how does God speak?

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AnandaHya

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One of my pastors told me God speaks in four ways

1. Through His Holy Word: the LIVING Bible (first and foremost)
2. Through other believers, normally your spouse
3. Through circumstances of your life
4. in a soft whisper in your heart

I add a 5th:

through dreams and vision

because He spoke to many in the Bible that way: Daniel, the man who meet Saul/paul after he wandered blindly into the village to open his eyes to sight again, and many more.

mainly they are warnings for the day ahead and encourages me to read my Bible to find answers to those dreams so when I encounter the problem or person I will have His Word ready to give them.
 
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"God... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son..." -Heb. 1:1-2

...which covers all those, yes? :)
 
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AnandaHya

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who's morgan freeman?
 
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Are you actually kidding... The black guy From war of the worlds bruce almighty evan almighty and wanted ? and like a hundred other films, he's awesome and is just how god should sound.
 
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AnandaHya

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oh i'm not big into movies and actors and actresses names. lol spend too much time in books is what my college friends told me as they dragged me to the movies lol :)
 
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Ive read the bible. I have 3 in my bedroom. And a fourth if you include the rather amusing picture one :)
 
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AnandaHya

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lol not the kiddy version my kids have. they have three bible too, with lots of pictures and big cardboard pages and even pop up one. :) you've got an adult one by now right? I like the New King James Version.

hey here's a online one in many different languages you can learn spanish, french, german, etc.

www.biblegateway.com
 
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cool so what do you think about it all?
 
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Jesus came to me in a near death exp. when I was 12. I had some visions at 35, now I'm 49. He said to me:

"All this concern over sin and evil saddens me. If you concern yourself with sin and evil, you will see and reap sin and evil. I dedicated my life to teaching that the old covenant is dead. What the Pharisees taught was to keep you oppressed. As I have said, the letter of the law kills but the spirit gives life. To him that it is sin it is sin, but to him that it is not if it harms not, it is not. The law of God is written in the hearts of men, not in the Koran, Torah, not in the Bible. These are but guides. If you lack wisdom ask. Do as I did, look within for the Holy spirit. If the letter, the word, if the law, if my body, my blood was the path to salvation, than all would already be dust. If your right hand causes you to sin, then why haven't you cut it off? Why have you not plucked out your eye? Because just as you cannot be perfect with two hands or eyes, you will never be perfect with one.

What does your conscience tell you? Are your motives and intentions those of love and compassion? Then darkness cannot touch you. I am the son of Man...as are you. We are One. Do not worship me! I am not an idol, nor is my cross. I did not come that you would worship me, Jesus, but The Holy Spirit who dwells within me, and also within you. I was merely the first to expose the dangers of doctrine, the evil of politicizing spirit by creating a standard, a set of steps one must take to be loved without judgment. I stood up to those who could not tolerate the idea that God was not in the Torah, not in the Temple, but within them, and that they were in Him…that they and God were One as all is One. How can that which is imperfect be perfect…only All is perfect. No word, no matter if said by Moses or David or Mathew or Ruth…no word of any volume is less than written by God, or more than written by Man, and subject to the scrutiny of one's God-given mind. He who is greater than all imagining cannot be summed up by the words of anyone. Learn from the wisdom in the word but do not worship or exalt those words. I went to the Father so we could be One. We are all but drops in the same Ocean. Love thy Lord God with all your heart, mind and soul. Love your neighbor as yourself. Let compassion be your guide. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone and nothing will separate you from God."





 
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AnandaHya said:
One of my pastors told me God speaks in four ways

1. Through His Holy Word: the LIVING Bible (first and foremost)
2. Through other believers, normally your spouse
3. Through circumstances of your life
4. in a soft whisper in your heart

I add a 5th:

through dreams and vision

because He spoke to many in the Bible that way: Daniel, the man who meet Saul/paul after he wandered blindly into the village to open his eyes to sight again, and many more.

mainly they are warnings for the day ahead and encourages me to read my Bible to find answers to those dreams so when I encounter the problem or person I will have His Word ready to give them.
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The Lord speaks to us by placing thoughts in our minds. That doesn’t mean that every thought that comes into your mind is from the Lord.
 
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AnandaHya

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resurrection33 said:
The Lord speaks to us by placing thoughts in our minds. That doesn’t mean that every thought that comes into your mind is from the Lord.
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that's why we have to test them and see if they are in line with the Bible and will bear the fruits of the spirit:

love, joy, peace. patience, kindness, self control, ect. Galatians 5 v. 22
 
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AnandaHya said:
that's why we have to test them and see if they are in line with the Bible and will bear the fruits of the spirit:

love, joy, peace. patience, kindness, self control, ect. Galatians 5 v. 22
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and how do you test it ? what kind of test do you make them pass ?
For exemple, if you have a kind of thought or a whisper which informs you that such and such person want to harm you and have evil intentions toward you, altought there is no apparent sign of such hypocrisy, how do you know if either its an Evil tought who wants to cause seperation and division or a warning from the 'holy spirit' trying to prevent you from an eventual danger ? in other words, what kind of test do you use to test it ?
 
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The most simple and direct answer to your question would be, I believe, "any way He wants to". If you include Moses and Paul in the discussion, you would have to add "in a loud voice" to your list of answers. (He probably doesn't sound like Morgan Freeman, however. ;) ) I think that a more important question is, "How do we hear God?" It would be very easy if He would appear us to all and guess the number of fingers we were holding behind our back (including seven on one hand), but odds are He won't.

I believe that God tries to speak to us all. Those of us who are most attentive, and seek His answers in everything we do, are most likely to hear Him, and recognize His voice, when He does speak. By studying His word, and praying for guidance in virtually everything we do, we increase our chances of establishing a close relationship with Him, where He makes himself known to us.
 
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AnandaHya

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i'll tell you about my day when the kids go to bed. it started out with God's voice, 3 year old nose bleed. 1 hour late to work due to a 4 car collision, 1 high school student coming by saying they are being committed to the hospital for severe depression, and me bursting into tears 4 th period becsuse two immature teenagers keep picking on each other and trying to get into a verbal fight and more but now I have to deal with dinner. God's blessings to people.

In_Atom just avoid the person. if you get a "vibe" that says "here is a serial killer" it would be a good idea just to walk down another street and avoid the person, don't you think?

then if you see the picture of the person in the newspaper next to a rape and murder victim you know that voice was valid, eeehhh???

its happened, find the peace of the Lord for God is greater than the Atom.
 
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AnandaHya said:
In_Atom just avoid the person. if you get a "vibe" that says "here is a serial killer" it would be a good idea just to walk down another street and avoid the person, don't you think?

then if you see the picture of the person in the newspaper next to a rape and murder victim you know that voice was valid, eeehhh???

its happened, find the peace of the Lord for God is greater than the Atom.
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you speak about ''vibes'' which is the equivalent of ''feelings'' and if one is to trust and follow his own ''feelings'' or ''vibes'' as you put it, then this is the same as saying one should follow his own whisms and desires.

You said earlier that one must ''test'' the spirit that whispers/speaks to him and my question was How do you ''test'' that spirit ? with what kind of 'test' do you 'test' them ? in other words, how do you know that it's the 'Holy Spirit' that is speaking to you rather then your own whisms and desires ? and I can't say I'm satisfied with the reponse you brought forward, since it didn't adress the question asked.
 
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