The most important skill anyone could gain while on this planet would be to hear God for themselves, to trust what they’re hearing, and to take action in response. Like any skill, it can be learned, and beyond that, deliberately cultivated and developed. To begin is to say, this is a God who speaks and wants me to hear him more than even I want to hear him. To begin is to discard the limiting statement, “I don’t hear his voice.”

A great way to start is to find a place and time away from the noise of your daily life, and simply ask him a question. One good question for him would be, “what’s your word for me, for this coming year, or for this season of my life?”

On January 22, 2022, he gave me the phrase “free & clear”. That’s lead to, among other things: a job change after 10 years, the sale of my wife’s family home, the sale of a vacation property, the sale of our home in Knoxville, a relocation to Florida. The expression became a filter for my wife and I as we evaluated opportunities and decisions. I shared what I had heard with friends, and received other coaching on what God might be saying to me and how I could dig into what he was saying further.

Why not begin, in these next 100 days, to ask God to help you hear him. He’s already speaking to you all the time. Perhaps it could begin with a word for the coming year for you, or for the season that you’re in?