A challenge to hear His voice

Today I was thinking about “following” in my daddy’s footsteps. Doing what He would do and thinking the thoughts He would think. Some once said, “God doesn’t have to work very hard – He just creates a lot of things with His words.” I don’t know if all that is true, but I do know that if we can learn to follow His speech… The King’s speech… and we would be amazed at how our lives would change.

To learn to:

• Speak AS He speaks (relationship)
• Speak When He speaks (timing)
• Speak What He speaks (doctrine)
• Speak Where He speaks (obedience)

I have been thinking a lot lately about healing. About the provision made on its behalf… the events surrounding it’s timing… the hanging on in the midst of the battle for it… the motivation behind it’s appearing. When we learn “God speech” – we can better understand and can “obtain.”

In the battle for healing that I’ve been fighting lately, I start asking myself questions… what is HE saying about it, what is His timing for it, how does HE call it forth. The only thing I don’t know is the timing.

So… when I am engaged in the battle for my own healing… I am looking at the strategy for the battle.

• Yes – the truth is – God heals
• Yes – the truth is – God loves me
• Yes – the truth is – God and I have a relationship
• Yes – the truth is – I can hear His voice
• Yes – the truth is – I know His word
• Yes – I can be patient until the fruit is ripe

When you are battling – the enemy will come against you – and try to alter God’s word and bring a lie. I challenge you to put up your list of truths against the lie of the enemy – and see how that lie will fall in the midst of your list. Just as Satan talks you into the lie… truth will talk you back out of it.

Putting my agreement to His word and putting my agreement to what I hear is a big plus in the battle. Though I wake up feeling weak… I put my agreement to the word that tells me in 2 Corinthians 12:10 that I am strong. When I feel as if I can’t do something… I put my agreement to Phil 4:13 – I can do ALL things. When we put our agreement to something – it’s not necessarily that we “feel” it – but when we speak it – we put our agreement to it.

When you speak – you are assigning an agreement. You either agree with how you feel or the truth which is God’s word – and those two things can be quite different. You agree with your anger or your forgiveness. I thought of all the years I have put my agreement with my natural man, with my human emotion, with my carnal feelings… instead of with my Father. He never comes into agreement with the carnal… so why should we?

I mean… Here is the one who established a system of creation with words. Read that sentence again… CREATED A SYSTEM TO CREATE WITH WORDS. It would be wisdom to align with Him… put your agreement with that… and forsake everything else.

Listen to what He is speaking right now into your life… into your circumstance – step out onto your troubled water with faith and put your agreement to it!

Mat 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. You actually could interpret that second one in agreement with you here on earth as the Holy Spirit!

And if it goes deeper than agreeing with this, like, oh… being able to hear His voice or battling the “who am I that God would speak to me,” then remember that Jesus said, “My sheep know my voice.”

He didn’t say, “they can read my book,” or “they can do lots of wonderful works” or “They know I love them, I don’t have to tell them.”

This is not a natural relationship, or, a relationship in the natural. It is supernatural and thus it is without boundaries.

Andrew Womac writes, “ One of the greatest benefits of our salvation has to be that of hearing God speak to us personally. There can be no intimate relationship with our heavenly Father without it. But, as easy as it is for us to speak to Him, the average Christian has a hard time hearing His voice. This is not the way the Lord intended it to be.

Learning to clearly distinguish God’s voice is invaluable. Instead of going through life blindly, we can have the wisdom of God guide and protect us. There isn’t a single person receiving this letter who couldn’t have their life radically transformed by hearing the voice of the Lord better. The worst marital problem is one word from the Lord away from a total turnaround. If you have sickness or disease, one living word from the Lord will instantly heal you. If you are in financial crisis, the Lord knows exactly how to turn your situation around. It’s just a matter of hearing His voice.”