Does God Speak to you?

[catch22]

I'm just curious as to whether or not any of you ever actually hear that voice in your head that you're certain is God? Over the past two weeks I've had the words "Love and Patience" coming into my head with regards to a certain situation I've been praying about and just yesterday, I heard more than I ever have. It was basically,"Why are you afraid of success?" This is a pretty new thing to me, so I'm still not sure if I'm just totally crazy or if God is actually speaking to me. I'm inclined to think the latter simply because everthing I've heard thus far has helped me so much, what do you all think?

 

[mina]

I think God speaks to every believer. Maybe not in an audible voice, but the holy spirit definitly helps us to know what God is telling us. If any of you have ever done the study "Experiencing God" , Henry Blackerby says in that study that God speaks to us in 4 ways: His word (the Bible), in prayer, through circumstances, and through other believers. I agree with this and it can either be a combination of any of these or just one; but I believe that God will always back up what he's telling us through the word of God. God's word is living and active and we have to be in it and be listening in order to hear God speak.

 

[SmackYouTwice]

Woo, well said, Mina!

My best friend is currently on a Missions Trip (YWAM) and she emailed me one day and told me what God wanted to tell me thru her... she's been taking classes (or maybe it was just a class?) on how to hear God's voice... she called me a few days after and we talked about it. It was pretty interesting... especially one part at the end... yet, I'm still iffy on it all, ya know?

 

[fishstix]

I've never heard God directly. I've had friends tell me stuff and say God told them to tell me. But I've never heard Him myself. It would be cool to hear Him though.

 

[holo]

I wouldn't know how I was to hear God speaking, other than through reading the Bible (even if I don't understand much of it).

If I were to actually, physically, hear His voice though, I'd probably just die of fear. Think about it - GOD, speaking to YOU.

 

[William Nunn]

I've never heard His voice audibly, but I've known that He's talking to me because it's almost like He's smacking me in the back of the head if I'm getting ready to do something I know I shouldn't.

 

[smash_kate]

I hear voices too and sometimes I don't know if they're from God or if they're from Satan. Whatever you do...DO NOT do whatever these voices tell you to do if they tell you to do something. Once I did so...and a very bad thing happened.

I still get voices and some are comforting so I really don't know what to think. However, a bible expert on family radio said that these voices are from the devil and maybe the voices are telling you comforting things to condition you to do the devil's will.

You're better off reading the bible if you need comforting. The best bible for comforting is "The Promise Bible" it has a green cover and is at your local bookstore. You then are certain that those bible words are God's words and not just voices.

 

[holo]

smash_kate,
If you're hearing voices (especially if you actually hear them, that they aren't just unwanted thoughts), it might be a sign your brain isn't wired right, so to speak. I don't mean that offensively, it's something neurological, which medication may help a lot. Schizophrenic people get this a lot. I'm not implying that you are one, though.
As for it being the devil, I dunno, I find it hard to believe so many people get to silence him with medication.
Anyway, I think it would be wise to get it checked.

 

[Lilly of the Valley]

Check it with the Word. If what you hear in your mind goes with the Bible, then it's God, if it doen't, then it's probably the devil. Plus, when the Lord speaks to you, you KNOW it's Him. When He speaks to me I absolutely know it's Him.

 

[smiling for God]

I think God speaks to every believer. Maybe not in an audible voice, but the holy spirit definitly helps us to know what God is telling us. If any of you have ever done the study "Experiencing God" , Henry Blackerby says in that study that God speaks to us in 4 ways: His word (the Bible), in prayer, through circumstances, and through other believers. I agree with this and it can either be a combination of any of these or just one; but I believe that God will always back up what he's telling us through the word of God. God's word is living and active and we have to be in it and be listening in order to hear God speak.

I agree completly.

 

[Philip4Jesus]

I think God speaks to every believer. Maybe not in an audible voice, but the holy spirit definitly helps us to know what God is telling us. If any of you have ever done the study "Experiencing God" , Henry Blackerby says in that study that God speaks to us in 4 ways: His word (the Bible), in prayer, through circumstances, and through other believers. I agree with this and it can either be a combination of any of these or just one; but I believe that God will always back up what he's telling us through the word of God. God's word is living and active and we have to be in it and be listening in order to hear God speak.

