Hearing God clearly requires wholehearted obedience and staying rooted in Scripture. Debating or bargaining with the Holy Spirit always results in loss. Guilt and shame are the main barriers that clutter your mind and block God's voice.
The voice of God is progressive, and he speaks. And when you obey, you live a lifestyle of obedience, there's perfect clarity. You stay in the word, you walk in wisdom, and you obey his voice. And in those moments where you go away quietly, you're gonna hear him with confidence and clarity as all the other voices fade into the background. Stop trying to debate with the Holy Spirit. Stop trying to reason with him or bargain and negotiate. And Lord, if you come a little this way, I'll come a little that way. He's saying, you are not the Lord, I am. Don't try to debate with God. You will lose every time, and you'll just waste a bunch of time in the meantime. Obey him. As you obey him, your mind becomes free of the clutter of guilt from your disobedience. Some of you struggle to hear God because of guilt and shame As a result of what you are not doing that he's telling you to do, or something you're doing that he's telling you to stop. It's so simple, we complicate it. Trust and obey.
