To Hear From God - Part 1.

To Hear From God…

If you’re not hearing from God, you’re not meeting His conditions.

There are many barriers to be removed when you walk with God, before you’ll hear from God and you’ll never overcome them all unless you spend time with God. Those conditions are to be reading His word, to pray and to worship the Almighty.

A few more conditions to hearing from God are to confess, repent, humble yourself and do it often. Plus; pride. Pride is one of the greatest barriers to God. Pride first began in heaven when lucifer was cast out. Cain killed Abel due to pride as well. Whatever you do, whatever you have, remember it was God who put it there.

We can overcome all when we confess, repent, humble ourselves, read His word and spend time with Him. And it does take time but if we don’t quit, we will get there. Confession and repentance isn't the only way to escape hell,  but it goes a long way towards it. Confess your sins; the sin of self-righteousness, judgement, pride, just to name a few.

There is only God and satan, good and bad, righteousness and sin. There’s no in between. You’re either for God, or against Him. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you your sin. Confess to God and to one another. Ask for forgiveness if it’s warranted. Don’t let things fester and boil. Forgive others, ask forgiveness from them and from God, and forgive yourself. We all make mistakes and forgiveness is one way of turning things around and starting the healing progression.

Unconfessed sin stalls our healing processes. God is totally and absolutely just. He never ever makes a mistake. When things are going wrong; humble yourself, for the error is not in God, it’s in you and me.

When going through hard times don’t complain. It was complaining which caused the Israelites to turn and 11-day journey into a 40-year sojourn. It stalled their breakthrough. It will stall yours too. Waiting is part of the Christian discipline. God’s not in a hurry. He has all eternity. Wait patiently and without murmuring.

God never uses anyone who’s not been tested and refined in the fire. Expect battles to come. Also, testing will go on for a lifetime. We never get to the end of the learning process and the testing process for each battle appears to be harder with each test we go through.

Don’t drop out during your testing time. We don’t want to miss what God has in store for us. What is in store for us? Many and numerous blessings, peace, love and joy, for starters. Don’t quit before you see the blessings. Sometimes we feel as if we’re taking hit after hit, but stay the course. God will bring you to the other side of the battle in great victory.

I read about a Yale university study recently. It stated people who regularly go to church live longer, have lower blood pressure, are less stressed and have greater immunity to disease, than people who don’t attend church. 

The article went on to say, an 80-year-old jogging on her treadmill was asked what her secret was. Her reply; When you walk with God you have greater purpose, greater peace and live better and longer.

That should encourage you to attend church every Sunday. Attending church is one of the conditions the Lord expects us to meet, if we want to hear from Him.

We think we can get away with ‘screen time church.’ Not so. The bible says to never give up meeting together. There’s a covenant covering in attending church. You don’t get that when you’re watching church from home. That covenant covering is your spiritual armour, backed by the prayers of the diligent attendees.

If you want to win in this battle of life, you need to do what God’s asking you to do.

He asks we attend church. He asks that we worship Him. He asks that we tithe. He asks that we put Him first and serve others before ourselves. He asks that we walk in humility, that we cast out pride, that we be longsuffering, that we help our fellow brother in need.

God is not a magician, there to bring forth your every whim. He’s is to be revered, awed, loved, listened to. And when you do all that, you will hear from Him, for as it states in Psalm 91; because he knows My name, when he calls to Me, I will answer him. Get to know God and when you call on Him, you will hear an answer from Him.