Does God still speak today? What does He sound like? What is He saying?

God is the very author of speech. In fact, He is continually speaking His words. Through His words, He is ever activating His will and revealing His Son, allowing us to know Him and make Him known.

Everything exists by the Spoken Word of God.  By His voice, He continually makes His will known to everything and everyone.

Throughout the first chapter of Genesis, God is set on bringing forth creation.  He desires it, He speaks it, and it is. God said, “let there be light,” and there was light.  The sky, land, seas, vegetation, and living creatures were all created by the Spoken Word of God.  

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image… so God created man…’” (Genesis 1:26-27).  

It was God’s will to give us life.  What incredible power and what incredible love!  The Scriptures say that God knew us before we were, and He spoke us into being.  

“You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book.  Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.” Psalm 139:16  

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart..."  Jeremiah 1:5

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.” Psalm 139:13

He saw our unformed bodies while we were still in our mother’s womb.  He saw every moment of every day of the rest of our lives before we ever took our first breath.  He set us apart for His purpose before we took our first step – all because He spoke it into being! God’s voice, His Spoken Word, gives us physical life and establishes the purpose for our lives.  How great are the plans God speaks over those who are His!

"We must be introduced to the Spoken Word of God; we must meet Him."

In the passage above from Jeremiah, God gives us a taste of His will for His people; He desires that we would be set apart and appointed for His service. The New Testament reaffirms this:  

“For this is the will of God, your sanctification.” (1 Thessalonians 4:3)  

So how does God’s Spoken Word accomplish His will to sanctify us?  Through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

“Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”  (1 Corinthians 1:30)

What is God’s word saying to us in these Scriptures? We must be introduced to the Spoken Word of God; we must meet Him. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).  Jesus Christ is the Word of God.  The Bible, documenting and testifying to the Spoken Word of God, is not simply a book with words on pages; it is the manifested life of Christ and is revealed to us by the Spirit of God. 

“For the word of God is alive and active.” (Hebrews 4:12)  

The Word of God is Jesus Christ.  He is alive, He embodies the fullness of God, and He reveals God’s essence and character.  Jesus is the Word of God activated. This is how we come to know the will of God and how we know God, Himself – by listening to and trusting the Spoken Word of God, by walking in obedience to the Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ.

“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.” (1 Peter 1:23)

“He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." (Luke 11:28)

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

By trusting in the Word of God and following the example set by the Lord Jesus, we are promised the ability to do everything that Christ did and more.  “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these.” (John 14:12).  

Many children of God today never attain to this victorious life because, like the Israelites, when they hear His voice, they do not believe; as a result, their hearts are hardened. The word of God warns us to not walk in this way.

"Today when you hear his voice, don't harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled." (Hebrews 3:15)

Let us believe today and let the Word of God transform us! The same Spoken Word of God that raised the Lord Jesus from the dead has the power today to raise every dead heart and mind to life through Christ, empowering us to fulfill His promise… “and they will do even greater things than these.”  

"We must simply and sincerely believe that what God has spoken is true."

What does it mean to believe in the Word of God?  First, we are commanded to speak His Word. “Let the one who has my word speak it faithfully.” Jeremiah 23:28-29.  To speak the word faithfully means to follow the word faithfully.  Our words, themselves, are powerless unless they are lived out. We must proclaim the faith we have in the power of God’s Word through our daily actions.  

“What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? …faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” (James 2:14,17)

We must simply and sincerely believe that what God has spoken is true.  Then we will begin to speak it and live it as truth. This is faith in action.  This activates the power of the Word of God within us. So whether we need freedom from sin or encouragement in our walk with Christ, it is found when we speak the Word over our hearts, our minds, and our circumstances and then walk it out.

Speaking the Word of God over ourselves more simply means to completely trust that what He says is true. No matter the circumstance or how we may feel, the beauty of God’s Word is that it is always true. When we trust in this truth above our situation, we exalt Jesus Christ, who is the Truth, as Lord of our lives. We hear it, think on it, practice it, and speak it.

When we believe God’s Word in this way, we cannot help but to talk about it… because it works! It’s real! It’s the answer in every situation! And it’s always victorious! And we come to know that God’s word to us is like a faithful friend that ‘sticks closer than a brother.’ Truly, this is how we begin to have a genuine relationship with the Word of God, who is Jesus Christ.

It is also through the Spoken Word that we defeat sin and come into true life. When we confront the sin, fear, or deceptions in our lives with the Spoken Word of God, we are activating the power of Christ, who is always victorious. We develop faith that what we think, speak, hear, and experience will be pure and in perfect unity with the will of God for our lives.

We are no longer “dead in our sin” and circumstances.  We no longer trust in our emotions, knowledge, or past experiences in the world. We trust the Lord Jesus Christ as the True Word that brings life. Then as we make decisions from that place of trust in Him, it is no longer we who do it, but Christ who lives in us. This is where we find His power to say “no” to sin and ungodliness and live in the freedom God intended for us.

So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.” (Romans 6:11)

“The tongue has the power of life and death....” Proverbs 18:21

"God searches today for one through whom He can show His magnificence."

The Word tells us that we have the power of life and death in what we say. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life…” (John 14:6). To have the power of life in our tongue is to have Jesus. He is eternal life. The Word of God is the only lasting word that will make an impact for eternity… the only word of eternal hope and love we can pass on to our children, the only lasting legacy we can leave. All other words will fall to the ground, but the Word of God will live forever.

Romans 10:8 tells us that the word of God “is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming.”  (Romans 10:8)  

For the one who truly seeks to live this righteous life by faith, the Word of faith is near… it lives in his heart and flows from his mouth.  

So then, let us cling to God's Spoken Word, to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Let us dedicate ourselves in faith to the powerful, transformed life for which we were set apart before the world began. May we speak God’s Word with confidence and maturity, not wasting what was entrusted to us on the idle things of this world!

“For every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:36-37).

When John the Baptist was asked, “Who are you?” his simple reply was "I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.” (John 1:23)

God searches today for one through whom He can show His magnificence. Will you be His voice today? What will you speak?  May you be set apart this day for God. May His Spoken Word be activated in you, that you may bring forth the everlasting, transforming words of God.