Dec14— Week Five: Hearing God Again

Learning to recognize God’s voice after seasons of silence, doubt, and spiritual exhaustion.

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Introduction

Healing is often talked about in terms of food, supplements, routines, and protocols. Those things matter. But they are not the whole story.

Chronic illness affects more than the body. It affects confidence, identity, hope, and faith. It changes how we see ourselves and how we relate to God.

For many of us, the hardest part of healing isn’t what we eat, it’s learning how to keep trusting when our bodies don’t cooperate. It’s learning how to stay hopeful when progress feels slow. It’s learning how to feel safe in a body that has scared us.

That is why these devotionals exist.

Daily Bread is a space to check in with your spirit — not just your symptoms. It is a place to remind yourself that God is near, that you are not alone in what you’re walking through, and that healing is not something you have to force.

This Week’s Focus: Hearing God Again

There are seasons where God feels silent, not absent, but quiet in a way that leaves you unsure if you’re being guided at all. But eventually, something shifts. Not loudly. Not dramatically. It begins with a nudge, a reminder, a moment of clarity, a verse that hits differently, a peace that wasn’t there before.

This week is about those moments. The ones where you begin to sense God’s voice again after a season of uncertainty. Hearing God again isn’t always about receiving instructions or dramatic revelation. Often, it’s about becoming sensitive to His presence in the middle of ordinary life, in Scripture, in conviction, in peace, in doors closing, in doors opening, in the quiet assurance that you are being led even if the path still feels unfamiliar.

Hearing God again is not about perfection. It’s about awareness. Softening. Turning your ear toward Him with expectancy rather than fear, because even when His voice feels faint, He is still speaking, and you are still His.

Today's Scripture

Ezekiel 36:12

And I will give you a new spirit I will put within you, And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Romans 8:14

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Reflection

One of the most mature stages of hearing God is learning to recognize His voice within your own spirit. Not as an external sign, not as a dramatic moment, but as internal alignment, restored thinking, renewed desires, stronger conviction, or clarity that doesn’t come from you.

Ezekiel 36 tells us something huge: God doesn’t just speak to you, He puts His Spirit within you. That means His guidance is not always a voice you hear. It’s often a direction you sense, a conviction you feel, or a wisdom that rises from a place in you that didn’t exist before God renewed you.

Romans 8:14 confirms that being “led by the Spirit” is the evidence of belonging to Him. Not hearing an audible voice. Not receiving visions. Not having perfect spiritual discernment. Being led, nudged, guided, redirected, strengthened by His Spirit inside you.

This matters because so many people doubt whether they’re “hearing God” simply because He isn’t speaking in the way they expect. They assume silence means distance, or that if God were speaking, it would feel unmistakable.

But most of the time, hearing God is subtle. It’s quiet confidence. It’s a shift in perspective. It’s a sudden clarity about something you’ve been wrestling with. It’s new strength that makes no sense based on how tired you felt. It’s a conviction that keeps returning no matter how much you try to ignore it. It’s a peace that interrupts anxiety. It’s wisdom that feels “other”, like it didn’t originate from your own logic.

Hearing God in your spirit means learning the difference between:

• your fear and God’s caution

• your impulse and God’s timing

• your desire and God’s direction

• your emotion and God’s conviction

  
  

This is spiritual maturity, not relying on signs, not needing constant external confirmation, but discerning God’s guidance through the Spirit He placed inside you.

You are not spiritually deaf. You are spiritually growing.

Silence was a season, not your identity. And now, as your spirit becomes more sensitive, you’re beginning to hear God again in the most intimate way possible, From within.

If This Spoke to You

Reply/comment below and tell me which part you’re waiting on right now. I’d love to pray specifically over you this week.

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Wishing you a Great Day Ahead,

Mandi 🤍