Dear People Who Keep Company With God,

Gary Chapman wrote a book titled, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate. It outlines five ways to express and experience the love that Chapman calls “love languages”.  love language

God Himself has a love language. God always speaks through His Son, Jesus Christ (Heb. 1:2). Unlike man’s love language, which according to Chapman’s book is limited to five expressions, God expresses His love and commitment to us in innumerable ways with Christ always being the center. There is no real life apart from His communication with us (Matt. 4:4).

Communication with God is Spirit to spirit, not brain to brain or mouth to ear, the way we communicate in the physical realm. The Lord speaks to our spirits, typically not in physical, audible words, but in pictures, thoughts and impressions. In other words, through seeing, hearing and inward impressions. For sure, God can and does communicate in many, many other ways, but these are foundational ways He communicates Himself to us.

Seeing in the spirit means that the Lord is allowing you to see into the spiritual realm. When this happens, you are able to see mental images, visions and dreams. God gave this ability to men and women when the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pentecost (Acts 2). We need the spirit of wisdom and revelation to rest on our hearts to give us light to see (Eph. 2:17).

Hearing God is emphasized in the Book of Revelation. Jesus had a unique message for each of the seven churches (Rev. 2-3). But He said one common thing to all of them, “He who has an ear to hear, let him hear”. He purposely said an ear, not ears because it is not natural hearing, but listening with our spirit. Let is the key to hearing. Don’t try to hear, just keep your heart humble and open to hear.

Spiritual impressions are a perception, an intuition or sense of the Holy Spirit within you; it is not knowledge having to do with the physical or carnal senses, but the Spirit forms an impression or feeling within your spirit (Acts 20:23-24). Some people call it an inner knowing.

God usually communicates to me through impressions and sight, but on occasion, I will hear His voice in my spirit. That always gets my attention since it is not the norm for me and usually it is something important.

How can you be sure it is His voice communicating to you?

We need to know that there are other voices whispering in our hearts as well. In fact, there are at least three voices vying for our attention: the voice of God, the voice of our own fleshly desires, and the voice of the devil. But Jesus tells us in John 10:4-5, “…and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”

The writer of Hebrews tells us that we can train our spiritual senses  to recognize the voice of God, above all, the noise. “But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Heb. 5:14). It is by practicing, by reason of use, that we are able to discern whether what we hear, see or sense is of God, our flesh or the devil.

It boils down to a love relationship with God. When we are walking in a love relationship with Him, it is easier to identify the voice of the enemy or our flesh because we have become familiar with the most beautiful voice there is,  the voice of God.

Many Blessings, BW

 

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