Is this the voice of the Holy Spirit?

marliebe said:

I have heard that the Holy Spirit can speak into our spirits, and recently I have been hearing "voices" inside of me that seem very kind. Like, it tells me to stop and talk to someone, to share the Gospel, or to do something (not evil). I was wondering if the Holy Spirit talks to us in our spirit, and if other people experience things like this.

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Yes I believe He can speak to our spirit, enlightening, guiding, convicting, comforting etc., but never in contradiction to His Word.

For example, today, I was walking back to my car, and there was a lady in the car next to me, and she had her windows rolled down. I felt something in my spirit say "Talk to her. Tell her the Gospel." Is this the Holy Spirit?

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Most likely, but only you would know that.

marliebe said:

I have heard that the Holy Spirit can speak into our spirits, and recently I have been hearing "voices" inside of me that seem very kind. Like, it tells me to stop and talk to someone, to share the Gospel, or to do something (not evil). I was wondering if the Holy Spirit talks to us in our spirit, and if other people experience things like this.

For example, today, I was walking back to my car, and there was a lady in the car next to me, and she had her windows rolled down. I felt something in my spirit say "Talk to her. Tell her the Gospel." Is this the Holy Spirit?

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According to the Bible this is how the Holy Ghost or spirit works. Lets first see how you get the Holy Ghost. "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, "repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts1:36-38). You must give up a lifestyle where sin has dominion, (ruler ship) over you. Sin according to 1 John 3:4, Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression (breaking) of the law. You must be taught "The Word", before you can adhere to God's commandments (judgments\statues).

Now pay close attention what Jesus says in John 14: 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. These commandments are found in Exodus 20: 1-17....

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. We see those commandments again, brothers and sisters. Have to keep them its a part of repenting. See Exodus 20:1-17

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

So this is how I understand how the Holy Ghost or Spirit works according to the Bible. Now there are other Spirits also that not are Holy on the earth. So this is the connection in receiving the Holy Ghost or Spirit.

Yes, there certainly are "other spirits" as you say ---these are of Satan: the enemy of our soul who is ever present, as Scripture shows. He will often put carnal thoughts in our mind to draw us away from the mind of God. He cannot touch us, but works much on our natural mind (flesh), and we need to know when things are contrary to God ---and that is much by God's Holy "Word of Truth". When in doubt about some thoughts we need to ask of God what it means, and to keep us safe. As we continue to walk and talk with the Lord Jesus we will be kept by this communion ---which should be every waking hour.

marliebe said:

I have heard that the Holy Spirit can speak into our spirits, and recently I have been hearing "voices" inside of me that seem very kind. Like, it tells me to stop and talk to someone, to share the Gospel, or to do something (not evil). I was wondering if the Holy Spirit talks to us in our spirit, and if other people experience things like this.

For example, today, I was walking back to my car, and there was a lady in the car next to me, and she had her windows rolled down. I felt something in my spirit say "Talk to her. Tell her the Gospel." Is this the Holy Spirit?

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Hm...Joseph Prince does have a sermon on this. Maybe this will help.

1watchman said:

Yes, there certainly are "other spirits" as you say ---these are of Satan: the enemy of our soul who is ever present, as Scripture shows. He will often put carnal thoughts in our mind to draw us away from the mind of God. He cannot touch us, but works much on our natural mind (flesh), and we need to know when things are contrary to God ---and that is much by God's Holy "Word of Truth". When in doubt about some thoughts we need to ask of God what it means, and to keep us safe. As we continue to walk and talk with the Lord Jesus we will be kept by this communion ---which should be every waking hour.

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To add to this we should appreciate how God speaks to us; and that is often by circumstances which convict us (we who are "born again" saints through the Lord Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit). When in doubt we need to ask of God for clarity, I have learned; and it must always be in accord with NT ministry for the Church. God does speak often through convictions to us who are "Saints", and we need to hear Him as when we hear/feel thoughts speaking Bible truth about honoring God in our mind, helping people with needs both physically and spiritually ---the Gospel in practice. Hope this helps one about conversations with our God.

Yes, God prompts us. We know it's not what we thinking at the moment. If it wasnt Him, you would have possibly witnessed to her.



Armor up Eph 6:10-18

marliebe said:

I have heard that the Holy Spirit can speak into our spirits, and recently I have been hearing "voices" inside of me that seem very kind. Like, it tells me to stop and talk to someone, to share the Gospel, or to do something (not evil). I was wondering if the Holy Spirit talks to us in our spirit, and if other people experience things like this.

For example, today, I was walking back to my car, and there was a lady in the car next to me, and she had her windows rolled down. I felt something in my spirit say "Talk to her. Tell her the Gospel." Is this the Holy Spirit?

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You posted this very same post not long ago on another subforum and there was a long resulting exchange over the matter of hearing the Spirit's voice, in which I took part. Did you not get the answers you wanted in your first go-round with your question?

As I said in the first thread about your question, there is no place in the Bible that says the "Holy Spirit speaks into our spirits." Not one. Now, believers who've bought into this stuff, force into passages the idea that one can hear the voice of the Spirit inside their heads, but this is nowhere indicated in the Bible. It is assumed that when God speaks to a believer today that it is in this mind-to-mind way.

When one looks at how God interacted with people throughout Scripture, there is none of this secret, inner revelation. God spoke through angels, a burning bush, thunder and lightning on Mount Sinai, a disembodied hand writing words on a wall, a donkey, the fleece of a sheep, visions, and so on. When God had something to say to someone, He always was able to very clearly communicate what He wanted, leaving no uncertainty the He had spoken. Nowhere, though, does Scripture say "God speaks to your spirit." Again, believers assume this is what is meant in a series of biblical prooftexts they use (or misuse, actually) to support this "spirit-to-spirit" divine communication.

