you will know the hope of His glory.
John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 16:13-14 (TPT)
But
when the truth-giving Spirit comes, he will unveil the reality of every
truth within you. He won’t speak his own message, but only what he
hears from the Father, and he will reveal prophetically to you what is
to come. He will glorify me on the earth, for he will receive from me
what is mine[f] and reveal it to you.
Hebrews 5:14 (TPT)
But solid food is for the
mature, whose spiritual senses perceive heavenly matters. And they have
been adequately trained by what they’ve experienced to emerge with
understanding of the difference between what is truly excellent and what
is evil and harmful.
PRAISE THE LORD
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