Listen to hear His voice

Greetings:
Does God really talk to us?
How do we know what we are hearing is God?
Those are questions that have often crossed my mind as I am praying, listening and wanting to communicate with God.
So many times, I've wanted God to say, “Hello, it's God”.
Of course, we could be one of the lucky ones like Moses, who was walking up the mountain, minding his own business, when he stumbled upon the burning bush.
That would get our attention.
We often doubt if we are hearing from God until we learn to recognize the ways God speaks to us.
John 8:47 says, “He who is of God hears God's words.”
God sometimes speaks to people through dreams, visions, prophecy and even an audible voice. God also speaks through other people. God sometimes speaks through circumstances, opening and closing doors of opportunity. But we are not to be led by people or by circumstances but only by the Holy Spirit.
In 1 Corinthians 2:16 we read, “For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.”
Most of the time God uses a tiny voice inside us to let us know when we're not on the right path.
When you are not really sure if what you are hearing is from God ask yourself :
•Does it line up with the Holy Bible, the written scriptures?
•Does it lead you into a closer relationship with God, a greater unity with Him?
•Does it lead you into expressing love, which is putting God’s benefit and the benefit of others before your own benefit?
•Does it lead to a dying of yourself and a greater manifestation of Christ life in you?
•Does it cause greater humility in you, and a greater dependence upon God?
Actually hearing from God isn't so much a matter of if he's talking to us, but rather, whether we're listening in the right way.
Be blessed.