Are ways we can increase our likelihood of hearing God speak? In Nine Ways God Always Speaks, I [Mark] offer the following: <\/p>\n
What\u2019s the difference between those who hear him and those who don\u2019t?
\nIt\u2019s as simple as how they listen. <\/p>\n
We know what you\u2019re thinking. \u201cI listen, but I never hear him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Okay, we hear you.<\/p>\n
But frankly, how hard, how intentionally do you listen?<\/p>\n
When you read the Bible, do you assume what you\u2019re reading applies to you and try to figure out what God is saying to you personally?<\/p>\n
When you have a stray thought, do you explore it to see if God somehow put it there for a reason? <\/p>\n
When you wake up after a particularly vivid dream, do you pray asking God what he was trying to tell you? <\/p>\n
When a friend says something more direct and personal than usual, do you wonder if God could be behind her words?<\/p>\n
When an unlikely series of events happens, do you assume God arranged them for a reason and try to discover his purpose?<\/p>\n
Do you examine your history, your environment, and your emotions to see what you can learn from them?<\/p>\n
That is listening.<\/p>\n
Listening is an active awareness of what is happening around you and an intentional pursuit of God\u2019s voice. Many of us wrongly assume we haven\u2019t heard God unless we\u2019ve heard a James Earl Jones type voice amplified through the clouds. If you think that\u2019s the only way you will hear him, it is the only way you will hear him. But here\u2019s a hint\u2014it\u2019s not one of the ways he always speaks, likely it\u2019s one of the ways he rarely speaks. <\/p>\n
To hear God, we have to believe he wants to communicate with us. That doesn\u2019t take a huge amount of faith, but it takes at least a drop. The people who hear from God all have a drop of that faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Are ways we can increase our likelihood of hearing God speak? In Nine Ways God Always Speaks, I [Mark] offer the following: What\u2019s the difference between those who hear him and those who don\u2019t? It\u2019s as simple as how they listen. We know what you\u2019re thinking. \u201cI listen, but I never hear him.\u201d Okay, we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,1],"tags":[223,225,217,226,209,224,221,206,222],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearing-gods-voice","category-uncategorized","tag-active-awareness","tag-believe","tag-dream","tag-faith","tag-hearing-gods-voice-2","tag-intentional-pursuit","tag-listening-to-god","tag-nine-ways-god-always-speaks","tag-vivid-dream"],"yoast_head":"\n