Hearing the voice of God in times when there is trial is of utmost importance. Especially when you're in adversity it usually means that God desires to give you a new spiritual/physical technology that you can use for the betterment of the church. There is not one good reason I can think of to ignore the voice of God. In fact, to do such a thing would be to dishonor what you were created for and to cultivate and harbor a theology that doesn't allow you to hear what God is speaking for your life is one of the most detrimental things you can do to harm your relationship with yourself, and with God.
This is why when God is speaking if you don't hear it you must be able to check your heart for denial and replace it with worship and affirmation that the Lord Himself speaks over you. For instance, there is such thing as false humility and usually, it has a lot to do with defamation of your own character. The character that God placed within you for you to discover with Him, through the portal of intimacy and the cross. There is also a certain humility that is covered when you hardly talk about yourself. This is how you combat pride, just don't talk about yourself, or the things you've done. Allow God to give you credit, to give you testimony, and to attest to your works. In the Kingdom, credibility doesn't matter all that much, you need not worry what others will think of you and that in itself is very rooted in fear. This cannot be! For if you yourself are rooted in fear, the roots that God has stored within you are being defiled by the very distaste that you harbor within your heart! Do not let your heart be weary or worried about what tomorrow brings, how the ages are going to play out, what these times are and have become, for such things are not worthy of your attention or worry. To speak such things over yourself would be claiming an independent spirit, the spirit that belongs to an orphan.
It is your responsibility to listen to God call you son. It is completely your responsibility to receive His words, because at the end of the day God is still speaking, and when you wake up He is always speaking. Speaking into the time that you are, speaking into the vessel He desires to create in you. Speaking into the works that He has planned for you. Speaking into your stomach, that you may be filled with His word that is more valuable than Manna. Sometimes He'll share with you things that are hardly speakable, and to be aware of when He's speaking such things truly requires the death of not being self-aware. If there was one thing I would tell you first and foremost to cultivate, it would be your Spirit, that is in an everlasting relationship with the Father. To have a relationship with your spirit, as a secondary, will always lead you to the father, especially since your Spirit was originally designed in Heaven, and Jesus tells us to keep our eyes on the things of Heaven. In the spirit, we are seated with Christ. In the Spirit, we are His bride. This relationship will turn you into someone who can receive from the Lord, and the most basic of principles is this: rejoice and know that you are saved, that Jesus Christ the Lord has elected you. By doing this, all of these things will be added to you, and you will never fail.