Chapter Six

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How and Why You Must "Hear God" To Obtain The Healing, Prosperity and Well-Being For Your Family That He Promised You in The Abrahamic Covenant

      Jesus said "My sheep hear my voice...", John 10:27.  Yet, many of The Abrahamic Seed Group have difficulty in hearing his voice.  Why?

 Why Do We Have Difficulty "Hearing God!”

      Look at the word "hear" in the preceding verse.  "Hear" is in the Greek present tense which means continuous action in present time.  What Jesus actually said, then, is "My sheep are hearing and are keeping on hearing my voice".  In other words, Jesus' voice is continuously coming through to us.  If, then, his voice is continuously coming through to us, why do we have difficulty hearing it?

The other Sunday morning, while driving to church, I passed a man who had three large, beautiful dogs on leashes taking them for a walk.  In addition, he had a cassette player strapped to his belt.  From this cassette player he had ear phones over his ears.  He was listening to a recording as he walked his dogs.  His attention was totally taken over by the dogs and the cassette piping music into his ears.

     He couldn't hear a car horn blow, let alone the voice of Jesus.

     Suppose you were in the forest and thirty feet behind you, a tree split and fell to the ground with a roaring, crashing sound.  You would most definitely hear it.  But, suppose you were wailing three large dogs and listening to a cassette player that you had turned up loudly.  The sound of the crashing tree was there just as we mentioned above, but you would not hear it.

     You would not hear it because your attention is totally taken up by the dogs and the music.  Your "focus" is on something else other than the sounds around you.  But, just because your focus prevented the sounds of the crashing tree from registering with you, does that mean the sounds are not there?  Of course not.  The sounds are there.  They just didn't register with you because your focus and concentration prevented them from registering with you.

     When Jesus said "My sheep are hearing and are keeping on hearing my voice...", he meant "the sounds are there and are keeping on being there".

     The problem, then, is not "Why will God not speak to me?"  Since "the sounds of his voice are there and are keeping on being there", the problem is that you are focused on other things to the point of being unable to hear his voice.  It is always coming through, you just don't hear it like you don't hear the tree in the forest.  You don't hear his voice for lack of concentration on it.

     Therefore, we must "Be still and know that I am God".  We must leave off walking the dogs and listening to the cassette player.  We must get quiet and listen in our spirit man.  The voice of Jesus is always coming through.  We just have to clear all the clutter so we can hear it.

 How Does Jesus Speak To Us?

      Jesus speaks to us in many ways.  My wife Corky has visions.  She has many visions.  She is always having visions.  She sees things.  Maybe you are one who has visions like her.

     Personally, I never have visions.  I never see things.  But, I have "inner knowings".  I know things in my spirit man that my brain does not know.  "Somehow" I just know things on the "inside".

     God also speaks to me in dreams.  He has warned me of approaching danger many times in dreams.  These dreams have never been wrong to this day.  Maybe you are also one who has dreams in which God speaks to you.

     In Hebrews chapter eleven, we see many ways in which God communicates with his Abrahamic Seed Group.  In verse three, we "understand" that God framed or adjusted the worlds by his word.  In verse four Abel had a direct "witness" from God.  This could have been audible although it probably was an "inner knowing".

     In verse seven, Noah was "warned".  This could have been audible but it could have been an "inner knowing" also.  Likewise, in verse eight Abraham was "called".  Probably, this was also an "inner knowing".  And, in verses 23 and 27, Moses' parents "saw" something and Moses "saw" the invisible God.

     Finally, in verses 9, 11 and 17 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Sarah had "promises" they acted upon.  Whether these promises were audible, dreams, visions or inner knowings, we are not told.  The point is this: the voice of God is coming through at all times in different ways.  We can hear it if we are in a position to hear it.  We must get quiet before the Lord and listen with our spirit.  "My sheep are hearing my voice and are keeping on hearing it", Jesus said.

 How Can I Know The Difference Between The Voice of God and The Voice of a Demon?

      How can I know that the communication I am getting is from God?  How can I know that this is God's voice and not my own reasonings or even the voice of a demon?  You can know the answer to this question in three ways.

     First, when Jesus speaks, there will be a perfect peace inside your spirit man.  There will be no anxiety at all.  There will only be a "peace which passeth understanding".  I remember two times in my life when I made two great decisions.  When I made these decisions, I sincerely thought I was in the will of God with the courses of action I had chosen.  But, there was no peace.  My stomach was tied up in knots.  I was at the point of becoming ill.

     Something was terribly wrong.  At first, I thought that I was just "feeling the pressure" of doing what I was about to do since both these decisions involved some tough sledding.  But, the closer the time came to implement these decisions, the sicker I became in my stomach.  So,  I went back to the drawing boards.  I prayed some more.

     The Lord showed me that the courses of action that I had chosen were not his way at all.  He showed me that I must take entirely different approaches to these decisions and go in entirely opposite directions.  I did.

     The peace came flooding into my spirit.  It was a perfect peace.  The knots left my stomach on the spot.  My nerves settled.  My spirit grew calm.  I knew it was God.  When God speaks, you will know it by a perfect peace that accompanies it.

     Second, the voice of God will never contradict the written Word of God.  His voice will never lead you into anything that contradicts the scripture.  When the voice you are hearing brings a perfect peace with it and doesn't contradict the plain sense of the scripture, you can be sure it is the voice of God.

     Third, our blessed Lord will usually confirm the message to you.  Paul said "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established", 2 Corinthians 13.  This confirmation can take many forms.  It may be that your pastor will say something to you in a sermon that is confirmation to you of the message Jesus gave you.  Or it may be that someone will give you a personal prophecy that confirms it.  It could be something from a spirit filled radio or TV program that confirms Jesus' word to you.  But He will confirm it.  And, this confirmation will add to the perfect peace you already have in your spirit concerning it.

