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September 17, 2003
To hear God's Voice
Hearing God's voice is a complex process. At least that's what it seems like to me. I know that some people assume to have had God speak directly to them and head in a completely tangential direction from past counsel. Now there are those that claim to have heard God simply reinforce the Bible and other mature leaders in their lives. I have a tendency to believe that the later have actually recieved a message or thought directly from the father. As to the others well that is another post all together.
As for me I feel like God talks to me through:
God has never spoken to me in a direct voice. Now you can question my salvation or simply my faith but I do feel led by him and have made innumerable decision based on "hearing from God" through the following ways.
This is how God talks to me:
1) God speaks to me through his word. Bringing verses to mind that I haven't read in months or simply while I am reading it something "jumps off the page". This doesn't happen very often, but when I am desperately in need of him and when I do what I know I need to and go to him in prayer, sometimes he answers this way.
2) God speaks to me through wise people. Way too often I am convinced of something that I need to do or say but have not sought the counsel of a wise person or two. And then when I do I suddenly become convinced that what I was about to do was the exact opposite of what I really should do.
3) God speaks through nature and my experience. Wether it is a windy stormy day or a quiet sunset God soothes my soul through the outdoors. He also speaks through my past bring lessons from it that I can take and apply today. If I go through a trial and don't learn something from it... well lets just say I AM BEING A FOOL.
Wow this post just flew off of my fingers... I have never written one so fast in all of my blogging...
How does God speak to you? Tell me a story about it... :)
Posted by paul at September 17, 2003 08:44 PM
Comments
most of the time God speaks to me through Paul Johnson.
Oh wait.
Another interesting question is: have you ever felt God speaking THROUGH you. Sometimes when I share my heart on a topic (of late, worship, or vision for The Rock) it seems that I have no recollection of what I said, or how I said it, but people were very possitively affected. Isn't it great having God actually live inside you?
Posted by: matt at September 18, 2003 12:48 PM
I have been the voice of God too many times in Paul's life... ;)
No, I think God has spoken to me in that mystical voice only once, but the rest of the time I following my nagging conscience and the principles of the Bible.
Posted by: Ochuk at September 18, 2003 01:03 PM