How to Hear God’s Spoken Voice – Religion Detox Network …

FAITH COMES BY HEARING
Anyone who professes to have faith in God must hear God’s voice. People who say they have faith and trust God, or Jesus, but do not hear God’s voice are deceived hypocrites. Consider these scriptures:

Romans 10:17 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of christ.

COMMENTARY: The first thing to notice here is that faith comes by hearing the words of christ. It does not say hear the words of Jesus. Jesus was a messiah, which means he was a christ (i.e. anointed one.) Readers will notice that christ is not capitalized in this commentary. The reason that it is not capitalized is that christ is an adjective — not a proper name.

Furthermore, Jesus was only one example of a messiah/christ. All true prophets past and present are messiahs because they are anointed by God and sent by God to speak for him. This is why it can be said of Jesus that he spoke God’s words — not his own words. Considering these truths about what it means to be a christ, this verse could be rightly translated this way:

Faith comes by hearing, hearing the word of God spoken by true prophets.

Just as the ability to speak for God is a gift, the ability to hear God’s spoken word is a gift from God, and, faith is a gift from God. Therefore, the ability to hear God’s spoken voice is a matter of faith. See Religion is Not Faith.

The life-giving power of the words of any christ originate with God because christs (i.e. the anointed ones) only spoke what the hear God saying to their hearts.

Tying this all together, we conclude that faith comes to those who hear the words of anointed messiahs (i.e. true prophets, angels, high priests, witnesses, warriors) who speak for God. Symbolically speaking, these anointed ones are Trees of Life.

Faith does not come to people who listen to false prophets. Symbolically speaking, these are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and are also called Serpents, Devils, Satan, Adversaries, Demons, Evil Spirits and Anti-christs.

Galatians 3:2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

COMMENTARY: This is a rhetorical question for which the answer is obvious: The spirit of God is not given to people who obey religious laws. The spirit of God is only given to people who hear God’s spoken voice.

Galatians 3:5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

COMMENTARY: This is another rhetorical question with an obvious answer: God does not give his spirit and the miracle of faith (i.e. a transformed heart) to people who obey religious laws. See this link for understanding of miracles.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

COMMENTARY: The word of christ is God’s word spoken through anointed messiahs, true prophets , angels, high priests , witnesses and warriors.

The essential qualification for being a New Covenant disciple is the ability the hear God’s spoken voice. Religion teaches nothing about how to do this because religion is based on religious rules taught by men. Religion, therefore, is passed on by the teaching and writing of men who speak and write fleshly — not Godly — wisdom with human words that come out of the stubborn imaginations of their evil hearts.

If religious leaders actually knew how to hear God’s spoken voice, they would not teach others how to listen to God’s voice themselves because, if people knew how to hear God’s voice, they would leave religion and listen to God’s voice directly instead of listening to false prophets.

Thus, telling the truth about God’s voice would destroy the personal kingdoms and money making institutions that religious leaders have created for themselves. This would happen because people would no longer need religious leaders to teach them about God because God would teach them about himself and his ways directly. This relationship is the essence of the New Covenant.

But the ability to hear God’s voice does not come easily — especially to religionists whose habit is to listen to religious leaders in whom they put their trust. There is a certain amount of unlearning that must happen before God will open their spiritual eyes and ears to hear his spoken voice. All that religionists know is what they have learned while they were disciples of false prophets. Thus they have been intoxicated with strongholds of wrong thinking that are difficult, but not impossible to destroy. But the only force powerful enough to destroy these strongholds is God’s powerful, spoken word.

Here are a few rules of thumb to consider when trying to discern if we have heard God’s voice:

GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR HEARING GOD’S VOICE:

When people first hear God’s voice, it will be like a foreign language to them. They will not be able to understand what he is saying because they have hard hearts. They will only be able to hear and understand after they accept that God is deeper than literal words on a page and turn from their idolatry and stop listening to the voices of false prophets.
When God says “hear the word of the Lord“, he is talking about hearing his spiritual voice — not just reading the Bible. His spiritual voice can come from him directly without a human mediator, or through a human mediator (i.e. Messiah, True Prophet, High Priest or Angel). These are all anointed messengers sent by God to speak on his behalf to people who cannot hear God’s voice.
God’s voice does not come through False Prophets.
Hearing can come at any time in any location, but it will only come to people who are not busy (i.e they are at rest) from practicing religion.
Hearing God’s voice does not happen only in special buildings or places that are considered to be holy or sacred. Hearing happens in the heart.

