God still speaks to us today! Here are 4 ways you can hear from God.
1. God Speaks Through His Word
This may seem like less of a traditional way when you think of someone speaking to you, as in the physical sense, but God truly does speak to us through his word.
What do I mean by that?
When you read the Bible, you are reading the Living Word. The Bible is something God left for you to live by and to have as your guide.
If you are going through a time in your life where you have questions, need answers, or don’t know what to do, one of the first things you should do is open up the Bible and pray that the Lord would speak to you through his Word.
I have done this so many times and have gotten the answers and guidance I needed from reading the Bible. God speaks to us through his word!
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.
2nd Timothy 3:16
2. God Speaks In His “Still, Small Voice”
“but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.”
1st Kings 19
There hasn’t been a time when I heard from God in an audible voice. That’s not to say it hasn’t happened to someone, or that it can’t.. but when we look at scripture, it’s clear that God often speaks using a still, small voice.
When God talks to you in the still, small voice, it is you hearing from him within your spirit man.
How can you be sure the small voice you are hearing is from God? Read the 3 Key Ways to Distinguish God’s Voice vs. The Enemy’s.
3. God Speaks Through Other P
If someone comes to you and says:
“God told me you are going to get a new car.” or
“God told me you will marry _____”
It does NOT mean you are going to get a new car, and it does NOT mean that you are going to marry this person. It should be a red flag to you if someone is giving you a “word” like this.
However, the Bible does give some examples of when the Lord used other people to speak for him.
Check out the story of Paul’s conversion. (He was formerly known as Saul)
The Lord sent a man named Ananias to pray for Paul, to heal him from blindness, and to give him a Word of prophecy.
17 Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized.
Acts 9: 17-18
God spoke to Paul through Ananias. Use discernment when someone says they have a word for you.
4. God Speaks Through Dreams
The gift of dreams is a spiritual and that not everybody has this gift.
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to
1 Corinthians 12: 7-11
of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to
to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
Pray and ask for discernment when it comes to understanding dreams.
Just because you dream that your second born child will have brown hair, does not mean that they will. 😉
Dreams Are Not What They Seem
Most of the dreams in the Bible were never given at face value. There needed to be an interpretation.
A dream you have could simply be those beef nachos you ate at 11 p.m.
But, sometimes it could be God speaking to you or warning you of something. And if he is warning you of something, you will probably dream the same dream multiple times.
God can and does speak through dreams.
God Speaking Through Dreams In The Bible
God spoke to Joseph through dreams.
Joseph dreamed that his brothers bowed down and worshiped him. Joseph then told his brothers the dream. His brothers already didn’t like him, because Joseph was his father, Israel’s, favorite son.
And now they hated Joseph even more.
Joseph’s Dream
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37: 3-6
5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
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The dream was prophetic (meaning it told the future) because eventually his brothers would bow down and try to worship him.
If you have a dream and you think it is from God, pray about it, see if you have it again, and ask God for the interpretation and the meaning of it.
Many people don’t believe that God still speaks to us today. I have found that he does.
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I just have to say that I don’t agree with everything you are saying here…you don’t have to be living free of all sin that’s just not possible for one because we are human beings we make mistakes everyday sometimes all day! We return to god at night and confess our sins in prayer to him and begin a new day the next day trying to be better than we were yesterday! I am a recovering addict and have struggled my entire life with mental health issues and his has spoken to me when I wasn’t living my best life! He kept me alive through such horrific things and overdoses to be where I am today…6 years clean and carrying his message to others! My life is wonderful today because god was there leading me and protecting me and talking to me everyday and all day! It was the devil who was trying to destroy me and block me off from the sunlight of the spirit…I don’t agree with your gotta be sin free and living a life strictly for Jesus stuff…that offended me because from my own personal experiences that is not at all the truth…
Hi Jenn! I agree, it’s impossible to live free of all sin–that is exactly why Jesus came. From my personal experience, in the seasons where I am hearing from God the most are when I am not living a lifestyle of sin or in sin. The main context of this post is to share the different ways God speaks to people, it is not to say that he can’t speak to people who are living in addiction or anything like that. I believe he can and does speak to us at anytime! I have just been able to hear him more clearly when I am not bogged down with my sin–does that make sense? I praise God with you that he has set you free from addiction and that you carry his message to others. I have no doubts that he was leading you and talking to you through that time. He is God and he is all powerful. I’m just a human, sharing what I have known from my experience and my understanding of the Word. I will however, always teach to strive to stay away from sin and to live a life strictly for Jesus as I wrote in this post—it’s how I have found the most freedom and joy and how I want to live because I love him and I don’t want to live in my fleshly desires. We ARE sin free because Jesus died and took our sins from us.