Mel Clapper
“Holy Spirit, what are You saying...”
Growing up in an unsaved household obviously comes with the lack of knowing anything about God. I vaguely believed in God and Jesus, but I literally had no idea that the Holy Spirit even existed. Fast forward to age 15, I gave my life to my Jesus and absolutely everything I ever knew changed for me.
I remember being introduced to God’s voice like it was yesterday. Freshly after being saved, I started praying a lot but somehow had the mindset that I had to beg God to hear me. I would repetitively pray “God please hear me....please, please hear me when I’m praying...please do this...and PLEASE HEAR me. Amen.” This is what my prayer life looked like for about a month or two until one day a prophetic pastor prayed for me. He simply looked at me and said, “yes God DOES hear you.” When someone says something like that and you realize God was the ONLY Person who had listened to you begging to be heard...your life just can’t stay the same. To myself I thought, “wait God is actually THAT involved in my life??” I started to seek out how this was even possible and eventually just found myself falling in love.
As I grew to know Jesus throughout the years, I fell in love with His personality, the way He looked at people, and how He thinks. I also grew to love the Father and His deep heart, His emotions and how much of a Dad He is. But then...I began to develop friendship with the One who—to my knowledge prior to salvation— didn’t even exist. Hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit seemed so impossible to me but I asked Him to show me anyway. I feel like I didn’t hear Him for the longest time as His voice took time to become familiar with. But what eventually became subtle thoughts turned into full conversations. He began to talk to me about other people and the things He was doing in their lives. He would point out someone to me and tell me they were tired and just needed a hug. Or He’d tell me that the last person I talked to had the gift of healing and was going to operate in ministry around the world. The Holy Spirit introduced me to Himself by simply talking to me. Recently I’ve really grown to hear the tone of His voice, the texture, the pitch. I know what He sounds like and I know what He doesn’t. But the best part of knowing His voice is that I know it for ME. I don’t hear God’s voice to just prophesy to people. Holy Spirit showed me the sound of His voice for friendship too.
Some days His voice is the one thing that picks me off the ground when I can’t seem to motivate myself that day. His voice interrupts me on a bad night when I forget who I am or why I’m here. His voice makes me laugh when I needed to hear something funny since work was a little rough. His voice always points me back Home, and Home is Him. The very voice of God is beyond enough to sustain me in the everyday. His very breath formed man from the dust and awoke him to life— and that same voice is what makes ME come alive.
The voice of the Holy Spirit is my favorite sound. I used to think I was incapable of hearing or listening to what seemed far away, but now God speaks to me whenever He wants and I get to talk to the Living God.
If you have a relationship with the Trinity but feel like you don’t hear the voice of the Holy Ghost, pray this over yourself:
“Holy Spirit: If You speak, I will listen. I want to know what YOU sound like. Introduce to me the very sound of Your voice. Open my ears to hear You Lord and pull me in deeper. This is friendship and I want you to show me. So Holy Spirit, what are you saying...”
Written by: Mel Clapper
