How can we know if God is speaking vs. our own minds?

[Albion]

Makes you wonder what's written on other caps, doesn't it?

"Loser" "Don't have a nice day" "Try exercise" ??

I guess not.

 

[Emli]

Makes you wonder what's written on other caps, doesn't it?

"Loser" "Don't have a nice day" "Try exercise" ??

I guess not.

My co-workers' caps said "Aaaah!" and something equally banale.

Are you doubting that this was from God? Ye of little faith...

 

[CrystalDragon]

About two weeks ago, I was going through some stuff and was feeling a lot of condemnation. I was scared that I was doing something wrong, and that God was really angry at me. As I sat down to eat lunch at a restaurant, I thought to myself: "God is angry at me". But then my co-worker removed the capsule on my Coke bottle, and it said "We're cool!" I felt God's peace in the spirit and then just felt at ease again. It helped a lot.

Today, I am not struggling as much anymore, but I'm instead trying to focus on His love for me. I was at the same restaurant, and when my co-worker removed the capsule, I had the sudden thought that God would speak to me like that again. The capsule said:

<3 U

I love Him! And I kept the capsule

Aww, that's a nice story. I actually didn't know that Coca-Cola bottles had messages on the caps before. XD

My co-workers' caps said "Aaaah!" and something equally banale.

Are you doubting that this was from God? Ye of little faith...

I honestly can't tell if you're saying that last sentence semi-sarcastically or completely serious.

 

[Albion]

My co-workers' caps said "Aaaah!" and something equally banale.

Are you doubting that this was from God? Ye of little faith...

Yes, I guess I am. And it has nothing to do with faith.

In the end, you may be right and I might be wrong. There's no tellin'

 

[Adhmar]

I ended up with a third eye or diamond on my forehead. I never got into any "New Age" stuff or Eastern Mysticism. I read my Bible alone, and learned to talk to God. Eventually, I ended up with a Diamond on my forehead. Why a diamond? There could be many reasons why, but I started calling it a Diamond because God hardened Ezekiel's head, and there are layers to the supernatural, and it works with what God has had me doing. It is like Colonel Kurtz "Apocalypse Now."

If you bing search "Third Eye" you end up finding a lot of New Age material. You don't need any of that. I am aware some people can end up with a Third Eye outside God. Those people are lost in the sauce. If you are not grounded in God....faith is hard. Satan is a liar. Many may end up prey to variety of spirits.

I did not try to have a "third eye." It happened in a progression of me growing in faith, and learning to talk to God. I didn't go to any strange Church. The last Church I attended regularly was a Primitive Black Baptist Church. The "third eye" just happened as I rolled with the calling God gave me.

How to spot fakes: Is he or she working to build The Kingdom of God or something else? There were court prophets and magicians in The Old Testament. A lot of the occult was about rediscovering what those people may do. They could have just turned to God and ask God because prophets often made those court magicians look foolish. They did not.

 

[Adhmar]

God tests your heart. What is in someone's heart? Are they looking for attention? Money? Ego? Something else?

I don't mean to put down anyone or hurt anyone God may have talked to through whatever means. There are false prophets. I have been in a grudge match.

Here is a video that may shed some light on the subject:

 

[Adhmar]

Question: How do you know it is God, and not your own mind?

I was a normal man at 29 in my opinion. I started to be able talk to God. I heard a voice. I asked him questions. I received answers. I learned to trust.

The following is a short blog and testimony of my beginning. Rocksteady

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Edit: sorry, my phone's screen jumps back and forth and I read the wrong response. I removed what I wrote, but can't you delete a post?

I don't know how to delete a post either. Best to leave it to slide back past the yard arm and into history.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

About two weeks ago, I was going through some stuff and was feeling a lot of condemnation. I was scared that I was doing something wrong, and that God was really angry at me. As I sat down to eat lunch at a restaurant, I thought to myself: "God is angry at me". But then my co-worker removed the capsule on my Coke bottle, and it said "We're cool!" I felt God's peace in the spirit and then just felt at ease again. It helped a lot.

