By Faith We Know God's Voice

When I was little I had this problem with confusion. Any little thing can get me confused, and when that happens I am totally destabilized; I don't know what to do, how to act or react.

I was always getting confused at almost everything but then I became born again. That confusion and the tendency to get confused followed me into the Christian life. Then it came to recognizing God's voice and telling the difference between God's voice and that which is not God's voice.

I have no confidence of any kind and that was the very reason I always get confused. I just cannot confidently say, "I heard God speak to me". The question, "what if" always come up, "what if it was just my mind, what if it is the devil, what if I am just imagining things, what if..."

I always have a thousand "what if" and at that state I was sure that I will never be confident about hearing God's voice. I am just confuse, and it is just the way I am. I wish I am like other people maybe then I would be a better Christian.

But the Holy Spirit started teaching me things like, "by faith we know... by faith we are fully persuaded... by faith we are sure, we have all confidence". Hmmm interesting, but faith in what?

"My sheep knows my voice, and when I call they follow me: A stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."

The Lord has given his word and I must place my faith on it. He said I know his voice and by faith in that word I know that I know his voice, I am fully persuaded about it, no room for doubts, I am sure and I have all confidence that next time he speaks to me I will know that he is the one speaking.

So when the old man come with that confusion thing I tell him, "old David you are dead, I am not confuse anymore for I am now in Christ, God is not the author of confusion, there is no confusion in Him. Look here, I have the ability to know God's voice and I know that I know that what I am hearing now is God speaking to me".

Sure, many times I was wrong, but a baby doesn't learn how to walk in a day. I will not, because of my mistakes, begin to succumb to that unbelief, telling myself that I am not sure about God's voice. No, I am sure, I know it, even if I have just finished making the mistake I still tell myself, "I am sure, I know it". Yes, we walk by faith and not by sight.

I see myself making the mistake but I know that I am perfect in Christ, I hold on to that faith, and as a result I continue to grow into that perfection. Till today the doubt still tries to poss itself but I look at myself to know if I have been operating in Christ or I have been operating in the flesh. If I am sure that I am operating in Christ (expressing Christ) then I am fully confident because in Christ the flesh is dead and all that exists is Christ, so I cannot hear anything but Christ.

But if I am not sure that I have been operating in Christ then I get back into walking in Christ and I listen again. If the voice disappears it means it was the flesh, it does not exit in Christ, so I cannot hear it in Christ. And if the voice persist after I have secured my walk in Christ then it cannot be anything but Christ. You see there is a room for testing, we are not operating in blind faith, but the cross is our testing tool, it is the tool of the Spirit and we are spirits.

We use the cross to test all things, we take them to the cross, if they die and do not resurrect then it is not Christ, but if they resurrect then it has the power of resurrection and it cannot be anything but Christ. Nothing of the flesh can survive the cross, the cross is so powerful that it kills everything that is of the flesh and it ensures that they stay locked in the grave.

Yes, we can always trust the cross, this is why we must know the cross. We must master the way to the cross, for we need to walk that path as frequently as possible, until we are radiating glory from all sides, manifesting the power of resurrection, the fullness of Christ.