Understanding God's Voice in Warfare

Sep 18, 2024

Lecture Notes: Hearing God's Voice and Spiritual Warfare

Introduction

  • Voices Series: Aimed at empowering individuals by understanding and responding to God's voice.
  • Empowerment: Emphasis on becoming sons and daughters who hear, know, and obey God's voice.
  • Key Outcomes: Potential for revival, breaking of chains, and nullifying enemy attacks.

Spiritual Warfare

  • Hearing God's Voice: Considered the 'cheat code' to spiritual warfare.
    • Importance of receiving clear orders from God.
    • Without hearing God, reliance is solely on personal voices and thoughts.
  • Cultural Colloquialisms: Critique of advice like "follow your heart," which is seen as flawed.
  • Comfort Zones: The danger of only going where we're comfortable.

Influence of Friends and Teaching

  • Bad Teaching and Companions: Can negatively affect spiritual hearing.
    • Proverbs 13: Those who walk with wise become wise.
  • Impact on Future Seasons: Regular exposure to certain teachings and companions shapes our future.

Biblical Examples of Hearing God

  • David's Inquiry: David sought God’s counsel before making decisions (2 Samuel 5:19).
  • Israelites' Mistake: Israelites took actions without God's counsel (Joshua 9:14).

Confirmation in Decisions

  • David’s Approach: Seeking God's confirmation before engaging in battles.
  • Importance of Assurance: Confidence in confirmed actions and decisions.
  • God’s Confirmation: Not always aligns with personal desires; requires knowing one's own lane.

Assurance vs. Assumptions

  • Assurance: Comes with confirmation from God and is already paid for through Jesus.
  • Assumptions: Flesh-based and can lead to costly mistakes.

Hearing God Beyond Chaos

  • Identifying God’s Voice: Ability to discern God's voice amidst many other voices and distractions.
  • Role of Silence: Silent moments are opportunities for God to speak.
  • Cultural Noise: Many voices and cultural inputs can drown out God's voice.

Training and Wisdom

  • God’s Timing: Not delay; it's a training day for your spiritual ear.
  • Value of Wisdom: Can provide insights in a day that took others years to acquire.

Deception and Distraction

  • Enemy Tactics: To flood life with voices to prevent hearing God.

Practical Guidance on Confirmation

  • Confirmation as Authorization: Checking if one has God’s authority for actions.
  • Familiarity with God’s Voice: Necessary for recognizing His guidance.
  • Repetitive Nature of Confirmation: God often repeats His instructions until obeyed.
  • Unsettling Inner Feelings: Often signals something is not aligned with God’s will.

Conclusion

  • Objective of Series: To become trained in recognizing and understanding God’s voice.
  • Prayer and Confession: Commitment to seeking God’s will and confirmation in all decisions.