We once played a game where one had to whisper in the ear of another the word he or she heard from the person before him or her. Most cases heard the person at the end of the queue speaking a word totally different from the one that the first person spoke. The first person could have said ‘heir’. The last could mention ‘hair.’ This is one of the reasons I believe — other than love — made God tear the veil in twain when Jesus died.
The Old Testament had a priest go into God’s presence on behalf of many people. In case the priest had beef with a specific man, I believe he could manipulate any message he heard from God concerning that specific man.
This could make sense in today’s setting, where a man in a high office (e.g pastor) perhaps likes a specific girl, but the feeling isn’t mutual. He’d say anything to try and lure her to himself in the name of God. This works most times depending on the magnitude of influence that pastor (or prophet or apostle or deacon) could be having.
The voice of God has always been attacked ever since the very beginning in Eden’s Garden. The serpent asked Eve if God had really said abc… The doubt she developed in regards to this led humanity to where it is.
Peter from the Church of Tsevhar was accused that he didn’t hear the voice of God to start a prayer altar. His pastor told him,
“You instead heard the devil or a familiar spirit.”
When the story I heard, I wondered how the devil can encourage anyone to pray let alone start an altar! Peter later began doubting God at such an alarming level. Whenever God said anything to Him after that, he wanted Him to prove that ‘I AM’ really said it.
It affected their relationship greatly, and I believe that’s what the enemy was reenacting — with the template from Eden.
With a pinch of doubt doth mistrust follow.
Peter was frustrated that he was punished for doing something God asked him to do. For every instruction that followed, he hesitated to carry through, scared that things would turn on him.
The one thing you must make up your mind about is to ascertain the position and sound of God’s voice in your life. Yes, some things will come and try to make you doubt it. Peter (our earlier example) also talks about how God had spoken concerning a particular girl being his wife-to-be. This has happened so many times to boys of his caliber. In a sad sharing with us, he said he doubted the more if He had heard God when the girl ended up in another man’s house. That exacerbated things. Voices in his head nearly convinced him that God is a liar and therefore not worthy of trust.
There’s no shortcut to sharpening one’s ears to God’s voice. I wonder how Abraham was convinced that the voice that talked to Him whilst he worshipped the moon was God’s. It’s all faith. You have to believe God’s spoken to you;
When your trust in that voice is shaken, you’d mistrust the next instruction that was going to change your life, or another’s or the world!
God said that His sheep know His voice. You’re the sheep of His pasture. Something could have happened in the past, or recently, but do not judge God’s voice basing on one issue that went south. Remember the other times you said you heard Him, and clearly all came to pass.
Today’s article’s purpose is to remind you that the enemy has launched an attack not only against your health or wealth, but also on the mere certainty of the voice of God in your life. Remember how we began. God did away with the need to wait on another man to listen on His opinion of you. Why? That procedure was so bureaucratic. What would happen if that middle man vanishes? How will you then hear God?
An angel had to deliver an answer to Daniel when he prayed, but the angle was delayed 3 weeks by the kingdom of darkness. What if it was an urgently needed formula for a deadly pandemic? How much damage could have happened amidst those 3 weeks? What if Abednego fell victim of the pestilence, would Daniel be happy to have the solution weeks later?! You can see how God detested ‘middle-manism’ and thus, choosing to dwell within us, needing no angel to convey an answer for us from Him.
Of course, I’m not de-campaigning the role of those that oversee your spirituality. I have already hinted on the manipulation that can happen in case one of these has beef with you. Let them (men of God) however only come to confirm what God has already spoken to you in the secret place.
Obviously, a spiritual babe (who hasn’t quite familiarized God’s voice) will need those who know God’s pitch clearly. But that doesn’t stop God from speaking to the babes in gibberish, just like parents go silly, speaking back to actual babies in their meaningless language.
We can as well accommodate or suffer others to share with us what they think God is saying to us. Perhaps we’d be so stubborn that we are dodging instructions like going to Nineveh. So God has to tell others to pass the message across. If they still fail, He resorts to whales and talking donkeys.
But let that not be primary.
Pastors themselves have themselves and their families to pray for and to hear from God for. The responsibility of hearing God pertaining your matters should not be a responsibility you delegate to others. That’s yours!
Doubting what God’s said is also an act of treason indirectly. For He’s not a man to lie. In 1 Kings 13, a man of God was instructed not to eat anything while on the mission God had sent him to. He declined the king’s offer of a meal, but fell for the deception of an older prophet. Having finished to dine, his corpse went to his fathers’ tomb. Reason? Disobedience. Of course, doubt precedes disobedience, as we saw for Eve’s case. And I’m not saying you’ll die for doubting or disobeying. No! Regardless, there can be consequences.
The man of God in 1 Kings 13 broke the promise only because he thought the word from another (older or even more experienced) prophet was above what God had spoken to him personally.
I can’t seem to exhaust the different scenarios and possibilities that can get someone doubting God’s voice. Some could be tests. And many are! But if you know God’s voice, and He’s confirmed it again and again, stand firm against the enemy’s wiles. Do not be moved; and be it known unto you that God will never stop speaking to you.
He enjoys conversing with you. He insists that you call on/to Him and He’ll answer. Only sharpen your listening skill, and don’t be too busy for Him; or among voices that drown His; so that He won’t have to go find someone else to speak to you on His behalf.
And in Mark’s words, I conclude, ‘If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.'(4:23 KJV)
I now hand you over to Him, to continue serenading you.
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John 10:27 My sheep recognize (hear) my voice. I know them, and they follow me. (Msg)
Psalms 121:3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
Deuteronomy 32:12 So the LORD alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.
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