If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. John 7:17
Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. Isaiah 30:21
If we are to hear God's voice in His word or in our conscience; we must first of all be willing to do His will.
Our hearts and minds must be set to go in the direction that God has for us.
Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will. And I know that I will not be put to shame. Isaiah 50:7
We must set our face to go in the direction that God has for us if we are to hear the word of God.
It's easy in our mouths to say that we love God and wants to please Him, but God is not deceived, He looks at the heart to see where your will is set.
When He shows you something you should do, He looks at you. He speaks to us in private to test us.
Can you imagine if God spoke to us from heaven with a voice where those around us are hearing? We would obey immediately otherwise we would lose our reputation. God speaks to us in private. You neighbor, and Even your closest friend does not know what God speaks to you. You can disobey God and still maintain your reputation but When sees that, He will no longer continue speaking to you. You will become deaf to His voice.
Have you obeyed that voice in your heart that tells you to forgive, to apologise to those you hurt, to repay that debt, to stop doing something, or to do something. No one knows but remember that God is testing you. Make sure you don't fail the test.
The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye( your conscience)is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.
If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.”
Luke 11:34-36
We learn here that keeping our conscience clear is important to hearing a word from God in our hearts which will illuminate our lives.
When your conscience is bad, you invite darkness into your life thus you must always maintain a clear conscience.
If your conscience convicts you of something, maybe something you have to repay, or apology you are make, or a sin you must repent of, if you silence that voice of conscience, you will all your life live in darkness.
Paul warns us that those who ignore the voice of conscience, their faith gets shipwrecked and they become backsliders. 1Tim 1:19
Cling to your faith in Christ, and keep your conscience clear. For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked.
Paul says that He did his best to always maintain a clear conscience before God and men. Act 24:16
This is why He was able to hear God and fulfil His purpose.
He also was determined to do God's will regardless of the cost.
But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24
Thus for us to hear God, we must be determined to do God will in everything and keep our conscience clear all the time.
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