Is Hearing from God Scriptural?
Throughout the word of God there are instances of His children hearing from Him. In fact, it is advocated as a way of life. John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. All the way back in Exodus 25, among the instructions for building the tabernacle, there is a powerful picture of the relationship by which we are restored. Ex. 25:22 And there I will meet with you, and I will commune (speak) with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel. Commune or speak means: to say, to speak, to tell, to promise, to talk, to converse (2-way), to name, to command, to bid, to pronounce, to teach, to declare….But the primary meaning is “to put forth in order.” In this process of communing He also teaches us to speak in a way that works comfort and restoration: Isaiah 50:4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should
