Hearing God's voice

People often tell me that I have this “special” gift to hear God speak to me, or to know His will for me. I honestly don’t think this is the case. Yes, being able to discern God’s will or hear him speak is a gift of his grace on me, but that’s about it… I believe that we all can do it. Here is a practical example of how we can hear God’s voice in our daily lives. The Word of God says that “the earth and everything in it, is God’s”, the story of Genesis confirms that God created everything, therefore why wouldn’t God use his creation to communicate his love to us? Everything around us is his, isn’t it?

Last night, I finally decided to leave a college leadership team of which I was a part of. I have been feeling hurt by the church for a while, as I learned that it is hard to grow as a leader in a church if you are a woman, no matter your credentials, gifting, experience or potential. When I finally wrote the email to the team explaining them my decision to leave, I felt this great sense of freedom. Don’t get me wrong my heart was broken that I could not do what I am passionate about doing, because I was a woman and that automatically limited my progress… but there was more to it. I was free, so I told God that I still love him and want him to lead me toward the green pastures where I can play with him for a while.

The next morning my heart was full of joy! I mean real joy! I was celebrating my time with God and that freedom that came with it! Then I went to work and a friend begins to talk to me. He told me a story of a very important person in town, who’s life was set free by Jesus Christ. This man’s heart was broken as his daughter’s school did not have a specific outreach ministry, through which he was reached when he was a kid. So he proposed that they would find and full time support a person to organize and lead the ministry. The story telling man, looked at me and said, “perhaps this could be you”. I had few thoughts going through my head, as I did not want to leave the green pastures! But as my heart reflected upon that phrase, I began to hear God’s voice. It was not a voice saying: “Thus now, I will put you in a charge of ministry, where you can truly grow and fulfill thy will.” No, no! Rather it was God’s message to me saying that, He is watching over me, knows all of my needs and will get me where I need to be; sort of: “I am with you, good job!”. How cool and simple is this? How many times do we miss God’s voice because we tend to focus on our own desires and passions? You see everyone can hear God’s voice, because he speaks through people, angels and the Spirit which lives inside us. We need to have a willing heart to hear him and then we will realize that his voice surrounds us. Look at trees and see them speak to you about stillness, and strength of the Lord; notice how the trees and the grass and the birds worship the Lord by simply doing what he made them to do; and let the wind of the Holy Spirit move you gently as the wind outdoors moves the trees, to a melody played by the Heaven.

“The person who lives in the right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering inot what God does for you.” Galatians 3:11 [MRemix]