I would agree with mina completely as well

I don't think that God speaks in an audiable voice. I also think depending upon your faithfulness and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ/GOD. I also think GOD communicates to use through other people at certain times and through circumstances at other times , but I don't think that every conversation. interaction with other people, or circumstance that happens in our lives should be seen as communication from GOD

I mean ,why should GOD answer someone when that person has already proven that they aren't going to listen or obey!?

But again , I don't think that GOD speaks to people audiably in today day and age. Why is that??? I don't know , I can think of many reasons , but ultimately only GOD knows why and why not he does certain things.

 

[mina]

When the Shepherd speaks the sheep know His voice. You have to be able to recognize His voice. And you do that by getting to know His word.

 

[shania]

The funny thing is that I've had those voices too. But it's more like esp for me. I can have "conversations" sometimes with people. Have no idea where it comes from. It's what led me too salvation, because i couldn't understand it and it made me think about God and his role in my life. A friend once "talked" to me about God and my faith. I can also feel the energy change in a room sometimes. Believe it or don't. I know it wasn't my own imagination because this person used a word I didn't know and i looked it up in the dictionary later. She also blushed at the very moment I thought I like her new shirt, but the colour is wrong for her, among other examples. It all led me to God, among other examples with a couple of other God-fearing people. However the last experience I had made me lose my faith in this strange ability that I sometimes have. It was with a God-fearing person, a much better example of a Christian than I am. But I was not given one piece of information that would have saved me a lot of struggling and pain that I don't believe God intended me to ever have, if this power came from him. So I question it and don't trust it anymore. Yet it was the very thing that made me become Christian in the beginning. Very strange indeed.

 

[fishstix]

That is unusual. I often talk to myself in my head, but it's just me thinking, not some other voices.

 

[ummidrinkcherrycoke]

I've heard God speak to me. It wasnt a big booming voice from the sky but just a whisper in my head. It was a little while after I had broken up with a long term girl-friend and was praying that God would give her back, Take away my feelings for her or just send me some one to love. And as soon as I said "send me someone to love" I heard him whisper "I already did." As Mina said his sheep know his voice and I know that it was definatly God who spoke to me that day.

God spoke to his people through many different ways in bible and I think that he communicates in the same ways today. Whether its through other people, music, the word of God or through a voice in your head God can do all things and does to speak to his children.

 

[smash_kate]

yeah I'm the same girl who posted something b4 in this thread and heard voices too. i had to break up with someone cause he wasn't really a believer and he didn't want to marry anyway, but just get in bed with me. sometimes when I was feeling lonely i'd pray to get married and i'd hear "Wait" or sometimes when I wanted a boyfriend I'd hear "you're young" something like that . and now that I think about it...I actually want to be alone but these voices keep contradicting that. so I dunno.

 

[ThomE]

Hey. First let me encourage you...Many people believe God does not speak to anyone ANYMORE EXCEPT through the Bible. BUT I believe while he does speak through the Bible he uses hundreds of other ways to speak to us. These things COMBINED WITH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT are what comfort me in knowing God is not "in a box" and IS willing to reach us how ever is necessary. Just remember God is not apart from us. He is not glued to his throne so far away. Despite what anyone tells you God wants more than anything to JUST LOVE AND WALK with YOU. In the end he will either say..."I did not know you" or "Come, I know your heart because I walked with you". If you are interested I recommend reading books by people like Brennan Manning, John Eldredge, Thomas Merton and titles like "You can hear the voice of God".

 

[Brooke]

He does speak quietly to my heart sometimes, but lately it's been hard to recognize whether it was Him or just my own common sense talking.

 

[DevotedFollower]

i have never heard Gods actual voice, but he talks to me threw actions of others and the world around me

 

[Ginsu]

I heard God on several different occastions, not audible though. I once woke up from a dream that scared me(you could call it prophetic), and I prayed to ask if it was from Him and what it ment, and a few seconds later I heard on the inside "It is the things to come." I just know it was Him.