Everyday Hearing God
When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
2 Cor 2:12-14
Hearing God is often relegated to only supernatural experiences: audible voices, angelic visitations, and divine encounters. However, hearing God could often be described in scripture as sanctified common sense. Over time, our thinking processes are transformed by scripture, our understanding grows in our knowledge of God’s ways, and our wills are conformed to God’s direction (Rom. 12:1-2). We begin to make wise and godly decisions without dramatic spiritual experiences. As we grow in Christ, our understanding of God’s will becomes an every day ordinary occurrence. As believers, we should form a level of sanctified common sense when making everyday life decisions.
Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.
Graeme Goldsworthy,  New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, eds., Brian S. Rosner, T. Desmond Alexander, Graeme Goldsworthy, D. A. Carson (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000), 210.