My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:27.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Many people go through life without ever knowing they can hear from Me and know My voice. But that really is not the case.
“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name, “Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:2-3.
It is not that I have not tried to speak with them, but they just do not hear because they are spiritually deaf.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. Revelation 3:20.
What people call prayer is usually them talking at Me but never listening to My answer.
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’” Luke 18:10-12.
He thought he was praying to Me but actually he was praying to himself. Selah. If only you would listen to Me your lives would be awesome, extraordinary and very successful.
“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being (shalom) would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your descendants would have been like the sand, and your offspring like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.” Isaiah 48:17-19.
Joshua who succeeded Moses as the leader of well over two million people and led them successfully on a mission to take possession of the land I had promised the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, heard very clearly from Me and followed My directions, leading, battle strategies, and warnings. How did he know My voice? And you have a tremendous advantage over him because today believers are born again from above and have My Holy Spirit dwelling within them which he did not. But he had My spoken and written Word and My Spirit on him, and that is how he learned to hear from Me, and the same was true of Samuel and many others.
And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, because the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the Word of the LORD. 1 Samuel 3:21.
Joshua was so fascinated by Me that he offered himself to be the servant of Moses, so that wherever Moses went, he went too. He was with Moses on Mt Sinai and listened the forty days and forty nights I spoke with Moses. He became the scribe for Moses. Moses would share what I gave him with Joshua and Joshua would write it in scrolls, just as Baruch did for Jeremiah. With Moses by My revelation, he wrote all the book of Genesis that I revealed by My Spirit to Moses. When Moses left the tent after speaking with Me, Joshua stayed in the tent all day with My Word while Moses took care of all the daily matters with the people. And Joshua lived and inscribed the books of Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, as Moses directed, and the book of his own name, Joshua, he lived and wrote.
And how did I tell him to know My voice and be successful in life? For hearing from Me and following what I say will make you successful for you will be able to walk in wisdom, knowing what is ahead and ready to conquer it with My Word.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshuah 1:8-9.
A person speaks from what fills their heart and mind. And once spoken, a thought is taken and becomes food for your soul, which consists of your mind, your will, and your emotions.
Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the pagans eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6:32-33.
You always can know whether you are listening to My Word or to the words of the world, the flesh and the devil by the level of prosperity there is in your soul. And here I am talking primarily about peace (shalom) and joy. The Kingdom of Heaven is one of righteousness (which is My gift to you in Jesus), peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. And if you will note both peace (John 14:27) and joy (John 15:11) are gifted to you by Jesus at the Last Supper and are confirmed upon His resurrection from the dead.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:7-11.
But it is up to you to feed your soul with them and abide in them, rejoicing in the promises and keeping contrary seed from planting in your heart, being discerning about what you will listen to.
And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides. For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.” Mark 4:24-25.
Primarily, when you are born again from above, your spirit comes alive. It is born from above as alive to Me and dead to sin. Adam put your spirit in the opposite direction, dead to Me and alive to sin. And that mindset must be eradicated and replaced with the mind of the new man once you are born again from above, that is, born again by My Word implanted in your spirit. To have a wonderful life of fellowship with Me and victory in all things, you must get your soul in line with your spirit. You soul is basically neutral but will go with the flow in way you are flowing. If you are feeding your spirit My Word then your spirit is speaking the word to your soul and you are strong in the Spirit and you will be talking spirit filled words that will feed your soul spirit food until that prevails. But if you do not spend time with Me in My Word as written in the Bible and as then revealed in your heart by My Spirit in you and on you, you will never know My voice to any degree of intimacy. Faith comes one way, and it is by hearing and taking what you hear into your heart as the way you think. Keep hearing and hearing My Word. Turn on audio Bible and anointed teachings while you get ready in the morning and during the day if you are running errands or doing chores, do not leave your mind and thoughts unattended. They will wander into places that are not places you should go. The devil loves vacant places to take up habitation in. Fill your heart, mind and mouth with My Word and you will know joy beyond all you could ask or imagine.
When you start loving every minute of your life because you are aware of My presence with you that is when you will constantly hear My voice. That is when you will recognize My voice. That is when you experience My goodness at every moment watching your every question and your every desire being fulfilled at a moment’s notice.
