Last night I was having a conversation with some folks about what it’s like to hear God, and I am going to share part of that conversation with all of you today. A lot of people are waiting for Gods voice to come and be very loud, boisterous and commanding like a β€œHault βœ‹πŸΌwho goes there” kind of thing. While it can definitely be those things, it’s not 𝑨𝑳𝑾𝑨𝒀𝑺 those things.
Sometimes God will show up as multiple numbers through the day to you. That constant β€œ3:33 you see or 4:44, maybe 11:11” – that’s God trying to speak to you. Numbers have meaning, 8 is new beginnings, 7 is perfection, etc. And if you’re not paying attention you’re going to π’Žπ’Šπ’”π’” what He is trying to communicate. For months I kept seeing 4:14. It wasn’t until my husband said to me β€œgo rest and read your Bible” did I flip open the Bible to read the book of Esther, which brought me to verse 4:14, β€œπ’šπ’π’– π’˜π’†π’“π’† π’Žπ’‚π’…π’† 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 π’•π’Šπ’Žπ’† 𝒂𝒔 π’•π’‰π’Šπ’”.β€œ And that has since become my stability verse. No matter what occurs in life I know that in all of the amount of time God could have chosen to have me on earth – He picked right now, and what a dishonor it would be to Him for me to cower away from what I was called to do. I digress, or I’ll be off on a tangent on the importance of finding your true calling… πŸ˜…
Sometimes you’ll be having a conversation and one person talks with you about something then you end up having another totally different conversation with a different person and both of those people brought up the same thing. Maybe it’s hearing one specific word repeated in multiple things over and over. That’s God.
Sometimes He will show up through animals, like a hawk flying overhead of you. Sometimes it’s a flashing sign… πŸ˜‰ You get the idea. Different signs can confirm you 𝒂𝒓𝒆 on the right path, or warn you 𝒏𝒐𝒕 to walk down a certain path.
If you are praying and asking God to speak to you – you need to pay attention to what is going on in your life. It’s really easy to live in your flesh. It’s really really easy to shrug everything off as a coincidence. But I’m here to tell/remind you there is no such thing as coincidences. Coincidences are God trying to speak to you or through you – it’s just a matter of whether or not you’re going to listen.
What have you heard lately, or seen lately, that has been playing on repeat. Are you choosing to listen? Is it a warning? Is it a confirmation you’re on the right path? Having a hard time discerning what it could be? ASK Him to confirm and then PAY attention. πŸ’―
Example : One time I knew that I was on the right path was when it dawned on me that a 3 year old mystery ornament meant I was doing something correct. Three years prior I had had a random ornament show up in my Christmas items. I had no idea what it meant or where it came from. I asked everywhere and no one knew. Fast forward three years later, that ornament was placed by God in my decorations box to confirm to me that I was on the right path, and it hit me while I was walking in my kitchen and I screamed with shock and called my husband to tell him, which then made him in shock. God sent me a sign THREE YEARS before I even asked a question. 😳
What some folks want to quickly write off is that there’s no way that God could be talking to them and that is the furthest thing from the truth. God speaks, and He does it a lot. One thing I encourage the kids in Sunday school with is that God is not dead, He is surely alive! Part of the reason that phrase is on our kids merch in the SAAMS Light line. God is fully alive – moving and working every single day through every thing we do. It just comes down to what you are going to allow your flesh to see.
You’ve been praying for answers you just haven’t been paying attention. Let me say that again you’ve been praying for answers you just haven’t been paying attention.
So now that you know what God is trying to say to you, are you going to listen and follow Holy Spirit? Or are you going to listen to your flesh and continue to ignore Him?
β€οΈπŸ™πŸΌ,
Steph