Hearing His Voice (Part 1)

There was a lesson I wanted to share with my girlfriends during a recent girls’ hangout I hosted.

We had already played two games and, honestly, we were exhausted. So we never got to the final game I had planned. But even though the game wasn’t played, the lesson remained, and it has stayed with me.

The game was simple, but powerful.

I planned to pair the ladies in twos. One person would be blindfolded while the other would lead her teammate to a destination. The blindfolded person could only rely on the voice of her teammate to get there.

The twist?

The other teams would be whispering, shouting, and intentionally creating distractions competing voices everywhere. The team that made it to the destination within 30 seconds would win.

The point of the game was not competition. The point was discernment.

Trusting the Right Voice

That night, the lesson I wanted to bring out was this:

Trusting God’s voice in the midst of many voices.

Life is loud.
Opinions are loud.
Pain is loud.
Fear is loud.
Social media is loud.
Even well-meaning people can be loud.

And when too many voices are competing, it becomes harder to distinguish the one voice that actually leads us to safety, peace, and truth.

When I Couldn’t Hear God Clearly

There was a season in my life when I struggled deeply with hearing God’s voice, not because He stopped speaking, but because there were too many voices competing with His.

And I knew something had to change.

So I did something drastic.

I unplugged.

I unplugged from social media.
I unplugged from social chats.
I unplugged from opinions, commentary, and noise.

I told everyone: family, friends, everyone that I needed to shut down.

What I thought would be a short withdrawal turned into six months.

The Silence That Healed Me

Those six months changed my life.

That was where I found deep revival. That was where restoration began. That was where my healing journey truly started.

In the silence, I began to hear clearly again.
Not the voice of fear.
Not the voice of shame.
Not the voice of people.

But the voice of God!

A Tool the Holy Spirit Used

During that season, there was a particular video the Holy Spirit used to reach me when I was overwhelmed and struggling to hear Him clearly.

It became one of the tools God used to recalibrate my heart and tune my ears back to His voice.

I will share the summary of that video in Part 2 of this series.

Because sometimes, hearing His voice doesn’t require Him to speak louder, it requires us to silence everything else.