You were given an amazing as well as mysterious promise by Jesus that as his follower, you can and ought to hear Gods voice. You respond and listen to him anytime he summons. To enable you go about Discerning the voice of God, you have to apply four filters to the word you shall hear.
The first filter can be identified from the Bible because the Bible itself is the supreme source and contains the material that enables us to discern the voice of God. There are many people in our lives to look up to as models of what it would be like when someone maintains a constant conversation with God. What is true and paramount about such people is that they know the Bible. This enables us translate the invisible, the unseen world of God into our tangle and concrete world of human beings.
To put it in another way, as Psalm 119.11 says, the word of almighty is hidden in his heart or treasured the word of most high. This verse can be identified as the core dimension in discerning Gods voice. This translates to mean that each time we read the Scripture, it is an opportunity to get some divine raw material. This raw material is what God will use to speak directly into our hearts. Each reading is an opportunity in investing in our inner treasure trove.
The Second Filter is that the Bible forms the ultimate litmus test in discerning Gods Voice. This filter is almost similar to the first. This second filter sets an objective stand upon which we are held. As Romans 10:17 says, faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. This means that nothing we hear from God will contradict the holy book.
Often, we get to hear Christians who claim they have heard from God about everything from addictive gambling tendencies to traits of bad relationships. This is often not the truth and when a person says God has told us to perform an act in contradiction of the wisdom in Scripture, the presumption should be it is not Gods spoken word.
Number Three identifies your community as the best environment to discern Gods voice. In Romans 12:2, Paul strongly admonishes your community that it must hack to Gods voice. He insists that your community should give up its body as living form sacrifices. This translates for you into understanding that you should discern Gods will and voice within the community.
John 10 tells you that Jesus is a shepherd and we are members of his flock of sheep. He identifies you as an individual sheep by name but also moves your entire flock as a group. This means the filter covers your individual discernment and also your communities.
The Fourth Filter identifies how paramount humility is. God disfavors the proud, but uplifts those humble. Is one of the most consistent yet slightly alarming verses often repeated right through the Bible. A person who claims to hear God can fast develop pride. The idea of a fragile human having communication directly with God infuses power on such an individual. What follows is sneaky creeping of pride. Humility demands that while recognizing Gods word is never wrong, it does not promise our reception is always right.
The first filter can be identified from the Bible because the Bible itself is the supreme source and contains the material that enables us to discern the voice of God. There are many people in our lives to look up to as models of what it would be like when someone maintains a constant conversation with God. What is true and paramount about such people is that they know the Bible. This enables us translate the invisible, the unseen world of God into our tangle and concrete world of human beings.
To put it in another way, as Psalm 119.11 says, the word of almighty is hidden in his heart or treasured the word of most high. This verse can be identified as the core dimension in discerning Gods voice. This translates to mean that each time we read the Scripture, it is an opportunity to get some divine raw material. This raw material is what God will use to speak directly into our hearts. Each reading is an opportunity in investing in our inner treasure trove.
The Second Filter is that the Bible forms the ultimate litmus test in discerning Gods Voice. This filter is almost similar to the first. This second filter sets an objective stand upon which we are held. As Romans 10:17 says, faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. This means that nothing we hear from God will contradict the holy book.
Often, we get to hear Christians who claim they have heard from God about everything from addictive gambling tendencies to traits of bad relationships. This is often not the truth and when a person says God has told us to perform an act in contradiction of the wisdom in Scripture, the presumption should be it is not Gods spoken word.
Number Three identifies your community as the best environment to discern Gods voice. In Romans 12:2, Paul strongly admonishes your community that it must hack to Gods voice. He insists that your community should give up its body as living form sacrifices. This translates for you into understanding that you should discern Gods will and voice within the community.
John 10 tells you that Jesus is a shepherd and we are members of his flock of sheep. He identifies you as an individual sheep by name but also moves your entire flock as a group. This means the filter covers your individual discernment and also your communities.
The Fourth Filter identifies how paramount humility is. God disfavors the proud, but uplifts those humble. Is one of the most consistent yet slightly alarming verses often repeated right through the Bible. A person who claims to hear God can fast develop pride. The idea of a fragile human having communication directly with God infuses power on such an individual. What follows is sneaky creeping of pride. Humility demands that while recognizing Gods word is never wrong, it does not promise our reception is always right.
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