Most people in the world today will never hear the voice of God. Most people in the Synagogues, the mosques, and the churches will never hear the voice of God. Most people who study and read the scriptures daily will never hear the voice of God. That’s a frightening thought that most believers today will never hear the voice of God. I tell you in one answer, but we will need to dig much deeper to really understand why most believers will never hear the voice of God. The one answer is that humanity is distracted by the powers of darkness, which has integrated itself into every area of society. The Bible says, “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17). Yes, this is war as the dragon does everything in his power to lead God’s elect children astray with every conceivable distraction. As we shall see these distractions are so strong it will take a great deal of effort, the truth from God’s Holy Word, and the power of the living God to repel them. It will take the indwelling Holy Spirit to open our ears to hear the still small voice of God. So, what are these distractions?
It would take many books to describe all of these distractions, but we can summarize by mentioning the different distractions that consume most of humanity’s time. Yes, time! Satan desires to occupy every second of your time on planet Earth. Excluding secular employment, sleeping, helping others in face-to-face relationships, and caring for your personal health needs, there are still many hours to be redeemed. It’s these other unredeemed hours that can lead us further away from hearing God’s still small voice. Satan gives humanity many choices from the many different forms of entertainment to political activism and from vain imaginations to alcohol or drug addiction. Satan does not care what you choose to occupy your time with as long as the time isn’t spent in silence and solitude and keeping in step with the Spirit. Satan knows if we spend heartfelt time in silence and solitude and if we righteously keep in step with the Spirit then all of our thoughts and actions will be focused only on what God desires for our life. This focus on God’s desires alone will eventually shield us from all the Satanic distractions in the world. It will also identify the many distractions in the fallen world, which will help you to experience the glory of being a child of God.
Dear friends, this makes knowing God’s desires for our lives very difficult with all the distractions in the world. So, it is essential to identify the distractions that hinder us from hearing God’s still small voice to know His desires. Essentially anything that distracts us from having silence and solitude or keeping in step with the Spirit must be identified and dealt with immediately. The first step is identifying the distractions that hinder our silence and solitude. These distractions are everything that interferes with our thinking and imaginations, vain or otherwise. Yes, God is very interested in what we think about, every moment of every day. Ideally, we want to think God’s thoughts after Him, in so doing there would be no distractions. Unfortunately, humanity finds many other things to think about that follow the desires of the flesh. These desires of the flesh span a whole spectrum of evil desires contrary to the holiness of God making it impossible to enter the state of silence and solitude where we can hear the still small voice of God. These evil desires dwelled on in the mind are legion, from sexual immorality to thinking of purchasing things we cannot afford, and from filling our minds with past hurts to thoughts of unforgiveness or revenge. Let not your ungodly thoughts be a distraction or hindrance to entering a state of silence and solitude to hear the voice of God.
The human mind is amazing beyond anything artificial intelligence has been able to emulate. Not only do our minds figure out complex problems and store vast amounts of information, but they can also imagine things not yet fulfilled. Again our very active minds can be a hindrance or distraction from only hearing what God wants to say to us, His elect children. Yes, silence and solitude always begin with emptying our minds of every thought, which becomes increasingly difficult when we allow our minds to enter the domain of vain imaginations. Vain imaginations go well beyond what is possible to what we desire to happen even if we consciously know it’s quite impossible. The mind can fabricate anything it desires from becoming rich and famous to becoming holy and righteous. It can imagine overcoming every problem facing humanity with us at the helm. Eventually, with the help of the Metaverse, we can even imagine ourselves living in a different reality. Vain imaginations become so prevalent in the minds of humanity that God decided to destroy the world with water. Let not our imaginations or vain imaginations be a distraction or hindrance to entering a state of silence and solitude to hear the voice of God.
The second step is identifying the distractions that hinder our ability to keep in step with the Spirit. These distractions are everything that interferes with what we do outwardly as we walk in the world. On the other hand, if we walk consistently in the Spirit, step by step, then we open our ears to the still small voice of God. This is another amazing miracle of God to give His elect children the indwelling Spirit to be with them every moment of every day. The Holy Spirit will always take the lead, in the believer’s life giving them needed direction from the throne room of God, if we allow it. Unfortunately, many believers have grieved the Spirit by turning a deaf ear or completely ignoring His direction in their lives. This happens when we are distracted by the things of the world and Satan knows it. Again, there is a legion of distractions in the world to keep God’s elect children off course and chasing the multitude of voices from the world, going in one direction, then another. When this happens dear children, then you will not hear the still small voice of God. Make no mistake, Satan has engineered these multiple voices from the world to confuse God’s children and cast them in one direction and then another. If Satan can fill the minds of humanity with the multitude of voices from the world, then he has accomplished his goal by stiffening the voice of God, thus grieving the Holy Spirit.
These multitude of voices come from many different sources from social media to news media, and from Hollywood movies to cable television and YouTube. Satan doesn’t care what these voices say or even what you believe; he simply wants your mind so full with the voices from the world that you cannot hear the still small voice of God. He wants to cast you in one direction, then another never arriving at a sound biblical foundation. Dear children, Satan wants you to grieve the Holy Spirit, which will have a profound effect on your Spiritual growth. Therefore, as people who call upon the name of Christ, we must stop listening to the world in its various forms and stop listening to the many thoughts that we put into our own minds from the flesh or vain imaginations. Only then will we truly hear the voice of God causing us to grow up spiritually from one degree of glory to another. If you refuse and continue to listen to the world then you will grow stagnant in your faith causing you to become more like the world destined for fiery pits of hell. Dear children, please strain to only hear the voice of God through the Holy Spirit. In conclusion, the Bible says, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Rev 3:20).
The Gospel Presentation
We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, which explains the many difficulties that you are currently facing in your life. Well, I have good news, God has solved that problem by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who was born of a virgin to show us the way to a beautiful new life in Christ. God has dealt with all of our sins past, present, and future by having His son pay the debt for our sins. Jesus Christ willingly went to the Cross in our stead by allowing all of the world’s sins to be placed upon Him as a sacrificial Lamb. As Christ hung on the Cross, the wrath of God was poured out on Him to pay the penalty for our sins. Jesus Christ died on the Cross and was buried for three days. On the third day, Christ arose from death to life everlasting. The good news is if we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then we will be forgiven for all of our sins and receive the Holy Spirit. The Spirit will lead us into all truth helping us in the transformation process of putting off the old life, allowing the old sin nature to die with Christ, and then putting on our new life in Christ by being raised with Christ to everlasting life. You can accept Christ today by confessing your sins to Him through a simple prayer asking Him to forgive you and make you into a new creation filled with the Holy Spirit. If you have done that, then you have just begun the greatest journey of your life that leads to heaven and eternal life. Welcome to the Kingdom.
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