Your significance

Your significance is not in your earthly fame but it’s in your Heavenly Father’s name. Today, you are a child of the Most High and all of Heaven’s attention is on you! May you live each day of your life in this truth and let no one tell you otherwise.

Be available

God desires to speak to you more than you would ever long to hear from him. The book of Job says, “for God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.”  Sometimes we may wonder, does God really speak to us today? Yes, he does! Is he too busy for us? Has He forgotten us? Is He far from us? No, he is not! Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. If he spoke with Moses at the burning bush, Abraham at the altar, Samuel in the temple, He will speak to you today. The Bible is an expression of His longing to reveal himself to you. There are 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,205 verses and over 2,500 promises in the Bible. This is how much God wants to talk to you! You cannot even fathom the number of thoughts He has for you. He wants to have a relationship with us. In fact, He created us for fellowship with Him. When we decide to draw close to him, His voice becomes more and more clear to us.  Let me give you the most important key to hear from God: BE AVAILABLE .

Listen or you become deaf

Let me issue a warning, though. If you aren’t willing to listen to everything God has to say, you eventually won’t hear anything He has to say. If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice. And it’s often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say. 
Ultimately, all of us need to find our voice. And by voice I mean the unique message God wants to speak through our lives. But finding our voice starts with hearing His voice. 

Listening

Listening doesn’t happen by default; it happens by design. You have to seek solitude, seek silence. You have to ruthlessly eliminate distractions. And you have to turn some voices down or tune them out altogether. It might be as innocent as talk radio or as innocuous as social media. Why not turn off the radio and talk to God during your commute? Or fast from social media for a season? Or take a silent retreat? 

Business and noise

That’s why chronic noise may be the greatest impediment to our spiritual growth. When our lives get loud, with noise filling every frequency, we lose our sense of being. We run the risk of turning into human doings rather than human beings. And when our schedules get busy, we lose our sense of balance, which is a function of the inner ear. 

Silence is anything but passive waiting. It’s proactive listening. And each day God’s voice gets a little louder in our lives until He’s all we can hear. 

If you want to hear the heart of God, silence is key.

If you want the Spirit of God to fill you, be still.

God whispers....why?

So why does God so often speak in whispers? When someone speaks in a whisper, you have to get very close to hear. In fact, you have to put your ear near the person’s mouth. We lean toward a whisper, and that’s what God wants. The goal of hearing the heavenly Father’s voice isn’t just hearing His voice; it’s intimacy with Him. He speaks in a whisper because He wants to be as close to us as is divinely possible! He loves us, likes us, that much. 
Nothing will determine your destiny more than your ability to hear His still small voice. That’s how God-sized dreams are birthed. That’s how miracles happen. 

Self-control

Self-control (Galatians 5:22-23), which is often translated “sober”, is a sober-mindedness that gives thought before acting. Self-control, which is produced by the Holy Spirit, gives way to godly desires rather than sinful desires. A person with self-control looks to future and eternal realities rather than indulging immediate sinful impulses.