What is it like to HEAR God's voice?

Hearing god's voice

Almost all of us had been listening to god's voice reaching into us in many ways but commonly, we
hear god's voice in many different situations and time, such as the moment when you had a silent time and suddenly a small soft voice emerged from your ears. God doesn't also reach us from the silent places but sometimes he also reach us when we are in our way to school or also in tests when he is trying to help you. God's voice is a sign that god wants to get closer to us by telling what he wants from us.

It is also common that people had not been hearing God's voice, there is also a misunderstood that the voice of god is the same as our voice as we speaks in our heart, but the voice that we talks through our heart is different than the golden voice of God's. God's voice is softer and doesn't sound as ours. If we want to reach out for help to God, we need to find a silent place where there is no sound and make a room for God in your heart to interact with you, mostly God will interact to us when we are in trouble and in silent places, he does that to make us feel secure and undistrubed.

Example of Hearing God's Voice in REAL LIFE: ME (part 2)

There is parable about the problem in Hearing God's Voice in the Bible, which is Matthew 7:24-29.

Once, there were two persons who wanted to build their house. Obviously, a house would need a foundation, right? One person build their house on sand. And the other one build their house on rock. Once their houses were done, suddenly, there was a huge storm.

A combination of heavy rain, fierce strong winds and rising streams was made. Their houses were beaten with the huge storm. Then, an imminent danger happened.

The house built on sand was flown away and it fell in a great crash. While, the house built on rock was still there with its content and relieved owner. 

Well, it's obviously logical that sand is totally NOT a good foundation, however, the rock is also an obviously better foundation. But, don't think this parable is just for nothing. This is a very GOOD parable about Hearing God's Voice. 

The bible tells us that for people who hear God's words and doesn't puts them into PRACTICE, he/she would be the foolish man that puts his house on sand. On the other hand, for people who hears God's words and puts them into PRACTICE, he/she would be the wise man that puts his house on rock. 

In the end of the story, the crowd was amazed by Jesus, for He taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law (this refers to the pharisians, which are scribes that are very holy) 

So...

As said in the last sentence of part 1 of Example of Hearing God's Voice in REAL LIFE, which is "Actually, the key is this: BE CLOSE TO GOD.", this means that YOU love HIM, the creator of this whole existence. 

But, in loving Him, you need to obey Him, how? PRACTICE or APPLICATE HIS words in your life (which is from the BIBLE)

And the more you obey HIM, the more you can HEAR HIS voice - the way to the GODLY road. 

I guarantee your LIFE will be extremely, undeniably better than usual. I've heard from the people around me, if you HEAR GOD'S VOICE and follow HIM along the way, He will change your life to 180 degrees! So it's like the opposite. From bad to good!

Isn't that just great, so what are you waiting for? Let's be CLOSE TO GOD and practice HIS WORDS from the BIBLE! 

And hear His voice.....

Example of Hearing God's Voice in REAL LIFE: ME (part 1)

There were a couple times when I'm not so sure which is God's voice and which is my feeling that He might be there (which means "Well, maybe He might be there, He might be."). In those times, I feel worried most of the time, don't know which to hear, and most importantly, it's my LIFE direction. It leads me to what God wants me to be.

Indeed, sometimes I think variably either my action towards people and my decision in life. Is it something that pleases God or not? Often times, as a plain human, I think that the things were destined for me. For example, if I did something wrong, suddenly, accusations came into my mind and blamed me for everything, well, the conversation in my mind would be like this:

"You've got a bad grade, Edgard, a horrendous grade!"

"Yes, I know, I know.."

"You shall study until the morning and work harder!"

"Yes, Yes, I will do that."

Some people have that kind of thinking but it's just weird having that kind of  conversation in your mind. Another one would be like this, but this might be for those people who suicide because they thought they've did something terribly wrong.... like the JIS event

"You're not worthy anymore to live, you've done the most terrible thing anybody has ever done!"

