We read in Rev 3:20 it is our birthright to hear the Voice of God - “Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.”

God has been speaking from the beginning of time. He spoke and said...“Let there be light”. He spoke through ordinary men and women - Moses, Daniel, Deborah, David - to name a few - and God is still speaking today and will continue to speak to, and through, ordinary men and women like you and me. We even read in Numbers 22:22-30 God speaking through a donkey to get Balaam’s attention and to direct him. So there’s hope for you and me if God used a donkey! 😊

God can use anyone, anything and anyway to get His message to us and through us such is His desire to converse with us and to have relationship with His kids.

John 10:27 says... “My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me”.

If we know Jesus, the promise of God is we ‘HEAR’ His voice! In a world that is perishing, in the challenges facing us every day and in the busyness of life, we need to hear His voice - His direction, His guidance, His wisdom for every situation.

Prov 2:6 says...“The Lord gives wisdom, from His mouth comes knowledge and understanding. He stores up wisdom for the upright.”

James 1:5 tells us...“If any of you lack wisdom, let Him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach”.

The Lord God wants to talk with us - He has everything we need stored up in heaven and He wants to share it with you and me. We only need to ask Him and He will give to us liberally and direct our steps.

He desires to speak to us MORE than our desire is to hear from Him! Jer 33:3 says “Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know”. The Greek word for ‘call’ is quara’ - to call out, cry out, to address someone - speak out. Here is an invitation for us to CALL on the Lord and His response is He will answer! He is waiting for us to quara’ Him!

Let me share with you a few keys to hearing God’s voice - not an exhaustive list but one to activate you in hearing His voice.

1. POSITION, POSITION, POSITION!! - In order to hear what God would say to us, we need to first POSITION ourselves to LISTEN. In other words, slow down and spend time in His presence. Posture yourself to receive from the Lord. Jesus removed Himself from crowds to spend time alone with His Father. We read in the Gospels He often withdrew to a mountain, the wilderness or a solitary place to pray and spend time with His Father. He needed to be free of distractions with people vying for His time. Whenever Jesus spent time alone with His Dad, a miracle soon followed. I kind of think He was listening to what the Father was saying and watching what the Father was doing (John 5:19). It would behove us all to model this discipline in our lives.

2. LOOKING TO GOD! - Be expectant to hear from Him. Look for any visions - pictures, dreams, that still small voice - God loves to speak to us in this way and there are many recordings of dreams and visions in the Bible. Be expectant for God to speak to you. I encourage you to do a search of all the dreams and visions given to people in the Bible as there is not time to go through them now. They will encourage you and increase your faith and understanding that our Father in heaven wants to converse with His children!

3. DON’T COMPLICATE IT! In the Healing Rooms we adopt the K.I.S.S. principle in all we do in healing, hearing and activating what God has told us - KEEP IT SIMPLE SAINT!! We can over think and complicate hearing God’s voice by ‘second guessing’ what we’ve heard. By not listening to the ‘first’ voice - by straining and striving to hear something else as you are tossing up whether that ‘first’ word was the Lord. Let me encourage all of us - if we’ve asked God to speak to us and we’ve positioned ourselves, looking expectantly to hear what He has to say to us, then we can trust Him to speak. His words are loving, kind, full of compassion and mercy, uplifting, healing, restorative, purposeful, directional and He only has the best for His kids.

4. WRITE IT DOWN! Journal what the Lord is saying to you. What He is saying to you now might be for a future time. So you don’t forget. Put pen to paper so you have a record of it.

My encouragement to all of us is to make time to hear His voice - make it a priority every day to come into His presence and wait on Him. You will not be disappointed and you will probably be surprised and delighted at the things He will tell and show you.

Blessings - Roslynne