Why Can’t I Hear God?
I want to make this message about hearing from God because a
lot of people, they have a sort of a prayer life where they get discouraged
because they don’t hear from Jesus the way they want to. And we know that we should be hearing from
the Lord. So, how do we know the Lord’s
voice, how do we hear from Him? Well,
Jesus says that we have to worship Him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH. (John 4:24) We don’t just hear Him in our mind. People are always wondering, do you just hear
God, voices in your head? But Satan can
speak into your mind, the TV can speak into your head through your ears and
through your eyes. But we need to be
hearing the Holy Spirit in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.
And when God created us, He created us with the ability to hear Him in
spirit IF we would ask for the Holy Spirit to guide us. So, what we ought to do is pray and say;
“Lord please, give me the ears that hear you, I want to be in tune with your
Holy Spirit.” And then when we pray we
have to listen for Him in the very bottom of our heart, in the bottom of our
soul, the area where we KNOW right from wrong.
It’s not just a guessing game, it’s not about our emotions, but it’s the
part of us that knows right from wrong.
Some things we’re not sure about, we pray about those things, we say;
“Lord, I’m not sure if this is right or wrong…”
But we don’t just jump in front of Him and just suppose right from
wrong. If there is something we really
don’t know we wait upon the Lord, we wait for Him to answer us, but we have to
continue in prayer, being steadfast in prayer.
One reason a lot of people cannot hear God is
because they have not passed the elementary principles of their faith. The things that the Holy Spirit has asked
them to do LONG ago (the have left undone) They have not repented. They have not forgiven the people they needed
to forgive, they haven’t confessed and repented of sins that they KNOW are
wrong. They still have secret sins in
their life and when the Holy Spirit has convicted us of something that we need
to do, and if we aren’t doing that, it doesn’t matter how much more we ask to
hear from God, we will still be spiritually stuck, until we overcome that,
whatever that sin was or whatever that thing was the Holy Spirit asked us to
do.
One example that I have of this is
when I was still in church, I was into a lot of music, and I just knew the Holy
Spirit was calling me to get rid of all my music from the time I was
young. From when I was young, all the
way back to when there was cassette tapes, I had music from band’s that I had
listened to. And I knew the Holy Spirit
was calling me to get rid of all this old music. But for some time it just sat on my
shelf. I could not grow in my faith
until I followed through with what the Holy Spirit wanted me to do and get rid
of all that old garbage music. So, one
day I took all the music, all the CD’s, everything that I had that was ungodly
in music and I threw it in the dumpster.
And that allowed me to grow in my faith, to move forward in
righteousness with JESUS. But if I
didn’t do that, and if that was pricking my conscience, but I was saying; “God
I pray that you speak to me today, give me a NEW word…” I WOULDN’T receive any
new word or expect to hear ANYTHING from the Lord because He had already spoken
to my conscience something I NEEDED TO DO and if I wasn’t doing that I just
simply wouldn’t grow. And a lot of full
grown men and women are still stuck spiritually as children, they are still
stuck as infants in the Kingdom of God, NOT in a good way, not that they have
“child-like faith”, but spiritually they are not developing, they are premature
because they haven’t repented, confessed, they haven’t grown in their faith in
the way that they should. They are
disobedient children, and they are slow to obey.
So, I encourage you, if you want to
hear God, if you want to know who He really is, then make sure you obey the
things that you know are very basic. Do
you have profanity out of your life? Do
you have all those things that you know are ungodly out of your life? Or do you still have ungodly friends, are you
allowing things that you know are perverted and sinful like pornography and all
of that kind of stuff into your house?
Do you have movies and ungodly music in your house? These are things that will prevent you from
hearing God and receiving His Holy Spirit.
Make sure that you truly repent of these things. Seek after the Lord and be pure, and He will
teach you. He will speak to you and
guide you, but you have to be willing to move and go forward in your faith with
Him, otherwise YOU WILL BE STUCK. I hope
this helps someone to hear from God and to really confess their sins and repent
of them and move forward in their faith.
May the grace of Jesus be with you.
