How to Hear God’s Voice – Week 1, Day 5 – The Gospel Truth
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gospel truth Bible teacher Andrew
Wommack
welcome to our Friday’s broadcast of the
gospel truth today I’m continuing to
teach on how to hear God’s voice and
this is actually a new updated teaching
from a teaching that I made in the year
2000 and so I’m updating it and I’ve
been teaching all week long about how to
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I think the things that I’ve shared this
week have really been powerful it’s just
real practical stuff hearing the voice
of God is man it’s worth millions it’s
just the greatest thing god almighty his
wisdom his ability his knowledge his
ability to see the future and on and on
you can go it’s just it gives you access
to wisdom to direction that you could
never come up with on your own it is
priceless and the sad fact is most
Christians do not hear the voice of God
very well but it’s not because God’s not
speaking I’ve ministered from John
chapter 10 and shown that he’s always
talking and that his sheep do here is
voice but the problem is we drowned it
out
we aren’t still listening to his voice
the voices of this world in just all of
the clamor around us it drowns out the
voice of God so we’ve talked about that
and when I started talking about
yesterday was that the number one way
that God speaks to us is through the
Word of God God will quicken scripture
to you the Holy Spirit wrote scripture
it says over in Peter that men were
inspired to write down the word and
actually if you study this out in the
Greek language it means that every word
of God is god-breathed God gave this
book the Bible is not like any other
book you know I haven’t read in 40-plus
books or whatever and I believe that God
anoints my books that people’s lives get
changed through it and there is an
anointing
but I wouldn’t claim that my books are
infallible the Word of God is infallible
I believe that it was inspired and
directed by God in a way that none of my
books are nobody else’s books I mean God
is still speaking today and I’m not
discounting the fact that he speaks
through people but the Word of God is
tried and true and it is just awesome it
is divine revelation from God over in
2nd Peter chapter 1 it says that all
things that pertain unto life and
godliness are given unto us through the
knowledge of him who called us to glory
and virtue and then in verse 4 it says
whereby are given unto us exceeding
great and precious promises the
exceeding great and precious promises is
referring to the Word of God so the Word
of God is the knowledge of God he’s
given us instructions on how to live our
life you know I’ve just recently been
teaching on the book of Proverbs and I
tell you the book of Proverbs is so
powerful it just tells you point-blank
exactly how we’re supposed to rule our
life their principles that were to live
by and one of the reasons that our world
is so screwed up today is because people
do not know the principles that are
revealed in the Word of God
they don’t study the book of Proverbs
and so they’re doing things their own
way and men society is just spinning out
of control because of it I’m telling you
the Word of God is the knowledge of God
he’s given it to us and as you read the
Bible the Holy Spirit will quicken
scripture to you I don’t know exactly
how to explain all of this it’s easier
to experience than it is to explain but
I don’t read the Bible as just words on
a page I don’t read it like I do another
book but when I read it I’m reading it
with my heart now obviously my eyes are
looking at it my mind is involved but my
heart is open and I’m saying God what
are you saying to me
through this and as I read the words on
the page the Holy Spirit makes them come
alive you know in Hebrews chapter 4
verse 12 it says the Word of God is
quick at word quick there means alive
it’s living the Word of God is quick
alive and powerful and sharper than any
two-edged sword piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit and
joint maura and is a discerner of the
thoughts and the intents of the heart
god’s word is a living thing you know
this is again hard for me to explain but
some people reverence the book I’ve been
in people’s homes before where they had
a big family Bible sitting on the table
and they served me tea and I set my tea
on top of the Bible and they sucked all
the air out of the room just how could
you do this you’ve set something on top
of the Bible and I had to move my cup
real quick and when I did you could see
a ring on there where the dust had been
on the battle they reverenced the book
they didn’t read the book they didn’t
believe the book but they reverence the
book you know I don’t reverence the book
like that I could take these pages and I
could tear them out of the Bible and it
wouldn’t affect the Word of God the Word
of God is a living thing now I believe
that this book and the words that are
here are an accurate representation but
the true Word of God isn’t just ink on a
