Through out my Christian life I have heard from people who God has spoken to, given a clear vision, showed them their purpose, directed them, spoke to them through His word etc, etc.... To date I have not heard anything God has said to me. Not a single thing. I have no idea what his plan is for me or if he even has one.
I am assuming it is me that is doing something wrong as God never does. I have prayed about it, read His word, fasted.....nothing. What have I got wrong. Sometimes I wonder if he has nothing to say to me, but the bible tells me different.
Don't know where to go from here.
I will start with a scripture.
1Co 4:1-2 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Each of us are steward of God's mysteries. There are things each of us don't know, or don't understand about God. For a person to say "I heard God", or "God spoke to me", there are one of three thing happening. a) they are a faithful minister of Christ, and God has indeed spoken to them; or b) they are a fruit loop and they are hearing Satan, or c) they want to hear from God so bad, but get all mixed up.
But a true steward of God's mysteries must "be found faithful". What is it to be found faithful? The person must first understand the written word of God the bible, not have or be easily given to error. They must be pure in heart and deed, but not a super saint, for even "Elijah was a man of like passions". Basically God has to train you.
You are headed in the right direction. The bible says:
1Co 12:30-31 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
1Co 13:1-2 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Firstly the bible says "desire earnestly the greater gifts". Which you are doing, the fasting prayer, etc, shows you have character and desire God. But what we often don't realise is we have unseen weaknesses. For me it might be lust, pride, a religious attitude. We may not even see these faults. It can take years to work them out of us.
For me I fasted for years, spent weeks in prayer, even when my family turned up I would not greet them as I was too busy praying. Yet I felt nothing. At that point, do you know what one of my weaknesses was? Not loving my family, not having balance in my life, being overly religious. I saw maybe one or two miracles during this time. But it changed no one, or not many, and I did not notice them occur. Why I had no heart for people. I had no love. Not only that I did not understand God's word. I went to bible college and I still did not understand it, it was all just head knowledge. I went through trial after trial, trouble after trouble, each time I felt "where is God". I wanted to commit suicide, and no longer live. Why all of this? So I could learn to simpathise with those having trouble. So I would not judge others too harshly, so I could learn forgiveness.
What you ask for is not easy. There is a lot of learning to do. A lot of refinement. So the question is after all of this can I hear God's voice? The answer is yes, to a degree. Have I seen miracles, yes. Yet even now, I don't know God's voice so clearly as to be 100% sure. I am 80% sure. I could utter total rubbish tomorrow out of my flesh, our trust must be in God's word.
But as I said, we must all be proved faithful, and that starts in two ways, reading and understanding God's word, and loving others, and loving God. It is about obedience.
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