If you’ve never heard the voice of the Holy Spirit clearly for yourself, I want to give you my process for hearing the Holy Spirit with confidence. Once you learn these truths, you’ll never be the same. Number one, relax. Now, I know that doesn’t sound spiritual, but seriously, you have to calm down. Stop obsessing over ideas like, “Oh, I’m missing the voice of the Holy Spirit.

” Or, “Maybe God’s trying to tell me something and I’m just not able to hear him.” Stop freaking out. You have to learn to trust in God’s ability to get through to you. It’s not that we’re so good at hearing the Holy Spirit that we can now be confident. I mean, think about this. We’re fallible. We have emotions. We have thoughts of our own.

We can get all mixed up and tangled up in self. So, we’re not trusting in our ability to hear the Holy Spirit. We’re trusting in the Holy Spirit’s ability to get through to us. Now, when you finally do begin to relax, and I know this is going to be hard to do because in letting go of this idea that you have to live in this tension of trying to hear God and letting go of that, you actually begin to walk in freedom and trust.

And in trusting God, you can actually hear him more clearly. You are set free from what I would call religious OCD. Because when I first got saved and I wanted to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, I became obsessively compulsive about wanting to hear the Holy Spirit to the point where when I was getting ready for the day, and I’m not joking.

I’m I seriously did this. When I was getting ready for the day, I would do things like, “Well, Lord, do you want me to wear the red shirt or the blue shirt?” And finally, once I was dressed for the day, I would hear little things like, “Go to that gas station, stand on the corner, and sit at that bus stop for the for the next hour or so.

” And I’d be like, “Okay, well, maybe this is a Lord. maybe this isn’t or every person I passed it would be like well maybe God wants me to say this to them or walk up to that person and use this random phrase and it created this tension in me this worry this anxiety and that’s not life in the spirit so watch this look at in 1st Samuel chapter 3 I’m going to give you an example of this 1st Samuel chapter 3 let’s go to verse one meanwhile the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli now in those days messages from the Lord were very rare