Oh ok. You seem to have a good relationship with the Lord. How long did it take being a Christian for you to be able to hear His voice like that?
All the Lord (Holy Spirit-Through the Holy Spirit) said to me was that when He checked you on that foolish Jestering, He gave a scripture so that you could try the spirit by comparing the Word to what you heard.
Then the Lord showed you in your mind exactly what part of the Jestering He wanted you to cut out. (Not that joking is bad, just foolish and devilish things are bad) So you were given a scripture, a direction, and in your mind the example.
Everything you needed, the LOrd said was given.
How to hear God?
They write whole books on this subject. You heard God, so you know what it sounds like.
A scripture just dropped in your spirit can be the answer to something.
The best advice I can give is what was given to me. Follow the peace in your heart. Avoid things you question.
Is Christian Metal Good?
If I have to ask that, then I am not in faith with clear conscience to listen to it.
The More I go against my conscience and reason things out, the harder it is to hear the Lord clearly.
Just today, someone wanted the wife to go somehere. No big deal. I got that check in my spirit about her going. A stop sign in your heart.
Best way to describe it is that it did not "SEEM" right. Your Seemer inside your heart. Not mental thinking, but inside. No reason behind it, just something "Seems" off.
My wife got the same thing, but she added to it. She said that it was a waste of time and she had things to do, but she was still planing to go.
At the time she was about to leave, I told her the Lord checked you about going with that women tonight. Did He?
She said yes........
We can't be the Holy Ghost for people, but if it's a loved one, you can at least ask them. We don't want to be controling.
I told the wife I got a check in my spirit about her going. A stop sign, why are you still planing to go, I asked?
My wife did hear the Lord, just that thing that did not "SEEM" right, but she reasoned over it. So I waited until the last moment to say something as the Lord asked me to.
So, the more you just practice stopping before you do something when it don't "Seem" right or you get that "STOP" sign then the more clearly you will pick up on the Holy Spirit and hear.
Every believer is led by the Spirit of God, many are dead tody by not obeying what is in their heart and reasoning over what they already know.
Practice not violating your conscience. Lots of scripture about our conscience.
If you planed to do the dishes before bed, but get to tired, don't go to bed and leave them dirty. If you plan to clean something, but other things come up. Cancel those other things and clean the thing that needs cleaned.
Keep your conscience clear at all times. It's a key to hearing God clearly.
If you don't have peace about anything, then all STOP!!!! Don't move until you get further direction, if the Lord gives you direction.
Baalam was told by the Lord not to go to the Kings. But there was lots of money involved. So Baalam kept asking about it. Soon the King sent men to Baalam and they spent the night with Baalam. Baalam ask again and the Lord said if they come again, Go with them. So in the Morning Baalam got up and went with them. It ended up costing Baalam his life.
It's always best to act on what you think you heard, no questioning, just do it and be wrong, than to practice over riding what you hear and not be able to hear clearly at all.
God always speaks in line with his word. A lying spirit will be out of line with the Word.
We all miss God, but it's the heart that matters and a heart that wants to hear, but messes it up is better than a heart that ignores God, and reasons everything out in the natural.
Just because something cost less, or a better deal, I have learned not to be led by Money, but by the Holy Spirit.
Practice these things and soon folks will be wondering how you hear God so well, and how you can hear God for them.
Be blessed.