We have all heard people say, \u2018The Lord told me,\u2019 and it turned out not to be so. As a result, we have become doubting and cynical. What a loss! God speaks through people, and your fear of someone \u2018getting it wrong\u2019 can rob you of vital input\u2014in some cases, the very input you need. <\/p>\n
One night, God appeared to Jacob in a dream, saying: \u2018\u201cI am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and\u2026 bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.\u201d Then Jacob awoke\u2026 and said, \u201cSurely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.\u201d And he was afraid and said, \u201cHow awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a028:15\u201317\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n
In order to hear from God, you must (1) desire it above all else<\/i>, (2) eliminate mental clutter, slow down, and take time to understand what He is saying to you<\/i>, and (3) believe that God will actually speak to you.<\/i> <\/p>\n
If you don\u2019t believe, you will be left to the mercy of your own best thinking\u2014or be influenced by others who think just like you. Seven times in chapters two and three of the book of Revelation, God said, \u2018He who has an ear<\/i> [a spiritually developed one], let him hear what the Spirit says.\u2019<\/i> The question is this: how can you know what you\u2019re hearing is actually from God? Because it will always agree with His Word, and your spirit will say, \u2018Amen!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have all heard people say, \u2018The Lord told me,\u2019 and it turned out not to be so. As a result, we have become doubting and cynical. What a loss! God speaks through people, and your fear of someone \u2018getting it wrong\u2019 can rob you of vital input\u2014in some cases, the very input you need. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}