How to know!

[Everyday Sunday]

How would I know if what I doing is what God wants me to be doing even I have not heard from Him in awhile?

 

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Why haven't you heard from Him in a while?

 

[Everyday Sunday]

God has been silent in my life for awhile about three years or so.

 

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God has been silent in my life for awhile about three years or so.

Why?

 

[Everyday Sunday]

I don't know I am not God.

 

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I don't know I am not God.

But do you know Him? Look, if you can't answer my question; I can't answer yours. Perhaps others can lend you their feedback...

 

[Jonaitis]

How would I know if what I doing is what God wants me to be doing even I have not heard from Him in awhile?

Do you read his word often? Do you spend quality time with him in prayer? Do you attend and are participating in a local church? Do you fellowship with other believers outside of church?

If you neglect these, it can appear that God is distant, because you have distance yourself from him...

 

[AvgJoe]

God has been silent in my life for awhile about three years or so.

Question: "Why are there times when God seems silent / absent in a believer's life?"

Answer: In answering this question, one is reminded of Elijah and his flight from Jezebel. Elijah was a man of God whom God used to do some mighty things. However, when word reached him that Jezebel had threatened his life, he ran (1 Kings chapter 19). Elijah prayed to the LORD and in effect complained about how he was being treated: "And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away" (1 Kings 19:10). The LORD'S answer to Elijah is thrilling: "And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice" (1 Kings 19:11-12).

We see in this passage of Scripture that what Elijah thought was not true. Elijah thought God was silent and that he was the only one left. God was not only "not silent," but He had an army waiting in the wings so that Elijah was not alone: "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him" (1 Kings 19:18).

In our walk as born-again believers, it may seem that God is silent, but God is never silent. What looks like silence and inactivity to us is God allowing us the opportunity to listen to "the still small voice" and to see the provisions that He has made for us by faith. God is involved in every area of a believer's life--the very hairs on our heads are numbered (Mark 10:30; Luke 12:7). However, there are times when we have to walk in obedience to the light that God has given us before He sheds more light on our path, because in this age of grace God speaks to us through His Word.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it" (Isaiah 55:8-11).

Therefore, when God seems silent to us as born-again believers, it may mean that we have stopped listening to His voice, we have allowed the cares of this world to plug our spiritual ears, or we have neglected His Word. God does not speak to us today in signs, wonders, fire or wind, His Spirit speaks to us through the Word, and in that Word we have the "words of life."

www.gotquestions.org/God-silent-absent.html

 

[Rigatoni]

God can seem to go silent for various reasons, and it may not necessarily be our fault. Perhaps it's a test / trial, or maybe He wants to establish a closer relationship of trust and dependence with us. Seeking God diligently in persistent prayer and fasting can help when we really need to hear from Him. Praying together with friends also helped me when I really needed answers on something.

 

[bèlla]

Reframe your question from a relational standpoint and that may give you answers. Thus, relationship wise, how much time are you putting in? Consider this on a scale from 0% to 100%. What percentage of your attention does God receive? Then view that number in relation to your work, family, friends, and other interests.

The results will provide insight on your investment. You don't need to answer that here. It's a handy tool to use for any area of your life where you're experiencing a lack of growth or drought. Good luck.

 

[Noxot]

I think for most of us that it can be hard to know because often we are blind and seeing through a glass dully.

what further complicates the matter is that God wants us to have freedom, a freedom which can be directed to God and to receive his grace but nevertheless a freedom that God can't control otherwise if he could his kingdom would have already fully came.

but a possible sign that you are on a good path is when you feel meaning or love or maybe even "flow" in what you do.

Matt 11:28-30 (YLT)
`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.'

 

[James of Arc]

Do as the Quakers do and be silent until you hear Him.