Hearing is defined as the process of the ear transforming sound vibrations in the external environment into nerve impulses conveyed to the brain and interpreted as sound.
We can hear his voice today on a daily basis and then he exhorted us not to harden our hearts. When I think of hearing, I enjoyed just recently having one of my grandchildren come through the backdoor with excitement and enthusiasm and say “Grandpa Grandpa”. She ran over to the chair where I was sitting and we hugged, but the sound of her voice was pleasant, exciting and affectionate. It is so wonderful to enjoy that as a grandparent with your grandchildren and with the people that you love and know. We can have a relationship with God where he hears our voice, but where we also hear his voice. It is important that we do hear his voice so we can walk with him in a closer relationship.
This is a very important function in our lives. God has made a hearing promise to his children. John 10:27 says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. We have a hearing covenant with God. In this hearing covenant from God, we can as we develop these blogs into three parts. The ability to hear his voice, hearing for ourselves and even hearing for others.
The first key, as the Lord has shared with me how to hear, is found in John 4:24 where Jesus said, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth”. That word worship means to kiss affectionately. We are to have a relationship with God in worship that is affectionate, tender and heartfelt. We are to worship him in spirit and in truth. One way to stimulate and activate our hearing in the realm of the spirit is to number one, worship.
Secondly, in 2 Timothy 1:6, the bible says Paul told Timothy that we are to stir up the gift that is given you by the laying on of hands. That word stir means Anazopureo, which means to arouse the life and fire of God. Think of a fire that is dying out, a campfire dying out, we take a poker and stir the logs, the flames and sparks begin to stir, and it gets hotter. We have the ability and the power to actually stir or arouse the life of God within our spirit that we can hear his voice more clearly.
Then we have the promise from Hebrews the bible says, “ask to hear his voice”. Hebrews 3:13-15 says, “Exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end; While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation”.
Habakkuk 2:2 says, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it”. I am encouraging you in your hearing exercises and hearing facilities with God to write down what you are hearing, what you are getting, what you are receiving spiritually. Not necessarily in your intellect, but in your spirit itself. The key to all of this is we can do these things and have this covenant when we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior and our spirit is made new by him. He said my people, my sheep know by voice, so we must become his.
I am going to lead you in a salvation prayer today to enter into a hearing covenant with God. Father in Jesus name, I ask you Jesus to save me. Cleanse me of my sins. I turn to you today, give life to my spirit and cause me to be born again. I pray it in Jesus name, Amen.
Blessings,
Pastor Kim
