HEARING GOD'S VOICE

As we walk this Christ walk, one of our greatest needs is to learn to consistently hear God's voice.
Jesus has not left and left us an incredible Job to do on our own. He does speak, He does lead, He does guide us into His perfect will and work in many ways.

We have access to both His spoken word and His Speaking voice

And like I've been hammering since we started, we have to believe this first.

Today's part of the series is focused on opening up our hearts and minds to know how God speaks to us and Specifically how He speaks to YOU

Also to understand that His speaking is in no way limited

Matthew 17: 1-5 ( The Transfiguration)

In this chapter, we see an amazing story of 3 of the disciples of Christ up on a mountain with Him. He is transfigured before them and they see Him in all of His glory, Moses and Elijah are in this cut too.

What an amazing experience it was for these men.

While they were taking all these in, the cloud of the father's glory begins to overshadow them and the father Himself speaks.

He could have said anything about His glory r Himself as the men present were so much in awe of what they saw and overshadowed by God's Glory.

But what did God say?

" This is my beloved son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!"

This was God's big statement at such a time.

Listen to Him

It was a charge, a command, a necessity

Now we cannot listen except we hear first.

You can not follow/obey what you did not hear

A lot of us have left this part to ministers alone. We've come to a place of believing it is spiritual leaders and pastors that have this access, that have been given this decree. I mean, God said that to the disciples not the general public

I am strongly convinced that it is still the primary responsibility and need today for all of us in this Christ walk (Ministers and non ministers alike)

A lot of leaders and ministers do so out of their own understanding and their own minds

A lot of us followers of Christ are led by our own desires and self instead of just being our description, Following

This call to Listen is directed at every one of us.

To be led, we must first hear then follow

Four Extremes on Hearing God's voice

1. God wrote a book and lost His voice

A lot of people believe that after the Bible was completed, God stopped speaking to us directly and only speaks through scriptures.

This is not true.
God's speaking is not limited to just the Bible. He speaks through other means (Though every spoken word/means do not go against the written word)

2. Moses' Syndrome

Just like the Isrealites:
"Oh Holy man, go up on the mountain with God and let Him speak to you and tell us what He said"

A lot of us are sitting comfortably here.
We want to be spoonfed
Waiting for someone to always bring what God is saying to us.

This set of people actually do acknowledge that God still speaks, but there is an error, they acknowledge/believe that only certain people have access to hear God speak.

So they wait for the certain/special people to always bring what God is saying to them

3. I want to hear Him but I CAN'T

A whole lot of us are here too.
We know God speaks but we just feel He speaks to others and not us.
We do not blame it on anything. It's just "we can't hear" and this is not a problem.
We've never even thought of it before, if it is something we should look forward to. I mean, we have the Spoken word and it's done so well for us

I'd like to remind us that have ears that hear for a reason. If God can speak then we can hear.
It's really this simple.

If you believe God can speak to your pastor and it is not a lie then God can speak to you too and you CAN hear

4. God speaks to me all the time about everything through His voice ONLY

This is false and extreme
If you've not dramatically heard the voice of God over a situation, this does not mean God is not speaking through other means.
The only way God speaks is not His voice.

He speaks through diverse means. "God did not tell me directly (with His voice) not to do xyz, so I'm going to do xyz"

Is xyz in accordance with scripture?

If no, why are you waiting for Him to speak again over what He has spoken before just so you can believe.

This is an extreme we must also do away with

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:3 NLT

We've been given assurance that surely He will speak to us who follow Him. He will consistently speak to us actually as there are different turns in this walk where He leads.

This is for us to know, that we can also learn to hear Him and know His voice.

I don't know if anyone has pets here and you had to train the pet from scratch.

You practically have to teach the pet (let's say dog) to know your voice, who to not bite in the house.

Infact, I've seen people introduce their guests to dogs

Like they will take you to where the dog is and be friendly with you then do introduction, just so it recognises you next time you come alone. We all can also learn to know the voice of God and hear Him

After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.  They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
John 10:4‭-‬5 NLT

Now here is the bad part, for as many of us that do not know the voice of God, it is very possible that we will follow other voices

The Other Voices (Strangers: John 10vs5)

As we walk this Christ walk, we will encounter many other voices. Jesus called these the voice of the stranger.
These voices are bent on leading us astray. These voices could also be from well meaning people who don't know any better, which is why it is important that we hear for ourselves.

