God is almost always speaking to us. If we aren’t hearing His voice it’s usually either because we haven’t obeyed His last instruction and He’s waiting patiently for us to get in line with His prophetic prompting or because we haven’t done the four things I discussed in the first article of this series.
If you’ve positioned your heart to hear from God and you still aren’t hearing—and you are walking in obedience—it’s possible that you just don’t recognize His mode of communication. There are many, many ways God communicates with His people. In Part 1 of this series, we’ll look at five common ways God speaks. (Be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can get Part 2 in your email inbox.)
1. The Holy Spirit speaks through supernatural wisdom.
In Ephesians Paul prayed that the Father of glory would give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus (see Eph. 1:17). Jesus is our wisdom (see 1 Cor. 1:24, 30). I believe sometimes God speaks prophetic wisdom to our hearts, but we reason ourselves out of it. We block the supernatural wisdom of God by letting our mind rule over our heart. That’s why I take a hint from Solomon and pray for wisdom.
I believe that if we pray more for spiritual wisdom—even if it means praying less for natural needs—we’ll receive more wisdom and our natural needs will be more than met. I also believe that as we pray in faith for wisdom, we’ll have the faith to receive it however it comes, whether through a flash of inspiration; a still, small voice; a dream or vision; or some other mode of heavenly communication.