Hearing will most often and most reliably happen while reading the Bible.

The words are the same, but the interpretation of what those words mean is radically different.
Scripture which was previously interpreted literally takes on a new meaning which can only be described as spiritual.
Whereas scripture was previously understood intellectually, with the natural mind, hearing God’s voice happens in the heart/spirit.
What is heard happens because God has given eyes to see and ears to hear spiritual truth.

Hearing will not come to people who are busy with religious activities, but does come to people who fast and rest from religion.
Only New Covenant disciples can reliably hear God’s voice because God’s speaks to their hearts with his spirit.
Old/First Covenant religionists will hear one main message: Come out of religion and listen to God’s voice.
God’s voice is discernible only to people who expect to see with their spiritual eyes and ears and do not expect to gain understanding through use of their natural, physical abilities (i.e. eyes, ears, intellect).
God’s speaks only to people who do not listen to false prophets (i.e. Old/First Covenant religious leaders such as pastors and priests).
God’s voice gives understanding to the mysteries of the literal Bible. It explains, and connects seemingly unrelated parts of the Bible that we do not understand because we cannot relate them to each other using our natural, intellectual minds.
God’s voice explains the symbolic meaning of the literal words of the Bible.
God’s voice explains the spiritual meanings of dark sayings , proverbs and riddles, figures of speech, words of the wise and riddles, dreams and visions , enigmas and difficult problems , shadows, types and patterns, and symbols, signs and allegories that we we cannot interpret and understand with our natural, human minds.
God’s voice spiritually connects the pieces of the incomprehensible Bible puzzle that we do not understand into comprehensible images that we do understand, and integrates them into the big picture of who God is and how he relates to his people.
When God opens the eyes of New Covenant disciples to see how pieces of the Bible puzzle are connected, and explains their spiritual meaning, disciples experience an “aha” moment that causes them to tremble with awe in appreciation that God has revealed a spiritual mystery to them with his spiritual voice.
God’s voice may not come all at once in a complete, fully formed, comprehensive revelation. It will more likely come in bits and pieces of smaller, incomplete revelations that make no intellectual sense until they are linked together as in the assembly of a puzzle. The linking occurs, however, only for people who diligently search for related links that will complete that portion of the puzzle.
Only people who are like little children, full of questions, who ask God — not false prophets — to explain the spiritual meanings of scripture, may expect to hear his voice.
God will reveal spiritual mysteries only to people who assume that God has planted mysteries in the Bible and expect that God will reveal the interpretations of those mysteries.
God will reveal mysteries only to people who apply what they learn in their own lives.
We will actually hear God’s voice before we recognize it as his voice. It will first be like a goad/prick to our heart that challenges our religious beliefs and practices.
We will probably not understand or believe what we have heard when we first hear it because what God tells us about how to interpret scripture and religion is contrary to what we have been taught by religion.
Our eyes are opened when we interpret scripture that we thought we understood in a totally new way. The literal words are still the same, but our spiritual understandings of those words are totally different.
God’s voice will be heard and understood by people who are humble enough to admit that the doctrines they believe and the religion they practice are not, or may not, be in perfect agreement with spiritual truth that comes from God’s voice.
God’s voice will be heard and understood by people who are like little children who are not wise in their own eyes because they are proud of their intellectual understanding of the literal meanings of the Bible.
God’s voice can be heard only by people who ask, seek and knock so they might understand the wisdom of God that is hidden in the mysteries.
God’s word is his spoken word — not words written by men in the Bible.
The spirit of God’s voice will bring enlightenment on these basic issues:

He writes his spiritual laws on their hearts.
He reveals the symbolic meanings of the literal words of the bible.
He convicts religious people that they have practiced the sin of religion.
He will humble people about their prideful self-righteousness, religious behaviors and beliefs.
He enables them to discern the differences between religion and faith in their lives and in the lives of others.
He calls them to come out of religion.

