Quiet Games - Pt. 2 - Hearing Aids 1 Series

2 Peter 1:3 - For His divine power has bestowed on us absolutely everything necessary for a dynamic spiritual life and godliness through true and personal knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence! This Word contains everything you need for life and godliness.

So you will struggle to hear God's voice if you don't know God's Word! Know His Word hear His voice. If you are in a season of silence, turn to His Word first! Not after you have tried every other voice.

2. The Holy Spirit

John 14:26 - But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my Name, will teach you all things and will remind you everything I have said to you.

He brings everything Jesus said to our remembrance. Think about that statement. The Holy Spirit helps us recognize and remember the sound of Jesus' voice!

The Holy Spirit is an essential aid in hearing the voice of God. That is why it is so essential for you to be filled with the Holy Spirit. As Pentecostals we have so often sold the Holy Spirit short as something that is just for good services or public gift displays. However, one of His key and forgotten roles is to help us hear more clearly. We focus on the speaking that the Holy Spirit does and fail to rely on the hearing that the Holy Spirit does.

Hebrews 10:15-16 - "But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us for after He had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds I will write them." I Corinthians 2:12 - Now we have received the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."

The Holy Spirit is a major hearing aid that we have turned into a major side show. We need to recalibrate and rely on the Holy Spirit to help us hear! I want you to experience the Holy Spirit not just so that you speak (in tongues) but so that you can also listen more efficiently.

3. The Prophetic

I want you to esteem and understand that we wholeheartedly believe in words of knowledge, words of wisdom, and personal prophecies. We know these are gifts of the Spirit. So we can't dismiss or discount God's ability to speak to us through someone else. We have been told "Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good" (I Thessalonians 5:19-21).

There is nothing to fear. We simply know that the One who knows everything about us can use anyone He chooses to use to speak to us! Have these gifts been misused and abused? Yes! Have these same gifts been underused and as a result silent seasons drag out that should have been short lived? Yes! Does the prophetic take the place of Scripture? No! Does it supplement and assert the Word? Yes!

I think because of how the gift has been used it has scared us into silence. We must learn to allow the Holy Spirit to prompt and interrupt our daily conversations. You don't have to stand up on your desk and declare thus sayeth the Lord! You can interact with people in a normal fashion and at the same time listen to the Holy Spirit and by saying what you hear Him say you can be used by God to end silent seasons in people's lives. Again it is absolutely necessary to have a foundation of Word before we try to speak for the Word.