The key is to learn to differentiate between His voice and these others (Strangers)

1. The voice of the world

We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one.
1 John 5:19 NLT

The first voice we need to learn to deal with is the voice of the world. All over nations of the earth, the spirit of the world has shaped cultures, a whole lot of things we hold dear and valuable.

In all of these cultures and valuables, there are things that of course will not hinder our walk with Christ and us following Him

There are also a whole lot of thing that will stand in His way and oppose as we learn to follow Him

There is a reason Apostle Paul emphasised that we should no longer be conformed to the culture/pattern of the world.
 Our culture often shapes our lifestyle and even faith in God.
It plays a huge role.

There are so many things we do and believe in the church that are NOT Christ or kingdom minded.
They drifted in from our culture

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
1 John 2:15‭-‬17 NLT

The voice of the world is the first thing we should shut out, first thing.

If not we will be doing "Traditional/Cultural Christianity". Which in itself is not Christ like

And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
Mark 7:13 NLT

Traditions and cultures that we are used to are very dangerous if we do not understand that most of them are of the world. And because we've been brought up with them, we've learnt to listen to this voice, we are used to it. We have to be very intentional with shutting it out.

2. The voice of the Religious Spirit

“Watch out!” Jesus warned them. “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Matthew 16:6 NLT

These ones are very powerful also and dangerous as they tend to masquerade as the voice of God.
They come to seekers of God and infiltrate our ability to hear God and follow Him in a living relationship replacing the life and work of the spirit for outward spiritual activities.

Satan in this place disguises himself as an angel of light. We've explained who the Pharisees are,
Those who focus all of their lives on external religious activities, duties and all but no real life in the spirit with God.

The Sadducees sought God but didn't believe in the supernatural activity of God in our lives. We have to be very careful of these religious spirits. We can't afford to have any of them as their voices stray us.

How do Religious Voices Operate?

* This voice constantly drives us to do more religious works to attain higher spirituality, get closer to God or hear God.

* This voice pushes us to be more interested/focused on outward religious works and duties.

* This voice focuses on us always using our logical mind instead of relating to God in a supernatural way by His spirit

If you hear Let's put God aside first, na dem o.

Put God aside where? 🙄🙄 There is no reason outside of God.

* The religious voice longs to replace the voice of the spirit with our own mental reasoning or outer works. If we find ourselves guilty of any of these, it is one of the reasons why we find it difficult hearing God

3. The Voice of Other people

See, sometimes people will mean well for you and try to advice you and stuff but it will not be according to God's will.
They are not misleading you on purpose. They might even have a  relationship with God sef and fellowship often with Him but still give wrong advice.

I learnt one thing from my late spiritual mum that first, I am my own prophet

I'd go to church those days and next thing she's asking me to go to the altar area and pray. Sometimes I will sleep off o, she will ask me what did God say.
In my mind, what did which God say 😂😂😂

Like just talk abeg, stop stressing me

It felt like it was punishment then. Infact, I  used that exact word. Mummy gave me punishment, to pray for hours or come to church and pray for days or add fast

Like why not just go straight to the point instead of stressing me 😭😭😭

Today, I tell you this is one of my fondest memories of her. I won't forget.
It is one lesson I really needed in this walk.

Those close to me off this group can testify, you cannot come and dump your prayer request on my head o, especially if we are close and I notice it is becoming habit.

I could be the one misleading you tomorrow (God forbid). But it is very important that we all know God for ourselves and stop constantly relying on other people to hear God for us

It is not bad for people to actually bring message from God. I get messages through other people a lot. But we should not rely on others for it.

You have your own hearing ear too

If you see yourself constantly waiting on someone else to speak to you or tell you what God said, there is a problem and you are making it difficult for your own ears to pick anything

4. The voice of our soul

This is the loudest I believe as it forms our core part. So many times I've heard people say, "I'm not so sure it is God speaking or me"

Everything passes through our souls. It is the filter for everything we hear so we must learn to discern what is coming from us and what is from the Lord. We must also learn to filter what we take in as it has a huge influence on what comes out

The spirit lives inside of us already and that is where He speaks to us. But as our spirit man receives the word, it must then be passed through our soul (which consists of our mind, emotions and will).
Our soul is largely influenced by us.

First, what is the origin of all that flows into your soul?

Your emotions, what have they been connecting with the most?

