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God's first language is not English.
The Lord Is Always Speaking.
The Lord is more determined and excited to speak to us than we are to hear from Him. We must realize that God is always speaking but He is not human and His first language is not English! If we can grasp this revelation and realize that most of us don't really know how well we see and hear God, we can begin to "tune our receivers to His station." For example, in the room you are in right now there is music playing all around you. Even if you close your eyes and listen very carefully, you would not hear it. However, by simply turning on a radio, you would perceive what was there all the time. The reason, of course, is that our human bodies were never designed to perceive radio waves. Likewise, God is always speaking to us! The gift of prophecy is the equipment we need to tap into the spirit realm that exists all around us even though we can't hear it with our naked ear. The gift of prophecy is like a radio receiver from Heaven. It gives us the ability to hear what God has been speaking to us all along but we were unable to perceive before we received this wonderful gift.
Anointing to Perceive the Supernatural

The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice. Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?" One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel. the words that you speak in your bedroom." So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him" And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."
He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city. Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" So he answered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see." And the Lord opened the servant's eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha (2 Kings 6:10-17). In Second Kings chapter 6, we see that Elisha's calling as a prophet gave him the ability to hear what King Aram would say in secret to his troops. Elisha became a secret weapon to the king of Israel by revealing the plans of this enemy. Then King Aram decides to capture Elisha. On the day of the attack, Elisha's servant comes out of the tent and sees that this enemy army has encircled them. In a panic, his servant runs into the tent and tells Elisha that they are in trouble. Elisha calmly prays for his servant. Immediately, the eyes of his attendant open and he realizes that the mountains are full of horses and chariots of God. This is the kind of prophetic gift that each of us can receive from God. It causes us to be anointed to perceive what is already happening in the spirit world. Without this prophetic gift, we are like blind people in the Kingdom of God!
The War to Keep Us Deaf
Sometimes we struggle to hear the voice of God because there is a war to keep us spiritually deaf. In the parable of the sower, Jesus explains why often when God speaks to us, the enemy comes along and tries to convince us that we didn't hear God clearly or that it wasn't God's voice at all! Satan's objective is to prevent us from bringing God's comfort and encouragement to one another through the prophetic word. If he can convince us not to speak the word of the Lord by making us feel foolish, or convince us that it was just our imagination and not a prophetic word, then he has succeeded in stealing the fruit of God's word in someone's life! The sower sows the Word. These are the ones who are beside the road where the Word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the Word which has been sown in them (Mark 4:14-15). This principle is also true when it comes to receiving a prophetic word. If the enemy can persuade us that the word spoken to us wasn't really God, then we are robbed of the benefit! The value we place on the word will determine the power we will receive from it.
The value determines the power.
Valuing the Prophetic Word
The Bible says, "He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet receives a prophet's reward" (Matt. 10:41). What is a prophet's reward? The ability to see and hear. Jesus stood before a crowd and shouted, "HE THAT HAS EYES LET HIM SEE, AND HE THAT HAS EARS LET HIM HEAR!" He was acting as a prophet.
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward (Matthew 10:41).