When you are making a decision or looking for an answer, where do you go? The internet, social media, a trusted friend…where? There are voices everywhere. How can we be confident that we are listening to the right one?
My Dad called me “Princess” all my life…he had four! As a teenager, working at his office one summer, I was asked to drive into the airport in Los Angeles and pick him up. It was a workday and I stood quietly waiting as the plane landed, watching carefully for my father. Somehow, he had disembarked and I had missed him! Running to the street…he was nowhere in sight! All I could see was a blanket of the backs of fifty business men in black suits, all carrying the same black valise, scurrying for taxis and limousines. In my panic, I simply called out…one time…”Daddy!”. A very tall handsome man promptly turned around to smile at me. My dad instantly knew my voice and immediately responded!
Can we hear the voice of God like that?
How do we recognize HIS promptings when HE speaks to us?
We can be confident that the quiet urging will be to do HIS will and will be in harmony with the Word of God. When the “power of the godhead” walked into our lives at salvation, we were sealed with the Holy Spirit. This HELPER is given to govern us and is one of the most important aspects to living a life in harmony with God. We are able to discern when HE is prompting us to think, speak and act according to HIS Word.
This small, quiet voice will warn us of temptations and if obeyed, will produce godly character in us. When we resist the voice, it doesn’t force us, but becomes quieter and quieter. It can be quenched! Knowing and understanding that voice is imperative to our relationship with God.
Listening for that voice when I am looking for an answer or making a decision is the difference between a life of peace or one wrapped in chaos.
“When we rely on organization, we get what organization can do. When we rely on education, we get what education can do. When we rely on eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. But when we rely on the Holy Spirit, we get what God can do!” A.C. Dixon
Are you listening for His voice?
“It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers
that his Helper is omnipotent.”
Jeremy Taylor
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
