Only one filled with the Holy Spirit can do that. One listens to the Holy Spirit 24/7....we just too often don't go along with His advice.
Excellent question! By the content. God never says anything that is contrary to His written Word. God is a Spirit and speaks to our spirits, not our minds, in general. Our minds will then "voice" his communication. Likewise, the devil is a spirit and speaks to our spirits from which our minds give "voice" to those communications. I say, "in general," because God can and does speak to our minds and even audibly to our ears. But that is usually for young believers who need encouragement in their faith in God, or when we become greatly confused. The goal is unity with God so that our thoughts and His thoughts run together. They call this the confluence of Scripture when we read the prophets. Their personality and words are still theirs but the communication is from God. The comparison has been made to a writer with pens. Each pen has its own stylus and ink color, but the thoughts penned are still the writer's. And so it is with us who have the new birth.
If you heard a sentence audibly in your mind would that be from God, for example, "It did not happen because of yesterday". As if the sentence just "downloaded" into your mind.
Could be. Depends on the context. When I was a student at Christ for the Nations, at the end of my schooling they hosted a marriage seminar. While the married couple were talking, God dropped into my spirit an understanding. There were no words to speak of, but a sudden realization of its meaning. He let me know that Adam was not naming the animals as so many say. Instead, he was being tested to see if there was a suitable mate for him amongst the animals. When he named the animal, he was seeing the spirit of the animal and saying the same word that God used to speak them into existence. Adam passed his test then was put to sleep for the removal from his side for the creation of Eve. When he awoke he saw past her physical form and said bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. I understood that God was telling me that I was being too shallow in my search for a mate. I looked at outward things like beauty or could she be a work partner with me. Six months later I met my wife, and the Lord spoke to me, This is it. And I knew that she was bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. We have been married 25 years. So context matters.
Well try this:
YHVH reaches men through a regenerated spirit in man, not thru the mind.
THis is most common for all believers. Read the Word of God and eventually, gradually, He may teach you , always as He says in His Word.
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Thank you so much for posting this. I am looking forward to watching all the other videos in the series. I'm just learning about gifts, about what all the Holy Spirit is, who He is, and how He effects my life. I'm overwhelmed in such an amazing way with the way God is working. At this time not in a church, not around other Christians whom I can ask questions or anything. Thankfully God has the answers for us in His Word but boy it sure does help to have some direction, as there is so much to learn, so much to take in and I just really appreciate you posting this.
If you read what Moses and Joshua said about the book of the Law, then you will see that God gave revelation to both Moses and Joshua and told them to write it all down in the book. Notice that I say THE book, not just any book. The Bible is God's revelation to man. Paul, filled with the Spirit, committed what The Spirit revealed to him in writing, so did other other epistle writers. Jesus told John to write down what He revealed to him on Patmos. Therefore, the Bible is not just any book. To treat it just like any other book is to depart from Christian faith into existential philosophy which believes that the Bible is not the true revelation of God in terms of history, the cosmos and science, and is therefore full of mistakes. Therefore faith in God under this philosophy is a unfounded blind leap of faith in a religious caricature of God and not the real God of the Bible. There is no other foundation to true Christian faith other than the Bible - the written Scriptures. If we depart from them to "voices" and "experiences" we are departing from God to a "faith in faith" which leads to meaninglessness and death.
