Gaining Confidence in Hearing the Holy Spirit by
don’t know about you, but I just had no idea how to talk to God, let alone hear Him or have confidence I was hearing His Holy Spirit. I saw in the Bible that my faith depended on hearing Him (Romans 10:17) and that Jesus said Holy Spirit would speak to me and be in me (John 14:16). But how would I know that?
I just had no confidence. My heart was overflowing with anxiety about life, and my mind was full of so many questions and accusations. I could read that God had a remedy called “the peace of God that transcends all understanding” (Philippians 4:6–8), but it wasn’t placing a guard over my heart and mind! I was confused and troubled by the accusations bombarding my mind, tormenting my soul!
Then one day while reading and contemplating the Scriptures, I connected with three verses that have had a profound effect on my life. First, we see in Genesis 1:1 God at the center of creation: “In the beginning God.”
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Next in affirming the centrality of God in creation comes John 1:1. John starts his gospel by telling us that “in the beginning was the Word, . . . and the Word was God.” So again, God is speaking and is the central focus of life. And finally, John in his first letter says, “That which was from the beginning, which we have seen and our hands have touched, this we proclaim to you” (1 John 1:1–2, paraphrased).
Putting God at the Center
I realized that life’s story began with God at the center and that He was speaking. I realized that if I put God first in every area, He would speak to me in those places. I realized that God was speaking to me through the life of His Son, Jesus, the living Word. I realized that, in some way, I was invited to see and touch God and from that experience proclaim what I had experienced. So I started to read about the life of Christ and ask myself how His behavior reflects His character and therefore the nature of God. As I did this, I would experience moments of a deep spiritual touch. I would see certain situations in a new way. In essence, I awoke to the fact that I was beginning to hear God’s voice! I was extremely excited!