page it’s living it’s God it’s his heart
and it’s God breathed it’s spiritual
it’s represented perfectly I believe by
the words on these pages but it’s a
spiritual thing and I have to read it in
the word is spirit and it’s life and it
comes alive to me and I could live
matter of fact every scripture that I
quote to you and I can quote thousands
and thousands of scriptures I never
memorize a scripture I don’t sit there
and just try and force myself to get it
memorized in my head and remember where
it is what I do I just read the word
but my heart is open and God quickens
these words to me and it becomes alive
it’s the word is living on the inside of
me and the reason I can quote it is
because I’ve lived it it’s a part of me
again I don’t know if I’m explaining
this so that you properly understand it
but there is a difference between just
living your life by the letter of the
word and you you have these scriptures
and you can quote it all of us have seen
religious people who had they could
quote some scripture but they totally
missed the application on it Jesus
talked about the Pharisees doing this
all the time that they strained it and
NAT and swallowed a camel that they had
all of these laws that they had set down
which were founded in the Word of God
but they had missed the whole purpose of
what the law was all for in the first
place and there are people today who
just used the word like a club and beat
people with it when the truth is it’s
alive and it’s meant to impart life not
death and the reason is because people
just take it and they intellectually
dissect it and use it to control their
life that’s not what I’m talking about I
take it and even though I reverence this
book the physical book it’s really the
spirit it’s the knowledge the heart of
God that is communicated in these words
and when I read the Bible my heart is
open and it’s the scriptures that God
quickens to me they come alive on the
inside of me let me give you an example
when I first got really turned on to the
Lord March the 23rd 1968 it was ten
years after I got born again but when I
got when I had this experience on March
the 23rd 1968 and I received the baptism
of the Holy Spirit I tell you the Bible
came alive to me prior to that time I
would read it as a duty as an obligation
thinking that if I would do this maybe
God would be pleased with me and I’d get
some blessing but I didn’t get real
revelation from it the Word of God
wasn’t a lie
to me but boy after that experience I
would read the word and it’s like every
time I was reaiiy couldn’t read more
than a couple of verses without God just
showing me something something would
come alive these verses would come alive
and God would apply it to my situation
and so one of the very first things that
happened was that after I had this
experience in 1968 I was so in love with
the Lord that I lost my desire for
anything everything I had a horse that I
rode every day of my life and it was
probably four and a half months later
before I even thought about the horse
I didn’t know if anybody had been
feeding the horse if it was still alive
I just forgot it I forgot everything I
fell in love with God and I was just
consumed with the Lord and I was in my
first year of college and I lost all
desire to go to college I didn’t want I
was going to be a math major and a
teacher in school is what I was
preparing for and I lost all desire for
that and so I just quit going to school
and after a brief period of time I
decided I was going to quit school
because I didn’t care anything about it
well my mother I was still single eyes a
living at home at this time I was 18
years old my mother boy did not like
that at all for many reasons education
was really important in our family
everybody in my family father mother
brothers sister in law’s outlaws
everybody were teachers and we had to
have an education and so it was a big
deal and so man I got a lot of criticism
a lot of rejection when I made that
decision plus I lost 350 dollars a month
that I was being paid by the government
to go to school that was part of my
father’s social security he died when I
was 12 and if I went to school the
government paid for my schooling so I
lost three hundred and fifty dollars a
month plus I had a deferment from the
draft if I would stay in school but if I
quit school I was going to lose my
deferment and I’d be drafted and sent to
Vietnam so there was all kinds of
reasons for me to stay in school but I
just lost my desire for it I had no
desire for school whatsoever and so I
said I was going to quit school and boy
with my mother just said no way you are
gonna stay in school so she made me go
to class and I went through the motions
but I hated it hated it hated it and
anyway I’m just going to give you an
example of how God quickens scripture to
you this is how God speaks to you so
after this experience I was still going
to college but at night I’d get together
with my friends and we would stay up
till 2:00 or 3:00 o’clock in the morning
studying Scripture and talking about the
