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How does god speak to you?: Christians ONLY!

Heneni

Heneni

Miss Independent
Hello

This is a question for christians only: Im curious to know how does god speak to you? How does he reveal things to you? How does he communicate with you?
 
Starfish

Starfish

Please no sarcasm
Through thoughts that I know aren't my own, and words that come into my mind.
Through the scriptures.
Through the words of others, often at church. (Once, I received an answer to prayer in a discussion I heard on the radio.)
Through feelings and impressions.
 
Charity

Charity

Let's go racing boys !
Heneni said:
Hello

This is a question for christians only: Im curious to know how does god speak to you? How does he reveal things to you? How does he communicate with you?
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Greetings Heneni
God usually speaks with me through His word and the word of the prophets as recorded in the Holy Bible. If I am troubled or need an answer I can sit down and start searching the scriptures and there will be my answer, just as clearly as if God had spoken it directly to me. People think if you say God told me that you mean you audibly heard his voice, and they think well this person is a nut and needs a psychiatrist. But I have the Great Physician, the Great Healing God, and He makes house calls.

Sometimes I have been seeking an answer and had someone I barely know come up to me and say, "I know you won't believe me but I feel like I need to tell you something". Then maybe the same day I will have it confirmed by someone else under similar circumstances. You just know it its God. " Especially when it is a young child that you know would have no idea at all about trying to deceive you. God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform....His ways are not our ways. All my trust is in Him, Amen. :)
Blessings and Peace
Charity
 
Scott1

Scott1

Well-Known Member
Heneni said:
This is a question for christians only: Im curious to know how does god speak to you? How does he reveal things to you? How does he communicate with you?
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  • Scripture
  • Creation
  • Sacraments
  • Conscience
.... to name a few.
 
ChristineES

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
I sometimes get revelations that didn't come from me. I am thinking of a trouble and out of nowhere comes a solution. Prayer is the best way to talk to God, but it doesn't need to be "organized" prayer- Just prayer in my heart. I also read The Bible. And there are times when I am convinced that someone is giving me a message from God but don't know it.
 
Lucian

Lucian

Theologian
Through inspiration, the scriptures, conscience and the acts of the saints. And sometimes in unexpected situations and/or ways.
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
Why has no one mentioned the SCRIPTURAL method of listening to God? His Spirit!

John 14:25 "All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. NIV

John 16:5 "Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 12 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. NIV

Romasn 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. NIV

I Corinthians 2:10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. NIV

I can't tell you how many times I have been accused of being a rogue Christian, or that I hate authority, and it's simply because people don't understand or honor the role the Spirit plays in a Christian's life. The Scriptures are useful indeed, but it is the Spirit who will reveal Jesus to us. Trying to live the Christian life without the Spirit is like deep sea diving without a scuba tank: it's an exercise in futility!
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Most of my interaction with God is without wordless.
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
Yeah, yeah, yeah... I could understand "wordless" or "without words", but "without wordless" kinda boggles my etymological senses. :D
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
Scott1 said:
Well.... to me that's a bit redundant since I believe the Holy Spirit is God... but I get what ya mean. :)
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Scott,

Too want people want to know about what authority I use, and the more I study, the more I see that the Holy Spirit is God's only scriptural authority here on earth.
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
zon3d said:
God speaks only through the Bible today.
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My, but we have limited God, haven't we? the Jews tried to do that, too. So did the Babylonians and the Egyptians. So did the RCC, during the Enlighenment. The Romans tried to kill God.

Trapping God in a box (or in a book) has never worked.
 
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