“Hearing God’s Voice’’ 12-10-23 VIDEO DEEP THOUGHTS LISTENING TO GOD
What does God’s Voice sound like? It can be a still small voice or the sound of thunder and waves of the sea. God’s voice as He spoke created the earth. His voice is creative can make something from nothing. Every single believer has heard the voice of God, but sometimes they don’t attribute it to Him. They think it is just my conscience or my imagination. Sometimes His voice is inward, other times audible, He speaks through scripture, through prophecy, impressions, dreams, angels, Every child of God has been given the right to hear His voice
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. Mirror
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John 10:27 My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. MSG
Ps 40:6 Doing something for you, bringing something to you — that’s not what you’re after. Being religious, acting pious — that’s not what you’re asking for. You’ve opened my ears so I can listen. MSG
Deut 4:12 And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. AMP
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Deut 4:30 When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to God, your God, and listen obediently to what he says.
31 God, your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won’t bring you to ruin, he won’t forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them.
32 Ask questions. Find out what has been going on all these years before you were born. From the day God created man and woman on this Earth, and from the horizon in the east to the horizon in the west — as far back as you can imagine and as far away as you can imagine — has as great a thing as this ever happened? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
33 Has a people ever heard, as you did, a god speaking out of the middle of the fire and lived to tell the story? MSG
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Deut 5:24 and said, “Our God has revealed to us his glory and greatness. We’ve heard him speak from the fire today! We’ve seen that God can speak to humans and they can still live. MSG
Num 7:89 When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with God, he heard the Voice speaking to him from between the two angel-cherubim above the Atonement-Cover on the Chest of The Testimony. He spoke with him. MSG
1 Kings 19:11 Then he was told, “Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by.” A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn’t to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn’t in the earthquake;
12 and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn’t in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.
13 When Elijah heard the quiet voice, he muffled his face with his great cloak, went to the mouth of the cave, and stood there. A quiet voice asked, “So Elijah, now tell me, what are you doing here?” MSG
Job 26:14 And this is only the beginning, a mere whisper of his rule. Whatever would we do if he really raised his voice!” MSG
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Job 26:14 Yet these are but [a small part of His doings] the outskirts of His ways or the mere fringes of His force, the faintest whisper of His voice! Who dares contemplate or who can understand the thunders of His full, magnificent power? AMP
Acts 9:3 He set off. When he got to the outskirts of Damascus, he was suddenly dazed by a blinding flash of light.
4 As he fell to the ground, he heard a voice: “Saul, Saul, why are you out to get me?”
5 He said, “Who are you, Master?” “I am Jesus, the One you’re hunting down.
6 I want you to get up and enter the city. In the city you’ll be told what to do next.”
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Gen 8:15 God spoke to Noah:
16 “Leave the ship, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives.
17 And take all the animals with you, the whole menagerie of birds and mammals and crawling creatures, all that brimming prodigality of life, so they can reproduce and flourish on the Earth.” MSG
Job 37:5 God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend. AMP
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Job 37:5 His word thundering so wondrously, his mighty acts staggering our understanding. MSG
Psalms 29:4 The voice of the Lord echoes through the skies and seas. The Glory-God reigns as he thunders in the clouds. So powerful is his voice, so brilliant and bright—how majestic as he thunders over the great waters!
5His tympanic thunder topples the strongest of trees. His symphonic sound splinters the mighty forests.
6Now he moves Zion’s mountains by the might of his voice, shaking the snowy peaks with his earsplitting sound!
7The lightning-fire flashes, striking as he speaks.
8God reveals himself when he makes the fault lines quake, shaking deserts, speaking his voice.
9God’s mighty voice makes the deer to give birth. His thunderbolt-voice lays the forest bare. In his temple all fall before him with each one shouting,“Glory, glory, the God of glory!” TPT
Psalms 68:33 Make music for the one who strides the ancient skies. Listen to his thunderous voice of might split open the heavens.