Your mind, what has it been pondering on the most? Note that your mind also takes in all that your body does (Your senses, from your seeing to feeling, to touching etc)

Your will, what are you strong-willed about?

One of major problems I've found in this part when it comes to hearing God is Unhealed hearts/Emotions and Unrenewed minds. If these are present, there  is need for a clean filter for the voice to pass through.

This is the answer, here is the solution :

For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
Hebrews 4:12 NLT

It starts with the word tbh. His word is powerful enough to do the cleansing, it will do the deep work in us. It pierces deep within us and exposes us to the division between the spirit and soul

It makes us aware of what is of the spirit and what comes from our soul.
It lays us bare. It strips us naked

Note that it is not judging or condemning us. As I've been typing, the spirit has also been laying bare certain things from my end too. That is what the word does, it open us up.

This is one step we all can't afford to miss.
If the word does not come in, our minds can't be renewed, we can't be transformed.

We will always be playing a guess game when it comes to hearing God's voice. Maybe it's God, maybe not.

It really doesn't stop at hearing God's voice, we also have to know it.

It is a great key to following Him

My sheep KNOW my voice

I pray that all we've learnt today really helps us in this walk and that we all come to a place of knowing God's voice. Amen

THE "SPEAKING VOICE" AND THE "SPOKEN WORD"

A lot of Christians actually believe God is a speaking God but there is a restriction kind of.

We believe God spoke many years ago, it's been recorded (Scripture) and He has ceased to speak in such clear and definitive manner.

I remember when a video was posted on Social media about Lynxx. He was talking on his salvation story.

According to him, God appeared in his TV and spoke to him.

Like his whole curtain was shaking and stuff

(Someone can check on IG and post the link here please. Tag it "Lynxx" )


I saw a lot of Christians come for him. He was lying bla bla bla. Sounded like Nollywood

Now here's the thing, have we not read more "Nollywoodier" stuff in the bible? Do we not believe it was God?

Abi is it not in the bible people were doing "Bogun ofe", disappearing  from a place and appearing in another?

Here is the problem, we've limited God speaking to just Scripture.

And this is where we make a distinction between the speaking voice of God and the spoken word of God

The bible is the written word of God.

As Christians we must learn to differentiate between His voice and His word. We must also come to a place of belief that we have access to both.

We are not just limited to the Written word

The Spoken word of God is eternal and alive and we need to believe it.

Even God's written word in the bible takes on God's life and power as He speaks them into our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit.

It is the present voice that makes the written word all-powerful

When we engage the written word and God speaks to us from scriptures, the word takes on all of the life of God and His power, for the living God has once again spoken.

God has not gone silent

We must first believe this.

If not, He will tell you "Don't go to xyz place" but because it is not in the bible and you do not believe His voice exists, you will not follow that instruction.

Let's read Psalm 33: 9.

God is a speaking God

Psalm 33:9

9 For he spoke, and it came to be;

    he commanded, and it stood firm.

God has a voice. He speaks, He is not dumb

We must first believe this

Psalm 68:33
to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens,
    who thunders with mighty voice.

God created with His voice, rules with His voice, judges with His voice, gives life with His voice.
He is ever speaking
He is still the God who speaks!

His voice has not been silent  since the dawn of creation.

God is Here, with us, among us, IN US and He is speaking!

These truths are the foundations of all other truths in the scripture. Without them, we will never know God the way we should.

God did not write a book, give to us with expectations that we understand divine revelations with our natural minds.

He spoke forth a book and lives in His spoken word but He also lives today to constantly speak to us in many areas of our lives.

(Note that His spoken voice never acts against His written word. That'd mean God speaking against Himself)

Rhema and Logos
As we study different words for "Word" in the NT Greek, we come across these words. They give a fair understanding of the Spoken word and speaking voice.

Logos - Word spoken and understood second hand. That is a word we do not hear directly from the mouth/voice of the speaker.

Rhema - Spoken and heard directly first hand from the mouth and through the voice of the speaker.

So when I read John 3:16, it is Logos

Up until the spirit breathes life into it and speak to us on it, It becomes Rhema.

Last week we talked about the Hearing Ear, that we all have it. He created us with ears that hear.

God is always ever speaking, revealing Himself and His plan to men and He has created us to hear Him and interact with Him.


God gave us five senses to interact with the natural world so we can take in all of the created world around us.

