I've read blogs and other people's stories about how they hear God speaking to them and how they hear His voice and I wanted to hear it too, but I didn't know how to. I tried to do what other people were doing so that I could hear His voice, but it wasn't working. The more my relationship with God grew, the more I realized how detrimental it was to my own growth to compare my life and my relationship with God to somebody or someone else's. I think a lot of times, we want to find a step-by-step manual of how things work, when there is no "one size fits all" manual for the life that was tailor-made just for us.
When I stopped paying attention to what everyone else was doing and focusing on myself, I started to hear God, but not in the way I thought I would hear Him.
I've always felt God speaking to me, but I wasn't always sure if I was hearing Him, or whether I was making stuff up in my head, just to find a solution to the situation at hand. I would constantly doubt what I was hearing and eventually I learned that God speaks to me through others. He brings people into my life that love Him and that are trying to live for Him in the same way that I am and He relays His messages of reaffirmation to me through them.
I may not even mention something that I'm going through to anyone, and then somebody I'm close with will start talking about something that applies directly to what I may be going through at the time. At first I thought it was a coincidence, but once I followed what I heard, things would start to line up and I would feel at peace. That's how I learned how God speaks to me.
Now that I know how to hear God's voice in my life, I must be obedient in what He's telling me to do! I know it won't always be what I want to hear, but I've learned that God never fails me, and if I do what He asks of me, the reward will be worth it!
Love,
JayCherie
