Saints of God, God is speaking to you right now, not in a vague, mystical, hope you catch it kind of way, directly, personally, with intention, with specificity, with a message that is designed for this exact moment in your life.
And there is a very real chance that you are not hearing it, not because God is whispering too quietly, but because you are listening on only one channel. when he is broadcasting on four channels.
Most Christians know that God speaks through the Bible and that is true. The written word is the primary foundational non-negotiable channel through which God communicates.
But it is not the only one channel. There are three other channels that God uses regularly. channels that are documented throughout scripture, experienced by believers in every generation, and available to you right now.
And if you are only tuned into one of the four channels, you are missing 75% of what God is saying to you.
This teaching is going to open all four channels and show you how to recognize His voice in each one.
And the result will not be more confusion. It will be more clarity than you have ever experienced in your walk with God.
This is one of the most practical teachings you will ever hear about hearing from God because it does not deal in abstractions. It deals in specifics.
Four specific channels. Each one biblically grounded. Each one practically identifiable. and each one available to every born-again believer who has the Holy Spirit living inside them.
Here's teaching believers how to recognize the voice of God beyond the written page and do so with a precision that eliminated the mysticism and replaced it with clarity.
¶Note: "God is not a silent God. He is the most communicative being in the universe. The problem has never been that God does not speak. The problem is that most believers have not been trained to recognize all the ways he speaks.
And a believer who can only hear God in one channel is like a man with a radio that only picks up one station.
The music is playing on all the stations. He just has not learned how to tune in. The music is playing on all the stations.
That is the revelation. God has not gone quiet. You have simply not been tuned to all of His frequencies.
This teaching will change that. The problem is as old as the church itself and it is rooted in something that sounds very spiritual but actually produces a severe limitation.
The problem is this. The church has so emphasized the written Word as the voice of God, which is correct, that it is inadvertently closed believers off to the other legitimate scriptural spiritdirected ways that God communicates. And the result is a generation of Christians who read their Bibles faithfully, who know the promises by heart, who can quote chapter and verse with precision, and yet who feel disconnected from God's present tense, personal momentby-moment guidance.
They know what God said 2,000 plus years ago, but they are not sure what he is saying to them right now, today, about the specific decision they are facing, the specific relationship they are navigating, or the specific direction they should go.
And the frustration this produces is enormous because deep in the spirit of every born-again believer is the knowledge that they should be able to hear God.
Jesus Christ himself said in John10:27, "My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. My sheep hear my voice."
That is not a privilege reserved for pastors, prophets, and spiritual elites. That is a description of every believer.
You are His sheep and His sheep hear His voice. If you are not hearing it, the problem is not that he has stopped speaking. The problem is that you have not been taught to recognize all the channels on which he broadcasts.
We addressed this limitation with a compassion that reflects our deep concern for the everyday believer.
¶Noted:"Many sincere Christians are spiritually deaf, not because they lack the Holy Spirit, but because they have been taught that God only speaks through the Bible."
And while the Bible is the supreme authority and the foundation of all revelation, God also speaks through His Spirit in ways that are consistent with the Word, but go beyond the mere reading of it.
The believer who learns to hear God in all His channels will walk with a guidance and a confidence that the one channel believer cannot access. The one channel believer that is the condition of most of the church faithful sincere but operating on one channel when four are available.
So let us open all four channels one by one with Scripture as the foundation for each.
¶The first channel is the one you already know, the written Word of God.
This is the primary supreme non-negotiable channel. Every other channel must be tested against this one.
If anything you hear through any other channel contradicts the written Word, it is not God. Period. No exceptions.
2 Timothy 3:16 says, "'All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
The Word is the plum line. It is the standard. It is the foundation on which all other hearing is built.
And the reason it must remain primary is that the written Word is objective, unchanging, and universally applicable. It does not shift with your emotions. It does not change based on your circumstances. It is the same yesterday, today, and forever just as the God who breathed it.
But here is what most people miss about hearing God through the written Word. It is not just about reading. It is about receiving.
There is a difference between reading a verse and having a verse come alive in your spirit. You can read a hundred verses in your morning devotion and walk away with information. But when the Holy Spirit illuminates a single verse, when it suddenly leaps off the page and strikes your spirit with a clarity and a force that you did not put there, that is God speaking through the written Word in a present tense, personal way. It is no longer just a verse on a page. It is a Word from your Father tailored to your moment.
And the Holy Spirit is the One who produces that illumination. Revelation to your spirit overcomes the common five senses knowledge.
The Bride of Christ live by revelation, not by common sense.
