Are you listening to Kingdom Voices?

There are so many voices in today's culture. Anyone with a laptop or even a smart phone can lift up their voice with little to no repercussion or accountability. People are saying many things and there are many delivery methods for those voices to be heard.

What are you listening to?

Are you listening to opinions about politics, sports, and/or religion? Are you listening to the many voices attempting to confuse your mind about the truth?

With so many people trying to speak into your life, how do you know who to siphon off and who to open up to?

Do we just go with the flow culturally and allow all these voices to take up valuable real estate in our heads? Are we all so desperate to hear some new thing that we just allow anything to infiltrate our spirits?

I believe it's time that we begin to shut-off some of the noise. There are some voices that have no legal right to be in your head.

Most political voices in this day and age serve to distract and divide—two things a kingdom person should never allow in their anointed mind. Many religious voices in this culture want to deceive and deploy false doctrine into tickled ears. Other cultural voices want to offer idols and those voices will even teach you how to worship those dumb idols, as Paul called them in 1 Corinthians 12:2.

In Romans 12:2, the Apostle Paul also said to not be conformed to this world's superficial customs, but to be transformed by the continual renewing of your mind. If that happens, you will be able to prove, discern, and detect what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

We must listen to kingdom voices in this age. We must not allow the world's culture to invade our thought process, our doctrinal values, or our churches.

But how can we tell a kingdom voice from a cultural voice? Truth. You won't hear truth taught by culture. According to culture, there is no truth. Everything is relative.

How do you determine truth when mainstream religion has even become a source of falsehood? You determine truth by the Word of God. Not by your personal theology or by the experience your friend had at the hip new culturally relevant church down the street.

You must continually renew your mind on a daily basis by hearing, reading, & studying the word. It must become a part of you.

When that happens, not only will you recognize a kingdom voice you might just become one yourself.