Whenever I've had conversations with people about "Hearing God" they usually come back with "God doesn't have an audible voice, so I've never heard Him." or "He has never spoken to me." God doesn't have this booming voice like people portray in movies, but I know He talks to me, and He can talk to everyone. It's little things like the list posted above. He put multiple instances right in my face sending me a message, He's talking to me. I know He is. To the people who say "He's never spoken to me." sometimes You just have to look at things differently. Listen instead of talk , notice the things that tug at your heart , and be aware of what is repeatedly revealed to you. 
Obviously, if you haven't noticed .. lately God has been telling me to be still and wait PATIENTLY for Him.
Instant gratification is what our world wants these days. The fast food, the drive thru for banks, starbucks, snowcones you name it. Trying to get a list of things done before the timer goes off on the microwave or before your shower gets to the temperature you like. Filling a whole day's schedule with things to do. - It's how we are, so we tend to carry it over into other parts of life. For me, the issue of uncertainty can drive me up the wall. Having conversations and thoughts lately have led me to that point and I'm kind of just like "welllll I don't know what's going to happen or how this is going to turn out or if it's going to go my way". That doesn't sit well with me, but that's where God comes in. He doesn't work according to what I want. He works according to what I need as far as the plans He has already made for me.
"We can't hurry the Lord. He does things in His time." - Joyce Meyer
And thank God that He does because He is always on time! While we wait for the answers to our prayers or desires, we must learn to enjoy the time waiting. - That's where my big problem is. I'm an extremely anxious person. I like knowing things right then and there and if I don't, it's not pretty. So my prayer for me is to completely change that.
God's greatest desire for His children is that they experience His best in their lives
You CAN hear God, it's part of our inheritance so don't ever believe otherwise.
If you've never heard Kari Jobe or her song Be Still , PLEASE
I am obsessed with this chick.
BE STILL MY SOUL BE STILL, WAIT PATIENTLY UPON THE LORD.
the Lord LOVES for us to recognize His voice.... "My sheep hear My voice and they know Me and they follow Me, they will not follow the voice of another." John 10:27. you're correct- we have to LEARN to listen to God. I love how "Be Still" commands ourselves to wait on the Lord. It's like declaring that waiting and being still are the only way the Lord can speak to us through struggle. i love it.
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