How to HEAR God

Do you want to know how to hear God’s voice? To know how He speaks to you?  One of the first and best ways to hear His voice is to become familiar with His WORD. As more time is spent meditating upon the Word of God, the more sensitive we will become to that “still small voice” speaking to our heart.

The Holy Spirit opens up our understanding when reading God’s Word. He makes the Word come ALIVE to us so that we can hear God’s voice, that inner witness. Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice” (Jn 10:27). He often QUICKENS a passage or verse to us, applying it to our own personal situation, and He brings the Word to life just for us! All of a sudden it hits our heart and we really get His point! “The entrance of Thy Word giveth light, it giveth understanding to the simple!” (Psa.119:130).

But application is the ultimate goal of all Bible study. In fact, you only really believe the parts of the Bible you live out. Do you believe in sharing Christ with others? Do you believe in tithing? If you don’t do them, then you don’t really believe what the Bible teaches about them.

The problem that most of us have with the Bible isn’t what we don’t understand; it’s to actually apply what we do understand! Study the Bible systematically. You might choose to study it verse-by-verse, book-by-book, topic-by-topic, or theme-by-theme. Read the Bible over and over again. This simple discipline will change your life. It’s amazing how much you can get out of a passage if you study the same passage over and over again and then come back to the same passage a few months later. The more you read a passage, the more you’ll get out of it.

There’s no better time than today to start studying the Bible. No matter how you choose to study, decide to apply and live out what you read, and you’ll get more out of whatever you read.

If you commit to read and soak in God’s Word everyday, you won’t ever have to worry about hearing God.

Here are some good scriptures about it: 

Jn 8:47a He who is of God hears God’s words.

Jn 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life.

Lk 12:12 For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.

Ps 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

2Tim 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,  that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Heb 4:12 For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Jn 5:30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Ro 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

Pr 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Isa 30:21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.

Jn 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts.

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

Ps 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

Pr 1:23b I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

Isa 42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them.

Jer 23:28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.

Ps 73:24a You will guide me with Your counsel.

Jer 1:9b I Have put My words in your mouth