I hear God's voice all the time. But do you know what God's voice is? Charismatics are taught that "my sheep hear my voice" and this is the Lord speaking to you by putting thoughts and feelings into your head, which you can then verbalize into "The Lord told me......". But that is an invention of the charismatic movement. Nowhere in scripture does it say God speaks to us like that.
Let's do a little word study o I’m n God's voice. Perform a search in the bible for the word 'voice', picking out the times it is referring to God's voice, and you will notice that it is either:
1. The literal audible voice of God:
Deut 4:12 "Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice."
Ezekiel 1:28 "Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking."
Matt 3:17 "and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”"
Mark 9:7 "Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!”
John 12:28 "Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.”
Acts 9:4 "he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”"
(this is a small selection)
or
2. God's word recorded in Scripture:
Psalm 103:20 "Mighty in strength, who perform His word, obeying the voice of His word!"
Judges 2:20 "So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to my voice"
2 Kings 18:12 "because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded;
Psalm 106:24-25 "They did not believe in His word, but grumbled in their tents; they did not listen to the voice of the Lord."
Jer 9:13 "The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it".
Deut 13:18 "if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all His commandments"
Deut 15:5 "if only you listen obediently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all this commandment"
Deut 26:14 "I have listened to the voice of the Lord my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me."
Ex 19:5 "Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant"
Ex 23:21 "But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. " (this is Moses speaking)
Dan 9:10 "nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets."
1 Sam 12:14 "If you will fear the Lord and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the Lord"
1 Sam 12:14 "If you will not listen to the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the command of the Lord,"
Jer 26:12-13 "The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds and obey the voice of the Lord your God".
Jer 40:2-3 "The Lord your God promised this calamity against this place; and the Lord has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the Lord and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you".
Psalm 81:11 “But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me.
Now when Jesus said my "sheep hear my voice" we are told this was a figure of speech (John 10:6). Jesus is not literally a shepherd; we are not literally sheep; and we not literally hear his voice. It is a metaphor. So if it not the audible voice of God, then it must be other option. The Lord's voice is his speaking to us in scripture. Not thoughts popping into our heads.
This is one of your biggest errors here.
When Jesus spoke to the religious people and pharasees he said things like this,
John 8 - 43. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.”
They may have heard him physically speaking but they did not hear his word in thier heart.
We read
John 5 - 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life... 37. And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 39. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”
To hear God’s voice was not to simply hear Jesus speaking to them physically. All heard him speak this way. No they had to hear in thier heart and receive his word inwardly in the heart. The seed is the word of God sown in the heart.
Jesus said they had not his word abiding in them. They had scriptures and thought they heard Gods word. But they did not have his word in thier hearts and they did not recognize the living Word made flesh standing in front of them.
Many today’s might think they only hear God through scriptures but they are mistaken and may be in danger of being like the Pharisees who did not see with spiritual eyes or hear with spiritual ears.
The word is working in those who believe as Paul said ,
1 Thessalonians 2 - 13. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also
in you that believe.”
Consider these spiritual verses also
Hebrews 4 - 12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Luke 8 - 11. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.”
Deuteronomy 30 - 10. If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.”
John 8 - 47. He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.”
Just reading scripture as the Pharisees did or even hearing Jesus speak as they did did not mean they were of God. They needed to hear his word in thier heart and believe.
