Are You Pretending Like You're Not Hearing God?

I remember many years ago when Holy Spirit was training me to listen, hear and respond to His voice.  One morning I arose from my bed while my mother was still sleeping.  Suddenly, I AUDIBLY heard my mother's voice call me, "Christine!"  So, I walked into her bedroom and found her still sleeping.  I found that strange, and I walked back out.  This happened a couple of times.  Yes, it was kind of like the story of Samuel in the Bible, but I was already an adult at this point.

Finally, I realized that this was God audibly calling my name, but His voice sounded like my mother's voice.  Then He spoke these words to me, "Christine!  Why are you pretending like you're not hearing Me?"  I felt confused, and asked Him, "What do you mean?  How am I pretending like I'm not hearing You?"  Then He repeated a stream of many things He had been speaking to me internally like a stream.  I still felt confused, because of course I had heard everything He had spoken to me, and I KNEW it was His voice speaking those things to me.  So, how in the world was I pretending like I wasn't hearing Him?

What I didn't realize is that growing in the prophetic and building an intimate relationship with God as described by Jesus when He said, "My sheep hear my voice, and a stranger's voice they will not follow." is so much more than simply HEARING God's voice.  God not only desires for us to HEAR His voice, but He requires a RESPONSE from us!  He wants us to CONVERSE with Him and INQUIRE more deeply of Him.  Most importantly, He requires that we OBEY His voice.  Sometimes He speaks to us, and we need to actually find out from Him how He wants us to respond to the truths that He is imparting to us.  In this particular case from so long ago, He was speaking prophetically to me, and He wanted me to RELEASE the prophesy.  Instead, I was just listening to His Words with an awareness of what He was speaking to me.  I UNDERSTOOD and ACKNOWLEDGED His voice internally, but I was STILL pretending like I wasn't hearing His voice, because I was not RESPONDING to the MESSAGE He was releasing to me.

So, the questions remains:  Are you pretending like you're not hearing God?  Inquire of Him further, and RESPOND to His voice.  For God always requires a RESPONSE!

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The Necessity of Hearing God

The Necessity of Hearing God

Luke 10:38-42  (Complete Jewish Bible) - On their way Yeshua and his talmidim came to a village where a woman named Marta welcomed him into her home.  She had a sister called Miryam who also sat at the Lord’s feet and heard what he had to say.  But Marta was busy with all the work to be done; so, going up to him, she said, “Sir, don’t you care that my sister has been leaving me to do all the work by myself?”  However, the Lord answered her, “Marta, Marta, you are fretting and worrying about so many things!  But there is only one thing that is essential. Miryam has chosen the right thing, and it won’t be taken away from her.”

            We are the Body of Christ, and we must hear God.  We are the sheep of God’s pasture, and we must hear the voice of our Shepherd, Jesus Christ.  Mary’s choice to sit at Jesus’ feet represents her priority of hearing His teaching in order to follow and obey them.  It represents the wisdom of putting the horse before the cart, by hearing God in order to serve Him.    

The apostle Paul compares the collective disciples of Christ to His body.  If we are His body, we MUST hear Him!  Contrary to what we might think, the ear is not the only part of the body that hears.  Think about it.  How can the members of the natural body function without hearing the instructions of the brain, which is the head and director of the central nervous system?  Rather, every cell in the body receives communication from the brain in order to function.  Likewise, Jesus is the head of the spiritual Body and every cell represents every member of His body. Therefore, every cell must HEAR God’s voice in order to receive instructions of how to serve Him. 

God is saying that much of the Body of Christ is paralyzed, because of the numerous cells (souls) that are not hearing Him!  Many may ask, “How are we paralyzed when we are so BUSY (like Martha) serving God and doing the works of the Kingdom?  We are visiting the sick, supporting the orphans, and feeding the hungry.”  Yet, God is saying though many may APPEAR or LOOK active in the Kingdom, spiritually they are paralyzed and doing nothing, because they are busy doing their own thing, rather than moving according to the instructions of the Head, who is Jesus Christ!  In the eyes of the Godhead, such busyness is equivalent to paralysis.  Therefore, the Spirit of God is calling us to sit at our Good Shepherd’s feet and listen in order to HEAR Him!  He desires to INFUSE us with His instructions and power in order to fulfill His Word, Will, and Way in the Earth as it is in Heaven.  Therefore, the apostolic revelation and calling is a call to COME unto Christ in order to HEAR Him and to follow His instruction to GO only when, where, and how He instructs us to GO in His Name, as His representatives in the Earth. 

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