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Please turn to John 10.  Let's examine that passage to discover how to be sure we can hear from the Shepherd. First, we must accept Christ.  We must be saved.  We have to be in his sheep fold.  Please read John 10:11.  When we place our faith in the one who laid down his life for us, he becomes our Shepherd and we become his sheep.  Now read verse 3.  In order for sheep to listen, they must have ears, right?  The glorious fact is that all sheep have ears.  The day you and I trusted Jesus as our Savior and became his sheep, we grew some spiritual ears that could clearly recognize his voice. You might be thinking, "Yes, but I just don't feel worthy enough for God to speak to me so directly."  Remember, worthiness has nothing to do with it.  None of us are "worthy" of anything but death; yet, by his grace, God has given you a good and perfect gift: You have ears. To consistently hear from God, however, it's not enough just to have ears; those ears must be sensitive to his voice. Now notice verse 4 of John 10.  The last part of that verse says, "His sheep follow him..."  But how do the sheep know to follow him?  The sheep "know his voice" because they've heard it before.  They've learned to recognize it. We all know that the Pharisees were "dull of hearing".(See Matthew 13:15)  But did you know that the disciples also had a "hearing problem"?  In Mark 8:14-21, the disciples' eyes failed to see and their ears failed to hear that they had all the bread they needed.  They had missed the point their Lord was making because they were insensitive to spiritual matters.  As ministers and leaders in his kingdom we cannot afford to miss such things.  We must learn to look below the surface of what we can see and hear with our physical senses.  We must discern what God is up to.  That kind of spiritual sensitivity takes time to develop. Just a day or so after they failed their first hearing exam, Jesus gave his disciples another opportunity.  This time they passed.  When Jesus asked, "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."  Jesus blessed Peter and said man had not revealed that to him.  Only the Father in heaven could have shown him such a deep spiritual truth.  Likewise, only the Spirit of God can open up God's Word to us and help us to understand what the Lord wants to say to and through us.  Therefore, we must constantly stay sensitive to the Spirit's instructing. Even with ears open to listen, it's possible we could still miss God's voice.  there is one final condition that we must meet in order to be certain we can hear from God: We must surrender.  The idea here is that we have not only open sensitive ears, but bended ears wanting to receive whatever words of instruction God has for us.  Our attitude must be "Lord, counsel me, correct me, teach me, direct me, rebuke, just please talk to me!" Look at John 10 one more time.  Verse 3b says, "He calls his own sheep by name and leads them our."  Today's topic is "Our Most Necessary Ability!" Being able to hear from God is at the top of our priorities as worshippers and praise leaders for this simple reason: If we don't hear from God, we don't know what to do.  He is our leader, our Shepherd.  We are dumb sheep that need him to lead us.  In fact we'd best not take one step unless he is leading us!  This means laying down our pride and self will and allowing him to direct us. ...read more