Hearing God’s Voice:

We live in a world that says we cannot hear God’s voice, even in today’s church many people say we can’t hear God’s voice.  They say He doesn’t speak to His people anymore, that was an Old Testament thing. Yet then we run across scripture like this in John “I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof is what I do in the name of my Father.  But you don’t believe me because you are not part of my flock.  My sheep recognize my voice; I know them, and they follow me.  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me.”(10:26-28)  What are we to do with this, it is basically saying that we as followers of Christ should know His voice when He speaks to us.    For us to hear the voice of God and recognize it we have to have a true and meaningful relationship with God.  God speaks to us through different ways but for those who follow, when they hear His voice they know it is His.  For years I didn’t understand what all that meant but the closer I have grown to God the better I understand it.  God speaks to us in a way that we know it is Him. It isn’t some coming down in the clouds moment such as seen in Monty Python’s Search For The Holy Grail.  But in the stillness of our heart, or when we are praying and we are still for a moment to hear His voice.  Richard Blackaby explains it this way in his book Experiencing God; “Knowing God's voice is not a matter of honing a method or discovering a formula. Recognizing God's voice comes from an intimate love relationship with Him. Those who do not have the relationship do not hear what God is saying (see John 8:47). Since God will uniquely communicate with you in the intimacy of your walk with Him, your relationship with Him is of utmost importance.”

Blackaby, Richard (2008-09-01). Experiencing God (p. 125). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.