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How to Recognize God’s Voice

Henry H Harris Christian author from San Juan Bautista biography of Jesus Christ

Last week we considered how three interdependent factors (our life circumstances, God’s Word, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit) help us to identify God’s voice even when other voices are vying for our attention. Let’s go a little deeper. Let’s ask, “When I hear God’s voice, what will that sound like?”

The science of voice recognition now has the technology to analyze voices like fingerprints because every voice is unique. So what makes the voice of God unique? What characteristics are we to look for? Three come to mind, though there are many more.

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Hearing God Above The Noise 

Hearing God Above The Noise

The world is full of voices trying to get our attention. How can we distinguish God’s voice from all the others? Jesus tells us in John 10, “The shepherd of the sheep calls his own sheep by name and leads them out–his sheep follow him because they know his voice–I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.”

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How to experience God’s peace 

God's peace and spiritual healthy media

Is there a way we can truly experience the peace of God? There is, and Bible explains it in several ways. For example, in James 1:21–22, we are told, “Get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the Word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”

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How to hear God

Listening to God for direction

Most of us, when faced with a big decision, find it difficult to hear God counsel. We pray and ask God’s blessings but hear nothing. Perhaps we can’t hear God because we suffer from the spiritual equivalent of ear wax–primarily because we have ignored God’s counsel to be “quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry” (James 1:19). Thankfully the passage in James tells us how we can hear God: we are to “get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says” (James 1:21-22).