Hearing from God
By Lloyd Gardner
Hearing from God is the key to much of what we share in this teaching ministry. We emphasize walking by the Spirit and seeking to know the will of God. This demands that we are able to hear God’s voice and respond obediently to it.
Many believers have forsaken this truth because of spiritual complacency and others have actually constructed a doctrine that denies that Christians are still able to hear the voice of God. Some Bible teachers erroneously teach that God only speaks indirectly through the Scriptures and that those who claim to hear from God are in error. They would tell us that since the first century apostolic age God no longer speaks directly to His people but uses the Bible to communicate indirectly with us. Others question the experience of hearing from God and so are not able to embrace the voice of the Spirit for today.
The Bible is very clear on this subject. Those who reject the voice of the Spirit face the tragic result of rejecting the Bible, the recorded word of the God who is still speaking to His people. Seven times the Lord repeats in the Book of Revelation, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:7, 11f.). Jesus spoke similar words during His ministry (Matt. 11:15; 13:9, 43; Luke 8:8: 14:35). Through these passages the Lord is clearly telling us that it is possible to hear His voice if we have ears to hear.
To have ears means to have a listening heart that desires to know what God is saying to His people. The Spirit is speaking clearly and openly but we must desire to hear His voice before we will be able to hear Him. Our human spirit enables us to hear from God and to communicate with Him. Our spirit is a spiritual receiver made specifically for fellowship with God. When sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, the spiritual connection between God and His children was cut off, but the new birth experience reconnects us to God enabling us to fellowship with Him in spirit and truth.
The Lord gave the Holy Spirit to us to lead us and guide us into truth. Jesus told His disciples, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:26). Jesus’ words were not just for the early disciples but also for all who would believe in Him through the word of God (John 17:20). The church age in which we live is the age of the Holy Spirit, the age in which the Holy Spirit is speaking and building the church of God. Only as we hear Him and obey His words will the Spirit be able to use us in that endeavor.
Jesus said the Spirit “…will take what is mine and declare it to you” (John 16:15). Those things and truths that belong to the Lord because of His redemptive work, the Holy Spirit will take and deliver to us in this age of the church. He will declare it to us but we must have the ears to hear it. We must seek so that we can find. If we do not have ears with which to hear His voice, we will not hear what the Spirit declares to us for this generation in which we live. God forbid that we miss our destiny because we have become too busy to hear what He is saying.
True followers of the Lord know His voice and respond to it. In speaking of Himself as the Good Shepherd Jesus said, “The sheep hear His voice, and he calls his sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him and know his voice” (John 10: 3, 4). Notice that the sheep know the voice of the Shepherd and follow Him where He leads. The voice of the Shepherd is still issuing forth but only those who truly desire to be followers will hear His voice and go after Him.
So, how can we know and recognize the voice of the Shepherd? Hebrews 5:11, 14 speaks to this question: “…you have become dull of hearing…. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (NKJV). The recipients of this letter were becoming dull of hearing. The word “dull” here means literally “slow.” These Christians were slow learners spiritually because their spiritual sense of hearing had become slow or incapable of hearing God clearly. The writer speaks of the result of this slowness to hear: “You need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk not solid food” (v. 12).
If those words sound familiar it is because they describe the basic condition of most of American Christianity today. Most Christians need someone constantly teaching them from God’s word because they have not learned to discern spiritually with their own spiritual sense of hearing. Teachers are an important gift to the body of Christ but believers are not to get their understanding of God and His truth solely from them. The exhortation to hear is not to the church in general but to individual believers – “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:7, 11f.). Notice that the Spirit is speaking to the churches, the gatherings of God’s called-out people, but the command to hear is for individual believers. These words are not addressed to the clergy, a pastor or some well-educated theologians, but to those who have an ear – to those who desire to hear from God.
The recipients of the book of Hebrews were dull of hearing -- they were unable to hear God for themselves. According to the writer of the epistle, this was a sure sign that they were immature and needed to grow up spiritually. He tells them that mature believers are those who “by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Our spiritual sense of hearing must be used and exercised. The word translated “exercised” in this verse is the word from which we get the modern word “gymnasium.” Just as the muscles of our physical bodies get stronger and more capable as we use and exercise them in a gymnasium, our spirit gets stronger and more sensitive to the voice of the Spirit as we use it in daily communion with God.
The apostle John spoke to this same tendency: “But the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about everything – and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you – abide in Him” (1 John 2:27). The anointing is the presence of the Spirit of God within every true Christian enabling him to hear what the Spirit is saying. At our birth into the kingdom of God, our human spirit was regenerated and infused with the Spirit Himself, enabling us to communicate with God and hear from Him. Our task is to exercise our spiritual senses so that we become those who “have an ear.”
