I feel I hear the voice of God in my life too. it's this impression and other times you hear the voice of God by knowing the Word of God/the bible. it can be a struggle to hear the voice of God but we should always remember that it's for good.
OK - I know what you are saying is correct - yet there is a reason/reasons for picking Him up as impressions as opposed to hearing that small voice which comes in words to your spirit!
Now I don't mean to offended, but rather to help people understand so they can get closer to the Lord and get them hearing Him better. So many Christians I talk to tell me the same thing - that is they pick up the Lord talking to them as an impression, unction, or something like that - and they also feel certain that He sometimes talks to them while reading their Bible. They are not wrong in saying that, but there are some problems with picking Him up like that!!
Let me go over a few verses which cover this issue.
Heb 5: 11-14 Concerning him we have much to say, and
it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes
only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Mat 3: 15 (also Acts 28:27) For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'
The problem is that if we don't regularly, as in practicing using our spirit senses, to seek our Lord Jesus Christ via His Holy Spirit, then we become and stay dull of hearing!!!!
And if you are dull of hearing you don't receive all the instructions and teachings the Lord wants to give you. Also, if you are dull of hearing because of lack of practice, you are not as able to determine if what you are getting is form the Lord or from the devil!! Note: That to test the spirits as discussed in the thread (using 1 Jn 4:1-3, or even 1 Cor 12:3) you have to be able to hear the words the spirit you are testing is saying to you!! And even the teachings the Lord gives you personally, will come in words!
Therefore the verse we read above our correct - like "because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil."
Now if I am actually seeking the Lord everyday called "Today" and expecting to hear by faith the words that come from Him whose name is called "THE WORD OF GOD", then I will wind up hearing Him in words (the small voice of His) because according to you faith it will be done for you!!!
Now certainly a newer Christian would be expected to be "dull of hearing", and if a Chrisitan church is not making this clear to the congregation, then we might expect this problem of not practicing using your spiritual senses would be a problem. And we know that all seven churches in Revelation had that problem! They were all told:
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." Rev 2:7, 2:11, 2:17, 2:29, 3:6, 3:13, and 3:22
So if ever church written to in Revelation had the problem of 'NOT' letting those with ears not hear what the Spirit has to say, then you can be pretty sure that is happening at your church also!!!!!
And quess what - If you have physical ears God also gave you spiritual ears, but perhaps the Lord has not opened them up for you?? Or perhaps not enough that you are hearing the
words of His that give us life?
Jn 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Now it is not mine to say who get's into heaven or not, but if "The Word" that He speaks to us via the Holy Spirit are what gives us life, then we should expect to hear Him in words, right??? So if we are not actually hearing the 'words' He says to us, but instead get an impression and pick them up like an unction, do we not need to be seeking Him more and that to be able to hear Him in "words"???
Again, I know a lot of Christians pick the Lord up that way, but if the Scriptures are to be thought to be correct - then it seems that we need to be looking and expecting to hear from the Lord is words!! Even to be able to test the spirits as instructed in the Bible, but also to get the teachings, instructions He has for us clearer!! That might take some practice seeking and hearing from Him everyday called "Today" - but that seems to be what He expects!!!
Heb 3:7 - Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
Also Heb 4:7 He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying [fn]through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”
And what does this verse mean? Heb 4:2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
Plainly we should be hearing the "word" by faith - and the word of God we preach is found in our hearts and mouth, not written in ink on pages! That is the Book/Bible/Scriptures/ Sacred Text, that the Word of God uses to teach us with! It is not the word of God we are preaching. The
word of faith we are preaching comes from the Holy Spirit directly to our spirit, who got those words from Him (Jesus Christ) for us personally!
Romans 10: 8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
Maybe I am beating this point a little hard, but is this a matter of life or death? If not, it is still a matter of discernment between good and evil and also a matter of a closer relationship with Jesus Christ!! So it seems better to say a lot on this - just as written " Concerning him we have much to say, and
it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing."