You know when we walk in the Spirit, alert to God, we
hear what He’s saying to us as a natural part of our
spiritual walk. This is the Christian life, living responsive
to the voice of God in whatever fashion He may choose to
speak to us.
Unfortunately, there are also times when we choose to do
things our own way or become insensitive to know when
it’s God speaking. As a result, we head in a direction that
brings us to disaster or disappointment. God’s speaking,
but we aren’t listening.
We aren’t tuned in to Him. In these times, God often uses
unusual means to get our attention. Major ones among
them are:
1. An Unsolicited Word From Another Person — While
not all messages from others are positive, there are times
when God decides to speak to us through a friend,
stranger, a child or a church members etc. It is left to us to
be able to detect or realize it is God speaking to us
through the person. God does so in order for us to see that
he cares so much for you that he had to use someone to
tell you sometimes a stranger so that he might startle you
into paying close attention.
2. A Restless Spirit — God has frequently used a
persistent restlessness to direct people in their life.
Sometimes he uses it when the individual seems to busy
to notice the other ways God has spoken to him or her.
That restlessness drives us to seek God so
that, when the time came, you would be ready to hear
Him.
3. Unanswered Prayers — While God answers many of
our prayers in the way in which we desire, sometimes
He’ll delay an answer or answer a prayer with a definitive
“no” in order to get our attention or keep us from straying
off course. He knows that when all of our prayers seem to
be answered, we may become complacent and simply
cruise through life without listening to what He desires to
say to us.
There’s no such thing as an accident with God. The Father
may use many different methods to get our attention and
keep us in alignment with His will for our lives. But we
must always remember that He knows exactly what’s best
for us, and He’ll never quit trying to reach us so that He
can guide us into the wonderful plans and purposes He
has in store for each of us (Jer. 29:11).
4.Unusual Circumstances (Both Bad & Good) —
Circumstances can set us up to open our hearts to God and
turn our attention fully toward Him. While not all
circumstances are caused by God, some examples are;
illness, accidents, bankruptcies, divorces, and unusual
blessings of abundance bring people to their knees and to
a total reliance on Christ, sometimes for the first time in
their lives.
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