Training Yourself to Hear God.

Matthew 10:27
27 What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.

I know you're probably really tired of me talking about listening to and hearing God, but it's extremely important. It's just that there are a few different angles with this. Nonetheless, this will be a wrap on the discussion.

Often times God puts us through a strict and difficult training exercise so that we're disciplined to hear his words and thus abide by them. Pay attention to dark times when God is trying to teach you something. For just about everything we experience, God incorporates a significant lesson meant for us to acquire.

As easy as it seems to speak up and become angry during the dark times in life, sit back in silence during these times. Just wait it out through communication with God and obedience. I'm telling you to be quiet during the dark times so that you clearly hear God. Then you can "speak in the daylight." Why does God ask us to do this? So that we can share the message that we learned with others.

It is amazing to hear God speak, but sometimes it feels like it takes eons and eons to hear something. Thus, our pleasurable feelings are most likely coupled with humiliation when we come back into the light. If we're not directing ourselves to God, then we've probably been missing what he's wanted to convey to us for days, weeks, months, or even years. That humiliating feeling that we receive is purposeful in the sense that it should lighten your heart. This will allow you to listen so that you can willingly hear God more.