Do you tend to hear voices around you? Are you in tune to hear the voice of God speaking to you?

According to the world, if you admit that you hear voices, they may want to lock you up. Even if you are seen as constantly talking to yourself, they may want to lock you up as well.

My mother would say, “You can talk to yourself, just don’t let the world see you answer back.”

If you say that God is speaking or had spoken to you, the world will laugh at you, thinking you’re crazy. I’m here to tell you that God speaks to us in many different ways. It’s the work of the Holy Spirit. God can still speak to us today in many different ways. God will speak to you through his own powerful voice or His soft voice. He will speak to us through the Bible. He will speak to us through a sermon. God can even speak to us through unlikely people.

Please don’t think that I’m crazy when I tell you how God had spoken to me!

One of my favorite verse in the Bible is Isaiah 6:8. The verse says, “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

I came upon that verse around the time I accepted the Lord Jesus into my life. It was a verse that televangelist Dwight Thompson also used in his ministry as well.

I’m going to give you a little background to this verse. In the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah saw on the throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Isaiah felt he was unworthy when he cried, “Woe to me! I am a ruined ! For I am a man of unclean lips, and live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord almighty..”

Have you ever felt that you were unworthy to be chosen? Believe me, I have felt that time and time again.

Johnny Cash had a song out there called, “I saw a man.” In the song, “last night an angel came and took my hand. He called me by name and bid me to look the other way.”

In Isaiah 6:6-7, “Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, ‘see, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

It goes to show that God can used ordinary people to do His works if we’re obedient. God told Noah to build an ark before He brought down the flood. The people thought Noah was crazy for building an ark in the middle of a desert.

Both Abraham and Sarah laughed when God told them that they will bear a son in their old age; so Abraham can be a father of many nations.

God got Moses attention in the wilderness with a burning a bush that never burnt up. God intended to used Moses to freed the Israelites from Egypt. Now Moses, himself, felt unworthy of the challenge made by God. He made excuses and excuses why he felt he was unworthy. Moses had a speech impediment. He felt that he was too old to pick up and go back to Egypt. Moses had a temper as well. God told Moses to take off his sandals because he is standing on Holy ground.

God chose David because He said that David was a man after His own heart; even though he committed adultery with Bathsheba.

When I went to district camp this year, the message was on Moses and the bush on fire. God’s promise is still true today. God is still working on our story. He’s not through with me yet. As I heard a pastor say, “We all have a story to tell.”

There have been times that God had actually spoken to me directly during the night. The first time was after Dwight Thompson preached on Luke 15, “The Prodigal Son.” God had told me that He loved me and was always there for me; even during the time I was being molested. That was the time, I accepted the Lord with tears in my eyes.

Another time was when I was feeling sorry for myself. Earlier that day, I had a visit from the Mormons or Latter Day Saints knocking on my door. Then that night, God told me to get up and pray for your pastor. God didn’t tell me the specific thing to pray for my pastor. God just told me to stop feeling sorry for myself and get up to pray for my pastor. I pleaded with God to just let me lie down and pray; but God wouldn’t let me do that. I had to actually get up and pray for my pastor. It goes to show, if we’re not obedient with God, God will not let us sleep until we do what he asked. I didn’t know the reason for that prayer; but to speak to me. It also goes to show that God will used the unlikely people to get our attention.

You may think that I’m crazy when I have told you I have heard God’s voice speaking to me. To some, you will say, “they are coming to take you away, to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time.” To those who thinks I’m crazy, I don’t know who you are.”

Is God speaking to you? I don’t think you’re crazy because God had spoken to me.

If God is speaking to you, be obedient to what the Lord is saying. You should talk to a pastor or someone in the church to see if it’s really God speaking to you though. Sometimes the devil will even speak to you making you think he is god.

If God is actually speaking to you pray this prayer, “Lord, thank you for speaking to me and making your presence known. Help me to understand your words, obey your will with a brave heart, and keep my life aligned with your truth.” If you said this prayer, then find yourself a good Bible peaching church, and seek advice from a godly preacher filled with the Holy Spirit. Just think, if it wasn’t for Ananias being obedient to God, where would Apostle Paul have been? Pay attention to the voices you hear in your head. The world may think you’re crazy; but it could be God speaking to you.