What does Tribe teach about discerning god's voice?
Drawn from the message where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on discerning God's voice starts with a conviction Pastor Brian carries from his own early ministry: God speaks, and hearing Him is not a gift reserved for certain people. It is a skill every person can develop, which means every person in the room carries both the capacity and the responsibility to grow in it. The frame he set came from a quiet interior question he received while walking a property in Tulsa, asking God for an audible word and getting none. What came instead was this: "Son, I am a spirit. How do I frequently communicate?" The answer was spirit to spirit, not through external signs, and that moment gave him a settled confidence that God's voice is available to ordinary people willing to pay attention.
Before you can recognize God's voice, Brian says, you have to reckon with the other voices competing for the same space. The first is your own internal noise, including your thoughts, memories, and the conscience God has wired into every person as a compass bearing toward Him, one that can be dulled and seared through years of ignoring it. The second is the voice of the world, what the New Testament calls the spirit of the age. It often sounds reasonable and even caring, but it cannot be followed at the same time as the clear principles of scripture. That tension opened a real conversation at Tribe about how individual Bible verses can be lifted out of context, and why wise counsel from people who know the whole of scripture matters so much. The third is the enemy's voice, and Brian put it plainly: the enemy's native language is lies, and the voice of the world sits largely inside that circle.
The teaching holds that God's communication is spirit to spirit, which is why the noise of those competing voices has to be named and understood before a person can reliably tell the difference. The conscience is described as a built-in capacity, a kind of bearing toward God that He placed inside every person. Neglecting it through habitual sin does real damage to that compass. As one quote in the room put it, "Sin takes you further than you wanna go, costs you more than you wanna spend, and keeps you longer than you wanna stay." Learning to hear God, in this teaching, is less about waiting for dramatic signs and more about quieting the noise enough to recognize the still small voice that was already there.
Taught from 1 Kings 19:11-13 · Hebrews 3:15 · Hosea 2:14 · Jeremiah 33:3 · Philippians 4:6-7
“Sin takes you further than you wanna go, costs you more than you wanna spend, and keeps you longer than you wanna stay.”
From Still Small Voice
The passage taught · 1 Kings 19:11-13
11 He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
12 After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.
13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
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- June 12, 2023 Still Small Voice Brian Hunter leads Tribe through an honest conversation about learning to hear God's voice, covering the competing voices that drown it out and how to tell them apart.