things that God was doing and anyway one
night it was like 7:00 or 8:00 at night
and we were studying Scripture and
Romans 14:23 we read this verse and it
says he that doubt earth is damned if he
eat because he eateth not of faith for
whatsoever is not of faith is sin I had
read that verse before I probably could
have found it if somebody would have
asked me where it was but when we were
reading that verse that night that last
part where it says whatsoever is not of
faith is sin it just came alive on the
inside of me it was like it exploded on
the inside of me and all of a sudden I
realized that the situation I was in
where I felt like God was telling me to
leave school I had lost all desire for
it but I was continuing to be in school
because of my mother because of the
pastor of the church my friends all
kinds of people were telling me that no
this is stupid you got to stay in school
keep that deferment keep this money
coming from the government because of
this I was doing things that were not
what I felt in my heart and that verse
came alive that whatsoever is not of
faith is sin and God spoke to me through
that verse and that was awesome and I
mean I just knew that this was God
speaking to me that it was sin for me to
feel one thing
and to be doing another thing I guess if
you would have asked me maybe I would
have had those thoughts this knowledge
but God quickened it to me God spoke to
me through those scriptures and so
typically I would stay out with my
friends till 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning
and we would be studying the word but
boy that night I told him I said I’m in
sin I’m going home I’m gonna find out
whether God’s telling me to quit school
or whether he’s telling me to stay in
school but I am going to solve this
thing tonight and tomorrow I’m not going
to be in sin anymore I mean it was a
directive God spoke to me so I went home
and I was praying but I was also
studying the word because again this is
how God speaks to me is through the word
I was saying God do you want me to quit
school or not what am I supposed to be
doing and I was studying the word and
looking in the word for God to speak to
me and I read Colossians chapter 3 verse
15 and it says let the peace of God rule
in your hearts to the which also you
were called in one body and be thankful
and when I read that verse again it
wasn’t just words on a page but the Holy
Spirit quickened this to me and he said
this is your answer this is how you find
God’s will let the peace of God rule in
your heart and the Lord quickened to me
also Galatians 5:22 it says the fruit of
the Spirit is love joy peace peace is a
product a fruit a byproduct of the
born-again spirit and we are constantly
having peace in our spirit you might be
having turmoil in your mind and in your
body because of things but your spirit
has loved joy and peace so if you are
following the spirit you follow peace
and the Lord put these scriptures
together spoke to me and he said here’s
how you find out what the will of God is
what do you have peace and I looked up
this word here where it says let the
peace of God rule in your heart and it’s
literally the word that we get our
English word umpire from you need to let
peace function as
empire see as I was studying these
things and looking words up in the Greek
god spoke to me this is how he spoke to
me and he said let the peace of God
umpire let it make the decision what do
you have the most peace about and you
know to be truthful I didn’t have total
peace in any direction I sat down and
considered my options do I quit school
and I thought about what would happen if
I quit school well I’d been criticized
by people I was probably going to be
really criticized if I finalize my
decision in quit school I was had a
deferment from the Army if I was in
school if I quit I was going to lose
that deferment I might be drafted and
sent to Vietnam I was getting paid by
the government to stay in school if I
quit school I was going to lose that I
considered all of those things and when
I consider I didn’t have total peace
about quitting school because the truth
was I didn’t want to go to Vietnam I
didn’t want to potentially get killed in
Vietnam I didn’t want to lose 350
dollars a month I didn’t want people to
criticize me those things weren’t
appealing to me and so I didn’t have
total peace because I knew that those
were things were going to probably
happen but when I considered the options
I had more peace about quitting school
that seemed to be what was in my heart I
just had such a passion for God that I
lost my passion for anything else I had
more peace about quitting school than I
did staying in school even though there
were going to be these consequences and
here’s the way that the Lord spoke to me
and again this God spoke some things to
me that aren’t in Scripture but it came
from this scripture it was based in
these truths and the Lord spoke to me
and he says all right you don’t have
perfect peace but if somebody put a gun
to your head and they said you make a
