it's such a good analogy this one young woman that I was many many years ago she
would said I just can't hear God I just can't hear him I just want to hear his
voice I'm white we'll just spend time with him he'll talk to you what but what
I do I spend in an hour this morning I'll just praying I didn't hear anything
and I'm like we'll just you know get in the word just read the word more he'll
speak to you well I did it I've been studying I've been pressing in I've been
doing everything and the devil told me that I can't hear from God and I'm like
wait now hold on a second so you're not having any problem hearing
in the spirit realm just change the channel you have to understand if that
enemy is speaking and listen the enemy speak so so many ways doesn't he speaks
to us also in a still small voice a whisper a suggestion a subtle expression
he speaks to us through emotions it's just the stirring in our emotions
sometimes he speaks to us through billboards on the highway he's tempting
us he's luring us do something we ought not do so the enemy speaks in many ways
as well he speaks to vain imaginations he speaks through nightmares so he
speaks through other people all the time even Christians he speaks through
Christians can you imagine all the time he speaks through many many ways and so
the point is is that it seems so easy and I really have gotten to where I
believe that many if not most Christians actually hear the devil more than they
hear from God and I think that they may think it's them I don't know that they
discern that it's the enemy I'm not sure they'd caught on that wait a minute
that's not me the devil because the devil speaks to
you many times in first-person he'll say I know good or I would be able to pay my
bills and you think it's you you think it's just a worrier concerted art when
in reality it's the enemy injecting his poison into your soul to the realm of
your imagination so that you could get an agreement and promise I his will over
your life and so I believe that most Christians are hearing from our least
many are hearing from the enemy more than they're hearing from the Lord but
if you would just pass that see it's almost like let me give you an analogy I
just realized yesterday or a couple days ago my father speaks in analogies all
the time you did the whole time I was growing up and I'm always doing boys
yeah always it's all the spot analogies like these are not was just a company
like did you write that in your notes or did you know that you just come to me
because I got that impartation from my father but you know it'd be like you
ever been in a place where you're really trying to tune in to something but
there's so much noise around you that you really can't hear it maybe you are
you know in a car and you're trying to talk on the phone but you've got three
other people in the car and they're also talking about their phones and their
radios playing and so it becomes very difficult because there's all this other
noise all around about you that's what the devil does sometimes he makes so
much noise he speaks so loudly he rattles and rumbles he stirs up your
emotions and God by contrast usually speaks and it's still small voice I know
it's just a very now God can thunder God can boom there's a whole song that
speaks of the voice of the Lord like the thunder and lightning and all these
things but most of the time when he's speaking
he's just he just talking just like this or if the devil is loud and obnoxious
and swirls around it about so this is a real issue that we need to understand
we've got to tune out all the noise we've got to tune out all of the
distractions we've got a tune out all of you ever notice when you sit down to
study the Bible all the sudden you know your ear begins to itch and you gotta go
get a q-tip and you know oh now I got to go to the bathroom and I'd have to go
the bathroom you soon as you like press in not really hear from God that people
started calling you if the FedEx man comes knocking on the door and it's like
you know you got to be kidding me the same thing happens in the realm of
the Spirit you can't see you can't always see the distractions but your
ears soul can be distracted visually it could be distracted mentally emotionally
so you think the matter appeared from God really really seriously especially
as promised if any people