Why Is It Hard To Hear God?

It's actually easy to hear God once you clear the obstacles away.

Obstacles to hearing God

Thinking that what you hear is just your imagination

One of the bigggest obstacles to hearing God is thinking that what you hear is just your own thoughts. Skepticism, causes you to reject what you hear from the Holy Spirit.

Over dependence on other people to hear God for you

God is longing to have a close relationship with you. He wants you to hear Him for yourself even more than you do.

Being too busy

You will find it easier to hear God if you slow down and create space in your life. Be still enough to spend time deliberately listening for God's voice, and train youself to recognise when it's God speaking rather than your own thoughts.

Turn down the noise and turn up the volume!

God often speaks quietly, Elijah recognised that God was speaking in a whisper rather than in the raging wind, earthquake or fire.

Turn off the noise, tune out anything that could interfere with you hearing God.

Create favourable circumstances. Give God more opportunities to be heard, create an atmosphere that makes it easy to hear God anytime.

If you want to continue hearing God, make sure that you are willing to act on what He says to you.

It’s much easier to hear God when you are ready to receive what He has to say.

Don't expect to hear God if you are walking in disobedience

You need to make sure that you pay attention to the things God reveals. If you've heard God in the past and haven't acted on what you've heard, you need to put that right with God and let Him know that Him know that you're ready to hear and willing to do whatever he says.

There are many reasons why you might find it hard to hear God.

Make sure you're tuned to the right frequency and that there is nothing in the way of you having a good connection.

Selective hearing can be a barrier to hearing God. You will struggle to hear if you are expecting God to speak in a particular way. If He doesn't doesn speak in the way you expect you might not recognise God speaking to you. You need to be open to God speaking in any way He wants too.

Do you want to hear God enough to spend time waiting and listening, believing that He will speak?

Ask God to speak to you and wait for an answer. Be like Habakkuk - stand at your guard post, keep watch and see what He will speak to you.

Habakkuk 2:1-2

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A Word Of Encouragement

A Word of Encouragement: God Has the Final Word

As posted on http://www.elijahlist.com/

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. Psalm 105:17-22

We are living in a critical and prophetic hour where all things are shifting and being brought back into divine alignment. I sense there is a major attack on the Body of Christ and leaders. I am in prayer that you, your mind, your strength fail not. I am prevailing in prayer and I am decreeing and declaring that you shall be victorious and you shall recover all.

I entreat you: There is humiliation before honor, price before promotion, stigma and scandal before success, attacks before accolades, but I hear God say,

"When thou passest through the water, I will be with you and through the fire, you will not be burned."

I hear the Word,

"Hold fast to the profession of your faith…and having done all, still stand."

Your problem and crisis situation is a divine announcement that God is getting ready to either prosper you and/or promote you. Do not resist the situation. Do not throw in the towel. Do not ignore the situation. Do not demonize the situation. Do not pretend the situation is not there. Wrestle with it in prayer.

Dare to Press In

Dare to press into God through prayer. Dare to see your storms as an opportunity to advance spiritually, financially, socially, ministerially, and for personal growth and development. Dare to walk on your prophetic turbulent waters, see and experience the power and presence of God in a new way (see Matthew 14:23-33)

According to these verses, not only will you overcome that which has overtaken you, but you will also be ushered into a new realm of power and a new place of worship. I decree and declare to all of you that favor is upon you.

He has anointed your head with fresh oil. During this time, we all need to let go in order to see and experience Jehovah-Jireh, Jehovah-Gibbor, Jehovah-Rapha in our lives. You need to give up trusting in your own way and designs in order to experience God's all-sufficiency. Lean not on your own understanding.

I further exhort all of you, to stop talking to the snake. Take the time to hear and talk to God. He only is the Author and Finisher of your faith.

I encourage you from Psalm 46:10: Be Still, and Know That I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Indeed God Has the final word.

Kingdom Blessings,

Dr. N. Cindy Trimm
Cindy Trimm International
http://www.cindytrimm.com/