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How do i hear from God? What does Gods voice sound like? How do i know if Gods speaking to me or not?

If your anything like me, your likely to have thought about some of those questions at some point. And if you haven’t its not biggy. I would encourage you to read this with an open mind and heart. Its quite an emotive subject.

When i moved to Exeter, i got involved in a youth church called Unlimited. One of the things that we do is go out onto the Cathedral Green and offer to pray for people and to listen to God for what he wants to say about them.

Now i grew up in a church which loved and believed that God wanted to speak to them today but asking God for things right there and then? That was new to me. I was a little scared by it. I felt like i didn’t know whether the voices in my head were Gods words or just my random thoughts.

When i read the Bible, i come across loads of situations where Gods people are faced with decisions. Big decisions and little decisions and a lot of the time, they would pray and ask God to guide them there and then. And God did speak, he led Moses in the desert and Paul on the missionary journeys he took in the new testament.

Out of all of this, i started to think that maybe God did want to speak to us today. Maybe he wasn’t just proclaiming long prophecy about the future. Maybe he also wants to tell us about who we are in him and guide us in our every day decisions. Maybe, he wants to speak to me, like he did thousands of years ago in the Bible.

But how do we know when God is speaking? The simple answer is that we cant ever be 100% certain. Sometimes we will be really sure and other times we wont. Perhaps thats the way it is following God. We know that God loves to speak to us so maybe the answer is just to learn to listen. To shut out everything that is going on in our lives and open ourselves up to what God wants to say.

You know how with your close friends, they often don’t have to say anything for you to know how they’re feeling or what they’re thinking. What if it were like that with God. What if we knew him so well that just by being with him we could understand what he thinks and feels. And out of that maybe we would know what his voice sounds like too.

I pray that we would not just strive and seek to know Gods voice but that out of knowing him we would hear his voice and thoughts too.

(this is a post full of maybes’, i’m not claiming to know anything special about how to hear from God. I know that i want to hear him more. I want him to guide and inspire my everyday life)

I should say that some of the inspiration for this post came from challenging teaching by James Grier of Unlimited Youth Church

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