decision right now and if you make the
wrong decision I’m going to kill you
which decision do you have the most
peace about say I had that thought come
to me that was an illustration and that
I’d never thought that before I believe
that that was God that gave me that
illustration and it’s based right here
let the peace of God rule
this is what it’s talking about an
umpire when an umpire you know in
baseball they throw the ball the umpire
doesn’t ever say well I wasn’t sure
let’s just play this one over no you
have to make a decision and see that’s
what this illustration that the Lord
gave me was if somebody had a gun cocked
into your head and you make a decision
and if it’s the wrong one you’re going
to die oh boy that’s pretty that’s got
some serious consequences to it that’s
immediate man this I’ve got to make a
decision right now and the Lord used
that spoke that to me from this
scripture and when it was put to me that
way there was no question I wasn’t at
totally at peace because of the
potential consequences but if it was
going to be my life which it could have
been if I went to Vietnam I could have
been killed in Vietnam I mean this was a
life and death decision and if it was
life and death and if I had to make a
decision there was no way to just not
make a decision I had to make a decision
then which one did I feel the most peace
about and immediately I said well I feel
most peace about just quitting school
that’s why it’s in my heart that’s what
I feel so I made that decision in faith
and went to sleep and the next day I got
up and because I wasn’t completely sure
remember this is just a month or so
after the Lord had really just
intervened in my life and I was just
beginning to grow in the Lord and
because I wasn’t completely sure I just
went out and kind of tested the waters
and I went to the three people who had
criticized me the most people who I
respected greatly and I really value
their opinion and everyone I meet told
me you are wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
to even consider quitting school one of
these people was a school teacher that I
had had who is a Christian who had
spoken into my life and they were very
good friends with my mother my mother
was a schoolteacher and because they
were friends with my mother and they
knew how my mother felt about me
quitting school they just came down on
me hard and told me I was absolutely
stupid for even thinking acquitting
school so I went back to this lady and I
told her I said I’ve made my decision
about school and she said what is it and
I said God told me to quit school and
when I said that I was braced for them
just exploding on me and telling me how
wrong I was and instead they got tears
in their eyes and they said I’d give
anything to be in your shoes and I was
just totally shocked I said why and they
said because you’re 18 years old and
already God is speaking to you and
giving you direction for your life and
they said you know I thought they were
ancient they may have only been in their
50s or 60s which doesn’t look ancient to
me now amen but anyway they said I’m
however old they are and I don’t know
for sure that I’ve ever heard the voice
of God I’m just doing this you know just
because it’s what I’m doing and men
after seeing their reaction in the way
that God just I mean God confirmed to me
my decision and I went to those other
two people and by the end of that day
all doubt about what God had told me to
do was gone and man I was confident and
Here I am 48 years later and that was
one of the greatest decisions that I
ever made it just I mean turned my life
around 180 degrees it started me on a
path that I would literally have had to
back slid against God to keep from being
where I am today God put me on a path it
was one of the greatest decisions I’ve
ever made in my life when I had just
gotten turned on to the Lord I was 18
years old I didn’t understand much of
the word or anything but God spoke to me
through his word and said whatsoever is
not of faith is sin and then he told me
how to make a decision Colossians 3:15
let the peace of God rule in your heart
I acted on the things that the Holy
Spirit quickened to me through the word
and it just totally transformed my life
one of the most important decisions that
I’ve ever made and you know how it
happened you know how God spoke to me
through his word
I was reading his word with my heart not
with my brain and the Holy Spirit
quickened it to me and it came alive and
he spoke to me through that word and
that has happened thousands upon
thousands of times in my life God
speaking to me through the word he just
spoke to me a couple of days ago a major
thing in our ministry through the word
and it’s the number one way that God
reveals himself to me and gives me
direction and speaks to me is through
reading the word with my heart and not
just my head and then the Holy Spirit
quickens it to me man this is powerful
the things that I’ve shared with you
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