But it is more than answered prayer, it is that gratitude and love for who I am and who I have made you to be that gives such a sweet song into your heart that you cannot stop singing new songs. How happy we are with each other, how happily we sing new songs together about our wonderful friendship and our beautiful days filled with the presence of one another. Then you say with the bride in the Song of Songs, I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine!
And you will not seek Me for you will know beyond a doubt that I am in you, with you, at your side and in your heart. You need not go to consult Me, you just turn the ears of your heart to Me and hear Me. It is a sweet presence that pervades every part of you and all about you. It makes wherever you are our sacred sanctuary.
You do not mind being put on hold or waiting for an appointment. You become like David, who in dark caves as he waited for Saul and the armies of Israel to pass him by, sang sweet psalms to Me of My lovingkindness and his longing for Me. Now you can get out your phone recorder as you wait for your appointment and make up a new song to Me. “Happy, happy, happy I am to have such a wonderful omnipotent Friend! Happy, happy, happy I’ll be, just to know LORD that You’re always with me, always with me!” and I will sing to you, “Love without limits is My Covenant with you enduring forever, holy, faithful and true, love without limits is My Covenant with you!” And you will sing “You are my joy LORD, you are my song, you are my fortress, in you I am strong!” And I will sing, “Oh come to Me and let Me fill your life with My Love, come to Me, come to Me, as I call your name from above for I am your God and with joy I sing over you, let Me see your face, let Me hear your voice for you are lovely and your voice to Me is sweet.”
I will sing songs of eternity to you and you will sing songs of your pilgrimage to Me. I will sing songs of deliverance over you and you will sing songs of victory to Me.
And that is when I know that your heart is seeking Me and that is when I let you find Me. Forever. And that is when life becomes sweet, that is the honey of My Word.
How sweet are Your Words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103.
You fall in love with Me by My Words. And that is the way you fall in love with anyone, because you learn who they are and what you mean to them by their words, but they only have value if they are words of truth spoken from a heart that cares for you, not out of self-seeking or flattery, but out of selfless love that would lay down its life for you. And that is who you have in Me as manifested in My Son.
And two that share love do not just talk at each other or just about each other to others, they fellowship with each other as precious and delightful, both giving ear to hear what gem the other has to say, waiting for insights and revelation that comes in communion of hearts. And that is worship in spirit and truth. And that is what I seek. It is not something you do at times and then let it drop, it is the way you live with your beloved with whom you have joined your life forever. And that is when the two become one though unique and each an individual, but one in heart, desire, purpose, and love. It is full agreement to the highest degree where each is seen in the other, reflected in the heart. This is what I mean that I made you in My image and according to My likeness, in seeing one, you see the other because of the closeness of their bond of agreement. And that is the word “homologia” (speaking the same word in total agreement) that is the Greek word that defines Jesus’ office as the High Priest of your confession (homologia). Total agreement at My throne so that I can perform My Word in you and in your life. Spirit and life, eternal life, health, healing, and the whole pie of abundant life without one piece missing, and that is SHALOM. Which has been My plan for your life from when I first conceived all of you in My heart and forever. And guess what I speak to My people? Yes, just as Jesus said to you when I raised Him from the dead with all your sins gone and having won eternal SHALOM for you: “SHALOM.”
I will hear what God the LORD will say; for He will speak peace [SHALOM] to His people, to His godly ones; but let them not turn back to folly. Psalm 85:8.
If I am not talking to you about your shalom and the way to have it in every circumstance, know it is not My voice you are hearing, but the stranger’s and he comes only to steal My Word, kill your joy and your dreams, and destroy your destiny forever. Do not listen to the voice of the stranger, anything that is not “homologia,” that is, in perfect agreement with My Words, reject it as not My voice. You will know for it will not give you the joy of shalom peace. Even My Words of exhortation and correction are spoken in love and give you hope for a new beginning every moment. Each morning My mercies are new and they are for you. Let Me be your helper out of sin and darkness into My own wonderful Light.
I love you. It is time you turned to Me and heard My voice. You will recognize it because it is the voice that spoke you into being.