Same way, scripture makes us to understand that He has given us spiritual sense in much the same way to interact with Him.

You have a hearing ear and it is not for fancy. It is to hear God in all of His speaking

John.10.27 - The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice; and I know them, and they follow Me.

Psalm 34:8 MSG: Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see— how good God is. Blessed are you who run to him.

Heb.11.27 - [Motivated] by faith he left Egypt behind him, being unawed and undismayed by the wrath of the king; for he never flinched but held staunchly to his purpose and endured steadfastly as one who gazed on Him Who is invisible AMP

Hebrews 11:27, NIV: "By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible."

1 John 1:1 TPT : We saw him with our very own eyes. We gazed upon him and heard him speak. Our hands actually touched him, the one who was from the beginning, the Living Expression of God.

What do we see in all of these scriptures?


Senses of interaction

Probably they are only metaphorical, but we see the bible speak of tasting of the Lord, hearing Him, seeing Him and touching Him .

I believe they go beyond metaphors.
Sometimes, I'm having intimates moment with Abba and it feels like I'm touching Him. I've personally experienced His hug a lot of times.

I believe God has given us all spiritual senses, to interact with our sweet unseen father, friend and lover

All of our senses is to interact with this great speaking God for... the hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both (for this purpose) +

Why does man find divine communication difficult? Why is it only accessible to some Christians?

Matthew 13:13-16 TPT

That’s why I teach the people using parables, because they think they’re looking for truth, yet because their hearts are unteachable, they never discover it. Although they will listen to me, they never fully perceive the message I speak.  The prophecy of Isaiah describes them perfectly: Although they listen carefully to everything I speak, they don’t understand a thing I say. They look and pretend to see, but the eyes of their hearts are closed. Their minds are dull and slow to perceive, their ears are plugged and are hard of hearing, and they have deliberately shut their eyes to the truth. Otherwise they would open their eyes to see, and open their ears to hear, and open their minds to understand. Then they would turn to me and let me instantly heal them. “But your eyes are privileged, for they see. Delighted are your ears, for they are open to hear all these things.

Jesus, who is The word lived amonged men and here is what He saw. Some people don't want to hear and are not just listening. Some of us have trained our ears not to hear. When Abba spoke to Jesus from the cloud, everyone heard the voice but what was recorded from the people? ".. It thundered"

Their hearts were so dulled to desiring/knowing Him that that was the only explanation they could give to His voice. Most people cannot hear because the hearts of their eyes are closed.

The people here enter another group Christ spoke about. The one who CAN'T hear.

It's not because they will not love to hear o but their spiritual senses are dull. The only thing they hearing ear has been trained to hear is them self and the world around them.

Jesus said Their hearts are dull and slow to perceive. Their ears are plugged but hard of hearing

A lot of us Christians are on this Can't part.


We want to hear but cannot hear because our spiritual senses are dull.

Now, does this mean we were not created with the hearing ear?

How did we lose our natural God given ability to hear?

Romans 1:20-21, 23-25 TPT

Opposition to truth cannot be excused on the basis of ignorance , because from the creation of the world, the invisible qualities of God’s nature have been made visible, such as his eternal power and transcendence. He has made his wonderful attributes easily perceived, for seeing the visible makes us understand the invisible. So then, this leaves everyone without excuse. Throughout human history the fingerprints of God were upon them, yet they refused to honor him as God or even be thankful for his kindness. Instead, they entertained corrupt and foolish thoughts about what God was like. This left them with nothing but misguided hearts, steeped in moral darkness. For only a fool would trade the unfading splendor of the immortal God to worship the fading image of other humans, idols made to look like people, animals, birds, and even creeping reptiles! This is why God lifted off his restraining hand and let them have full expression of their sinful and shameful desires. They were given over to moral depravity, dishonoring their bodies by sexual perversion among themselves— all because they traded the truth of God for a lie. They worshiped and served the things God made rather than the God who made all things—glory and praises to him forever and ever! Amen!

First, Jesus tells us it's the condition of men's heart that determines their ability to hear.


Now Apostle Paul continues from there. He said men's heart have become darkened/misguided ( I like the word misguided. It's like a change in direction). He said men's thoughts have become futile, corrupt and foolish because they turn away from God and serve the world and the things of man

The reason some of us can't hear is because we are focused so much on the created than the creator.