WHAT GOD’S VOICE IS NOT LIKE:

God’s voice is not heard in the human sense of hearing with natural ears.
God’s voice is not heard in mere intellectual understanding of the literal, written words of the Bible, or in interpretations or paraphrases of the literal Bible spoken by religious leaders/teachers. Note: Anyone, even an unbeliever, can understand the written words of the Bible and give logical, believable interpretations of them.
It will not give so-called “prophetic” messages about personal or global events that will happen in the future.
It does not speak generic, “feel good” messages that could apply to anyone at anytime.
It will not anticipate or interpret physical signs and wonders.
It is not like the teachings of false prophets and pharisees.
It is not like human wisdom and knowledge.
It is not like listening to your own thoughts.
What God says cannot be easily converted into human words.

WHAT GOD’S VOICE IS LIKE:

God’s voice is like a whisper of gentle wind, but also like wind, thunder and lightning.
For people who have not heard his voice, God’s voice is perceived like another language (i.e. tongue) that has not been heard before.
God’s voice is heard and understood with the heart.
It causes a trembling in the heart that is like an earthquake. But. it can also be like the sound of many waters and like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.
God’s voice resonates as truth in our hearts (i.e. spirits) like thunder and enlightens our spirits like lightning flashes of truth that we cannot anticipate and can’t quite believe we have seen/heard because it happens so fast.
God’s voice registers as understanding of truth in the heart.
God’s voice trains us to know the difference between true prophets and false prophets.
God’s voice enables us to see religion the way he sees it.
God’s voice registers in our heart as an “aha” moment in which the spiritual meanings of scripture are made clear.
God’s voice explains the spiritual meanings of parables, dark sayings, symbols, types and patterns, figurative language, shadows and deep mysteries.
We hear God’s voice when our heart is exclusively open to hearing him, such as when we are reading the Bible and asking questions about scriptures we do not understand, or meditating on words he has already spoken to us.
God’s voice is a dream or a vision that we see in our heart but does not have actual words associated with it.
God’s voice is like a whisper of one standing behind us telling us the way to walk (i.e. choose life instead of death).
We go into a kind of deep sleep when we hear God’s voice directly or through a messenger.
God’s word pierces/cuts our hearts.
God’s voice is ephemeral. When it comes, it is more like an impression of truth than it is of actual words that can be organized into a thought or statement. It arouses a feeling of awe that words cannot describe but which is very real and tangible in the heart/spirit.
God’s voice teaches us a totally new (i.e. spiritual) way of interpreting scripture. When we understand the spiritual meaning of scripture, will are humbled and ashamed for the fact that what we thought was faith was really only dead religion. We will be humbled and ashamed for having listened to and trusted false prophets who deceived us out of the imaginations of their minds as a way to earn an income from our tithes and offerings.
Since God’s word teaches us how to know the difference between good and evil, we will be very glad and very thankful for every insight that leads us away from religion and toward God.
God’s voice refreshes us like rain that makes us grow spiritually.
God’s voice is like perfume applied to the heart.
God’s spoken voice has the quality of a spiritual revelation that shakes us so much that we become like a dead person unable to speak.
Hearing God’s voice is an awesome event. It lifts up the heart in a way that nothing else can do. The first few times it happens, you know in your heart that you have heard it but still can’t quite accept that the one, true, living God has actually spoken to you.
When hearing God’s voice becomes common for an individual, any doubt that person ever had about whether they have heard God’s voice or not is replaced with an overwhelming sense of being blessed because Biblical references to “blessing” always refer to hearing God’s voice and following his commandments.
Hearing God’s voice is a combination of knowing, tasting, seeing and hearing in our hearts that satisfies our need/desire to know that he exists and loves us.
- The words that come from God’s lips communicate his deep, sensual love for us when he shares the meanings of deep mysteries to us.

