| This is one article in a series on communicating with | | | | and be accepted by God. |
| God - How to hear God's voice. How to hear God is | | | | One other thing I noticed was that I didn't feel afraid. |
| one of the most common questions I'm asked. | | | | There was no sense of imminent hell fire and |
| I don't pretend to have all the answers but I can share | | | | damnation! Amazing! I actually felt more peace... which I |
| what has worked for me and brought me peace. | | | | didn't really expect. |
| After all - isn't it peace we are really after? | | | | So what happened? Well God tested me to see if I |
| There were times throughout my life that I felt close to | | | | was serious. It seemed like I waited a year to hear his |
| God and felt that I had heard His voice. | | | | voice although I now know He was doing some work |
| Between those times I often felt very far away and | | | | with me to prepare me - now that I was waiting on |
| disconnected to God. | | | | Him undisturbed by religious activities. |
| Something changed a few years ago and started the | | | | During that time I tried to find some time every day to |
| shift that has brought me to where I am today - a | | | | just be quiet and still and be available to be spoken to. |
| place of greater peace with God than ever before. | | | | Finally I was rewarded and I received such an |
| I arrived at a place in my life where I was aware that | | | | outpouring from heaven that I could hardly contain it all. |
| everything I had tried - religion, ministry, prayer, church | | | | That was the first of several similar experiences. |
| attendance, the whole nine yards - didn't work. | | | | I really can't explain how amazing, intense, awesome, |
| I'm a believer in this statement "If it isn't working, stop | | | | enlightening, and did I mention awesome? - that |
| doing it". | | | | experience was. |
| So I stopped all of it. My last prayer to God was | | | | So back to you - do you need to repeat my process |
| something to this effect - "Ok God everything I've tried | | | | to hear God's voice? I really can't answer that but you |
| hasn't worked. So now I'm going to wait right here until | | | | can. You will know. |
| you speak to me and tell me what to do". | | | | I do know that if you do God will not condemn you for |
| And then I did exactly what I said I was going to do. I | | | | it. Others might - but remember it's your relationship |
| ceased from all religious activities. | | | | you're working on - not theirs. |
| Now you might thing that's rash and perhaps even | | | | You may succeed just by spending some time every |
| dangerous - My response to you would be "Desperate | | | | day being available to God. After all - let's face it - it's |
| need requires desperate measures". | | | | pretty difficult to have that kind of time to devote to |
| The first thing I noticed was an amazing sense of | | | | the unseen One we seek. |
| freedom - and I realized how bound I had been to my | | | | Some activities may need to be reduced or eliminated |
| own ideas about what I needed to DO to reach God | | | | - that's okay. It's worth anything you must give up! |