We worship things without knowing.

We have time for our jobs, big brother, movies, relaxation time, family, friends, everything except God! Do married people forget to have intercourse with their spouse? Like they forget for weeks

I believe the answer is No. (Mary, Maryann, Titi, Bola, please call me out if u lied)

But then we forget to go to God and listen.

We remember to take those courses online. Shut our door and study but most times we don't have much time for God

The reason you are not hearing is because you don't really rate God and your hearing ear is very much aware of that 😊

Our spiritual senses are dulled because our hearts are not centered on the things of the spirit

Whoever will listen......

Will hear the speaking God. These really are not the days when men want to listen truly.
We'd rather the noise, activity, chase and quest for money at the expense of hearing Him.

There is really so much happening in our world today, like so much activity.

You have to be very deliberate with your fellowship with God.

Jesus did not have phone He was checking every minute In the wilderness to see who messaged him.

5 minutes prayer, most of us are already pressing phone.


There is really so much distraction around us

In all of this noise, God is saying we be still.

In learning to still our hearts and know Him, we will get the greatest surprise of God - His Speaking Voice.

It will almost look like Nollywood movie.

For some, it might not be as "dramatic" as others.
For most of us, it might come first like a distant sound of one walking in the garden.
But if we don't quit in those early days, it will grow upon us a  voice, a little more intelligible but still far and not so clear.

Then the happy days dawn as He illuminates the scriptures and speak clearly to our hearts.

He is so near, warm and intimate.
We know immediately it is God
We do not doubt.
We have heard the voice of our beloved clearly, lovingly and with power.

Now we do not just hear once and run away

No, we continue to stay still
Our ability to hear and pick His voice increases quickly.
Before we know it, all other senses are activated.

We hear Him
See Him
Touch Him
Taste Him

We will come to know that the voice of God is friendly and sweet
We will hear it not just in prayer or while studying, we will hear in on the road, while gisting with friends, in the toilet, everywhere, anytime and we will know that it is Him!

Action points for the week

1. Take out time daily to just listen. No talks.

2. Confess your reality as many times as you can daily, you have ears that can hear.


3. Have conversations with God everywhere and anytime. Don't be scared it might be one sided. Remember you have ears built to hear.

E.g
Father, I'm with my colleagues gisting today and I know you can hear me. Because you truly can hear me and you've made me in your image, then speak, my hearing ears are listening


Will be expecting feedbacks from our action points.


For those that have been hearing God before, you are also included. It's an upgrade for everyone.
New season.

Prepare!

This week's assignment added to last week's own

Important
1. Cut off from your social media time or any other thing that takes your time. Use the cut off time to just be still and quiet before God.

2. Go on a date with the Holy Spirit (Eat for 2)
Be open and free. Tell God everything you feel. Don't think He knows so no need, speak it.
He is a hearing God too.

3. Write down all you hear, no matter how little or faint. Document it


4. Confess it throughout this week that you have ears that hear. Turn it to song. Wake up with it. Go to sleep with it.

5. Intentionally write down the things that you think take your focus away from God.

LET US PRAY
Lord we thank you for tonight.
We thank you because you are a God that speaks.
We thank you for our spiritual senses
We thank you for our ears, because they can hear.
Lord, teach us to listen.
We know the times are noisy and our ears have gone weary with the blaring sounds from the world.
Help us to say like Samuel: Speak Lord, for your child listens.
Help us to believe truly that we can hear you.
Help us get used to the sound of your voice. we are familiar with your tone, so much that even in the noise the world brings, the only sound we hear is the music of your speaking voice.

Again, let's not forget

The speaking Voice Will NEVER speak against the Word. God doesn't contradict Himself.

THE HEARING GOD IS THE SPEAKING GOD

Tonight, we will be starting a new series (from today till October)

Title of the series is Divine Communication

In this series we will be focusing on communication, what it means for us as believers, God's love for it, basic principles towards effective communication, types and finally, the Prophetic.

Before we go on to the first topic in this series, I'd like us to share what communication means to us as believers

Communication is the process where feelings, thoughts, desires are passed between God and us, his children. - Samson

Pouring my mind out to God and hearing his thoughts concerning them. - Tebs

To me communication is a father to son or daughter interaction through diverse strategies in the kingdom such as..
-prayers
-worship
-meditation etc. - Kenneth

Communication is wording out our feelings infact our total mind to God 
It could be through prayers, our worship n singing - Dasi

From our definitions of communication earlier, we see that it is a two way street. It is not just us talking and pouring out to God but rather talking with God.