John 16:13 says, "How be it, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth."
The Holy Spirit guides you into the truth that is already written. He does not add to it. He illuminates it. He takes what has been there all along and causes it to light up with a relevance and a power that changes your day, your decision, and your direction.
¶The second channel is the inward witness of the Holy Spirit.
This is the channel most Christians are least familiar with, and yet it is the one the New Testament describes most frequently in relation to daily guidance.
Romans 8:16 says, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God."
The Spirit bears witness. That word witness is the Greek somarturo which means to testify together with, to confirm jointly.
The Holy Spirit communicates with your recreated spirit through an inner testimony. It is not an audible voice. It is not a vision. It is a knowing, a deep settled internal awareness that something is right or something is wrong.
That you should go forward or you should hold back. That this decision aligns with God's will or it does not. You have experienced this more than you realize.
Have you ever been about to make a decision and something inside you said, "No, not that one."
Not a voice. Not a thought you consciously produced, it is a knowing, a check in your spirit, an internal resistance that you could not explain logically, but that turned out to be exactly right.
That was the inward witness. That was the Holy Spirit communicating with your spirit through a channel that does not use words, but uses something deeper than words, spiritual perception.
And the more you learn to recognize and respond to this witness, the more precise and reliable it becomes.
We considered the inward witness to be the primary means of daily guidance for the New Testament believer.
¶Note: "The inward witness is the Holy Spirit's guidance system for the believer. It does not argue. It does not explain. It simply knows. And the believer who learns to trust the knowing in his spirit will be led with a precision that the intellect alone could never achieve. It simply knows. That is the nature of the inward witness.
It is not rational in the way the mind understands rationality. It is spiritual.
It operates on a frequency that the natural mind cannot detect, but that the recreated spirit was designed to receive.
And learning to trust it, learning to follow it, even when the mind cannot explain it, is one of the most important skills a believer can develop.
Let me give you a practical illustration of how the inward witness operates in daily life. Imagine you are considering a business decision. The numbers look right. The logic supports it. The people around you encourage it. Everything in the natural realm says, "Go forward."
But deep inside your spirit, there is a hesitation, not a fear, not an anxiety, a settled, quiet resistance that you cannot attribute to any specific fact or concern. That is the inward witness saying, "Not this one."
And the believer who honors that witness, who trusts it over the logic, over the numbers, and over the advice of others, will avoid a disaster that the intellect could not foresee.
Conversely, you may face a decision where the circumstances look impossible, where the logic says it cannot work, and where everyone around you counsels caution.
But deep in your spirit there is a green light, a peace, a settled confidence that defies the visible evidence. That is the inward witness saying, "Go."
And the believer who follows that inward witness will walk into a provision, an opportunity, or a breakthrough that the intellect would have talked them out of.
The inward witness does not need to explain itself.
It knows what the mind does not know and the more you practice responding to it, the stronger and more recognizable it becomes.
We emphasize that developing sensitivity to the inward witness requires consistent time in the Word and in Prayer.
¶Note: The inward witness grows sharper as the spirit is fed. A spirit that is starved of the Word will produce a faint witness that is easily overridden by the mind.
But the believer's spirit that has been nourished on the Word of God will produce a witness so clear and so strong that it becomes is the dominant voice in the believer's decision-making.
Feed the spirit and the witness will become unmistakable.
Feed the spirit and the witness will become unmistakable. That is the practical key.
The inward witness is not a mystical experience reserved for the spiritually elite. It is the normal operating system of a recreated spirit that has been properly nourished. And the nourishment is the Word of God taken in consistently, confessed regularly and meditated upon daily.
And here is something that connects this directly to everything we have studied in this series of teachings.
The inward witness is strengthened by the same practices that strengthen your faith, your authority, and your confession.
When you feed on the Word in the secret place, you are simultaneously building your faith and sharpening your ability to hear the inward witness.
When you confess your identity in Christ, you are simultaneously reinforcing your authority and training your spirit to recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit.
When you speak the Word over your circumstances, you are simultaneously exercising the God kind of faith. And creating the internal stillness that allows the still small voice to be heard.
Everything connects. Everything builds on everything else.
And the believer who has been faithful in the practices we have covered throughout this series is already positioned to hear God on all four channels with increasing clarity.
¶The third channel is the still small voice. This is different from the inward witness.
Although many people confuse the two, the inward witness is a knowing without words. The still small voice is an actual inner articulation, a phrase, a sentence, a direction spoken inside your spirit that you hear with your spiritual ears, not your physical ones.
First Kings 19:12 describes Elijah's experience. And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, a still small voice.