Discernment starts with Identity and Healing

This week, we’re sitting with one of the most foundational aspects of faith: knowing when it’s God speaking — not your fear, your trauma, your desire, or your doubt.

Discernment doesn’t just come from spiritual maturity — it comes from healing.

Because when your heart is cluttered with wounds, you start filtering God's voice through pain, not truth.

Jesus says His sheep know His voice. That means it’s possible. But to know His voice, you must be His. You must be close enough to hear Him clearly. You must learn to distinguish familiar from faithful — because not everything that sounds good is God.

Many of us grew up hearing voices — not divine ones, but voices of shame, rejection, fear, pressure. Those voices formed our inner narrative. So when God speaks, we often doubt it’s Him — because it doesn’t sound like what we’re used to.

Reflection Question:
What voices from your past are still shaping the way you hear God today?

The Marks of His Voice

God’s voice carries peace, clarity, conviction (not shame), and consistency with Scripture. When we learn to test what we hear through His Word and His character, we become less reactive and more rooted. His voice is never manipulative. Never rushed. Never confusing.

• 1 Kings 19:11–13 — Elijah hears the still small voice

• James 3:17 — God’s wisdom is pure, peaceable, and gentle

• Hebrews 4:12 — The Word divides soul and spirit

Obedience Builds Clarity

John 10:27 ends with, “...and they follow Me.” Knowing God’s voice is directly tied to following it. The more we obey, the more clearly we hear.

Obedience sharpens discernment.

Reflection Question:
What has God already said that you’re still sitting on?

If this helped you shift the way you see the Word, don’t keep it to yourself.

Share this with someone who’s hungry to go deeper but doesn’t know where to start.

Studying scripture was never meant to be a solo sport—let’s sharpen each other.