Dakotasunbeam
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Personally, I think people cannot hear God, because deep down they don't want to. Often God has already spoken on a subject, but they want a different answer. In other cases, the answer to many of their questions are already spelled out for them in the Bible. God does not need to reinvent the wheel if it is already there.
When we get in a habit of doing what we want, what we feel is right, or what we think seems reasonable, we literally grieve the Holy Spirit and tell God to "Stay out of this!" He then sits back, and waits. We come to Him again and again asking the same question He has already answered, and we get the same answer and we feel we cannot hear from God. What many people need to say, instead of "I cannot hear from God." They need to say, "I cannot hear what I quote:
want from God."
I'm definately not pointing a finger here, because I'm speaking from exprience. Sometimes we KNOW what God wants, we just don't want to do it. It's kind of like people who toil and toil over whether to marry an unbeliever. The answer has already been spelled out in the Bible, there really is no need to trouble one's self, but what is really happening--is the individual is trying to bring his/herself to doing the right thing and heeding the word of God. I think that is something we need to focus more on. HEEDING the word of God. Not just HEARING. Otherwise known as being doers of the Word, and not hearers only, DECIEVING ourselves.
Hearing is really not the problem, its the doing. Pick any sin in the Bible, it's already been spelled out. Remedies and all of that. But we tell ouselves that "A loving God wouldn't command XYZ, or I am not sure that is really the Heart of God." But why would God write it if it was not His heart? Seeing as it IS His word and He IS His word too.
Hearing isn't the trouble, its heeding.
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