Hearing God’s spoken voice is not an ability reserved for special, spiritual people like pastors and prophets. God wants everyone to listen to his voice. In fact, listening to his voice is a command to everyone.

Click this link for a long list of scriptures that contain God’s many commands to listen to his voice/word.

Hearing God’s spoken word is not optional. It is a matter of obedience to God.

The first step toward obedience is to stop listening to other voices. God does not give the ability to hear his voice to people who insist on listening to the voices of  False Prophets. 

Instead of listening to false prophets, obedient people listen to true prophets whom God sends to speak for him. Jesus is an example of a true prophet sent by God to speak God’s words to anyone who will listen. The Apostle Paul is an example of someone who follows Jesus and speaks for God. But the ability to speak for God is not limited to Jesus and Paul. Everyone who has God’s laws written on their hearts also speak God’s words because they have the anointing from God to speak for God.

It is critical, therefore to know how to identify a false prophet and how to identify a true prophet. In fact, it is a matter of spiritual life and death.