Andrew Wommack’s daily TV program: Gospel Truth

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welcome to gospel truth celebrating the

good news of Jesus Christ the coming of

the savior of the world

Emmanuel God with us and now here’s

gospel truth Bible teacher Andrew

Wommack

welcome to our Monday’s broadcast of the

gospel truth today I’m going to start a

brand new series and I’m going to start

sharing with you talking about how to

hear God’s voice I tell you this is so

powerful it’s just amazing that Almighty

God would take time to speak to each of

us individually but boy he does and I

tell you in my life this has been a key

there are so many things that I could

share with you about how God has spoken

to me and directed me and has shown me

pitfalls and problems that were awaiting

and is just I mean my whole life is all

about God’s speaking to me and I’m trace

it back to when I first got born again

at eight years old but when I was 18 is

when God really rang my bell and started

speaking things to me and since that

time in 1968 my whole life is a result

of hearing God’s voice and if if the

Lord hadn’t have led me and spoken to me

and given me the things that he’s done I

guarantee you I just I certainly

wouldn’t have ever been on television I

certainly wouldn’t be ministering to

people the way that I am and this isn’t

just for ministers this is for everyone

you know let me start with the verse

over here in John at Jeremiah chapter 10

and verse 23 and this verse is something

that God spoke to me decades ago and

this has just become a foundation

Scripture in my life but if you read it

in its context it’s talking about the

total destruction of Israel because they

had rejected God and therefore God was

going to conquer the nation send them

into captivity it talks about the

terrible judgment and in right in the

middle of Jeremiah prophecy in all of

this he just comes out no God how could

this have happened how could the people

who were once so favored by you and so

blessed by you ever come to a position

where you forsook them and put them into

slavery and took them as slaves into

Babylon and he answers his own question

I believe

the inspiration of the holy spirit here

in Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 23 and he

says O Lord I know that the way of man

is not in himself it is not in man that

walketh to direct his steps and this is

how tragedy comes is because God did not

create us to be self directed now I

believe that he gave us the privilege of

that he gave us that choice God doesn’t

force us we aren’t robots but God never

created us to function independent of

him and there just so many scriptures

you know over in proverbs chapter 3

verse 5 trust in the Lord with all of

your heart and lean not unto your own

understanding in all of your ways

acknowledge him and he shall direct your

paths that and just a I mean hundreds of

other scriptures show that God intended

for us to depend upon him to be led by

him to be directed by him this is the

way that God created us to be and really

all of our problems come from being

self-motivated doing it our own way you

can go all the way back to the Garden of

Eden Adam and Eve God had given them

instructions that this is the way I want

you to live I do not want you to eat of

the tree of the knowledge of good and

evil they chose to do it their way they

thought they knew better than God they

thought if they ate of the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil they would be

