FIRST IMPRESSIONS 20.5.25 The Beginning of My Hearing God Alex Oguh

Hearing God is so crucial to getting interpretation of your dreams that we need to say more about it here.

The Beginning of My Hearing God

Alex Oguh

I was saved at an accident scene on December 30th 1991. The first Christian book I read after my conversion was written by a Pastor who was disciplined by his Church because the Senior Pastor told a lie about him. The man suffered rejection for a time. Everyone looked at him as a sinner, when in reality, he did not sin. It was jealousy at work.

After a time, the rejected pastor was restored and he was posted out to a new station. God helped him in the new place and led him to a higher dimension of ministry.

The author kept quoting Rom 8:28 I saw that all things work together for good to them who love God. I was in prayers when I finished reading the book. Then I heard audibly some important things about how my life, even in the past, would be turned into good. I turned around to see who was talking to me. I saw none. I asked a person in the next room whether he heard anything. That person said, “No”, he did not hear anything.

I kept quiet and I am still keeping quiet about those things heard. Only it has helped me to stay adamant and on course in pursuit of God. Wrong counsels have come, pressures have come to make me reverse my earlier decisions, but I remain anchored in the words expanded from 

Rom 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. KJV

That verse became my best companion among all the verses. Many things didn’t worry me anymore. I could be tossed, perplexed, harassed, battered or be in lack. All things work together for the good of the one who loves God. That cannot be out of laziness because loving God is obeying His commandments (Jn 14:15). Do you love God? There is no way to be hearing from God unless your life is really surrendered to God to cast or toss anyhow He wants.

The second Christian book I remember reading after that was written by Mrs. Ruth England. The title is, “My Word from God.” It was about a woman, deeply perplexed by the embarrassing way the husband was running ministry. Churches kept rejecting them. The messages of the husband were not compassionate. They were judging the people and condemning them. The wife talked and talked and the man would not listen.

So the woman, after praying over the matter for a long time, resorted to writing notes to God as a way of praying. Over time, she started sensing in her heart answers to her notes. She began to write these down and she was surprised to find that the answers matched her prayers.

Was God talking back to her? Yes! With time she gained more confidence in things she heard. She compiled some of such notes and their answers into a booklet and made it clear that God speaks to us today.

Again at the end of the book I simply asked God, “Do you still speak to people?”

I wrote down the answer I got. His answer was, “Yes”

Then I asked further, “Do all your children hear You?” The answer was, “Not all.”

“So what percentage of them hears You?”

His answer was, “Less than ten percent”.

I was perplexed; the majorities are not hearing their Father? Then the Lord gave an illustration in my mind. The illustration was about a shepherd and his flock of sheep. Not all the sheep hear the shepherd. Not all the sheep see him but all the sheep can follow the shepherd if each sheep closely follows the one before it as that one follows the one ahead of it. Thus the whole flock can follow the shepherd. The shepherd only has to direct by voice or by cane the sheep nearest to him. God’s people are like sheep. As I began to understand the will of God more and more, I saw that His flock can all be led if they embrace discipleship.

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