Hearing is the process, function, or power of perceiving sound precisely: the unique sense by which noises and tones are received as stimuli. This meaning applies to our relationship with fellow men, but is different from God. We don’t use our physical ears to hear our spiritual God. We have to learn how to hear him from our hearts.

From that standard definition, the hearing takes time. It somehow takes patience and requires us to be stable mentally. 

It has been the Trinity -God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit’s plan to communicate with us. Genesis 5:1 “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness”.

The Godhead created us for a relationship. Like every relationship, this can work only if both partners listen to each other. The two parties must decide to hear and understand each other is saying. We can only maintain true communion with God if we hear his word.

It has been a challenge for humans to hear God and do what he expects us to do because we are physically and mentally busy. We don’t create time or open our hearts to listen to him, though he wants to speak to us. We are occupied with our lives and daily activities. As such, we often don’t hear God; thus, we make mistakes/sin against him.

Hearing alone is insufficient; we must do what we have heard (James 1:22–25). This means investing time to study God’s opinion about our lives. In this post, I will explain how we can hear from God using biblical examples. 

Who can hear from God?

Only true Christians can hear God’s voice.

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 8:47 

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Isaiah 30:21 

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Galatians 3:5 

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—

Revelation 3:22 

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Revelation 3:20  

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with me.

John 5:25

“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

What are the benefits of hearing God?

We improve our lives whenever we obey God’s principles.

Romans 10:17 

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Matthew 7:24 

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Luke 11:28 

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

John 16:13 

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Jeremiah 33:3 

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. 

How can we improve our hearing?

James 1:19-27 

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. …”

Hebrews 2:1 

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

James 1:22 

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

How does God operate with us?

John 5:30 

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

God expects u to spend time hearing from him?

Psalm 5:3 

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Psalm 85:8

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

1 John 5:14 

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Isaiah 55:3 

Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Mark 4:24 

And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Hebrews 3:15 

As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Luke 8:18  

Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”

All Bible verses are from the English Standard Version.

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