Daily devotion – God is speaking to you but are you hearing Him?
“He That Hath an Ear”
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:11
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Revelation 2:17
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation 2:29; 3:6; 3:13
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 13:9
If any man have an ear, let him hear.
When I became a follower of Christ, there was a deep desire in my heart to hear from God—to have Him speak to me. Not with an audible voice, but through the direction and leading of the Holy Spirit in my life. Yet in the early years of my walk, I struggled with this. Why?
I was reading the Bible, yes—but not in its proper context. A passage here one day, another passage there the next. That is not truly reading the Bible; it is using God’s Word like a roulette wheel, spinning it this way and that. And I was still not hearing from God.
As I matured, my approach to Scripture changed. I began to take daily reading seriously and contextually—reading whole books of the Bible, chapter by chapter and verse by verse, picking up each day where I had left off.
That is when God began speaking to me in volumes—consistently, clearly, and powerfully. It was remarkable just how much God was speaking as I read, and even after I had closed my Bible.
God is always speaking, but we are not always listening. Our ears are often filled with the noise of the world, distracted by self, dulled by familiarity with sin or busyness. His voice becomes harder to discern.
Think of a parent in a crowded room full of noise and chatter. In an instant, they hear a child cry—their child—and without hesitation they stop everything and run. Why? Because familiarity and relationship have trained their ears.
God is speaking to you. The question is not is He speaking?—but are you listening?
God speaks to us through His Word. The writer of Hebrews reminds us:
Hebrews 1:1–2
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…
This week, set aside intentional time. Open your Bible. Read it carefully, prayerfully, and in context. And the God who created heaven and earth, the God who gave His only begotten Son to die upon the Cross at Calvary, the God of Abraham—He will speak with you.
That, I can guarantee.