Finding GOD's Will Sermon Series Part 19 - Listen to GOD's Voice | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. As we're talking about the various aspects with regard to finding and knowing God's will for our lives, I want to take you through on the next aspect, which I believe is very important for us to know what is God's will or for us to make the right decisions in our life as well, and that is to hear the voice of God. In fact, even in tomorrow's episode, I'm going to talk on very similar lines, but I'm going to involve the Holy Spirit in a deeper fashion in my explanation tomorrow, where we'll be talking about walking in the spirit and being led by the spirit of God.

1:39 But today I'm going to just give you a little bit about the aspect of hearing the voice of God. I want you to understand that hearing the voice of God is not just for the elite or chosen group of people, or for somebody who has reached a high level in their ministry or something like that. Three one of us under the sound of my voice. I wanted to understand that we have this privilege as children of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, to have that ability to hear the voice of God. Every one of us can hear his voice, every one of us.

2:21 And I want you to understand something very important here. Even if you see through the scriptures, God spoke through various people. God spoke to Abraham, or God spoke through a prophet Samuel or so many different prophets, or God spoke to Apostle Paul or Apostle Peter, or you know, it's something that you see a right across from the Old Testament to the New Testament, because we serve a God who wants to speak to us. In fact, in one of the episodes about a few months I spoke about the aspect of prayer, and I told you guys that prayer is not just talking to God.

3:05 Prayer is talking with God. That means you don't just go to God and just be like, Okay, God, these are my prayer requests, are all the things I'm praying about, and then just leave. That's not the way we're supposed to be. If we are supposed to be in a place where we're in a relationship with God in such a way that we go to him, we talk what we want to tell him, but at the same time we take time to listen to what He wants to tell us as well. The Bible is very clear where the Bible says in the Book of John ten twenty seven, my sheep will hear my voice.

3:37 I want you to understand. The Bible says in Isaiah thirty, verse twenty one, Behold, there's a voice behind you telling you which way you need to go, whether turn to the left or turn to the right. The Bible says in Amost three, verse seven, Behold, the soul and Lord does nothing else but reveal his plans to his children. The Bible says in Genesis after eighteen, verse seventeen when God was speaking about Abraham and he said, how can I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do. What we understand from these scriptures is the fact that the God we serve, it's not a god who just keeps mum or he doesn't just keep things to himself.

4:14 He doesn't just keep you know, everything like hidden. But he is a God who wants to reveal. He is a God who wants to have a fellowship with you. He is a God who wants to tell you, and he wants to give you all the details for your life. So my question to each and every one of you under the sound of my voice is this, Are you taking time to listen to the voice of God? Are you taking time to listen to God? Think about it. But John, I don't hear his voice. I don't know why God is not talking to me. I don't know if God is around me or he even wants to talk to me.

4:58 John. About two weeks ago, I released a new skit video on my YouTube channel. I'll probably put a link to that on the description, or you can take it out on my YouTube channel where I spoke about or show this example of how one of the biggest reasons we feel that God is not talking or we are not able to hear his voice. It's not because God is not there. It's not because he doesn't want to talk. It's actually because he's right there and he is talking. But we are caught ourselves up with a noise all around us, and we are so engrossed with our own things that we don't actually take the time to listen or to take the time to see what God wants to tell us.

5:45 That's the point. Many people today are not hearing God's voice, not because God doesn't want to talk to them. God is speaking to them, but they just close themselves, or because they's just caught up in their own knitty world. They're just in their own noisy environment. You have to get to a place where you know what you have that in a conversation with the Lord. Quiet in yourself and say God, yes, I may be in a noisy environment. God, yes I may be distracted by a lot of things, but I'm going to take some time out and listen to what you want to tell me.

6:34 God. I want to have that kind of a dialogue with you, a relationship where I want to talk with you. God speak to me. When you have that heart, God will definitely speak to you. God will definitely reveal things to you. He's saying, how can I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do. He's not saying, oh, I don't want to show to Abraham. I don't want to reveal things to Abraham. No, it's like, how can I hide? And you have to remember, like I've said before as well, if you read through the Book of Romans and Collections, the blessings of Abraham are ours.

7:17 And if God is saying, how can I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do? Abraham was the epitome of faith. Abraham was a picture of a friend of God. And the Bible says in the Book of Matthew, when Jesus said, I am calling you my friend, the Bible says that do you and I have to walk by faith and not by side. And it just like Abraham's faith was accounted to him as righteousness, our faith is accounted to us as righteousness. So we look at it in the same picture, and we see that God is asking you the same question, how can I hide from John what I'm about to do?

7:53 How can I hide from any what I'm about to do. How can I hide from Gloria, what I'm about to do? How can I hide from whatever your name is, what I'm about to do? Think about it. God is asking that question. He wants to reveal things to you. Are you taking the time to listen to him. Are you taking the time to put off the destruction of the world, to reduce the volume in your environment to listen to what God wants to tell you? Have that two way relationship with God where you just don't go and pour out everything and come off, but you take time to listen to him.

8:48 And when you are in that place, He's going to reveal things to you. He's going to reveal his plans for you. He's going to reveal what is his will for you. You will definitely do that. Why don't you take this commitment today and say God, speak to me, Speak to me. Oh God, I want to hear your voice. And you make a simple prayer like that and say God speak to me. You will definitely speak to you. Amen. I'll see you back in tomorrow's episode, where I will dive into the aspect of being led by the Holy Spirit and on how you can walk in the spirit see you tomorrow.

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11:00 And this is not a message of condemnation. This is a message of hope. There is a God who loves you so much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to come down and pay a heavy price by shedding every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you for dying for my sins. When you believe in Him, you have free gift or salvation for you that it shows us that we will go to heaven when we die instead of suffering in Him forever. I just encourage you today to make the simple step of faith and say, Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross.

11:41 Thank you for giving me this gift of eternal life.