God has given to us in His word, the Bible, all we need to "live godly in Christ Jesus," thoroughly equipping us with the revelation of Scripture unto every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16, 17) In His word, God has given us an explanation of His will for us and the way(s) in which He intends for us to obey it; He has given us wisdom, commands, spiritual principles and a multitude of examples that we are to apply to various choices that we all face every day; He has revealed His nature and the general shape of the future. And so, the Good Shepherd's "voice" is not a voice in one's head, but the words he spoke, recorded in the pages of the Bible. This is why we read in God's word:

Psalm 119:97-105
97 O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word.
102 I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, For You Yourself have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

1 Peter 2:2
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:

Matthew 4:4
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Too often, believers want a God that conforms to them, to their natural (wo)man, the one occupied with the physical senses and emotions. So much so, that they will pretend they hear God, risking terrible deception in the process, to satisfy their desire to experience God as they do the rest of their physical reality. But God the Father is not a physical reality; He is a transcendent, spiritual one (John 4:24), inaccessible to our sight, our taste and touch, our hearing and smell. It is in a spiritual way, on a spiritual level, that our Heavenly Father is encountered which necessarily requires a departure from the physical, the sensual and the highly emotional. (Galatians 5:21; Romans 8:1-14)

The Christian experiences God through the presence of the Person of the Holy Spirit who convicts the believer (John 16:8), teaches the believer (John 16:13), comforts the believer (2 Corinthians 1:3-4), strengthens the believer (Colossians 1:11; Ephesians 3:16; Romans 8:13, etc.), and disciplines the believer (Hebrews 12:5-11), developing in the believer the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23

Nowhere does the Bible speaks of the Spirit communicating secretly to the mind of a believer, however. Nor does Scripture anywhere teach that one must learn to "tune in" to the Spirit's voice, that there is a learning curve to properly hearing the Spirit.

What I get from believers who've adopted this stuff, is, inevitably, personal attack, insinuations of a lesser spiritual life, and angry defensiveness. Never do I get any solid biblical basis for the "Spirit-to-spirit" head-talk they want to defend, but, as I said, only a contortion of Scripture to make it fit their ideas. THis should tell you something about this "Spirit speaking into me" stuff - and nothing good.

And before someone brings it up: Romans 8:16 does not say anything about the Spirit "speaking into my spirit." It says, instead, that the Spirit "bears witness," which he does by carrying out in the life of the believer all the things I listed above.

Contrary to what you say, Aiki, God DOES speak to us in our soul --note Job 33:14 and many other verses in our Bible --showing more than His Scriptural recorded words (though never contrary to "all the counsel of God" written). You might seek this out with a sound Concordance (noting too God speaking to those saints in the OT in Spirit). Those who are in communion with Him find many verses showing how God communicates with us also in Spirit to convict us, and encourage and instruct us --never contrary to His written Word. We who know Him find Him urging us along in spirit, or showing us by events or other counsel from saints. Marliebe seems to have truly received the working of the Spirit in her.

1watchman said:

Contrary to what you say, Aiki, God DOES speak to us in our soul --note Job 33:14 and many other verses in our Bible --showing more than His Scriptural recorded words.

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And, as usual, a verse has been offered that DOESN'T say anything about God speaking into one's spirit. I have looked very carefully at this matter and I know that there is not one verse in Scripture that plainly teaches that God speaks to us in our Spirits (but so subtly that we must train ourselves to hear His voice).

I believe the Spirit may prompt one's memory of God's word, bringing to mind verses of truth from Scripture (provided one has bothered to study and memorize it), and He may move one to act in various ways, but with such subtlety that one hardly realizes one is being moved, and, of course, the Spirit convicts when one strays from God's will and way. But the idea that the Spirit depends upon our sensitivity to his voice, and that we can hear his voice in our heads on a regular basis, is simply no where indicated in Scripture.

1watchman said:

We who know Him find Him urging us along in spirit, or showing us by events or other counsel from saints. Marliebe seems to have truly received the working of the Spirit in her.

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And here you show the typical spiritual arrogance of those who promote this business of the Spirit speaking in their heads. "We who know Him" implies that those whose experience of God has been more biblical, more Bible-centered, don't really know God because they haven't heard from Him via a voice in their head. Yikes! What is Scripture but God's word, His "voice," to His children?

You are mis-quoting me, and over-reacting and assuming things, brother, so I will just leave this; and you can continue to deny God speaks to us spiritually ---even to urge our reading of His Word. God speaks to many of us spiritually (though you may not be hearing Him) ---though NEVER contrary to His recorded Word (evident also in the Old Testament). I see Marliebe did hear God urging her on in a Godly way, as I said. Keep looking up!

But I haven't misquoted you nor have I over-reacted.

And I haven't denied that God speaks to us, either.

My "bone of contention" is over the "Spirit speaking to my spirit" stuff, the "God talks to me in my head but I have to train myself to hear Him," claims.

God communicates with us as often as we're willing to listen. In His word, first and foremost (and mainly), through the convicting of His Spirit, and through the revelation of Himself in Creation. God may use dreams and visions, too, on occasion, or any of the other means described in Scripture.

But nowhere in the Bible are voices in one's head ever said to be God speaking, nor does the Bible teach that He does so commonly to believers.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
Psalms 119:105

Honest
Obedient
Love
Yeshua

Sanctifer
Perfect
Intercessor
Righteous
Truth

Yes the holyspirit can speak to us, but also remember to spend more time in the word.