How to Hear the Voice of God When You Don’t Know Where to Start!

5.Learning to Hear His Truth: Discerning God’s Voice

Ever notice that your spouse can’t seem to hear you very well when you ask them if you can start a home improvement project?… only half kidding 

I feel like even as believers, we aren’t too far behind this sometimes. Unfortunately, when it comes to learning how to hear the voice of God, many of us are totally guilty of this same selective hearing behavior!—remember my wish list prayer journaling I mentioned above?

God tells us that he is always present with us and yet, we take a step back and wonder if that’s his voice we hear when we don’t get what we want. If we’ve been praying to quit our job but we hear him guiding us back into that job we are going to be much more likely to wonder where God’s voice is because His truth, His will might be sounding different that our own desires.

Discerning God’s voice and not just what we want to hear is an important part of discerning God’s voice!

His truth might begin to uncover some things on your heart that you’ve been trying to avoid for a long time (been there, done that!).

His truth might show you where you need to surrender to him when you’ve been priding yourself on being so strong and independent (also, been there and done this!).

His truth might make you feel a little unsure, maybe like unchartered territory but oh man, let me tell you how sweet His truth is when you begin to surrender!