How often I have heard Christians say, “I don’t hear from God like you do.” The tone of their voice seems to imply that they think I have some special gift from God that enables me to hear. To the contrary, each of us has the gift of God that makes hearing Him possible. The Holy Spirit, the Helper, the Anointing of God, has been given to all who enter the kingdom of God by faith. But most Christians choose to let others do the hearing for them. We have allowed and even encouraged a clergy class of specialized teachers who are to hear from God and pass the truth on to us.
This is a serious error for a believer to make. Once we forfeit our hearing over to someone else, we set ourselves up to be deceived. When John wrote about the anointing, he warned, “I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you” (1 John 2:26). Even if the person you depend on is a faithful teacher with integrity, if you depend totally on him for your understanding of God’s word, your spiritual ears will become dull of hearing and you will be setting yourself up for deception. If you cannot hear for yourself, how will you know when deception is at your door?
Paul warned Timothy “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). A mediator is a person who stands as a “go between” between two people or groups of people. Christ is our “go between” the person who communicates between the Father and us. No human priest, pastor, television evangelist or other preacher, no matter how talented or empowered, can be allowed to act as the person who stands between God and us. We have direct access to the Father through the finished and ongoing work of Christ, our Mediator (Rom. 5:2). Those who allow men to stand in the place of Christ commit a grave error that forfeits the liberty of their access to God. Each of us can hear from God directly and indirectly through the scriptures and we do not need someone to hear for us.
God wants us to hear from Him because His revelation to our hearts is the way He establishes His kingdom on earth. When Peter received the revelation that Jesus was the Christ and confessed it openly, Jesus declared to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven” (Matt. 16:17). Why was Peter blessed? Because his heart had heard the Father speak concerning His Son. That revelation to Peter’s heart established the Kingdom in his heart and in the lives of the apostles because something of heaven was released into their lives. The reality of Christ became real on earth because a human heart opened up to the revealing words of the God of heaven. The kingdom of God is the expression of His Lordship in the lives of people who allow His life to be lived in them. Peter had done that and so he was blessed.
In His seven letters to the churches in Revelation, the Lord couples those who hear with the overcomers (Rev. 2:7, 11). Those who hear God become the conquering overcomers because they receive and release into the earth the revealed word of God. That is why the word says later, “And they have conquered him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death” (Rev. 12:11). The victorious spiritual warriors of God are those who hear from Him so they can express His testimony on the earth, thus extending the dominion of His glorious kingdom. Those who do not hear Him are merely quenching the work of the Spirit and hampering the work of the kingdom.
Paul encourages the Corinthians with the same truth: “These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God… Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given to us by God” (1 Cor. 2:10, 12). When Paul says “these things” he is referring to those things that “God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9). God has prepared some things for us and wants to reveal them to us when we are ready and able to receive them.
These things, these glorious truths that God has prepared for those who love Him, He “has revealed to us through the Spirit.” These things are not revealed just to the great apostles and prophets but to “those who love Him.” If we love Him, we will be listening for His voice and desiring to honor Him by doing what pleases His heart. He has revealed these things to us through His Spirit, the One who releases the anointing in our hearts that enables us to know and understand the things of God. The Holy Spirit searches the depths of God and reveals them to His loving children so that His truth can liberate us and establish the glory of His kingdom rule.
Paul wrote that the Spirit is given to us so “that we might understand the things freely given to us by God.” Notice that God freely gives these things to us. He has prepared “these things” for us and eagerly waits for the day when we will receive them by revelation. This is why Jesus was so excited when Peter received revelation from the Father and declared Peter “blessed.” Peter was blessed because God was getting through to him to the extent that his ears were able to hear. The same blessing is in store for us if we will simply seek to hear our God and receive what He is trying to tell us.
Later in this same section of 1 Corinthians Paul says, “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (v. 14). Some people think that this word “natural” is referring only to those who are not born again. The word is an adjective form of the word for “soul” and could be translated “soulish,” those who are ruled by their soul. The soul is our mind, emotions and will, all of our fallen nature, which must be transformed by the Spirit before it is able to discern and understand the things of God. A Christian who is depending on his own natural (soulish) ability to understand will not be able to hear from God. What he will hear is his own inner voice of reasoning that is not in submission to the voice of God. If the soulish person responds to this natural voice and attempts to do the work of God on that basis, he will be building his own earthly kingdom rather than the heavenly kingdom of God. That is a common tragedy in this age of institutional Christianity.