better off and so they did it their way

and win against what God spoke to them

and that’s what assure the entire human

race into all of the problems that we’ve

got so really I believe that you could

trace all of our problems and I know

that this is too simple for some people

but I think if you just peel back the

layers if you keep digging down the root

of all problems in our life is that we

do things our own way we do not listen

to God we don’t follow his direction

again I could turn to many scriptures up

I just was teaching from the book of

Proverbs yesterday in our Bible school

and it was talking about that if we

would heed the Word of God we would have

long life

would have a pleasant life that God

would direct our steps it would keep us

from trouble that we would have blessing

in our life and on and on and just this

is repeated so many times in Scripture

that if we would follow God’s directions

that it leads to an abundant life Jesus

even said this in John chapter 10 verse

10 it says the thief cometh not but for

to steal to kill and to destroy but I am

come that you might have life and that

you might have it more abundantly and so

Jesus came to give us an abundant life

John 16:33 in the world you’re going to

have tribulation but be of good cheer I

have overcome the world and the Lord

told us not to let our heart be troubled

and on and on and on it goes

there is an abundant life there is a joy

a peace of fulfillment that comes from

following God but how can you follow God

if you don’t know how to hear his voice

and that’s a big statement right there

so what I want to do is to teach on how

to hear God’s voice I’ve got a teaching

on this this is actually over 16 years

old that I taught on and I just went and

listened to the introduction to it and

it was 16 years ago when I taught this

and the Lord has shown me so much more I

hadn’t taught on this a long time so I

just felt like this was an appropriate

thing and especially you know as we

begin a new year man we need to make a

decision that we’re going to make this

year count and how do you do that God’s

plans for you are better than your plans

for yourself you know let me turn over

here to Jeremiah chapter 29 and verse 11

it says for I know the thoughts that I

think toward you says the Lord thoughts

of peace and not of evil to give you and

expected in I think it’s the NIV that

says to give you a hope in the future

God has good plans for your life God’s

never made a piece of junk God’s plans

for every person watching this all

around the world we’ve got over 3.2

billion people that could see this

program of course not all of those watch

but I mean there are people all over the

world watching this program right now

it doesn’t matter where you are doesn’t

matter what color your skin is it

doesn’t matter what kind of situation

you’re in if you’re in a third-world

country and in the natural it looks like

you know what could God ever do with my

life god never created a failure God’s

plans for you are good God wants to use

you in a powerful way he wants to make

your life abundant and that is God’s

will but it goes on to say in verse 12

then shall you call upon me and you

shall go and pray unto me and I will

hearken unto you and you shall seek me

and find me when you shall search for me

with all your heart notice he didn’t say

that you shall seek me and find me

period it says you shall seek me and

find me when you shall search for me

with all of your heart one of the very

first things about hearing the voice of

God is you got to desire to hear God’s

voice God is a gentleman and he is not

going to force himself upon you you know

the Lord will not compel you force you

to follow him and to do his things God

wants us to respond to him out of love

the Lord will reveal himself to you he

will make himself known to you but you

have to seek and when I hear people

saying well I asked the Lord for

direction and I didn’t get it this says

you shall seek and find me when you

shall search with all of your heart when

a person says I’ve asked the Lord and I

don’t hear from the Lord all that says

is that you didn’t seek with all your

heart God is faithful I know God

personally I know that he is 100%

faithful it is never God that doesn’t

speak to us but we are the ones that

fail to hear from God because we aren’t

seeking with all of your heart so one of

the very first things you got to do is

just to recognize that this is not

something that God forces upon you if

you want to live your own way if you

want to live independent of God he’ll

let you now he will try and draw you to

himself he’ll send people across your

path some of you may not recognize it

but that’s what’s happened today there’s

some of you just flipping through the

dial and you’re just wondering what who

is this guy and what’s he saying

and God is trying

to reach you today God is reaching out

and speaking but you know he won’t force

himself upon you you can change the

channel if you want to you can sit here

and reject this and say all this isn’t

true and but God is reaching out to you

through me through other things through

nature it says in Psalms 19 that nature

is crying out it’s lifting up its voice

it’s speaking day and night and God is

trying to reveal himself to you the Lord

is constantly trying to reach you but he

will not compel you you have to seek and

you will find when you search with all

of your heart another way of saying this

is as long as you can live without

hearing God’s voice you will but when

you get to a place that God I just

realize that the way of man is not in

himself

you didn’t design me to direct my own

pass you gave me the choice I can choose

to follow your leading or I can choose

to do it my way but you didn’t design me

to live independent of you you made men

to be dependent upon God and if you get

that commitment and say I want to know

you I want to hear your voice and I am

going to seek you and I’m going to find

you because I’m going to search with all

of my heart I am not going to quit until

I hear it’s never God that’s having

problems speaking and God is speaking to

you constantly but our heart can become

hardened towards God so that we have a

hard time hearing him let me read these

