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You’re Not A Spiritual Failure; You Just Weren’t Taught To Listen

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If you’ve ever wondered “Why is it so hard to hear God’s voice?”—this video is for you.

Many Christian women quietly struggle with hearing from God and assume it means they’re doing something wrong. But the truth is: it’s loud, and most of us were never taught how to listen.

In this episode, I share:

  • Why hearing God can feel difficult (even when He’s always speaking)
  • Common myths about what “hearing God” is supposed to sound like
  • How God actually communicates—often gently, quietly, and personally
  • Why not hearing clearly does not mean you’re a spiritual failure
  • A simple, safe practice to help you begin recognizing His voice

God desires a day-to-day relationship with you—not dramatic moments every few decades. His voice may come as a thought, a picture, a scripture, a feeling of peace, or a quiet knowing—and He speaks in a way you can recognize.

✨ At the end, I guide you through a short, gentle listening practice.
No pressure. No striving. Just space to notice.

I’d love to hear from you in the comments:

  • What came up for you?
  • Did you notice a thought, image, or feeling?
  • Or did it feel quiet—and raise questions?

👉 Subscribe for more teachings on experiencing God’s presence, emotional healing, and learning to hear His voice in peaceful, non-pressured ways.

You’re not behind. You’re not broken. And you’re not doing this wrong. 💛

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SPEAKER_00:

