How I Hear God: Chapter 7: How To Hear God

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Chapter 7: How To Hear God

God does still speak, and you can discover how to hear Him. You can learn how to distinguish God's voice from your own and hear God every day.

It is possible to learn how to hear God. God will teach you how to know and recognize His voice when you ask Him to help you hear from Him.

And as you grow in your relationship with God, you will become more aware of when you are hearing from God and when it is simply your thoughts. The more you communicate with God, the more familiar His voice will become and the more you will hear God speak.

How do you know when you are hearing from God?

It is very easy to confuse your desires with God speaking to you, especially when something is really important to you. One of the ways of turning down the …show more content…

You learn by practicing and being prepared to make mistakes. Do not let the fear of making a mistake stop you from stepping out in faith. God is your Father, and He will take care of your honest mistakes.

As you stop and spend more time listening to God speaking through His Word, the Bible, you will soon learn to distinguish between the different voices.

The key is to evaluate everything you hear in the light of God's word.
Sometimes you will struggle to hear God, or you will not hear God speaking as clearly as you would like. At other times, you will think you have heard God and respond to what He says only to find that you made a mistake.

If that happens, find out where you got it wrong and do not let making a mistake hold you back from stepping out in faith the next time. God will teach you through your mistakes. It is much better to allow yourself to make a mistake than never to step out in faith.

The problem for most people is that they have been living with abnormality for so long that they do not even recognize that it is not normal to go through life without hearing God.
'Normal,' is hearing God every

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