34Give it up for God, for he alone has all the strength and power! Proclaim his majesty! For his glory shines down on Israel. His mighty strength soars in the clouds of glory. TPT
HEB 4:7 So, now again many years later, he points specifically to an extended opportunity when he announces in David’s prophecy, “Today when hearing my voice, do not do so with a calloused heart. Be faith sensitive.” MIRROR
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Hebrews 4:7For God still has ordained a day for us to enter into called “Today.” For it was long afterwards that God repeated it in David’s words, “If only today you would listen to his voice and do not harden your hearts!” TPT
Hebrews 3:7 the Holy Spirit said, “Discern the voice of the shepherd. Grasp the urgency of what God is saying to you today!
8 Therefore, do not be calloused in heart as the people of Israel were: every time they faced any contradiction or temptation in the wilderness, their response immediately revealed their irritation, rather than their persuasion in God’s belief.
9 Your fathers continued to scrutinize me suspiciously, examining me as though my intentions with them could not be trusted, even though they were eye-witnesses of my miraculous works for forty years.
10 They were a generation of people who grieved me deeply; instead of learning my ways, they habitually went astray in their hearts, intoxicated by their unbelief.
11 Hear the echo of God’s cry though the ages, “Oh! If only they would enter into my rest.” Mirror
Hebrews 4:12 The message God spoke to us in Christ, is the most life giving and dynamic influence in us, cutting like a surgeon’s scalpel, sharper than a soldier’s sword, piercing to the deepest core of human conscience, to the dividing of soul and spirit; ending the dominance of the sense realm and its neutralizing effect upon the human spirit. In this way a person’s spirit is freed to become the ruling influence again in the thoughts and intentions of their heart. The scrutiny of this living Sword-Logos detects every possible disease, discerning the body’s deepest secrets where joint and bone-marrow meet. Mirror
Hebrews 1:1 Throughout ancient times God spoke in many fragments and glimpses of prophetic thought to our fathers. Now, this entire conversation has finally dawned in sonship. Suddenly, what seemed to be an ancient language falls fresh and new like the dew on the tender grass! He is the sum total of every utterance of God. He is whom the Prophets pointed to and we are his immediate audience! Mirror
John 12:27 “Even though I am torn within, and my soul is in turmoil, I will not ask the Father to rescue me from this hour of trial. For I have come to fulfill my purpose—to offer myself to God.
28So, Father, bring glory to your name!” Then suddenly a booming voice was heard from the sky,
“I have glorified my name! And I will glorify it through you again!”
29The audible voice of God startled the crowd standing nearby. Some thought it was only thunder, yet others said, “An angel just spoke to him!”
30Then Jesus told them, “The voice you heard was not for my benefit, but for yours—to help you believe.
31From this moment on, everything in this world is about to change, for the ruler of this dark world will be overthrown.
32And I will do this when I am lifted up off the ground and when I draw the hearts of people to gather them to me.” TPT
2 PET 1:17 He was spectacularly endorsed by God the Father in the highest honor and glory. Then, a voice from within the cloud spoke, this is the Son of my delight; he completely pleases me.
18 For John, James, and I the prophetic word is fulfilled beyond doubt; we heard this voice loud and clear from the heavenly realm while we were with Jesus in that sacred moment on the mountain.
19 For us the appearing of the Messiah is no longer a future promise but a fulfilled reality. Now it is your turn to have more than a second-hand, hearsay testimony. Take my word as one would take a lamp at night; the day is about to dawn within you, in your own understanding. When the Morning Star appears, you no longer need the lamp; this will happen shortly on the horizon of your own hearts. MIRROR
Matt 3:16 The moment Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened up and he saw God’s Spirit — it looked like a dove — descending and landing on him.
17 And along with the Spirit, a voice: “This is my Son, chosen and marked by my love, delight of my life.” MSG
John 18:37 Then Pilate said, “So, are you a king or not?” Jesus answered, “You tell me. Because I am King, I was born and entered the world so that I could witness to the truth. Everyone who cares for truth, who has any feeling for the truth, recognizes my voice.” MSG
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John 18:37 Pilate said to Him, Then You are a King? Jesus answered, You say it! [You speak correctly!] For I am a King. [Certainly I am a King!] This is why I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth [who is a friend of the Truth, who belongs to the Truth] hears and listens to My voice. AMP
Job 33:14 God always answers, one way or another, even when people don’t recognize his presence. MSG