How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

by Pete Greig

One of the main ways God communicates in the Bible—and in which he continues to speak today—is through the subconscious realm of intuition.

There is no aspect of God’s creation through which he cannot and does not speak.

C. S. Lewis famously observed that “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains.

A survey of forty thousand people aged between eight and eighty discovered that reading the Bible has a profound effect on both our mental health and our spiritual growth, but only if it is done at least four times a week. Once or twice a week provides a negligible benefit, and three times results in only a slight improvement. But among those who study the Bible at least four times a week, there is a dramatic inflection point, a sharp uplift in their mental and spiritual well-being. In fact, these regular Bible readers are 30 percent less likely to feel lonely, 32 percent less prone to anger issues, 60 percent less likely to report feelings of spiritual stagnation, and 228 percent more likely to be active in sharing their faith.35