What you're talking about now for some people
sounds really extraordinary
how common is this is a something that's happening to you once a year or is this
something that's more frequent
and and how much to expect to hear God's voice? What happening?
hearing the voice of God
oh yeah all the time. So every day
of course yeah multiple times day in throughout the day or one sitting in
prayer just I'll have
revelation flowing in my journal and that has nothing to do with me
That's what I love when we minister to let people know like
it's not some wow call upon my life or his or hers
he wants to be this available to everybody
and if we'll just align ourselves
posture ourselves in knowing him...and it takes time
just practically...when you say it takes time
just with me I remember the early days I was hungry
that's all it takes to to really encounter is hunger and I knew very
little
a lot of these realms were starting to touch on even in prayer I
knew how to pray in the spirit
read the Word of God, and worship. That's the only way I'm knew to connect with him
and so I took those three and just blew them out
you know with everything I knew how and the more I leaned into him and began to
let him direct
me... I began to realize hold on a second right now I'm wanting to
pray in the spirit but I really feel like I have this
inner desire to read the word right now...I don't know why. This isn't my normal routine
so the word of God was alive and breathed upon you know I was
just begin to just follow the Lord in this way
and you know it's
just increased course but yeah, he can speak to all of us all the time it's not
like some uncommon thing
why do you think it's so difficult for many Christians
to hear God's voice? I think kind of what we touched on earlier
we're just so fast paced...a lot of times it's as simple as
we doubt that we're even hearing it at first on the elementary level like even in the
that I touched on earlier...prophetic pictures, people just dismiss
many things and I'm so thankful early on I began to just... Oh that was strange
that came out of nowhere
let me lean into it, dissect it, even if it's not by sight, that's the dominant way I
hear, but
whatever it may be...unction... like we were talking about earlier the Spirit leading
you so directly to the mall and this person
you know you'd divinely see the day before so I think often doubt for sure
hinders us
and then the fast pace of life... another one that's massive
is stewardship
I think we have so many other lovers in life if you will
that just attract us more than wanting to know God and so we don't cherish his voice enough
to lean into it and "oh what was he saying here"
speak more God...am I really understanding you all the way
because when he sees that you know
any dynamic with heaven and God speaking
when he sees stewardship he's like "ahh" you know there he is
he longs for me his eyes run to and fro throughout the earth
looking for somebody whose heart's fully after him. He sees that person
he just breathes on them you know...it increases
no matter the dynamic how he is wanting to speak to you I love that about him so I
think
you know we touched on a few but that's another big one you know we don't steward it too much
we never get past the breaking point where it becomes vast like
i love that...I've
said many times that the key to increase is stewardship
in every aspect would you say of the Kingdom. Absolutely.
So I want to dwell on that a little bit because I think that's
a huge huge key when you talk about stewarding
the voice of God what does that mean practically. Yeah to me it's as simple as
for years now I'll keep a journal you know by my bed
you see this all throughout Scripture Daniel chapter 7 he says
you know king this is the dream I had in this is its record
he recorded his dreams. Habakuk 2:2 the Lord spoke plainly to me
write down clearly upon tablets what I reveal to you
1 Corinthians 4 Paul says we are to regard ourselves
as stewards of the mysteries of God so in although I was just always heal again a
chapter 10 Daniel he says you know it was
was the first month twenty-fourth day I was on the bank of the Nile
and then the angel came and I was like oh look at this at this moment to the month, the day,
where I was at by what river
I mean you see scripture really strategically broke down and focused upon
when God moves
when God speaks... so the angel came to Gideon in Judges 6, it says it was by his fathers tree
I just watched how the word of God played out... so I begin to apply that just
when I would hear God
in a journal you see just like they did in the biblical times
and even if I wasn't too clear on it and I just sensed that he spoke to me
I write it down, write the the date and then what do you know, two weeks later it would come to pass
you know oh my goodness he was speaking to me...even many years ago and so even
dreams
like I said unction things that he highlights in the scripture of course
highlight
in convert to your journal
another one that I feel like helps a lot as
still in line with dreams is getting a voice recorder
very simple Radio Shack you know cheap and cuz often
God will speak to us in the night, this is clear in Scripture and gonna increase in
the latter days is very clear in Joel chapter 2, in the last days
dreams, visions, being very paramount and revelation of God's voice
and will wake up in the night
and it was a God dream, and I've been guilty of this many times
you know, I'll remember that in the morning and we go back to sleep
wake up, and then it was like how many cows was it again? Like with Joseph
dream or whatever may be
and we miss a few details and so that's why I've learned to even something as simple
as as a voice recorder you know you can wake up record it
while it's fresh in your mind... the details, the colors, the numbers, all this is
intricately tied into God's voice, next morning wake-up
play it through, and report it to your journal and then lean into it you know God
what are you saying here? Help me out, you know in it goes
way more complex than that but just stewarding through journaling
you know how long the Scriptures... What about obedience? Oh yea, hands down
you don't have stewardship without obedience...what's the point of hearing if you're not going to obey it?
oh, you'll go nowhere in life you know...and I've been guilty of that as well but yeah...
and you know this better than I do God speaks
and you don't obey he's liable to not speak again for some time people don't like
that kind of teaching but it is very true cuz it's like you're not even doing
what I asked
you, or directed, or commissioned, or whatever it may be from this point...why do you
want more
you follow me? And I think we're guilty of that a lot, you know just gluttons
the next new thing where God is speaking and we're not
applicably putting feet to it so obedience is huge...obedience is better than sacrifice