CONSEQUENCES OF HEARING GOD’S VOICE

Our hearts are lifted up (i.e. raptured) with excitement over the fact that we have actually heard God’s voice.
Religious people who do not expect to hear God’s voice will experience fire (i.e. anger) in their hearts when God challenges their religious beliefs and practices.
After we humble ourselves, God exalts (i.e. lifts up) our hearts with excitement when he gives the ability to hear his spoken voice.
The spiritual meanings of Bible mysteries become clear.
We understand that God’s written word and his spoken voice are not the same.
We understand that religion is actually fake faith.
We understand that religion is sin.
We are humbled and ashamed for the fact that we were once religious.
When we hear God’s voice we will be inspired to study the bible more so we can hear more.
After we adsorb what we have heard, our hearts will burn with desire to share what we have heard with others. But we will also feel handicapped and afraid to put what we have heard into into human words and speak them to religious people.
Even though we are eager to share what we hear God say, we will also be fearful of rejection and persecution by religious people who will not easily accept what we have to say.
After we have heard God’s voice and understand the truth about the Bible and religion, we are highly motivated to share that truth with others along with encouragement to come out of religion.
Every time we hear his voice we will be inspired to disengage from Old/First Covenant religion in favor of becoming a New Covenant disciple.
The more we hear God’s voice, the more we are inspired to study so that we can hear his voice more often and more clearly.
The more we hear God’s voice and learn about how God sees religion, the more we are inspired to share with others (i.e. teach) what we hear so that they might also learn how to hear God’s voice, receive salvation and be set free from the sin of religion.
Hearing God’s voice inspires great thankfulness and appreciation for delivering us from bondage to religion.
When we have heard God’s voice explain scripture to us, we are inspired to share and teach what we have heard with people who are still enslaved to religion.
When we have heard God’s voice we are inspired to rise up as warriors to engage tear down idols and high places without fear.
We understand what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
When we have heard God’s voice we are inspired to bring justice to people who are still enslaved to religion.
After we have heard God’s voice explain the symbolic meaning of scripture, we are highly motivated to study more with the expectation that he will speak new truths to our hearts again and again.
When we hear God’s voice explain scripture that we thought we knew in a new and different way, it inspires great awe and gratitude that he would disclose such truth to us. We sense that we have been blessed that God would reveal to us truth that is totally different from lies we previously believed.

STUDY TIP: See the following links for for more benefits/rewards of hearing God’s voice.

- - - - How to Know that You are Born Again
        
        GOD DOES ONLY ONE KIND OF MIRACLE
        
        Covenant Basics
        
        Compare Pure Religion and Defiled Religion
        
        How to Identify a True Prophet
        
        Rewards of seeking God with your heart.
        
        God’s holy gifts.
        
        Humility.

This is only a short list the rewards of hearing God’s voice. It is impossible to explain spiritual events (i.e. hearing God’s voice) with human words. Nevertheless, human words are useful guides to understanding when the event of hearing God’s voice has occurred.

In the New Testament, the response to hearing God’s voice is described as being “caught up” and “taken up” into heaven. These terms are commonly associated with an imagined, future event that some christians call the rapture. christians who indulge themselves with speculations about the timing of the rapture wrongly think is a future event that happens after they physically die. They do not understand that scriptures about being caught up/taken up are only another way of describing the response to hearing God’s voice, and that it is a here and now event for people who have eyes to see and ears to hear God’s voice. People who have heard God’s voice, however, understand that going to heaven and the rapture are not future events but are events that can be experienced today.

STUDY TIP: See The Rapture for other descriptions of what it is like to hear God’s voice. See The Kingdom of God/heaven for understanding of these spiritual concepts.

When God’s voice is heard, it explains the spiritual meanings of dark sayings , proverbs and riddles, figures of speech, words of the wise and riddles, dreams and visions , enigmas, difficult problems , shadows, types and patterns, and symbols, signs and allegories that are found throughout the Bible. But, there are parts of the Bible that are, by comparison, easy to understand. These may be interpreted literally.

Learning how to know which parts are to be taken symbolically and which parts are to be take literally is the big challenge for Bible students/disciples/learners. But it is not a challenge that is conquered by sheer will and human intellectual effort. Understanding is a gift from God that is only available to New Covenant disciples who seek God with all their heart. Understanding is not available to religious people who continue to try to learn about God from religious leaders.

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