verses to you out of Mark chapter 4 this

is where Jesus taught that parable about

sowing seed in the ground and there was

only one out of four types of ground

that actually produced the fruit but it

says the disciples asked him and they

says why why do you speak unto them in

parables he says this people’s heart is

waxed gross and their ears are dull of

hearing and you know the very wording

there it says their heart is waxed gross

that is a word picture and it describes

the way that you know you make made a

candle in those days you would take a

wick and you would just dip it into hot

wax and lift it out

you know I’ve been to some of these

places where they make candles the way

that they used to do hundreds of years

ago and I’ve seen this process and you

just stick a wick down in hot wax and

lift it out for just a second or two and

that wax kind of hardens on there and

then you dip it again and you put

another layer and another layer and

eventually you get an entire candle

around that wet wick and so when it says

that their heart has waxed gross that’s

a word picture describing this process

that it doesn’t happen all at once did

you know that children when they’re

young they have an ability that they’re

just simple they’re sincere they’re pure

and they they can hear the voice of God

and so we come into this world we do

have a sin nature but it isn’t imputed

it’s not really active until we

willfully start rejecting God and

activate that and that’s over in Romans

chapter 7 but anyway my point is that

you start out with an ability to hear

from God but most of us let our hearts

wax gross just layer after layer after

layer of insensitivity towards God and

then as it goes onto saying that verse

that their ears are dull of hearing God

is speaking to you 24 hours a day God is

constantly trying to reveal himself in

his will and his ways unto you but our

heart has waxed gross this is exactly

what it talks about in proverbs chapter

3 in chapter 4 where it says attend unto

my words that word attend in the Hebrew

it means to prick up the years and what

this is talking about it’s a word

picture of how an animal you know I have

deer at my place I’ve had horses all of

my life and these animals when they hear

something well you can see their ears

just instantly prick up and they can

turn their ears and focus on where that

sounds coming from to figure out what

this is and this is a word picture the

scripture is saying that we need to

prick up our ears we need to tune our

hearing towards God God is speaking to

you 24 hours a day

all of the time there is never a time in

your life that God hasn’t tried to

direct you but our hearts have waxed

gross our ears have become dull of

hearing not because of God but because

of us and we need to recognize it’s our

hearing problem not God’s speaking

problem and we need to work on our

hearing now I think it’s important to

make this point because when I start

talking about hearing the voice of God a

lot of people say well God just doesn’t

speak to me he does he’s speaking to you

constantly let me show you these verses

in John chapter 10 this was Jesus

speaking and in John chapter 10 verse 1

he says verily verily I say unto you he

that entereth not by the door into the

sheepfold but climbeth up some other way

the same is a thief and a robber but he

that entereth in by the door is the

Shepherd of the sheep to him the porter

openeth and the sheep hear his voice and

he calleth his own sheep by name and

leadeth them out and when he putteth

forth his own sheep he goeth before them

and the Sheep follow him for they know

his voice and a stranger will they not

follow but will flee from him for they

know not the voice of strangers now

Jesus isn’t really teaching about how to

be a shepherd and how to shepherd Sheep

he’s using something there was a common

experience for these people that they

could relate to to illustrate how that

he was the Good Shepherd of the Sheep he

goes on and says that down here in this

chapter but in the process of talking

about this he said his sheep those

people who are truly born again and

belong to him they hear his voice he

says it twice and one time he even says

that they will not hear the voice of a

stranger so this is saying that God is

speaking and that people who are truly

born again do hear his voice I’m going

to make a statement here that’ll shock

some of you but you do hear the voice of

God and I know some of you thinking no

way I have never had God speak to me

well a lot of it’s because we don’t

understand how God speaks and I’m going

to be teaching about this and showing

you

in a sense it’s a subtle way but you

have heard the voice of God let me just

say this that every one of you

at some time or another has had a

decision about doing something and you

probably were receiving counsel from

other people are just using the logic

the way that you’d been taught or

whatever and so logic said you go this

direction you make this choice but your

heart said to go this direction so you

went ahead and followed logic you did

these things but you know what you made

a mistake and it didn’t take very long

until you saw that this wasn’t the right

thing and when that happened I bet you

every one of you sometimes said I knew I

wasn’t supposed to do that you did

something that was you were followed

following logic or following the leading

of other people are being forced coerced

into it but your heart was leading you

another direction you know what that was

that was God speaking to you God spoke

to you but it didn’t come like from an

audible voice from heaven it wasn’t like

a third person where he said you should

do this but rather it was something that

came up out of you and you just I know I

knew I was supposed to do something

different did you know what that is

that’s God speaking to you

and so just like the scripture here says

God speaks to us it’s not God who’s not

speaking it’s our hearing that has

become dull and so this is what I’m

going to be talking to you about is how

do you tune your heart how do you get to

where you recognize the voice of the

Lord before you make the mistake not

afterwards you know hindsight is always

20/20 and looking back many of us can

see that man God said go this way I went