Paul says that the things of God “are spiritually discerned.” This means that they can only be understood as the Spirit of God reveals them to our spirit. Our spirit is the “ear” that hears and the Holy Spirit is the One communicating the deep truths of God. This spiritual discernment is hearing from God. “He who has and ear let him hear.” Only those with an ear, an open, receptive spirit will be able to hear from God.
So how can we learn to hear from God? In the first place, it is not a matter of some deep, elusive, mystical skill that is revealed only to a select few. Nor is there some method that one must learn in a special seminar. Hearing from God is for all who truly desire to hear His voice and obey what is heard. If we do not have an obedient heart that desires to follow the Lord, we will not hear His voice nor will we need to. God does not reveal His heart to those whose motives are selfish and impure. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). Seeing is another spiritual sense that comes with a true desire to know God and walk in obedience to His will.
The writer of Hebrews says the hearers of God are those “…who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (5:14). Spiritual hearing comes from practice and exercise. We must go to the Lord every day to commune with Him expecting Him to speak to our hearts. Take time to be quiet before the Lord. Listen! If we listen intently with obedient motives, we will hear what He has to share. Often He says things that we do not want to hear like “Son, you need to deal with your anger problem,” or “My daughter, you need to see yourself as courageous and strong as I see you.” He desires to transform us into His image and He is able to do that only as we listen to Him and let Him train us according to His wisdom.
We must commit to the authority of His written word and spend time communing with Him through reading and meditating what His word says. He is able to speak directly to our hearts through the truths contained in His written word. We must also realize that often He will speak to us through our brothers and sisters, especially our elders who keep watch over our souls. But we must test everything that comes to us indirectly before we hold fast to it as the word of God (1 Thess. 5:21). The main thing is to have a listening heart that genuinely desires to know God’s will for our lives. As He speaks and we hear, He will reveal to us truths that come from heaven to shake the earth with His divine purpose.
We are in a spiritual war and the battles are becoming more frequent and more serious. We must hear the voice of our Commander in Chief and stand ready to respond. Jesus said of Himself, “The Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing” (John 5:19). We too must only seek to do what the Father is doing. I pray that we will be so in tune with the Father that we will sense when He moves and move with Him by the Spirit. The Father seeks such people today to walk with Him, hear His gentle voice, and obediently respond. May He give us grace to be in that company of believers who hear His voice and obey.
By Lloyd Gardner
Hearing from God is the key to much of what we share in this teaching ministry. We emphasize walking by the Spirit and seeking to know the will of God. This demands that we are able to hear God’s voice and respond obediently to it.
Many believers have forsaken this truth because of spiritual complacency and others have actually constructed a doctrine that denies that Christians are still able to hear the voice of God. Some Bible teachers erroneously teach that God only speaks indirectly through the Scriptures and that those who claim to hear from God are in error. They would tell us that since the first century apostolic age God no longer speaks directly to His people but uses the Bible to communicate indirectly with us. Others question the experience of hearing from God and so are not able to embrace the voice of the Spirit for today.
The Bible is very clear on this subject. Those who reject the voice of the Spirit face the tragic result of rejecting the Bible, the recorded word of the God who is still speaking to His people. Seven times the Lord repeats in the Book of Revelation, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:7, 11f.). Jesus spoke similar words during His ministry (Matt. 11:15; 13:9, 43; Luke 8:8: 14:35). Through these passages the Lord is clearly telling us that it is possible to hear His voice if we have ears to hear.
To have ears means to have a listening heart that desires to know what God is saying to His people. The Spirit is speaking clearly and openly but we must desire to hear His voice before we will be able to hear Him. Our human spirit enables us to hear from God and to communicate with Him. Our spirit is a spiritual receiver made specifically for fellowship with God. When sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, the spiritual connection between God and His children was cut off, but the new birth experience reconnects us to God enabling us to fellowship with Him in spirit and truth.
The Lord gave the Holy Spirit to us to lead us and guide us into truth. Jesus told His disciples, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:26). Jesus’ words were not just for the early disciples but also for all who would believe in Him through the word of God (John 17:20). The church age in which we live is the age of the Holy Spirit, the age in which the Holy Spirit is speaking and building the church of God. Only as we hear Him and obey His words will the Spirit be able to use us in that endeavor.
Jesus said the Spirit “…will take what is mine and declare it to you” (John 16:15). Those things and truths that belong to the Lord because of His redemptive work, the Holy Spirit will take and deliver to us in this age of the church. He will declare it to us but we must have the ears to hear it. We must seek so that we can find. If we do not have ears with which to hear His voice, we will not hear what the Spirit declares to us for this generation in which we live. God forbid that we miss our destiny because we have become too busy to hear what He is saying.
