5 Ways You Might Be Hearing the Voice of God (And Maybe Didn't Know It)

- Hi, my name is Julian Adams. I thought I'd just take a moment to answer a question that we often get here at Frequentsee, which is "How do you hear the voice of God," or "How do I recognize the voice of God?" And I thought I'd just give you five ways that you actually might be hearing God's voice but you don't realize that. The first one actually is super exciting for me 'cause I think more and more people are getting this, it's that God wants to speak to you through the Bible. The Bible is a living text. It's not just dead words on a piece of paper, and very often you'll be reading scripture and something will pop out to you and will resonate or warm your heart. You'll feel a sense of being light and a sense of illumination coming. That is super important for you to recognize because that's probably God speaking to you right there, and as you begin to recognize that, as you begin to build a pattern with him, you'll begin to see him give you themes, and you'll begin to see him direct you through scripture. The second way is through your imagination. Imagination is one of the things that most people in the church have shut down. Very often when you come into an encounter with God, people seem to think, "Oh, you can't do anything with your imagination." Well, like anything, imagination can be used for good, or it could be used for bad. And when you have your imagination harnessed in the presence of God by his Holy Spirit, it becomes an opportunity for you to hear from him. God begins to lead you on encounters. He begins to reveal things through the faculty of your imagination. It's why the Bible says, particularly in the Book of Ephesians when Paul prays that "God would open the eyes of your heart." That word "heart" there speakers of your mind, your will, and your emotions, and it carries a sense of your imagination coupled within those three things. And so allow your imagination to run wild when you're soaking, when you're in the presence of God. Another way that God might be speaking to you is through impressions. Now, this often goes unnoticed in the busyness of our life because sometimes we're so busy doing things that when God impresses things on us, or he drops a thought, or he drops a name, or he drops a theme or a word or something into our heart because our mind is so busy doing other things, we can miss that. I'm learning how to recognize those little impressions. I have a memory foam pillow that I sleep with, which means I put my head on the memory foam and it remembers an impression of my head on the pillow, so that when I move my head away, you can still see the impression. It's exactly like that sometimes when God speaks to us. It just impresses something on you, puts a knowing in your heart. It puts a sense in your heart. When you recognize those moments, you'll begin to see God join the dots for you, so that you can hear his voice. Another way that God often speaks is through different types of visions, like an open vision, a closed vision, an open-eye vision, and there are many things like thought, like pictures, that might pop into your head. Particularly during worship, I find this happens. They become opportunities for God to speak to you as you begin to say, "God, what am I looking at? "What am I seeing? "What are the images that are popping into my head? "How do you wanna speak to me through them?" And then the last one I wanna throw in there just for fun is uncanny coincidences. Very often, people miss out on God speaking to you because you've not recognized that often God is using uncanny coincidences, like a particular number set, so for a long while, I saw 22-22, and God began to speak to me about what he was wanting to do in and through that as a doubling of our ministry and a doubling of our fruitfulness. Now I would see it all over the place. And again, there might be other little uncanny coincidences that God might be joining, like a particular color that you see or a particular phrase that gets repeated. When you see things like that happen a number of times, lean in, ask God, say, "Hey, what are you speaking to me about? "What do I need to do about that? "Are you wanting to highlight something?" I hope this helps you discover how God might be speaking to you. I'd love to invite you to discover how God can speak to you some more 'cause the things I've just listed are not the only ways that God can speak to you. I've developed an e-course that's free called Prophecy 101. Click on the link below, you'll be taken to our website, and you'll discover how to hear God for yourself and how to regularly walk in the prophetic.