HOW to NOT try to HEAR THE LORD's VOICE
THE VERY REAL DANGERS of the FALSE WAYS TO TRY TO 'HEAR FROM GOD'
THIS TOPIC IS CLEARLY VERY IMPORTANT. TONIGHT I HAD TO WAGE SPIRITUAL WARFARE TO ASSEMBLE THIS MESSAGE.
Don’t think for one minute, that even mature Christians are not vulnerable to deception. I am about to show you the tragic example of a learned ‘man of God’, who fell badly, and brought others with him, because of his desperately errant theology concerning the operation of the ‘9 manifestations of holy spirit’- Three of which concern ‘hearing from the Lord’ - Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, and Discerning of Spirits.
THE INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS SO IMPORTANT, AND SO TIMELY, THAT I URGE YOU TO READ IT CAREFULLY.
HEARING FROM GOD
Many saints want to hear the voice of the Lord. The commendable desire is nothing new, as you can track the desire all the way back to Genesis. Ever since Adam lost holy spirit, men have devised ways and methods in their desperate desire to ‘talk to God’. But the wish - handled incorrectly - can be lethal, as we saw with King Saul, whose visit to a witch for ‘information’, led to his death in battle.1
To this day the promotion of false doctrines to hear from God, has wrought no end of folly. Folly though, is not the only problem, as you are about to see.
A check of online sermons, and some social media posts, suggests people - even ministers - are not at all sure what it means to ‘hear from the Lord’. There is an amazing amount of ‘guess work’ offered as doctrine, with some suggesting God does not ‘speak’ except through His Word. Others suggest that you have to ‘get quiet’, or you need to ‘Meditate on God’.
So, what’s wrong with ‘getting quiet and meditating on God’?
For starters, find just ONE verse of Scripture where these are the instructions for hearing from God. Consider too, how New Age and Eastern religions have the ‘getting quiet and meditating’ part down pat. But which God are they hearing from? The Bible says there are 2 gods - the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the god of this world, who is satan.
Other purveyors of ‘systems’ for hearing from God suggest that - if you ask just right - God is going to ‘ring you up to say ‘I love you’.
Here is a typical sampling -
“Have you ever wished you could just sit down and have a long talk with the Lord? Wouldn't it be wonderful to move beyond having a theology that states that God loves you to actually hearing Him whisper words of love into your heart?2
The title of this unbiblical blather is called - ‘How to Hear God’s Voice - It’s easier than you thought.’ (The writer has a book for sale. Naturally.) Ironically, people will buy this guy’s book, before they will search out the BOOK that has God’s voice in it, or study the BIBLE to see ‘how’ the Lord speaks to people, when He does.
I suspect this author has never actually talked to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.3 He may be talking to somebody though. And that can get dangerous. Why?
OTHER VOICES
There are a lot of voices out there, that will pretend to be God or the Lord. As John warned, ‘Little children, even now are there many antichrists’. And you can bet your bottom dollar, they want to talk to you.
Here is a very concerned, and astute father, listening to a demon carry on a conversation with his child..
https://tv.gab.com/channel/mozzilla2021/view/ai-claiming-to-be-a-fallen-63f81f8e4e297fa1a61d169b
Bottom Line: If you don’t examine what, and how the Lord Jesus Christ, and/or God Almighty speak in the Bible, you are vulnerable to strong deception. Let’s take the example of Kenneth Hagin:
The fall of Kenneth Hagin
In the 1990s I used to listen to Kenneth Hagin messages, and would from time to time send a gift and a letter to his ministry. Brother Hagin always responded with a personal reply to me. I was delighted. So imagine my surprise and consternation when Hagin became demonized, and began to demonize his congregation..
(Above) Kenneth Hagin became possessed, and at the end of what had been a long prosperous ministry, begin divvying out demons to his foolish congregation.
There are other, equally disturbing videos, showing Hagin’s tongue darting in and out of his mouth like a snake. For years I wondered ‘what got a hold of him? This is a man that used to teach his church ‘how to drive out demons’.. And here he is.. demonized!’
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND. THE CHURCH HAS AUTHORITY OVER DEMONS. BUT THAT DOESN’T STOP DEMONS FROM TRICKING PEOPLE INTO BECOMING DEMONIZED BY DRAWING ON THEIR WEAKNESSES. VIZ;
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. James 1:14
Last Fall, I asked the Lord ‘What happened to Kenneth Hagin’? His answer will alert you to the importance of KNOWING the Word inerrantly, so you can pick out the subtlety of the deceiver. Never forget that the devil can USE Scripture to deceive.
