Sanmi Dawodu
A Word on Hearing God’s Voice — Audio
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Hearing God’s Voice: The Story Behind This Study
This book began with a question I could not stop asking. For years, I was a Christian who prayed regularly, read Scripture faithfully, and went to church every week. Still, I was never fully sure whether what I sensed in prayer was truly the voice of God or simply the noise of my own heart. I wanted to hear Him, and I truly believed He spoke. Yet the gap between believing God speaks and actually recognizing His voice felt impossibly wide.
What changed everything for me was not a dramatic supernatural encounter, though God has been gracious in those too. Instead, it was a slow, steady, Scripture-anchored education in the theology and practice of divine communication. I began to understand that hearing God’s voice is not an exotic achievement reserved for mystics and prophets. Rather, it is the normal, expected, promised experience of every person in whom the Holy Spirit dwells.
Every Sheep Hears the Shepherd
Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27). Not ‘My most advanced sheep.’ Not ‘My sheep who have fasted forty days.’ Every sheep. So the capacity to hear the Shepherd’s voice is built into the relationship — it comes simply from belonging to Him. The problem is not that God is silent. Almost always, the real problem is that we have not been taught to listen.
This seven-day study is my attempt to give you what I wish someone had given me: a theologically grounded, practically structured guide to recognizing, testing, and responding to God’s voice. Each day builds on the one before it, and each chapter includes rich scriptural content, practical exercises, reflection questions, and a closing prayer. So please, do not rush through it. The goal is not information — it is encounter. Use a journal, move slowly, and pray before and after each session. In this way, you give the Holy Spirit room to make the general specific, the theological personal, and the historical present.
I believe that by Day 7, you will hear differently than you do today. Not because of anything in this book, but because the Shepherd is faithful, and He promises that His sheep hear His voice.
— Sanmi Dawodu
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