Remember: God is speaking to you all the time, and you are receiving His interjected thoughts. Until you begin distinguishing them from your own, you are simply grouping them all together and assuming they are yours. In learning to distinguish His voice, you are learning how to separate the spontaneous thoughts that are coming from Him from the analytical thoughts that are coming from your own mind. Mark Virkler

Jesus lived out of an inner flow of thoughts and pictures from His Father, doing nothing of His own initiative (see John 5:19-20,30). We can do the same. Mark Virkler

So we can say that Key #1 for hearing God’s voice is recognizing that “God’s voice is sensed as spontaneous thoughts that light upon your mind.” Mark Virkler

Rhema, or the voice of God, is Spirit-to-spirit communication—where the Holy Spirit, in union with your spirit, speaks directly to you. Mark Virkler

So Moses got a relationship and the Israelites received laws, commandments, statutes, and judgements. Law was added to law until the burden became heavy. Mark Virkler

God’s passion has always been to have fellowship with His children. God created us for the supreme purpose of having a love relationship with Him. Mark Virkler

God yearns to be your Friend. He wants you to recognise His voice so that you can get to know Him personally. He longs for you to spend intimate time with Him, having no agenda other than sharing love together. Mark Virkler

We hurt Him so when we become too busy with our daily tasks to spend time enjoying His love or when we carelessly let sin slip into our lives and do not repent, destroying our close communion. We must seek Him as our greatest treasure, seeing our time of sharing with Him as the highest priority in our lives. Mark Virkler

I repented for my dispensationalism and told God I wanted my Bible back, so I could live it from cover to cover. If you don’t have your whole Bible to live, I suggest you, too, may want to take a moment right now in prayer and repent for allowing it to be stolen from you and tell God you want it all back for you to live today. Mark Virkler

However, spirit-to-Spirit encounters with God have become much too rare among Western Christians. Since rationalism has taken over the Western world in the past few hundred years, the Church has also come under its influence and has not given the attention it should to the work of the Spirit in our lives. Therefore, we are often bound by rationalism and miss the fullness of relationship with our Father that the early Church enjoyed. Mark Virkler