Wicked Will Mock

If they mock you for saying you hear from God, then they could not be hearing from Him. It's a dead giveaway! Those who hear from God know what you are saying because they hear from Him too.

Everything they hear agrees with the Bible. When they ask God for specifics about their life, they are compelled to go a certain way, without a doubt they know it was God.

Many people claim to hear from God but we know they don't because they are disobeying the Word to get their prayer answered. They must work really hard to make things happen the way they want them to happen. It is being managed in the flesh and not in the will of the Father.

When God tells us to go a certain way it will be glorifying to Him and often not as we had planned or thought would happen. But we know it is Him speaking!

There is no way to express a formula to anyone what the promptings of the Holy Spirit "feel" like. It is not something we can compare to figuring things out rationally or feelings oriented.

When Christ speaks in us the sense is so strong and different from anything else that we cannot express it to anyone. Only those who have heard from God will understand this.

John 10:27
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."

John 8:47
"Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Isaiah 30:21
"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."

John 16:13
"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."

Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Those who are not born again often hear the promptings of God convicting them of sin. Their neighbor who stands in front of them has the Holy Spirit Who emanates from them. They think it's their neighbor making them "feel bad" but it is an unseen force, the God of the universe who shows them the Law that dwells in the believer is convicting them of their sinfulness.

John 14:26
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."

Romans 8:14
"For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."

John 16:7-9
…7 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;"

Unbelievers can sense the Holy Spirit, it makes them wince with guilt.

The Believer is joyful at the presence of someone who is born again indwelt by the Holy Spirit.