Today, I am not struggling as much anymore, but I'm instead trying to focus on His love for me. I was at the same restaurant, and when my co-worker removed the capsule, I had the sudden thought that God would speak to me like that again. The capsule said:

<3 U

I love Him! And I kept the capsule

I spend time listening to my heart, but all I get is "boom biddy boom biddy boom biddy boom..."

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Makes you wonder what's written on other caps, doesn't it?

"Loser" "Don't have a nice day" "Try exercise" ??

I guess not.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Question: How do you know it is God, and not your own mind?

I was a normal man at 29 in my opinion. I started to be able talk to God. I heard a voice. I asked him questions. I received answers. I learned to trust.

The following is a short blog and testimony of my beginning. Rocksteady

Just remember, when everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane!

 

[Adhmar]

Just remember, when everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane!

I don't know what you are trying to say.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.” (Matthew 11:19)

Left Lane Cruiser. "Juice to get Loose."

 

[miknik5]

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I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

Really good one

 

[miknik5]

You'll know

That's all I can say
and W2's simple post was right on

GOD's VOICE/SPIRIT will not contradict HIS written WORD

And HIS written WORD will not contradict HIS VOICE/SPIRIT

 

[Emli]

Aww, that's a nice story. I actually didn't know that Coca-Cola bottles had messages on the caps before. XD



I honestly can't tell if you're saying that last sentence semi-sarcastically or completely serious.

I didn't either. That's why we were looking at them. (But I live in Sweden, so it might be a European thing). I remember what the other one said now. It said "who are you " strange message

No, it wasn't sarcastic. I don't do sarcasm. It's so detrimental. It was more of a loving remark.

 

[Emli]

Yes, I guess I am. And it has nothing to do with faith.

In the end, you may be right and I might be wrong. There's no tellin'

It has everything to to with faith.

And I can tell. It's why we even have the Holy Spirit.

 

[Ron Gurley]

Man's SPIRIT..vs...The Believer's guidance by the indwelling God the Holy SPIRIT

1 John 4: 4-6(NASB)...John the Elder: Testing the Spirits
Beloved, (believers in Jesus the God-Man)
do not believe EVERY spirit, (even your own maturing SPIRIT!)
but TEST the SPIRITS to see whether they are from God,
because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God:
every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God;
this is the "spirit of the antichrist", of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them;
because greater is He who is in you (God the Holy Spirit) than he who is in the world.(Satan / fallen angels)
They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
We are from God;
he who knows God listens to us;
he who is not from God does not listen to us.
By this we know the SPIRIT of truth and the SPIRIT of error.

CONCLUSION: Listen to/walk in the SPIRIT of God. Be guided into His will.

Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

 

[Daniel Quartararo]

I would recommend checking out this playlist:

Knowing God's Voice with Confidence
Knowing God's Voice with Confidence - YouTube

Also, my whole YouTube is dedicated to the fully surrendered lifestyle of praying without ceasing (in other words, talking with God all day, every day about everything) and allowing Him to not only make every decision, but give you every word in every conversation, email, forum post . I hope you will consider subscribing and viewing and may God bless you, in Jesus' mighty name!

 

[Emli]

I would recommend checking out this playlist:

Knowing God's Voice with Confidence
Knowing God's Voice with Confidence - YouTube

Also, my whole YouTube is dedicated to the fully surrendered lifestyle of praying without ceasing (in other words, talking with God all day, every day about everything) and allowing Him to not only make every decision, but give you every word in every conversation, email, forum post . I hope you will consider subscribing and viewing and may God bless you, in Jesus' mighty name!

I watched one of your videos. I will watch more later. I'm so glad to find another believer who is committed to Christ this way. What you are preaching is very close to what God has taught me.

No wonder you only had 12 subscribers though (so did Jesus at first ). People do not seem to want to live this way today. I'm not surprised, but it makes me sad.

In the words of John the Baptist:

29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30 He must become greater; I must become less.”

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

I don't know what you are trying to say.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.” (Matthew 11:19)

Left Lane Cruiser. "Juice to get Loose."

It was a joke.