How to listen to God? Know 6 tips!

How to listen to God? Know 6 tips!

Jun 29, 2023

HOW TO LISTEN TO GOD? FIRST TIP: BE ATTENTIVE

➡ Be attentive to God's presence. He is He Who Is. God is with you. Remind yourself of Him throughout the day.

➡ Be faithful to prayer and be persistent. God wants to spend time with you. He is present in your life because he loves you. He is ready in every situation to help you, to support you, to free you from the sin in which you persist.He always has time for you. Time belongs to Him. Your time is a gift from God.

➡ The Creator gave you freedom - you are responsible for the good use of time on earth.

HOW TO LISTEN TO GOD? SECONDLY TIP: READ THE BIBLE

➡ Read the Holy Bible every day. Although a short passage that inspires you, encourages you to change your thinking or is particularly interesting. You can choose the passages that the Church proposes in the Liturgy of the Word on a given day. ➡ Or maybe you don't understand something in the Bible? Do not give up. 

➡ Read this word and ask the Holy Spirit to help you discover its meaning. Try to find out more about the times in which a particular Book was written.

➡ Knowing the historical context really makes it easier to understand the Word of God. '

➡ It is a very good idea to learn selected quotes by heart. This is especially useful in building up your spirit and overcoming temptations. This is exactly what Jesus did in the desert. He quoted Scripture in response to Satan's propositions.

HOW TO LISTEN TO GOD? THIRD TIP: PRACTICE

➡ God lives in you. Saint Paul wrote: Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you? (1 Cor 6:19).

➡ Listen to God's voice in your heart. God will send you good thoughts to perfect you, strengthen you, confirm you and establish you (cf. 1 Pt 5:10) in faith, hope and love.

➡ An effective way to hear God's voice in your thoughts is to be silent before God. It can be part of your daily prayer – and it should be.

➡You can come before the Holy Sacrament and stay silent, learn to distinguish your own thoughts from those given to you by God. Don't worry about distractions. At the beginning of the journey of listening to God, they are quite normal.

➡ The easiest way to turn distractions into prayer - give God all the things that don't let you focus. Remain before Him with perseverance: day after day. You will see that during prayer, more and more inspirations will appear in your mind.

➡ Thanks to this, you will also get to know your own heart better and the desires that God hid in it when he created you.

➡ Inspiration to act that will strengthen, build and encourage you. keep them. Put into practice what allows you to know God and be closer to Him.

HOW TO LISTEN TO GOD? FOURTH TIP: WRITE DOWN

➡ Write down all the good thoughts that come up during your encounter with God. This will help you reassure yourself that God cares for you and does not forget. You will always be able to refer back to these notes when difficulties and problems arise.

➡ Thanks to writing, you will notice that God has already helped you many times, listened to prayers, reacted to difficult situations in which you found yourself.

➡ Taking notes will make sure you don't forget what you heard. Thanks to this, the fruits of prayer will be permanent. “The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are on their cry. They cried out, and the Lord heard them and delivered them from all adversity. (Psalm 34:16-17)

➡ This will make it easier for you to survive difficult experiences. Perhaps God will inspire you to do a specific good deed or to make a change that is good to make in your life. He will certainly inspire you to patiently and persistently fulfill your vocation. It will encourage and motivate you to convert, i.e. to change your thinking.

HOW TO LISTEN TO GOD? FIFTH TIP: EVALUATE

➡ Discern, that is, evaluate the thoughts that appear in your head. Remember, any inspiration that comes from God will be consistent with:

🎯 the teaching of the Church (morally good),

🎯 Holy Scripture,

🎯 your desires. 


➡ God will not ask you anything that will conflict with your deep desires, for example, if you want to become a wife, God will not force you to go to a nunnery. He loves you and has poured all good longings and dreams into your heart.

➡ In discernment, the methods practiced by St. Ignatius of Loyola. Thanks to them, I try not only to notice my sins and weaknesses, but also to make decisions based on what is the greater good in a particular life situation. I highly recommend! 🙂

HOW TO LISTEN TO GOD? SIXTH TIP: ACT

➡ Act on what you hear. Get off the couch. Actively respond to God's inspirations. Maybe it's time to change jobs, surroundings, start taking care of yourself. Forgive or fix a relationship with someone?

➡ Do what God invites you to do. Cooperate with His grace. He will bless your efforts, give you strength and energy, and will be the best Trainer. If you obey His inspirations, you will see fruit in your life.

➡ Prayer alone is not enough. Effort alone will not bring much results. You have to combine it. Ora et labora - pray and work, courageously follow God's voice and you will bear much fruit. Do not be afraid, Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us. He will not stand aside, criticizing and pointing out your mistakes, but he will strengthen you on the path of your development, the path to holiness.

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