We pour our heart out to Him and He pours His heart out to us.

It's amazing how we sit for hours talking to God, laying it all bare before Him and we believe so much that God can hear us.

Yahweh, the one who is invisible to us but our hearts strongly believe He can hear us, so we go ahead and speak.

We do not just speak, we ask and expect a Him to answer our prayers.

Where a lot of us get it wrong is this, we believe so much in the God who hears so much that we speak non stop for hours daily but we are yet to 100% dig the God who speaks.

We hardly can sit waiting long hours to hear Him speak as we'd stay to speak with Him.

I'd like to ask, if you sit for 2 hours waiting to hear from God and you do not hear anything, what will you do?

Waiting....
Honest answers please

Move on o😂
I've found that I don't always get my answer on the spot. It could just come from listening to a song after waiting for a while. The answer could be in someone's random statement. - Tebs

Ill stop waiting for a reply - Dasi

Here is what I've come to notice in many Christians, we have poor communication skills.

If you and I talk everyday for 2 months, and I'm always opening my mouth like parrot talking every minute not allowing you to land (And this happens repeatedly), my communication skills is bad.

Though I speak a lot but if I do not listen well, then communication is Zero.

I found out at some point that i was in this place both in real life and in my prayer life.

Twice tragedy 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

How can you be suffering from one problem in different angles?

Is it only me that waka come?

I tried to change the physical aspect but it did not.

Infact, I did not notice a change physically until it started with God first

It is a very good thing to talk to God, to pour our heart to Him. First, it shows love and trust, I believe. It's really so difficult to discuss with one person for a long period daily without seeing them physically..

Yet, this is what we do as believers.

Why?
If we don't love God, we won't care enough to be marking daily attendance and gisting.
A lot of relationships end when one partner changes location because they can't keep up but somehow we try to keep up even when it is difficult.

I want us to know that God loves us so much and it's such a sweet thing that we are keeping this relationship alive

Even if it's just 5 min we are able to do daily. God knows that it is only love that brings us (even when we do not know it ourselves).

Also trust.

We do not just come to Him, we come with our secrets, things we'd not tell any other person.

Such a beautiful relationship

But it doesn't end here.

The same way we want to pour out to God out of love and trust is the same way God wants to pour out to us out of love and trust.

Love because that is the bedrock of our relationship

See, it is the nature of God to speak, not just to speak but to communicate His thoughts to others.

God actually has thoughts just as you do.

The same way you want to share yours with Him is how He wants to share His with you.

Communication is a big deal for God.. It is built in the very fabric of His Divine being.

Remember creation when God was going to make man, He said, "Let us make man in our own image"

He communicated His thoughts to the trinity

We see it in His relationship with all His children in scripture.

He is a communicating God. Not deaf, not dumb.

If God had this relationship with the trinity then surely man who was created in His (their) image was created with this same specification, to relate, to hear Him and speak with Him.

Proverbs  20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

The hearing ear, God made it.
What is the ear hearing?
God


He designed us - His prime creation--to hear Him.
He wove it within our very nature and being just like it is woven into His..

Look at this before us:

* God spoke and Noah heard and responded.
* God spoke and Abraham heard and responded
*God spoke and Jacob heard

Same has David, Jesus, Paul etc

The story of the bible is a story of a Speaking God and a hearing people.

Again the verse in proverbs says: God made the hearing ear.

See, if you have ears, then you can hear God because this is how God made our ears, to hear.

The only way you cannot hear God is if He is not your creator

Is there anyone here that wasn't created by God?

If the answer is no, then everyone here can hear God.

Not faintly, audibly.


He doesn't have to shout it in your ears like that mama no network woman in Nollywood (please Google if you don't know her)

So tonight, I want you to know it and believe it very well, that You can hear God, everyday, for as long as He is speaking. You have ears that hear.

Please if you need to add it to your confession daily, do so. It is important first to believe this, if not every other part of this series will be difficult for you.

Please take this home tonight

The God that hears is the God that speaks

If I have mouth that can speak to God for long, then I, Olúrèmí, have ears that can hear/Listen to God for long

I'm going to stop here tonight.


Next week we continue with The Speaking voice and The Spoken Word