NEVER FORGET - To recognize the counterfeit - you MUST know the genuine.
By way of reply, the Lord led me to pick a Kenneth Hagin cassette that I’d had for many years out of a drawer. Turns out he’d prepared this lesson for me years ago, because the tape I reached for was already cued to the specific answer! The tape had a Kenneth Hagin sermon called ‘Personal Accounts of Divine Guidance’.
Listen to Hagin’s words..
(NO.. WAIT - Listen to what just happened.. !
February 27th, 8:30 pm- To record Hagin’s words, that revealed his false theology, I had saved the cassettes in a drawer. Just now I removed the 2 cassettes from a plastic bag that I’d stored them in, and listened to the first one. The first tape was called ‘Personal Accounts of Divine Guidance’ on the topic of ‘hearing from God’. The old tape played clearly.
Hagin was talking about ‘discerning spirits’. At one point he said that demons can stink.. That they have a bad smell. As he continued my eye caught something moving on the left side of my desk. I should mention it’s snowing tonight, and very cold outside. But on my desk a bug showed up that I’ve only ever seen here in warm weather, and that rarely.
A stink bug.
I dispatched with the thing, and kept listening.
He went on about the demon keeping him from hearing the Lord’s voice! Do you get that? Demons.. keeping you from hearing the voice of the Lord. !
I kept listening.. I was looking for that specific point that had arrested my attention last Fall, so that I could quote it here without error. I didn’t find it on that tape. It had to be on the other one that I’d marked.
I put the other tape with Hagin’s sermon in the cassette player.
Last Fall the Lord had led me to this tape's message to answer my question about how Hagin fell. At that time, the tape played very CLEARLY. And I marked it in the exact point where the minister spouted the theology that prompted his descent into darkness, so I could return to it later.4
Tonight the tape began to play - BUT I couldn’t make out a word Hagin was saying. I’ve had cassette tapes for decades, and this has NEVER happened before. The tape was playing at a very slow speed and Hagins voice sounded like a demon. (It was so bizzare I recorded it on my phone.)
Every other tape played just fine. Only this one tape acted like this. Hagin was playing back in a very slow, very low, creepy voice. He sounded demonic. I could not make out what he was saying. So far, I couldn’t record what I hoped to share with you.
To remedy the situation I searched on Youtube and listened for hours through a few Kenneth Hagin message series. I did find the “Personal Accounts of Divine Guidance’ containing some of the same message. (Interestingly, it had only just been put up on YouTube one month ago!) But this message was the same one as my 1st cassette, and did not contain the specific information I was looking for.
FINALLY I CALLED MY SON INTO THE ROOM
I played the 2nd cassette tape for Nick to witness the creepy slow recording of what sounded like a demon’s voice. Hagin’s voice was ‘unrecognizeable’. Then I asked Nick to agree with me in prayer. I was going to annoint the tape with oil, and rebuke the demon arresting its performance. He did, and I did.
We put the tape back into the machine, and heard.. for the first time .. Hagin’s voice.! Clearly. (Again, I wish to quote the man exactly, and not put words in his mouth. )
BUT.. When the message got to the place where the words I wanted to hear were spoken, the demonic voice returned, and my son and I could not understand a word…
(I recorded the ‘before and after’ of the sound of the voice on cassette. Finally my phone died. So I stopped the tape, at what turned out to be minute: 111
I plugged in my phone for a while to charge. When I removed it and turned it back on, the power was at 44%. (Some will understand this smile from heaven, for this relentless pursuit of getting this message out).
I labored with this for 7 hours. I’m clocking out.. it’s 3:33 am.
Watch for the rest of this message tomorrow.
VJCB
‘So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it.’ I Chronicles 10:13
You will never find in the Bible to man, where God is speaking sweet nothings into a man or woman’s ears. If a person wants to know if God loves them, there are a thousand verses that testify to the same.
A surefire way to know if someone truly communicates with Jesus Christ themselves (that they can actually teach you something) is this.. Ask them if they ever wore a mask. And if they’re a minister, Ask them if they closed their church in 2020. Any minister that wore a mask or closed their church, is not communicating with the Lord Jesus Christ.
I wish this were an isolated incident, but I’ve witnessed men of God before, fall away through lust, pride, greed, debauchery, demons or what have you. People you’d never expect.. But then, King Solomon was an example of this very thing. Wasn’t he.