God's Voice Recognized
November, 23 2009

While all of creation has been crafted, designed, and brought into existence by God, the human species is the only part of creation who has received His image and of which He has breathed His life into. Each individual upon the face of the earth possesses a body, soul, and spirit. This spirit provides all of mankind with the ability to communicate naturally with the Father, for “God is Spirit” (John 4:24a). Thus, hearing God is not a special gift, talent, or function. There is no specific program that can teach a person how to hear God; rather, it’s simply having a willing heart and a desire to listen to Him. Hearing God’s voice cannot be learned through mechanical means; instead, His voice is recognized through our spirit.

The divine intention of the Father has always been to be our friend, yet there are many people who doubt that God speaks personally or that He sincerely desires to have an individual relationship with each of us. Instead, for much of our lives, we concentrate on the devil and his domain, about his temptations and his conniving ways, so much so that it has provoked the Body of Christ to communicate more about the voice of the devil than God’s. How peculiar that we would understand and be more familiar with the voice of the enemy, a creature that God created, rather than the voice of God the Creator. If a son or daughter of God hears more from the devil than from God, his or her relationship with the King of kings becomes questionable. Indeed, the devil does have a voice, for he tempted the Lord Jesus Christ who overcame him (see Matt. 4:1-11). But we must acknowledge and realize that the devil is a defeated foe and has no place in the life of the believer (see Isa. 40:1-2; John 19:28-30; Col. 2:15; Eph.4:27).

We must refocus and recapture the essence of our being - to be Spirit led. Just as we communicate in the natural and are understood, so can spiritual thoughts be spoken to those who are spiritually minded. Some would describe these thoughts as intuition, but this does not give the appropriate value to the Holy Spirit who is a reality. God makes His voice known to us through the Holy

Spirit as He inhabits our spirit (see Rom. 8:10). The voice of God can be fully recognized by a believer when he or she pursues a personal relationship with Him.