Ok then, so how do I learn to hear better? Because I WANT to hear better, and I want to differentiate between god, myself, and anything else trying to butt in. I don't really have a church that is down with that, in my area you pretty much have baptist churches (what I grew up as) and people so freaking crazy that you don't want to touch them with a 50ft pole because they will trample the scriptures as long as they get some sort of "experince"
Hi,
Yes trust God sounds correct. For you to say God talked to you, if it turns out He did, then He did. Also, yes you will seem like a freak to a lot of people. I am. Yet, one day, after essentially being hurt by this for years, I am telling a professionas Psychologist, my entire life. I was certain, I was going to be locked up for being Schizohrenic. Yet your question is: How do you know?
It is a multiple set of ways. And the way is different from year to year, and I don't know why. Also, I only get things from God, for others, usually. Once it was things entirely for me, but even those have helped others. When this thing first started happening, I decided not to look nor to want it, that way, the evil guys could not talk to me so easily, and once they did for 18 months. It took that long to get rid of them, but I learned much in that experience.
At first, it started with feelings, that were more than feelings. Then it went to the writing phase, then it went to real prohecy, then it went to the more general form of prophecy. That all faded, to zero. Each time a thing from God was no longer there, I just stopped. Yet, the methods God uses with me, from person to help, to person to help, varies in time. Yet, God always gives me corroborations, but usually later, that anything of this kind of thing is from Him.
What I generally do, is ask God not to let me be deceived. I also almost never tell anybody, in those days not now, that I am getting anything from God. Now, occasionally, things will happen right in front of people, but I am never ever certain, and have to wade my way through uncertainty, doubt, and the very real possibliity that I am being decieved, or just listening to myself, or they made a mistake, and I really am suffering from a mental illness.
It's just hard work. It is always for someone else. Sorry, I mistated that earlier. Yet, I get wonderful things about God, from having God put into me things, for each thing He wants me to work on. Then it is gone.
All things leave, because I must never confuse my real self, from a gift. Occasionally, I think I am wonderful. That is wrong. The Bible tells me who I am. It tells me what my mind does from morning till night. Yet, when I have been in the past, and even now worked for God, in me is put things, for that task, and they are all good, and all beautiful. When the job or jobs is over, so depart the gifts, and I am left with the memory. The gifts are not me. I am just like every other person out there, who deserves Hell, but for some reason, God seems to use me anyway, which scares the daylights out of me, because I think He is wrong on this. I don't think I am salvageable. When I use gifts too long, I think I am the gift, and I am good, when my Bible says only God is Good. So, that is what I use, to handle, the gifts being taken away, after I have used them, for....others.
I have seen people go from agnostic, to Christian. I have seen one go from, not ever letting anyone talk about Jesus, to saying to me even, before you (with gifts) I would never let a person use the word Jesus so much in front of me. Yet, each time, I start finding out even, a gift in me, I know then that God is going to take it away. In my case this is made, ever so much easier, because God assigns to me, the person to get the gift next.
I hope this helps a little. And yes, there are few like me, who have been Blessed so by God, and I have much experience. You asked, as so I have given you really, what the man said. Trust God.
LOVE (A gift I had once in full force. Now, this is just the memory and remnants of that in me. I really liked that tool, to help others, and to understand, a single question.),
...Katherina., .... .