How do you hear God's voice when you need to make a decision?

I pray everyday and feel I have a good relationship with God. I journal and read some scripture and use a devotional everyday too.

But I feel like I have a hard time knowing what God wants of me in certain situations in life. I will pray and talk to Him and really try to listen for anything He has to tell me/where about to direct me - especially after asking Him for guidance and answers. I feel so confused about a certain direction my life should take or not.

How do You hear him when you pray?

I ask Him to guide my conscience so that I can depend on it. I remove all bias. I compare my situation with scripture. Then I do what feels most right. You know how you feel the difference between right and wrong? Well it is the same when both options are biblically right- one just feels more right, and I believe that is God guiding me, with like a spiritual compass.

Bit of a study Here on this subject...

Keep searching the Scriptures. The Scriptures contain all that God has called us to do. If it's not in the Scriptures, then don't be so concerned about it.

if we use/honour/walk in the Faith that Yeshua has blessed us with,
then our hearts will be able to discern what The Holy Spirit
expects of us - but we certainly have to be focused on Him first,
above all things...

One should listen with their hearts and not their ears.......God speaks to our hearts, and being filled with the Holy Spirit ensures that we will be led by Him.

Thank you! Very helpful

oh yes,
ears and hearts are very separate things...

Very good question!!

In my own experiences, while praying and waiting on God to answer me, I sift through many thoughts knowing some are definitely the Adversary deceiving me. But genuine good thoughts, that have sound scriptural backing, are typically from God. From there, I separate thoughts of what I want to hear God tell me, from the thoughts I know I would not have thought of on my own. And then I take those thoughts and write them down. And in the midst of that, I have found many messages that have had to be from God. Because I then put them to the test. And have discovered many doors that opened that I would never have been able to open.

And this includes which job to take, what decision to make about an issue, to praying for someone, and going to a person and telling them I believe God wants me to tell you something. And when you get positive confirmation, you know you actually heard from God. Especially when someone tells you, I needed to hear that, I needed your prayers, etc.

I have no idea if this can work for everyone. But it has worked for me!!

That sounds so spiritual... and so completely inadequate when you're searching for a lost loved one and are asking the Lord whether to turn right or left at the next intersection.

God DOES speak to us personally, outside of the Scriptures. Many people don't believe He will, and so close themselves off to the guidance He has for them. He just doesn't contradict or add to Scripture.

Hey! Carebear8... PTL!
For without faith it is impossible to please him. The Lord desires the prayer of faith and will usually try our faith once we have it to teach us to persevere. In fact, the Lord's desire for us to grow is so great, that more often than not, he makes himself to be the God of the last minute. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God and the peace that passes all understanding will keep your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Then strive to believe for the answer of your request. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Effectual because you refuse to take no answer and fervent because you really want it. In 1 Jn 3 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence before God and know that we have what we ask because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. So a clear conscience empowers full power faith. The Holy Spirit uses the scripture to renew our consciences from dead works, which makes us able to forgive our own selves, putting it into the past to be forgotten. Perhaps you might skip a meal now and then for this specific request.
Maranatha!

One a the benefits to prayer time with the Lord is that our sense of intuition with the Lord grows more and more sensitive to the Lord's still small voice.

As some said, it may not always be the same.. but one wrote this:

From there, I separate thoughts of what I want to hear God tell me, from the thoughts I know I would not have thought of on my own. And then I take those thoughts and write them down. And in the midst of that, I have found many messages that have had to be from God. Because I then put them to the test. And have discovered many doors that opened that I would never have been able to open.

I thought writing them down may help you also. For there are times when we're so affected by feelings, then when we write we can see things in front of us. For ex., at the time i stopped work after a child was born, i was considering going back soon. Then i wrote down the pros and cons, and realized some of the pros were really not that much at the time, and there were more cons in fact which i didnt see right away. You can pray and eliminate choices which do not really seem to matter that much, until you have the best answer.

Hope that helps.

Good question since faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Son of God. Some might say it is automatic, like electromagnetically. But from personal experience it helps to upload the software-read the Book.

Well you got part of it right, one should listen. But I think I will wait before cutting off my ears since it is written Jesus said that he that is of God heareth God's words, and admittedly it sounds like a voice but those who do not hear them is because of the there is no light in them to discern between a good gift and BS.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD." [See Isaiah 55:8]

Our Father has spoken to me in several ways, but one most curious is when I first came to know Him in Jesus Christ.

I went from my university to the Rockies to read the Word for the very firsttime thrugh. I would share teh gospel with anyone who would hear me, and I spoke it to the univers, that is to say when I wuld read I would read aloud though quitely for the universe to hear. (Istill do).

When winter would arrive or be close i WOULD GO TO Madison, Wisc..THEN DOWN TO MY ALMA MATER IN Illinois.
My last year on this circuit something odd began to happen. My ver good friend at the Uof I asked me, knowing I was in Messiah, "Jack, would you go with Moira and me when we get married to Jerusalem? That is if we can pay your wayP" The idea to me was most inviting, but I declined............this was to be on their honeymoon...wow!

Next a former co-worker, knowing my passion for reading and sharing the Word, asked if he could "send me to Israel." Again, though very tempted, I declined.

Finally, back in the mountains a person with who Ihad shared the Word asked if I would accompany him on a world tour of what he thought of as holy places which I also declined because there really are no holy places on this earth except the hearts of all who believe.

Now I was beginning to feel God did not want me in the mountains anymore, so I asked Him if it was His idea gor me to go to Israel. I mentioned I had declined the three offers for oneunderlying reason though there certaily were more, ad that reaon was sI flt perhaps the enemy knowing my penchant for loving travel may have beentempting me.

So I said to the Lord, I am going to do that open the book and point routine , and if you want me to go to Israel, please tell me.

I opened the Book, the Bble, and I pointed, and God told me to go, for it said, adn David asked, shall I go up to the land of Judeah, and the Lord answoered, God up, go up to Hebron..............I did.......it was wonderful

Now the conversation did not end there but continued with several of what people may call miracles, but for us they are the norm. All blessings in Jesus Christ, Yeshiva.

Gideon is a good example of how to seek Gods will on matters where you are in doubt.

For the cause of Christ
Roger