Jesus told His disciples, ^“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27).

The verse tells us that when we become believers, God speaks to us regularly through the Holy Spirit that is now resident inside us (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

However, though God regularly speaks to us, we are not always recognizing the voice of God, in the 6,000 or so thoughts that pop into our heads on an average day.

We need to learn to identify the voice of God, whose tone will be different. We need to be like the sheep in the video above, who know the voice of their shepherd, even when several people try to mimic the call of the shepherd.

The sheep ignore all those other voices, and then the real shepherd calls them to come in.

Like these sheep, we need to discern when the Holy Spirit is speaking to us.

This ability to consistently differentiate God’s voice from the thousands of other thoughts that clutter our mind is the key to being effective in the spiritual gifts, such as the word of knowledge, wisdom, interpretation of tongues, and the gift of prophecy,