ICS Daily Devotions
How to Tune into and hear the voice of the Holy Spirit

There was a vacancy for a signaler in a communication company in the 1940s. There were lots of people vying for this job so they came early with all the necessary documents for the interview. The hall was already full of people when one particular man arrived there for the same interview. The people were talking to each other, some were looking around the office, while others were filling their time reading the newspapers as they waited for their names to be called. These people were all trained signalers. The man who had just arrived heard something in the air as he settled into his seat. It was a Morse code being played in the air. He began to tune into what the Morse code was communicating in the midst of the noisy hall. He managed to decipher the Morse code and the message was, “If you are hearing this message then please come in for the interview without having your name being called”. He walked into the interviewers’ room and was hired. Everyone heard the Morse code but nobody was listening because they were too busy with other things although they were there for the job. This man was offered the job because he was attentive to what was being played and tuned into the message by tuning out all the other noises in the room.

Romans 8:13-14 (NKJV) For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Similarly, when we are in contemplative prayer, we need to be still in the presence of God to listen to His voice. We need to learn to tune out all other voices and listen to what the Spirit of God is speaking to us. It will take us weeks to master being silent in the presence of God in order to hear from Him. We should work at it until hearing the leading of the Holy Spirit is second nature to us.

We should not neglect the aspect of developing our spirit man to receive from God. We need to train and develop our spirit for it to be a safe guard for God to use. We need to become more conscious of our spirit rather than our soul. As a believer, we need a good balance between being strong intellectually, and to be open to the work of the Holy Spirit and His communication in our lives.

We need to hear and listen so that we can be led by the Holy Spirit not just in aspects of our business and its strategies, investment opportunities or creative ideas, but also in areas of holiness and godliness as we grow closer to God.

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