Cause Me to Hear, Cause Me to Know— Psalm 143:8 Meaning and Hearing God’s Voice

Learning to recognize God’s voice and walk in His guidance Psalm 143:8 meaning about hearing God's voice and knowing the way to walk

Cause Me to Hear, Cause Me to Know

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Psalm 143:8 Meaning — Hearing God's Lovingkindness

📖 Psalm 143:8 (KJV)

“Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;

for in thee do I trust:

cause me to know the way wherein I should walk;

for I lift up my soul unto thee.”

The meaning of Psalm 143:8 is a prayer asking God to help us hear His lovingkindness and know the way we should walk.

This verse became my testimony this morning.

Before I even saw the Scripture, I was awake with my eyes closed, listening to the Bible and praying. I was asking the Lord how to walk, how to help the people He brings into my life, and how to handle the pressures that come with caring deeply about others.

And then this verse appeared.

Cause me to hear.

Cause me to know.

That is exactly what the Lord has been doing in my life.

When we are in Christ, our first priority becomes listening to God and doing what He tells us to do. Jesus lives in us through the Holy Spirit, and He still guides His people today.

Sometimes His voice is not loud.

It is a still voice deep within us.

Scripture says:

📖 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.”— John 16:13

That guidance often comes quietly.

It comes in the place where we know something is right or wrong before anyone else even speaks.

Over time, as we grow in Christ, our priorities begin to change.

For a long time, I placed many responsibilities and relationships above everything else. I was trying to be everywhere for everyone. But God has been teaching me something important.

Our relationship with Him must come first.

When we seek Him first, He begins to shape our values, our reactions, and even our boundaries. We begin to recognize what is from His Spirit and what is not.

The Bible says there are two kinds of wisdom:

📖 “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”— James 3:16

But God's wisdom is different.

📖 “The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated…”— James 3:17

As we grow, the Lord teaches us to discern the difference between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.

📖 Galatians 5:22–23

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance…”

Love is the evidence of Christ in us.

📖 “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

— 1 John 4:16

The more we walk with Jesus, the more we begin to recognize something powerful:

The battle around us is not really against people.

It is spiritual.

And when we submit to God and walk in His truth, His authority rises in us

—not through force, but through surrender.

Jesus showed us this.

When He was tempted in the wilderness, He did not argue with the enemy. He responded with the Word of God.

The written Word.

The living Word.

📖 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.”— John 1:1

Jesus is the Word.

And through His Spirit, that Word now lives in us.

The beautiful thing is that God doesn't just guide us through hardship. He shapes us through it. He teaches us to overcome temptation, confusion, and pressure by standing in truth.

That is how we grow.

That is how we become strong in Christ.

The Lord has been showing me something else recently as well.

Part of walking with Him means learning to care for the life He gave us. When we spread ourselves too thin trying to carry everything for everyone, we can lose the clarity He is trying to give us.

God never asked us to carry the whole world.

But He does give us strength to carry what He assigns to us.

📖 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”— Philippians 4:13

And as we grow in Him, something beautiful begins to happen.

We start to discover the gifts He placed inside us.

Scripture says:

📖 “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us… whether ministry, let us wait on our ministering.”— Romans 12:6–7

That means we don't force our calling.

We wait on the Lord.

He opens the doors.

He brings the people.

He gives the strength.

And day by day, step by step, we simply follow.

That is the walk Psalm 143:8 describes.

First, we hear His lovingkindness.

Then we know the way we should walk.

And finally, we walk in it.

So, if you feel like you're still waiting, still seeking, still asking God what to do next—don't give up.

Jesus Himself often withdrew to pray.

He waited on the Father.

And He teaches us to do the same.

Ask.

Seek.

Knock.

God is faithful.

He will cause you to hear.

And when the time is right—

He will cause you to know the way wherein you should walk.

With love in Christ,

Karen

Hope in Today Ministries

Jesus is never too busy to listen to me… and the same Jesus who meets me there is willing to meet you there too.

Nothing we can bring to Jesus will ever leave Him helpless; or wondering what to do.

I have received Him in my heart as both Savior and Lord.

This is the journey Psalm 143:8 describes.

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