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To hear the voice of God, turn down the volume of the world!

We live in a world that is full of noise. There are noises that are designed to sell, beg, seduce and deceive. Amid this cacophony of sound, it’s easy to miss the voice that matters most.

If ever there was a time to develop our sensitivity to hear that voice, it is now! Because there is so much noise, so much that it causes confusion, so that our operating by the Word of God and under the direction of the Holy Spirit means the very difference between failure and success, and life and death.

Elijah had heard Jezebel’s threats and the voice of his own fear, so he fled to a cave to hide. In the cave he was faced with the overwhelming noise of the wind, an earthquake and fire (1 Kings 19: 11-12). Then the cave fell silent and the Lord’s voice, the only sound that mattered, broke out as “a still small voice.”

If we want to hear God speaking to our hearts through His word, we must get away from the noise of the crowd. Only when we learn to be silent can we truly understand what it really means to commune with the God who cares for us. When we make an effort to hear God’s voice, He speaks loud and clear. The volume is noticeable when we lower the volume of the world!

This is the time we have to grow as children of God and develop in the areas that He wants us to develop. Through God’s mercy, we have been granted the opportunity to make amends and start over in a better way every time we miss the mark. This is to help us avoid so many traps that exist for God’s blessings to come to us. Because there are many voices that resonate today; the newspapers, the television, and even the pulpit are filled with diverse voices, but the Lord asks, “For whom are they speaking?”

It is very common today to hear people talk about what the Lord told them to do or not do. They attribute many of their actions to Him, but they are not speaking as God commanded them. The Lord wants you and me to hear, recognize and obey his voice when he speaks to us directly, not through a third party. To hear God’s voice requires you to turn down the volume of the voices of the world around you and quietly read his Bible, the written word of God. When you read the Bible, God gives you understanding through his Spirit. Sometimes He speaks to us verbally, but this doesn’t happen all the time, so we don’t depend on verbally listening to God all the time and for every issue. When God created you, he gave you a brain and a mind. He wants you to use them and not depend on hearing some kind of verbal direction for every issue in your life.

As Christians, we must develop a lifestyle that gives us the assurance that the direction we feel and the voice we hear is God’s, because we can be guided by our own spirit, ministering spirits, the devil or our mind could be speaking to us. . When the Holy Spirit is speaking or leading, we have a hold on our spirit, a kind of inspiration that is hard to put into words. To know the voice of God, one needs to know God first. And that kind of relationship develops over a period of time. To know God is to know how he behaves or acts. So when you hear a voice telling you to do something, as long as what it says does not contradict or violate any known biblical law, then you have the choice to follow the voice or not to follow it. God does not contradict himself!

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