How To Hear The Voice Of God

By Author: Mark Virkler
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Can you hear God?

Does God even speak to people?

The time in which we live is so wrapped up in rationalism and cognitive, analytical thought that we often disbelieve or even mock when we hear of someone actually claiming to be able to hear the voice of God. We wonder, is that person crazy or did God actually speak to them?

We should not, however, scoff, for several reasons. First, men and women throughout the Bible heard God's voice. Also, there are some highly effective and reputable men and women of God alive today who demonstrate that they hear God's voice. Finally, there is a deep hunger within us all to commune with God, and hear Him speak within our hearts. Perhaps, instead of disbelief, we should ask ourselves, why do I NOT hear the voice of God?

As a born-again, Bible-believing Christian, I struggled unsuccessfully for years to hear God's voice. I prayed, fasted, studied my Bible and listened for a voice within, all to no avail. There was no inner voice that I could hear! Then God set me aside for a year to study, read, and experiment in the area of learning to hear His voice. During that ...
... time, the Lord taught me four keys that opened the door to two-way prayer. I have discovered that not only do they work for me, but they have worked for many thousands of believers who have been taught to use them, bringing tremendous intimacy to their Christian experience and transforming their very way of living. This will happen to you also as you seek God, utilizing the following four keys.

All four keys are found in Habakkuk 2:1-2. I encourage you to read this passage before going on.

“I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.

The LORD’s Answer

Then the LORD replied: ‘Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.’ – Habakkuk 2:1-2

The four keys to hearing God’s voice are:

1. God’s voice in our hearts sounds like a flow of spontaneous thoughts. Therefore, when I tune to God, I tune to spontaneity.
2. I must learn to still my own thoughts and emotions, so that I can sense God’s flow of thoughts and emotions within me.
3. As I pray, I fix the eyes of my heart upon Jesus, seeing in the Spirit the dreams and visions of Almighty God.
4. Journaling, the writing out of our prayers and God’s answers, provides a great new freedom in hearing God’s voice.

You can hear the voice of God. These four keys can help you to do that. I will expand more on these 4 keys in later articles, but for now, pray over these verses in Habakkuk and these 4 keys and see if you can’t put them into practice.

Mark Virkler is with Christian Leadership University. CLU is a Christian University and Online Bible College offering Christian education including Christian counseling and Christian theology seminaries and offers certificates, undergrad, Masters, and Doctorates in the various Christian colleges of CLU.