this way and by looking at the disasters

and the failures in our life it’s very

obvious that we missed God and now we

could see what we should have done but

how do you in in the future keep from

waiting until the mistake is made and

then recognizing you made a mistake how

do you hear God’s voice going forward I

tell you this is something that could

revolutionize your life over in John

chapter 16

I believe it’s verse 13 Jesus was

talking about all of the benefits that

would happen after he died and was

resurrected and left this earth and sent

back the Holy Spirit and he said

nevertheless I tell you the truth it is

expedient for you that I go away for if

I go not away the comforter will not

come unto you but if I had to part I

will send him unto you jesus said it’s

actually better to have the Ministry of

the Holy Spirit with us than it is to

have him with us you know most people

would think oh no I’d rather have Jesus

in his physical person right here with

me but Jesus said it’s better it’s

expedient that means it’s to your

advantage to have the Holy Spirit and he

talks about how that the Holy Spirit

will convict us of sin well that is not

the way that the church is basically

representative where the Holy Spirit is

they’re just constantly criticizing us

and showing us what is wrong I’m not

going to teach on that right now but

it’s it’s not the way that most people

have interpreted this but he goes on to

say in verse 13 he says howbeit when he

the Spirit of Truth has come he will

guide you into all truth for he shall

not speak of himself but whatsoever he

shall hear that shall he speak and he

will show you things to come now think

about this if you could hear the voice

of God this is saying that this is the

Ministry of the Holy Spirit is to speak

to us and to show us things to come if

you could see problems and if the Holy

Spirit could speak to you and show you

things before they happen just think

about how that could benefit you you

know most people think I just can’t

believe that this is true you most

people are kind of like a blind man that

is just walking through life like a

blind man walking through a house if you

are blind and if it’s a house that you

have it memorized and you aren’t

familiar with I can guarantee you you’re

going to trip over furniture you’re

going to run into walls you are going to

fall you’re going to hurt yourself you

can have a hard time getting around and

finding anything if you were blind and

this is the way that

most people go through life it’s kind of

a word picture of how most people live

their life they just are going headlong

every day doing something they don’t

know for sure if this is what God told

them to do it’s like a blind man and you

are going to run into a wall you are

going to trip over something you’re

going to fall you’re going to break

something and this is what most people’s

life is like they just do everything by

trial and error I’m telling you you can

hear the voice of the Lord and he can

show you things it’s like you know if

you were driving on a road if you had

somebody flying up above you they could

see over the hill tell you what’s coming

they could see around a corner they

could give you instruction it could make

a huge difference in the way that you

drive and in the things that are

happening but most of us don’t listen to

the voice of God we don’t have that

direction and so we make mistakes all

the time we run into problems because we

aren’t receiving this direction of the

Lord I’m telling you the Holy Spirit

will show you things to come you know in

2008 the Lord spoke to my wife and told

her that we needed to we had just a

little bit of money in the stock market

he says you need to take that out of the

stock market we took it out and the

stock market crashed then the Lord spoke

to us get back in and we made 60 percent

profit while other people lost 50

percent that’s a hundred and ten percent

difference because of the voice of the

Lord and some of you thought God

wouldn’t tell you about the stock market

sure he will he wants you to have good

investments he will tell you what’s

happening there was a time that the Lord

told me I was going to lose a pasture

for my horses and the Lord spoke to me

and showed me that and so even though it

was a free pasture and the guy that I

kept the horses there he just loved

having my horses he gave me no

indication I went ahead I made other

arrangements and I was going to move my

horses on a Tuesday on Sunday I went to

church and without any warning and I

didn’t see this coming the guy who I was

using his pastor he came up to me and he

says I just can’t stand your horses on

my property anymore you got to have him

off there by Tuesday I had already

arranged it

I was moving them on Tuesday God showed

me these things to come and some people

think well that’s a small thing but if

you can’t hear God in a small thing

you won’t hear God in a big thing if you

can’t do that which is least you can’t

do that which is greatest so I’m talking

about how to hear God’s voice and I tell

you this is going to be radical it could

make a huge difference

my name is Dutch Young and me and my

family are from Romania 2005 God told us

to apply for the diversity visa a u.s.

immigration program even though our

chances were less than 1% for being

selected we decided to obey God and one

year and a half after that we were

relocating to the United States living

in Michigan and being part of a Bible

study group we were introduced to

Andrews message when you go to your

place call there and you start obeying

God there is supernatural provision that

message deeply touched our hearts

and we knew once again God was calling

us to step out with no money and no jobs

and a very limited English vocabulary we

relocated to Colorado Springs to attend

Karis Bible College shortly after that

we received the money and and jobs

needed to sustain us in here it’s been

11 years since we first heard God and we

are convinced that when God tells you

something he might only show you one

step at a time

but you take that step in faith and he

will always provide a way are you ready

to take your own step of faith go to

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