     By these three things you can know the voice of God.  His word brings a peace you can neither explain nor understand fully.  His word always agrees with the scripture.  His word to you is usually confirmed by an outside source that every word from him to you may be established.  "My sheep are hearing and are keeping on hearing my voice", Jesus said.  Get still.  Listen.  Then watch for these three things described above and know that God has spoken to you.

 Exceptions To This Three Point Rule

      The three point rule above is the usual way to determine whether God or the Devil is speaking.  There are exceptions however. Take the case of Abraham.  He was a heathen idolater when God spoke to him in the land of Ur of the Chaldees.  It is doubtful that he was still and listening to God in his spirit.  But God supernaturally got his attention and communicated with him in such a way that he knew that it was God.

     The Apostle Paul is another exception.  He was in all ways opposed to the things of Christ.  Yet God knocked him flat on the road to Damascus and gave him a communication that he knew was from God.  From that time on his life was never the same.  God had spoken and he knew it more than he had ever known anything in his life.

     But these two men are exceptions.  This author has known people who have said they would not believe until they had an experience like Paul.  Well, they probably will never have an experience like Paul.  Paul was and is an exception.  God usually speaks in a still small voice to the spirit of man.  It usually follows the three point pattern outlined above.  Therefore, do not tell God how to handle his business of speaking to you.  Let him do it his way.  Your part is not to dictate to God, but to listen to God.  Listen!  He will speak.  Jesus said, "My sheep are hearing my voice and are keeping on hearing my voice".  Start listening.  You will hear.

Why You Must "Hear God" To Obtain The Blessings Promised You in The Abrahamic Covenant

      Without "hearing God", everything contained in these volumes is nothing more than a mechanical, religious system of rituals.  And no ritual, no matter how beautiful, has power enough to pull your hat off in a wind storm.  The truths contained herein are no exceptions.

     Every one has heard the proverbial story of the person who has gone through the motions and performed everything they were supposed to do.  They commanded, they used Jesus' name, they quoted scripture and died anyway.  What went wrong?  What happened?  Does this not work?

We have defined faith as information we receive from God that we are to act upon.  But this information must be information that we receive.  I can not act upon information that you receive.  I can act upon it, but it will not work for me.  It will work for you because it is God's word to you.  But, it will not work for me because it is not God's word to me.  It is God's word to you.

     When we have been taught the things in these volumes, we know what God has promised us. We know that God promised us healing, prosperity and well-being for our family.  We also know the mechanics of engaging the Devil in warfare to take back what is ours.  But there is one more vital instruction we must receive to make it all valid, powerful and alive.  That one instruction is: We must hear God!  Apart from hearing God on these matters, all we have is a dead, mechanical religious system that is as void of power as any other dead religion of formalistic ritual.

     God will work within the framework we have outlined in these volumes but there must be that vital link up between you and his own person.  When you begin to listen to God, this link up is formed.  When this link up between you and God is formed, you have tapped into his power.

     Jesus said, "For without me ye can do nothing", John 15:4.  The word "without" in this verse is the Greek word KORIS which means "apart from" or "detached from".  Detached from Jesus, everything contained in these volumes is nothing more than a religious, mechanical system of ritual and works.

     But, when you get alone and listen to his voice, he will "quicken" what has been said here.  He will quicken it to you.  Then it will be information that you and not someone else has received from God.  Then it will work for you.

     When he speaks, that act is the "attaching", the vital "link up" between you and God that Jesus said was necessary.  Otherwise.  "Ye can do nothing".  This "link up" between you and God is the most important thing contained in this volume. Without it, nothing said in it is valid.

     Get alone with God.  Stop walking the dogs and get the headset from the cassette player off your ears.  Listen for Jesus' voice.  He will speak.  And when he speaks, his word to you carries with it the built-in power necessary to perform exactly what his word to you contained.  His word is power.  What he says to your spirit contains his own power to perform it.  No wonder he said "For without me ye can do nothing".  But, when "linked up" with him through his word to you, we can do everything contained in that word!

     In a previous chapter, we listed over a hundred scriptures you may use to obtain the healing, prosperity and well-being for your family members.  Go over them until you find one or two that speaks to you.  Then go before God with them.  Explain your need to him.  Quote him the scripture you found.  Tell him that these scriptures are his words and promises to The Abrahamic Seed Group.  Let him know that you are a member of that group.  Let him know that the promises to that group include you.

     Then begin to listen for his voice.  There will be a "quickening" from his Spirit to your spirit. This "quickening", this "hearing" is the vital "link up" that Jesus said was necessary.  This quickening, link up or hearing is the act that bridges the gap so that you are no longer "Without me...". Consequently, you will have an "inner knowing" inside you that God has heard you, and that God is going to make good on his scripture promises to you.

     Now, you are not acting on someone else's information.  You are acting on information that God has quickened to you personally.  Now you have received information from God for you to act upon.  Now the things contained in these volumes are not mechanical.  They are infused with the life and power of God.  Now his word to you is "living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword", Hebrews 4:12.  And, remember that "...my word that goeth forth out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it", Isaiah 55:11.

     God's voice to your spirit is his word to you that quickens the word on the printed page of scripture.  So, go for it.  Get alone with God.  Listen for his voice.  This bridges the gap between you and him.  This is the linkup.  He will quicken his scripture words in this way.  Then you have information from him to you personally for you to act upon.  Then the Abrahamic blessings are yours.  His word to your spirit man contains the power necessary to perform every scripture promise he made to you.  Get alone with God and listen.  He is speaking to you even now.  "My sheep are hearing my voice and are keeping on hearing my voice".

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