How to Know If You're Hearing From God Pt. 1

Todd and I have spent years watching people make decisions they were absolutely convinced God told them to make, only to watch those decisions fall apart completely. The most reliable test for whether you're genuinely hearing from God is whether it lines up with the whole counsel of Scripture, not a verse grabbed out of context and pasted onto what you already wanted. God will not lead you into impurity, strife, or anything that destroys the fruit of the Spirit in your life. Whatever he speaks will cause you to walk closer to him, not further away. One of the places people miss this most often is emotion. When something feels right, meets a need, and makes the flesh comfortable, the conclusion becomes "this must be God." We share a story from growing up where two women in our parents' church became completely taken in by a man whose injury turned out to be entirely manufactured, because the situation was meeting something they needed. When you're inside something like that, discernment has to be rooted in something more solid than how you feel. The peace of God is not emotional comfort; it is grounded in truth, and truth is what changes everything. We also get into how people respond to spiritual oversight and what that response reveals. Pruning is not punishment, and when spiritual authority addresses something in your life, many times God sent them because he loves you enough not to leave you where you are. Challenges in the will of God are not wrong turns; they are tests that qualify you for the next level. The people who keep going are the ones who stay faithful with what is in front of them and trust that God's plan is already complete, even when the current chapter is hard. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@thelastdayspodcast/post/how-to-know-if-youre-hearing-from-god-pt-1