"Yes, I'm worthy to die than live, I've done an awful thing."

"Then, go, suicide, you're not worthy to LIVE! You've sinned against the Lord and put him on the cross! YOU ARE NOT WORTHY"

That might be the conversation in his mind, then reaching for the poison, he drinks it and he dies in despair and guilt. But, where will he go? To the fiery rivers of hell.

So, this is an example of when you don't hear God's voice when doing the wrong thing, accusations will embedded in your mind, guilt will be planted in your heart and other bad things that will come and scramble your direction towards the godly path.

Actually, the key is this: BE CLOSE TO GOD

How to prevent bullying in schools

Here are some tips to stop bullying:

1. Students should learn to identify bullying and taught positive communication skills.
2. Students should report if they got bullied. Immediate help with a counselor is required.
3. A classroom discussion about the effects of bullying to notify the students.
4. Professionals should teach the students how to handle bullying.
5. Make events or activities that prevent bullying.
6. Make a rule for no tolerance in bullying.

I hope these tips could help prevent bullying from happening.

Tips on how to build self-control

You know, with all your needs and desires mixing together, I suggest you make some self-control. How to build one? Read the following tips below.

1. Make a list of the positives and negatives in your life.

2. Research the part where you are lacking control.

3. Gradually increase your ability to ignore your negative parts. Make self-denial a habit.

4. Ask your family and friends to help you.

5. Distract yourself.

6. Relax.

7. Think about what you want to accomplish.

8. Don't beat yourself up for failures. Don't blame yourself, humans are not perfect.

9. It won't be easy, so be patient and calm.

10. Have a good sleep.

11. Don't procrastinate.

I hope these tips could help you with your life.

Keys to Hearing God's Voice

Wouldn't it be cool if God can simply communicate with us? As if it was humans talking to other humans?

It would be.

Some people believe that we can hear God's voice as part of our thoughts and intuition but others believe that its just another myth that we read from the Bible. Though, we can't just simply hear his voice, there are several keys.

Keys to hearing God's voice:

• Stillness (Silence) 
• Solitude
• Simplicity 
• Surrender

Often times, all we need to hear His voice is being away from the real world such as modern technology and focusing on God himself. Here are a couple ways that we could do to hear his voice using the 4 keys. 

1. Stillness - Purposefully finding times to be silent, and stopping from activity to become calm and quiet and peaceful. 

2. Solitude - Purposefully taking time to be alone without gadgets or friends or family to listen to God. 

3. Simplicity - The principle of living without lots of clutter and gadgets and technology and stuff. We do this so they do not distract us from the leading of the Holy Spirit. 

4. Surrender - The truth that we must give up on our own ability to live our life in our own power and yield fully to the grace and love and power that God, the Holy Spirit gives us to live a good and abundant life. 

Bullying

Just recently, we have the incident of the JIS, which probably scare us all, including teachers, students, etc. Out of all, we can obviously assume that parents would be the one having pressure over the safety of the school, as what was supposedly safe is no longer safe. However, what we should want to know is why the victims, the students, didn't report this kind of incident at all.

 Wikipedia says, bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others.

From this knowledge, we could already assume that the students were intimidated to not say anything about this kind of situation, aka through bullying. The cleaners might have violated the students in a way that they are heavily threaten.

Now, the problem is how to stop this act whole fully. Well, there are many reasons for a people to bully others. It can be for fun, forced (maybe), and in some cases, there are also who wants to bully to not get bullied. So one of the important things to fight against this is to not give up resisting against your desires to bully others.

We know what is good and what is wrong, yet although we tried to choose what is good, what will happen is the worst. And that’s the work of the devil. They will do everything just to seperate you from God.

But remember, God is also beside you. So whereever you are, God knows. God knows when do you get bullied and God knows who bullied. Don’t be threaten when something worst occurs, don’t falter. Make an action that is essential for the goods.