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Hearing God's Voice 3

1-29-16  LEARNING HOW TO HEAR GOD'S VOICE -- PART 3

I left you with a question in the last lesson.  It was:  if then God is spirit, and we can no longer hear or see the spiritual realm, just how are we supposed to "hear" God's voice?

The answer is:  God communicates with our spirit via the Holy Spirit, and then that communication is flashed into our soul, that is, our mind, by the Holy Spirit.  It is given to us as a thought or vision or dream.

In essence, the Holy Spirit provides the link between our soul and spirit when God wants.  That is a key, WHEN GOD WANTS!  People involved in witchcraft or the occult of any kind, all develop the ability to communicate freely with the spirit realm.  They learn to communicate with demon spirits.  In their case a demon spirit provides the link, or joining, of their spirit to their soul.  In their case, they can see into and communicate with the spiritual realm whenever they want to.  (Because the link between occultists' souls and spirits is provided by a demon spirit, everything they see and hear and experience in the spiritual realm goes through a demonic filter.  That is why occultists never see God's angels.  If they did, they wouldn't stay in the occult very long.)  ALL COMMUNICATION TO US FROM THE SPIRIT REALM COMES TO US IN OUR MINDS, THAT IS, OUR SOULS.  Actually the same is true for the physical realm as well.  We see with our mind, not our physical eye ball.  The image that we see is carried from our physical eye ball to our brain via the optic nerve.  We feel in our mind, or brain, not in our finger tips, etc.  Our mind or soul is the center where all communication is received.  When Christians receive input from the spiritual realm such as hearing God or seeing a vision or dream, this comes to him through the Holy Spirit.  In these instances the Holy Spirit provides the link between our soul and spirit.

So the central task in learning to "hear" God's voice is to learn to recognize which thoughts are from Him.  This poses a big problem because there are three sources of the thoughts that are continually in our minds.  One, we have our own thoughts, two, God puts thoughts into our minds, and three, demons also are able to put thoughts and emotions directly into our minds from outside of us.  We are told this in 2 Corinthians:

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal [physical] but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every thing [thought] that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.  2 Corinthians 10:4-5

This scripture shows us clearly that the battlefield between the spiritual realm and the physical realm is in our heads!  It is in our minds.  The battle takes place in our thoughts and emotions, that is, in our minds.  Demon spirits have the ability, from outside of you, to directly inject thoughts and emotions into your mind just the same as I as a physician can take a needle and syringe and inject a shot of medicine into your arm.  Therefore, there are three sources of the thoughts that continually flow through our mind.  This scripture commands us to become aware of the thoughts that we are thinking.  We are to recognize those thoughts that are not godly  or righteous  or are from demons.  Then we are to cast those thoughts out of our minds and refuse to continue thinking them.  We are to bring "every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." 

God communicates with us in several different ways, but the most frequent way is through putting thoughts into our minds.  THE ESSENCE OF LEARNING TO "HEAR" GOD'S VOICE IS TO BE ABLE TO QUICKLY  RECOGNIZE WHEN A THOUGHT IS FROM GOD VERSUS FROM US OR A DEMON SPIRIT.  This is something that we will struggle with our whole life.  We will never "hear" God perfectly all the time.  We will not know for sure whether a particular thought is from God, or our own thoughts.  Sometimes we will wonder if a particular thought was from a demon, or from God.  Why is this?  The Apostle Paul wrote, "For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part but then I shall know just as I also am known."  (1 Corinthians 13:12)  As long as we are in this sinful flesh and blood physical body, we will always have a struggle with our communication with God.  Our sin is always a hindrance.  In that wonderful day when we are finally dwelling in heaven in our glorified bodies and sin has no part in us, then we will freely see and hear from God and know God just as He knows us today.  Sometimes the Lord will speak to us so clearly that we will have no doubts at all.  But many times we will struggle.  It will always be so.

So here is the next question:  What is the quickest and easiest way to learn to recognize thoughts from God?  I will tell you in the next lesson.   Rebecca.