True followers of the Lord know His voice and respond to it. In speaking of Himself as the Good Shepherd Jesus said, “The sheep hear His voice, and he calls his sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him and know his voice” (John 10: 3, 4). Notice that the sheep know the voice of the Shepherd and follow Him where He leads. The voice of the Shepherd is still issuing forth but only those who truly desire to be followers will hear His voice and go after Him.
So, how can we know and recognize the voice of the Shepherd? Hebrews 5:11, 14 speaks to this question: “…you have become dull of hearing…. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (NKJV). The recipients of this letter were becoming dull of hearing. The word “dull” here means literally “slow.” These Christians were slow learners spiritually because their spiritual sense of hearing had become slow or incapable of hearing God clearly. The writer speaks of the result of this slowness to hear: “You need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk not solid food” (v. 12).
If those words sound familiar it is because they describe the basic condition of most of American Christianity today. Most Christians need someone constantly teaching them from God’s word because they have not learned to discern spiritually with their own spiritual sense of hearing. Teachers are an important gift to the body of Christ but believers are not to get their understanding of God and His truth solely from them. The exhortation to hear is not to the church in general but to individual believers – “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:7, 11f.). Notice that the Spirit is speaking to the churches, the gatherings of God’s called-out people, but the command to hear is for individual believers. These words are not addressed to the clergy, a pastor or some well-educated theologians, but to those who have an ear – to those who desire to hear from God.
The recipients of the book of Hebrews were dull of hearing -- they were unable to hear God for themselves. According to the writer of the epistle, this was a sure sign that they were immature and needed to grow up spiritually. He tells them that mature believers are those who “by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Our spiritual sense of hearing must be used and exercised. The word translated “exercised” in this verse is the word from which we get the modern word “gymnasium.” Just as the muscles of our physical bodies get stronger and more capable as we use and exercise them in a gymnasium, our spirit gets stronger and more sensitive to the voice of the Spirit as we use it in daily communion with God.
The apostle John spoke to this same tendency: “But the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about everything – and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you – abide in Him” (1 John 2:27). The anointing is the presence of the Spirit of God within every true Christian enabling him to hear what the Spirit is saying. At our birth into the kingdom of God, our human spirit was regenerated and infused with the Spirit Himself, enabling us to communicate with God and hear from Him. Our task is to exercise our spiritual senses so that we become those who “have an ear.”
How often I have heard Christians say, “I don’t hear from God like you do.” The tone of their voice seems to imply that they think I have some special gift from God that enables me to hear. To the contrary, each of us has the gift of God that makes hearing Him possible. The Holy Spirit, the Helper, the Anointing of God, has been given to all who enter the kingdom of God by faith. But most Christians choose to let others do the hearing for them. We have allowed and even encouraged a clergy class of specialized teachers who are to hear from God and pass the truth on to us.
This is a serious error for a believer to make. Once we forfeit our hearing over to someone else, we set ourselves up to be deceived. When John wrote about the anointing, he warned, “I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you” (1 John 2:26). Even if the person you depend on is a faithful teacher with integrity, if you depend totally on him for your understanding of God’s word, your spiritual ears will become dull of hearing and you will be setting yourself up for deception. If you cannot hear for yourself, how will you know when deception is at your door?
Paul warned Timothy “There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). A mediator is a person who stands as a “go between” between two people or groups of people. Christ is our “go between” the person who communicates between the Father and us. No human priest, pastor, television evangelist or other preacher, no matter how talented or empowered, can be allowed to act as the person who stands between God and us. We have direct access to the Father through the finished and ongoing work of Christ, our Mediator (Rom. 5:2). Those who allow men to stand in the place of Christ commit a grave error that forfeits the liberty of their access to God. Each of us can hear from God directly and indirectly through the scriptures and we do not need someone to hear for us.
God wants us to hear from Him because His revelation to our hearts is the way He establishes His kingdom on earth. When Peter received the revelation that Jesus was the Christ and confessed it openly, Jesus declared to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven” (Matt. 16:17). Why was Peter blessed? Because his heart had heard the Father speak concerning His Son. That revelation to Peter’s heart established the Kingdom in his heart and in the lives of the apostles because something of heaven was released into their lives. The reality of Christ became real on earth because a human heart opened up to the revealing words of the God of heaven. The kingdom of God is the expression of His Lordship in the lives of people who allow His life to be lived in them. Peter had done that and so he was blessed.
