LOOKING FOR GOD TO SPEAK…

Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” ~ John 11:40

Many times, it was not that God wasn’t speaking to me, but it was about me not really wanting to accept what He was already saying and just walking with Him.  The issue of “hearing God’s voice” is common for every Christian at some point in time.  Let me explain.

At certain times you will be walking with Jesus, and He will do a check up with you and ask if you still truly believe that He is. When you say ‘yes’, He may test you to build up your faith and expose the truth of your heart to you that He already know.  I’ve been quick to say ‘yes’ to the Lord many of times and later, after being frustrated with why the situation is not working out or not going as I had desires, I realized that I had not truly believe God for what He said would be.  However, as a result of that frustration, I grew in my humilty, and He increased my faith.  Now that is an example of walking with God and it seeming like God isn’t speaking.  I did not want to accept what I knew.

 

Even though Jesus had just given Mary (sister of Lazarus) a opportunity to believe who He was and what He said (John 11:23-26), she still had to be reminded of His Word (John 11:40).  Sometimes God seems silent and it is for our own good.  There are so many voices filtered through our mind and processed in our heart: His voice, our own voice, and let’s not forget the devil.  He is so cunning and has studied you and I well enough to be able to mimic our voices to ourselves of what we usually have desired in our flesh.  That leads to talking about the other reason why we sometimes do not hear the Lord speaking.

 

Remember that we lived according to the flesh before we responded to the call of the Holy Spirit to repent and acknowledge the Saviour and His sacrafice.  We are daily called to no longer live in that way.  We are called to no longer be sinners.  I know and have heard some of you quote your preachers by still calling yourselves ”sinners” as an outward confession of humilty, but the truth is that you find that no where in the Bible to be a profession of any of God’s saints current state.  (That’s neither here nor there right now).  You are either walking with Him to hear His voice, or you are walking away from Him and should be figuring out quickly why you can’t ”hear” Him. 

 

When you and I are walking away from God it looks like picking up old sins we have been delivered from.  It looks like getting “too busy” for real quiet time with Him.   It DOES NOT and IS NOT walking away just because you get weary in your walk.   You may find yourself having no real desire to read His Word for the answers you are seeking.  You may even see your prayer life with just Him dwindling a little bit, but again, that’s not always a sign of walking away from Him, so don’t be so quick to question the legitimacy of your salvation.  That is what the devil would have you to do.  If you are truly walking away from God, you wouldn’t be concerned about your lack of time in the Word and prayer time with Him.  Just like Peter quickly heard the rebuke of Christ because he was walking with Him, so you are concerned because you do ‘hear’ the Holy Spirit drawing you (it’s just uncomfortable). 

 

So the same question that often comes to me, I pose to you.  What of His Voice are you seeking to hear?  Are you okay with the fact that God’s voice is not usually going to be something audible (if ever)?  Are you okay with Him providing His voice the way He desires – through His Word?  Maybe all you need is a reminder of what you have already heard from Him.  He speaks through His Word.  If you ever hear me say, “I heard the Lord tell me,” what I mean by it is that He (the Holy Spirit) reminds me of His Word that I had already read or heard someone else speak

 

Isaiah 55:10-11 says the following:  “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”

 

Check out His Word.  He’s still speaking to you.  I promise!  Stay blessed and know that you are loved.

 

~ Lil’ Rev

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