05. Discerning God’s Voice: Making Decisions Rooted in Faith

Trigger Warning: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - please see note below

 

Have you ever wondered if what you’re hearing inside your head is actually from God? Are there some lingering worries you’re making it up yourself or that maybe what you’re hearing is from the enemy?

 

If so, you’re not alone!! Listen in for 3 practical steps to take in discerning God’s voice so that you can make decisions rooted in faith and not fear.

 

NOTE: If you're struggling with mental health, please seek the proper help. The church has done so much damage with the belief that you can be healed of your mental struggles if you had enough faith or prayed hard enough. You won't find that message here. We don't put God in a box; while he can and does work miraculously, he can also work through therapy and medication.

I don't share this story to say that I was miraculously healed and you can be too. God delivered me just enough to make me see his power and relational nature but still be reliant on him. There are good mental days and not so good ones, but in all of them, God is still loving and faithful. 

 

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[Isa 30:21 ESV] 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

 

[Jhn 10:27 ESV] 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

 

[Rom 10:17 ESV] 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

 

[Jhn 3:16-17 ESV] 16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

 

[Heb 13:17 ESV] 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

 

[Pro 11:14 ESV] 14 Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

 

[Pro 12:15 ESV] 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

 

[Pro 5:22 ESV] 22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

 

[Gal 5:22-23 ESV] 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

 

[Luk 9:23 ESV] 23 And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

 

[Jer 17:9-10 ESV] 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."

 

[Pro 28:26 ESV] 26 Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.