SID: You know Lana, I’ve said this to you before. You’re unique, not because you teach people how to hear God’s voice, but from day one, you had a passion for God, and a passion to hear His voice. How did you have this passion to hear God’s voice?
LANA: I would say, honestly, it was God. I honestly believe it was a literal impartation from the spirit of God. The moment I got saved, I had this incredible hunger, this cry within me, that came out, that said, “God, I want you to speak. I want to hear your voice. I will do anything. I’ll go anywhere. I’ll do whatever I have to do, to hear from you.” I literally positioned myself, day and night, on my bedroom floor, for hours at a time. I said, “God, I’m not moving until I hear from you.”
SID: Now, at that time, were you spirit filled? Did you pray in tongues?
LANA: Not originally. I got saved when I was 16. I had this incredible hunger, and then I just started waiting on the Lord. One night, as I was waiting on Him, I felt what I now know was the presence of God. The power of God filled my room. From that moment of being baptized in the Holy Spirit, my life completely changed. My senses were activated, and I began to see and hear, but yet I had no grid for it. I was crying out for something that I didn’t even know how to process what was happening. All I knew was God. I’ve read the word that says, John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice.” That’s an invitation for me to hear. I’m taking that promise, and I want it. I want all of it.
SID: You start your prayer in a way I haven’t heard before. I’m going to start doing it. You start each morning with a question for God. “God, what’s on your heart?” You don’t start with your petitions, your laundry list. Why do you ask that question?
LANA: I had this moment of revelation when I was sitting with the Lord one day in my room. I thought, “Hang on a second, this is the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords, that I’m sitting before right now. He’s invited me into this place of being able to hear His voice. If that’s true, which it is, I want to ask you what you’re dreaming about. I want to know what it is that you’re speaking over my life, over my family, over my city and my nation. Then I want to align myself with exactly what you’re saying, and decree it, and activate my faith.”
SID: There was a moment, it was, you call it your great awakening moment. Tell me about that.
LANA: Yeah, that was the very first moment that I’d been crying out to the Lord, asking to hear His voice, and feasting on the word. All of a sudden, one particular evening, I’m sitting with the Lord, and I hear an audible voice that says three words, “I love you.” It startled me. It was literally–
SID: Did you look around to see if someone was in the room?
LANA: I did, I did. The only way I can describe it was that it just shook everything within me. It was like it was an external voice, yet it just went inside of me. It reverberated within me. It awakened me. Up until that point, I had struggled with my identity, and so much fear, and not knowing who I was.
SID: It sounds so, I hate to say it, almost trite. You hear God loves you, we hear that all the time. Why did it have such an impact on you?
LANA: Because of what I had walked through in my life, the things that I had experienced. I had a lot of pain in my heart. In that moment, I realized it really is all about love. It is about knowing the love of God. God doesn’t love me because of what I do. He loves me for who I am.
SID: That’s a hard thing for us humans to grasp, what you just said.
LANA: Absolutely, yeah.
SID: There was another time you heard the audible voice of God. You were in a church office, what happened?
LANA: I was sitting in my office in the morning. I had the same question, “Lord, what’s on your heart today?” All of a sudden, I hear this audible voice and it says to me, “Pick up your pen and write.” I picked up my pen and all of a sudden the power of God hit my hand. It felt like electricity was going through every part of my body. My hands started to write at 1,000 miles an hour. I remember watching my hand, thinking, “I can’t write this fast.”
LANA: So much of what was contained within this letter from God was all these promises of Scripture. It wasn’t something I sat there going, “Okay, the Bible says,” and I wrote it. It was this supernatural flow of just absolute beautiful truth from God, about identity, about destiny, and about His nature.
SID: But then you heard something that was terrifying to her. What did you hear?
LANA: Here I am, looking at this letter, thinking, “Thank you, Jesus. I’m going to hold this forever. This is my letter,” and the voice comes again and says, “Lana, pick up that letter and take it next door to the pastor.” Now, you have to understand the context is that I was in a beautiful church, they were helping me understand the word of God. They were training me in leadership, but they weren’t teaching on the prophetic, and understanding the voice of God in these ways.
LANA: I’m thinking, “God, how am I going to pick up this letter and go and deliver it? What do I say?” I had a moment, and this moment was, “Am I going to sit here and not obey God, or am I going to obey God and maybe look silly?” I thought, “You know what? I’m okay with looking silly.” I went and knocked on the door. I mumbled something along the lines of, “Audible voice said, ‘Pick up your pen and write,’ the power of God hit my hand, and it told me to bring it to you.” He just looked at me and said, “Thank you very much.” I ran back to my office and wanted to crawl under the table.
LANA: A couple of minutes later, there was a knock at the door. I turned around and I opened the door, and here was this beautiful man and he was weeping. He said to me, “How did you know everything that you wrote here?” I said, “It was God.” He said, “Today Lana, I went down and I was in the restroom. I said to the Lord, ‘If you don’t answer these questions in my life today, I’m not doing ministry anymore. I’m done.’ Every line on this piece of paper is the answer to every question that I asked.”
SID: Lana got a word from God’s heart just to her, but God knew it was also for the pastor, that he would have shipwrecked himself without that word. You realized how important this gift is.
LANA: Yeah. He would often say, from that point on, “Lana, that moment changed my life.” You know what? That moment changed my life too. I realized that God doesn’t want to just speak to me, He wants to speak through me.
SID: Do you know she talked about the audible voice of God, but that is not the average way that God speaks to her or most believers. We’re going to talk about it when we come back, some things she’s learned about understanding the voice of God, that you will hear the voice of God. Be right back.
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth