Do you ever have times like that? I don't know...like you are tucked away in a secret place with the Spirit of God, and He is whispering things to you faster than you can process them?
Please know that it is never that I don't want to share, but I've learned to be still and listen when the season changes too.
This has been a sweet time of resting in the Lord for me. Through all the craziness that surrounded my surgery...despite everything that could have been, I'm so thankful that my eyes have been on eternity and my ears have been tuned to the voice of the King.
I feel so sorry for people who think God is a joke...that God doesn't speak...that He isn't loving or ever-present to help us by His Spirit.
I hear the voice of the Lord so easily. I don't mean that boastfully in any way. I mean it to glorify Him. This should be our "normal" as His children. This was never meant to be something super-spiritual or mind-blowing or even something too outrageous to believe.
Jesus tore the veil that separated us from the Father. He yearns to be with us minute-by-minute. He rejoices over us with singing and His thoughts toward us outnumber the grains of sand!
He is a personal God. He cares.
One can argue about the Bible. One can argue theology. At the end of the day, one cannot argue my experiences. They are mine, and I can never be convinced I haven't, time and time again, met with the One, True Spirit of God.
I had a dear friend ask me some months ago how I know I am hearing the voice of the Lord. Wow, that is a hard question to answer about a voice that usually isn't audible!
I can only explain that I know my husband's voice. If I were blindfolded and could only hear Tom's voice, I would know it. I would know each of my children, my mom, my dad, my friends...
How do we recognize the voices of those we love?
We have spent enough time with them that we "just know" them.
We can't really explain how we know, but we do, don't we? No one is going to convince us that isn't our child's voice we hear!
That's how it is for me. I know the Lord's voice because I have spent much time with Him and He is now familiar. I know when I'm hearing Him and when I'm not.
I want to share some more on how I recognize the Lord, but for today, I leave you with this:
John 10:14Amplified Bible (AMP)
14 I am the Good Shepherd; and I know and recognize My own, and My own know and recognize Me—
