For God does speak–now one way, now another– though man may not perceive it. (Job 33:14)

I remember the early days of my salvation when I first began to realize that God did indeed speak to man.  I was utterly amazed.  I had been taught that God was dead and He did not speak.  When I began to hear His voice, life came to my heart.  I also learned that He was a very funny fellow.

But then as I went deeper into Christ and the sound of God’s voice began to resonate within my being, I began to hear God in many different ways.  Dreams and visions were a primary way that God spoke to me in the early days, but then I began to discern His voice in many other forms.

You see God is not limited to the way He can speak to a man.  As the Scripture above says, “For God does speak – now one way, now another.”

There are times that God speaks to a man’s heart and the man comes into agreement with the sound that God made, but the man did not understand that what he came into agreement with was the voice of God.

Kings and those in authority often act from hearing the voice of the Lord and don’t even know it  Proverbs 21:1 says, “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.”

Perceiving the voice of the Lord is the greatest gift a person can ever receive.  To hear from God and to know that you are hearing the voice of your kindest friend is a marvelous wonder.

Sometimes the wind will blow across your yard and you will hear God’s voice within it.  Another time two people might walk past you deep in conversation and not even be aware that you hear them, but God uses their words to communicate to you the answer to your deepest prayers.

Learning to hear His voice is a lifelong pursuit for the one who will accustom himself to the journey.  We must fashion our way into our futures this way.

It is so exciting to hear Him.  It is a wonder every time I hear His voice.  We all can go deeper into Christ. In fact we must in this hour go deeper and deeper.

We have all heard His voice and not perceived it nor acted upon it, but let’s celebrate the times that we did.  Let’s rejoice in the moments that we did hear His voice and did something about it.  Each time you act in His voice you will go into a new glory, and the more you act, the more glory will come upon your life.

You will grow addicted to hearing Him because such peace, joy and love come into your heart as a result of listening.  In fact, personally I want to hear God because of the peace that comes in His voice.  I don’t want to do anything that would remove me from His peace or His presence and so my constant prayer is: “Let me understand what you are saying, my God, so that I may remain in the vine.”

I pray for you today and ask God to open your hearts to the deeper expression of His voice.  May He activate your five senses and may you realize the depths of the things that He wants to say to you.  I pray that His voice will boom in your hearts today in Christ Jesus our Lord.