To Know His Voice

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27, NKJV).

Those who truly know God have learned to recognize his voice above all others. He wants you to be absolutely convinced that he desires to talk to you and to tell you things you’ve never seen or heard before.

I believe that three things are required of those who hear God’s voice: 

1. An unshakeable confidence that God wants to speak to you. You have to be fully persuaded and convinced of this. Indeed, he is a speaking God, and he wants you to know his voice so that you can do his will. What God tells you will never go beyond the boundaries of Scripture. 
2. Make quality time with him. You need to be willing to shut yourself in with God and let other voices completely hush away. True, God speaks to us all day long. But whenever he has wanted to build something significant into my life, his voice has come only after I shut out every other voice but his. 
3. Ask him in faith. We do not receive anything from God (including hearing his voice) unless we truly believe he can convey his mind to us, enabling us to understand his perfect will.

God is not a tease. He will not allow the enemy to deceive you. When God speaks, peace follows, and Satan cannot counterfeit that peace! 

“But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers” (John 10:2-5).