Why is God Not Speaking to Me? How to Hear His Voice and Speak His Word Daily

You might be asking yourself: “Why is God not speaking to me?”

1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing (Genesis 12:1–2).

God called Abram to leave his relatives and go to a new country. God promised to bless him, multiply him, and make his name great, and he would become a blessing to all the people of the earth. At this time, Abram is 75 years old.

When Abram first moved to the Promised Land he had taken Lot, his nephew, with him. God had told him to come out from among his relatives. Sometimes, you have to get away from your unbelieving relatives if you are going to believe God.

Abram did half of what God said. He did leave his hometown, but he ended up taking one of his relatives with him. He was trying to obey God like some of us do — following God but not perfectly. God deals with you where He finds you. Abram would eventually end up separating himself from Lot. Lot would choose to go in one direction, and Abram would go in another direction.

After Abram finally separated himself from his nephew Lot, God spoke to him again.

Sometimes the reasons we don’t receive additional direction from the Lord is because we have not done all He told us in the first place.

14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: Lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered (Genesis 13:14–16).

God promised Abram a physical land, the Promised Land, an area in the Middle East known as the Land of Canaan.

Today, our promises are the promises of a new covenant. The Bible promises found throughout the New Testament are our “Promised Land.” I encourage you to find out what God has promised you and walk in it.

God’s Word for You Today

Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you (Genesis 13:17)

Give Voice to God’s Word

“I am filled with the knowledge of God’s will with all wisdom. I have spiritual understanding and follow God’s direction for my life.” (Colossians 1:9 AMPC; 2 Peter 3:18 AMPC)

Do You Really Believe Everything You Say?

23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:23–24 KJV).

I was reading these verses one day, and I said, “Lord, I got that. I have preached it and preached it. I’ve got it all.”

“No,” He said, “You don’t have it.” I kept reading it and reading it.

After a while, there was a phrase that just jumped off the page at me. It says, “Those things which he saith.” I thought it was just talking about what you said to the mountain. You believe and doubt not in your heart. No, we must believe every word we speak releases faith.

When I started releasing faith in every word that I spoke, it was a different world out there. I quit telling jokes to exaggerate and put myself in a situation that I was not in. Some people thought I had gone just a little bit too far. I think my wife thought that for a while. It made a change in things when I started watching what I said.

You release faith in every word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing by the Word of God. We need to watch every word that we speak out of our mouth.

God’s Word for You Today

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips (Psalm 141:3).

Give Voice to God’s Word

“I refuse to give the devil a foothold in my life. I speak only those words that are true to God’s Word and in agreement with what He says about me.” (Ephesians 4:27, 29; Philippians 4:8)

The Difference Between Principles and Formulas

For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says (Mark 11:23).

People have the idea that all you have to do in the process of faith is to say a faith confession. While saying it is involved in working the principle, there is more involved. Keep in mind there are principles and there are formulas.

Let me give you an illustration. When my brother and I were very young, we were standing outside one day watching the birds fly off the barn. He said, “You know, if we had wings, we could fly.”

I said, “Yeah, that’s right.”

He said, “I am going to go make us a set of wings.”

He went into the house, and after a while, he came back with a set of wings. They looked like a set of perfectly good wings to me. They were two shoebox lids with a string tied around them. He was going to get up on the barn, fly down to our cousin’s house, and land on his barn.

I said, “I want to go first!”

He said, “No, it is my idea, and I am going first.”

I helped him up on the barn to the edge of the overhang.

He climbed up there and jumped off and went “thud” when he hit the ground.

I said, “Buddy, why didn’t you flop your wings?” He said, “I didn’t have time!”

I said, “Give them to me. I know I can do it.”

He helped me climb up the barn and I went up higher to the peak of the roof.

I was wearing a new pair of overalls that were just about four inches too long. I had them rolled up, but by the time he got me on top of that barn, they had become unrolled.

That barn was one of those old buildings that had those square nails. The top of the nails had worked themselves up a little bit on the edge of the roof. When I jumped off to have my maiden flight, one of my britches legs got hung on one of those nails. An angel just hooked it on there, I guess. I had plenty of time to flop. I was hanging upside down, just a flopping.

Now, the moral of this story is that things are not always like they seem to be. We had the formula down pat. All the birds did was kind of hop and flop their wings. We did that and went “thud.” We did not have the principle.

This is what happens to a lot of people. They think, All you have to do is say it. That is part of the right formula, but the principle involved is you must believe and doubt not in your heart, and you must believe what you say will come to pass. Then, you shall have whatsoever you say. It is important to understand that.

God’s Word for You Today

But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written: ‘I believed, therefore I spoke,’ we also believe, therefore we also speak (2 Corinthians 4:13 NASB).

Give Voice to God’s Word

“I believe God’s Word, and I use my faith to speak what He said about me. I am redeemed from the curse of sickness, poverty, anxiety, lack, and debt. God has set me free from the dominion of darkness and brought me safely into the Kingdom of His Son.” (Galatians 3:13; Colossians 1:13)