Hi, if we haven't met yet, I am McCof Johnson. I help Christian women learn to hear God's voice and experience his presence in gentle, non-pressured ways, no shame or condemnation. So you can bring him your whole story and find healing. When thinking about learning to hear God's voice, the question often comes up of like, why is it so hard to hear him? If he's always talking, why is it so hard to hear him? And my short answer to that would be because it's really loud and because you weren't taught how to listen. So in this video, I'm gonna go through some of those, like what makes it loud, what makes it hard, but also that it's a skill you can learn, you can practice. And I'm gonna lead you through a really simple practice at the end of the video. So, what do I mean it's loud? It's loud in your head. There's all your emotions and the things you've been taught and your programming and the enemies always talking. It's loud, and our world is louder than it has ever been. If you have a phone, you have a computer, you have any kind of device, the whole entire world has access to you, and you have to manage that. So it's really loud. There's so much good stuff out there, there's so much not good stuff out there, and you put it all together, and it's just simply too loud. So we have to make quiet space to hear from God. And I want to let you know that not knowing how to hear from God does not mean you're a spiritual failure. It's not a reflection on you, it's a reflection on what you've been taught. Most likely you didn't grow up around people that knew how to hear from God, so they couldn't teach you, or hearing from God came so naturally to them they didn't know how to teach you, or it didn't occur to them that they would need to teach you because, well, you just do it. And as someone who has spent years learning to hear God's voice, I can assure you it's a skill you can practice, you can learn, you just need somebody to teach you how. And you're already hearing him, you just don't realize it because he is always speaking. And if you have made Jesus your Lord, then the Holy Spirit has come and lives inside of you, and he is speaking to you, but you might not realize that's him. So when a thought pops into your head of someone you haven't thought of for a long time, that could be the Lord saying, pray for them, reach out to them, um, having an idea of like, oh, I hadn't thought of that before. That could be from the Lord. When it just kind of pops in, you're not sitting and working and striving and trying to come up with something. Um, when a scripture comes to mind, when an encouraging song keeps running through your head, all of those things are the Lord speaking to you. And you just didn't know to attribute that to Him. I think another reason that it can feel hard to hear from God is we don't understand what that actually looks like. And I just kind of gave you some examples, but maybe you grew up thinking, like, well, if I'm gonna hear from God, it's gonna be like I'm really dating myself here, like Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments, like there's this booming, thundering voice of God, and like, okay, that was God. I heard you. Um, but he doesn't often speak to us that way. He speaks in that still quiet voice most of the time. And as I say that in quiet ways, because it's not always words, sometimes it's pictures, impressions, just things that you're noticing, sensations you're feeling in your body, dreams, visions, uses all of those things, but they're all typically in that quieter tone, I guess you would say. Like you need to choose to slow down and pay attention. Sometimes he will do something dramatic and get your attention. But if you think about a relationship with your spouse or your child, like do you want them to only listen when you do something drastic or dramatic? Or do you want them to just listen to your normal everyday voice? And so expecting it to have to be something big and dramatic is kind of like that of like having a relationship with somebody where the only time they get your attention is when they do something big and dramatic. And God doesn't want that, he wants a relationship where you know he walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the day. They just walked along talking. He wasn't doing anything dramatic to be like, hey, listen to me. I just wanted to talk to them and he just wants to talk to you. I think another myth about hearing from God is that it's like for special occasions. So I've seen where people are like, oh yeah, God talked to me like once and told me some life decision thing. I was supposed to be a writer or I was supposed to marry this person or whatever. But they're decades past that. And again, like if God sent Jesus to die for us that we could have a relationship with him, why would he only talk to us every few decades? He wants that day in, day out walking with me type of relationship. And yes, we have his word that we can be reading every day, and he most definitely speaks through his word as we read it, and it just comes alive to us, or there's something that's like, oh, that's so what I needed. Absolutely, that's how he speaks to us, and all of the other ways that he speaks to us will always agree with what is in his word. But he's also alive and ever-present, and so we can have a conversation with him, not just what he's written. Because I think of that of what if you my husband and I wrote lots of letters in our dating years. So, what if I was sitting in the room with him and I pulled out his letters and I was just reading his letters instead of talking to him. I imagine he would feel pretty confused, probably, and also just like, what why don't you talk to me? I'm right here. So I've shared that God speaks in that still small voice. It's his spirit inside you speaking to your spirit, not something audible. And again, the spirit might show you pictures or numbers or give you an impression of something, or you might feel like it's a conversation in your head. And often people are like, Well, I don't know if that's just me. Well, God will talk to you in a way that's familiar to you. And I know some people that talk about God having like a very different personality from themselves, and like he does that. But I also want to say, if it sounds like you, don't just dismiss it because he can speak to you the way he speaks to you. And he's gonna speak in a way that you recognize and become familiar with. And I guess this would be like another myth of why we have a hard time understanding how God speaks as we have it in a box, like it needs to sound like this, or it needs to look like this, or you know, it needs to sound official, or you know, like some people when they say like God said, they go into like, thus saith the Lord, you know, like a King James Bible or something. And he might talk to them like that, but it doesn't mean he talks to everybody like that. And one of the examples I love to use for that is to look at the four gospels. God had the same story to tell, but he told it through four different people. It's his word, they're writing for him, but he wrote it through their personalities, through their experience, through their verbiage, through, you know, John focused on the miracles and the different I ams of Jesus, and Matthew focused on like the Hebrew heritage of Jesus. And, you know, Luke was the doctor, and like, let's get all the facts in here. So it's okay if he speaks to you differently than he speaks to me or anyone else that you know, because he understands your personality and your history and your talents and all of those things, and he's okay with that, and he's big enough and creative enough to speak to you the way he speaks to you. I want to give you an opportunity to practice that right now. If you're in a space where you can close your eyes or just be quiet for 30 seconds and kind of quiet your mind, like put all this away and just say, God, Jesus said that his sheep hear his voice, that they know his voice and they follow him. And I'm your sheep, I want to hear your voice. So can you tell me right now one thing that you like about how you made me? And just observe what comes up. Don't judge it right now, just observe it. I'm gonna give you 30 seconds of music. I would love for you to share with me in the comments what came up for you. If you saw something, if you had an impression, if you just had a feeling of warmth or comfort. I didn't get anything at all. Hear from that too, and let me know what questions you have, or that might be what come up for you. Like, I want to hear from the Lord, but there's all this all this chatter and all these other thoughts that aren't feeling encouraging or comforting. And learning to quiet those voices is another skill that you can learn. And I will teach about that in other videos. So leave a comment below of how that went for you. Subscribe so you can learn more about experiencing God's presence to bring healing and hope to your life. See you next time.