How To Hear The Voice of God
Part 2 How to approach God so that you are made ready to hear His Voice.
The very first thing you need is FAITH. You must believe that God exists. God in this context is the Creator of all things and the uncreated One; there exists no other god beside Him. Once you have the faith that God exists, then you also need to believe that He will answer you if you seek Him diligently. Therefore if you want to hear God’s Voice, then you need to pray to Him, “God, I want to learn to hear Your Voice.”
And regarding the FAITH that you need, please take note:
So you see God even gives you the measure of faith that you need to believe that He exists.
The next major point that you need to understand is that God is a “Person”.
See here, that the God of Jesus, is our Father and a father is a person. God is not a disinterested “Force” like in the Star Wars movies. Nor is God the One Consciousness that some New Agers portray as a One Mind that seeks to know itself and with which we cannot have a relationship.
No, besides having faith in God, we need to embrace Him as a loving Father who cares for His children and desires one on one relationship with us.
Next, we need to be made ready to approach God. We have the faith that He exists. Now we need to know that God is Holy.
Definition:
Holy
having a spiritually pure quality:
…
inspiring fear, awe, or grave distress:
We will use these two definitions from Dictionary.com. God is spiritually PURE; He has no taint in Him, no imperfection or flaw. He is sacred. Also, He inspires fear, in the form of awe. And last, He and His presence might provoke in you, grave distress because you are unclean in His Presence; His holiness would consume you.
Here are several verses to ponder:
To fear God is to give Him reverance, which doing so, is a wise thing to do, and which reverance gives you understanding. Also you become humble in God’s presence.
So, to recap, you need faith that God exists, you need to consider God as a Person, and you need to revere God which gives you wisdom, understanding and humility.
Now your next step is to remedy your uncleanness before God. You have been made unclean by your sins or imperfection. God the Father provided the remedy in that His perfect Son died for your sins and by His blood you have been made clean, pure, holy and righteous in God’s eyes. All you have to do is believe in your heart what Jesus did for you, confess it before men, and devote the rest of your life to obedience to God. If you take this step then you will receive God’s Holy Spirit to dwell in you and give you power to stay clean; not to sin.
See here in the book of Acts, after the Holy Spirit came, Peter preached to the people gathered there:
Repent means to change your mind about the sinful way that you have been living. You should desire to be baptized as an outward showing of an inward change, to both yourself and witnesses. And then you should ask God for the gift of the Holy Spirit.
About the Holy Spirit:
Here is the sure promise from God that the Holy Spirit will guide you the rest of your life.
So to summarize, in order to be made ready to approach God, you must be saved by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and be filled with the Holy Spirit. At that point you will no longer feel shame and condemnation before God for your sins. Your sins are wiped clean and you can come boldly to God’s throne of Grace.
So now that you are clean, you can ask God to help you and you will obtain mercy and receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
In complete summary of parts 1 and 2, we have seen that God does speak to people and then they can share what God has said. We have learned how to be clean before our Holy Father God so that we need not be ashamed or afraid to approach Him with our prayers and asking for help. We are now ready to learn how to take some practical steps to hearing God’s Voice.
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