In His seven letters to the churches in Revelation, the Lord couples those who hear with the overcomers (Rev. 2:7, 11). Those who hear God become the conquering overcomers because they receive and release into the earth the revealed word of God. That is why the word says later, “And they have conquered him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death” (Rev. 12:11). The victorious spiritual warriors of God are those who hear from Him so they can express His testimony on the earth, thus extending the dominion of His glorious kingdom. Those who do not hear Him are merely quenching the work of the Spirit and hampering the work of the kingdom.
Paul encourages the Corinthians with the same truth: “These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God… Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given to us by God” (1 Cor. 2:10, 12). When Paul says “these things” he is referring to those things that “God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9). God has prepared some things for us and wants to reveal them to us when we are ready and able to receive them.
These things, these glorious truths that God has prepared for those who love Him, He “has revealed to us through the Spirit.” These things are not revealed just to the great apostles and prophets but to “those who love Him.” If we love Him, we will be listening for His voice and desiring to honor Him by doing what pleases His heart. He has revealed these things to us through His Spirit, the One who releases the anointing in our hearts that enables us to know and understand the things of God. The Holy Spirit searches the depths of God and reveals them to His loving children so that His truth can liberate us and establish the glory of His kingdom rule.
Paul wrote that the Spirit is given to us so “that we might understand the things freely given to us by God.” Notice that God freely gives these things to us. He has prepared “these things” for us and eagerly waits for the day when we will receive them by revelation. This is why Jesus was so excited when Peter received revelation from the Father and declared Peter “blessed.” Peter was blessed because God was getting through to him to the extent that his ears were able to hear. The same blessing is in store for us if we will simply seek to hear our God and receive what He is trying to tell us.
Later in this same section of 1 Corinthians Paul says, “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (v. 14). Some people think that this word “natural” is referring only to those who are not born again. The word is an adjective form of the word for “soul” and could be translated “soulish,” those who are ruled by their soul. The soul is our mind, emotions and will, all of our fallen nature, which must be transformed by the Spirit before it is able to discern and understand the things of God. A Christian who is depending on his own natural (soulish) ability to understand will not be able to hear from God. What he will hear is his own inner voice of reasoning that is not in submission to the voice of God. If the soulish person responds to this natural voice and attempts to do the work of God on that basis, he will be building his own earthly kingdom rather than the heavenly kingdom of God. That is a common tragedy in this age of institutional Christianity.
Paul says that the things of God “are spiritually discerned.” This means that they can only be understood as the Spirit of God reveals them to our spirit. Our spirit is the “ear” that hears and the Holy Spirit is the One communicating the deep truths of God. This spiritual discernment is hearing from God. “He who has and ear let him hear.” Only those with an ear, an open, receptive spirit will be able to hear from God.
So how can we learn to hear from God? In the first place, it is not a matter of some deep, elusive, mystical skill that is revealed only to a select few. Nor is there some method that one must learn in a special seminar. Hearing from God is for all who truly desire to hear His voice and obey what is heard. If we do not have an obedient heart that desires to follow the Lord, we will not hear His voice nor will we need to. God does not reveal His heart to those whose motives are selfish and impure. Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). Seeing is another spiritual sense that comes with a true desire to know God and walk in obedience to His will.
The writer of Hebrews says the hearers of God are those “…who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (5:14). Spiritual hearing comes from practice and exercise. We must go to the Lord every day to commune with Him expecting Him to speak to our hearts. Take time to be quiet before the Lord. Listen! If we listen intently with obedient motives, we will hear what He has to share. Often He says things that we do not want to hear like “Son, you need to deal with your anger problem,” or “My daughter, you need to see yourself as courageous and strong as I see you.” He desires to transform us into His image and He is able to do that only as we listen to Him and let Him train us according to His wisdom.
We must commit to the authority of His written word and spend time communing with Him through reading and meditating what His word says. He is able to speak directly to our hearts through the truths contained in His written word. We must also realize that often He will speak to us through our brothers and sisters, especially our elders who keep watch over our souls. But we must test everything that comes to us indirectly before we hold fast to it as the word of God (1 Thess. 5:21). The main thing is to have a listening heart that genuinely desires to know God’s will for our lives. As He speaks and we hear, He will reveal to us truths that come from heaven to shake the earth with His divine purpose.
We are in a spiritual war and the battles are becoming more frequent and more serious. We must hear the voice of our Commander in Chief and stand ready to respond. Jesus said of Himself, “The Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing” (John 5:19). We too must only seek to do what the Father is doing. I pray that we will be so in tune with the Father that we will sense when He moves and move with Him by the Spirit. The Father seeks such people today to walk with Him, hear His gentle voice, and obediently respond. May He give us grace to be in that company of believers who hear His voice and obey.
