My favorite activity in the world is to sit of the Lord‘s feet and hear his voice. Prayer, of course is a conversation, and my favorite part of that conversation is hearing the Lord speak to me. When I am able, I always pray with an open Bible in front of me because the written word lifted off of the page by the Holy Spirit, directed to my heart, has always been prominent in my walk. I also love it when the Lord speaks to me through dreams, visions, prophecy, or just that wonderfully familiar and transformative still small voice in my inner man. In John 10 Jesus tells us that as his sheep, we are hardwired to hear the voice of the Lord. I love what John the Baptist says about hearing the voice of the Bridegroom;
“He is the Bridegroom, and the bride belongs to him. I am the friend of the Bridegroom who stands nearby and listens with great joy to the Bridegroom’s voice. Because of his words, my joy is complete and overflows!” John 3:29.
I have found John’s testimony to be so true. Whenever I hear the voice of Jesus my joy overflows even if he is speaking a corrective word to me. His words are never laced with condemnation, but are always “spirit and life.“ Hearing his voice is my favorite “get away.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 says, that “… man lives by everything that proceeds from the mouth of God.” It is as if every time God speaks to us he breathes mouth-to-mouth the life of heaven into us. Jesus is called the “Word,’ the “Door,” the “ Way,” and in Revelation 1, the “Voice” because God is a communicator is always, not just accessible to us, but is always accessing us.
A few months ago I kept hearing the tune “In the garden,” and whenever I do, I know the Lord’s calling me aside to talk to me. At some point I finally got alone with him in my office at home and I said, “Lord what is it that you want to tell me,” and he said, “Everything.“ That ministered to me so much because that is his heart. He wants to tell us everything. John 15 he wants to reveal all of his secrets to us his friends.
John 15:15 NASB95
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
