David Diga Hernandez - Holy Spirit is Already Speaking, But Few Christians Listen

Hearing in the spirit is not a skill to be acquired; it’s a sense to be sharpened. You already have the sense; you are already hearing God. The Holy Spirit is already speaking to you right here, right now. He’s saying something to you. There are the voices of self, Satan, secular, and spirit. Secular is the voice of culture, people, family members—anyone who speaks just according to the thinking of the world. Satan, obviously, questions the Word and contradicts it constantly. We know that sometimes self can speak to us with random thoughts. You can have a thought that’s just kind of neutral, and that’s understandable; we all have those. Then there’s the Spirit, which is the speaking of Truth. The key is not in getting the Holy Spirit to speak to you; the key is in silencing the satanic, the secular, and self. When you do that, all that’s left is the Spirit, and you will hear Him loud and clear.

So how do we do this? Number one: the Word. Please hear me now. Insisting upon adherence to the Word and insisting upon biblical accuracy is not religious, and I think we have to get that out of our heads. This idea that, «Oh, you know, you’re going to the Word; that’s head knowledge, that’s philosophy, that’s just the wisdom of man"—no, my friend, the Word was inspired by God. Second Timothy 3:16–17 states, «All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip His people to do every good work.»

So we understand that the Bible, the Word of God, is inspired by the Holy Spirit. Every word matters. This is why you must be very careful of anyone who questions foundational teachings of the Word. Be careful of yourself, even! Watch out for your own reasoning when you have to bend things in Scripture to fit your opinion. «Well, I don’t know; let me just kind of shift that meaning there just a tad, not completely.» Or «You know, let me question that word there. Let me just adjust the definition so it seems a little more consistent.» If you do that, you’re going to end up in confusion and torment of the mind.

The Word must be the foundation. Get out of your head that the Word is religious. Get out of your head that the Word contradicts the Holy Spirit. If you want real power, if you want to walk in the presence of the Holy Spirit in such a way that your life will mark the nations, then get into the Word. The Word is the foundation of our understanding of the voice of the Holy Spirit; that is the safety net. Do you want a word from God? Here’s a secret for you: you want a word from God? Open your Bible! If you’re serious about hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit, you’ll get serious about reading the Word. Don’t tell me you want to hear the Holy Spirit and you’re not even opening your Bible. Don’t tell me you want a word from God, and you won’t open your Bible! You want to be spoon-fed by others who speak specifically to your situation so that you don’t have to dig into the Word, defining the truth that applies to your specific situation? You just want it in bite-sized pieces? No, my friend, we must dive into the Word. We must receive the Word; we must have a rich knowledge of the Word, and that knowledge is set on fire by the Holy Ghost. Revelation is knowledge set on fire by the Holy Ghost.

Look at the Scriptures. Read of all the different people that God used. They had sharp intellectual minds that the Holy Ghost set on fire. They had the ability to reason according to the Scriptures, and the Holy Spirit gave them boldness, authority, clarity, and peace because of that adherence to the Word of God itself. So, if you’re serious about hearing God, you have to get serious about the Word.

Now, as I said, the Word is the foundation. I’m going to give you four keys here. The Word is the foundation to knowing the voice of the Holy Spirit. Why? Because the Holy Spirit will never contradict the Word. That written Word is there for your guidance, and so you have this foundation. Here’s the Word, and that serves as my grounding; that serves as my stability. Jesus said you build your house upon the sand, that’s like building on your own understanding or without His words. You build your house upon the rock; that’s like building on His Word so that when the storms come—by the way, He did not say if the storms come; He said when the storms come—you’ll be standing. Why? Because you built on a solid foundation: the Word.

So we build our lives upon the words of Christ. That’s not a contradiction to the Spirit; the Spirit works with the Word. It’s not religious to study the Word. Anyone who thinks that is going to get stuck in immature Christianity. You’re going to be a baby Christian all your life and I’m not saying this to be condescending; I’m saying this because we need to wake up. I’m not saying this to tear you down; I’m saying this to wake you up. I want to help you grow past certain things.