Has God ever spoken to you, personally?

[GreenNnice]

Some of us do not wish to hear, and others are born with divine earmuffs that God rips off every decade or so.

Maybe it is because I've been saved for so long, but I'm so used to having God in my life that what may come clear to others doesn't to me. Partially because I have to reverse engineer everything told to me.

I'll say this, even the most un-spiritual of Christians can still have faith. I think we need it more, actually.

A brief aside: the whole excuse of being "spiritual" but not "religious" has never made any sense. Faith is an existential choice made when God takes the whole of reality and socks you in the face.

But I digress...

And, when will you digress, ritt

Seriously, good thought, brit in usa, bro,

God has given us all a 'measure of faith,' and even the most (seemingly, let's not judge, Christ alone's job) unspiritual christians got that same measure. What we do.with our God-given 'measure' is up to us: grow it(it willl bloom), not water it (it will.die), or, toss it ('it' and we will.be trampled).

I've noticed that God uses little things that only we would know about to communicate to us. For example, my favorite number is thirty-seven, and every time I see this number I know I am exactly where I need to be in life. If I am trying to make a decision and when exploring one option the clock happens to read 4:37, I know I what choice to make.

Awesome! Not me, I have a favorite # too. zbut, yeah, this cool so re-bringing it up, all about His individual 'speak' to His sheep

But, yeah, we ALL get spoken to personally by God, we who have chosen Him. It's always something, God always is showing me new something of Him, as I walk in fauth, obey, believe in His way perfect for me

 

[Golden12012]

I've been blessed to have the Lord speak audibly to me. I hessitate putting this down, becuase I am your normal, down to earth, take the Bible for it says and not super spiritulaize it kinda guy. Nothing really special about me. As a young Christian, my desire was to know the voice of God. I felt called to preach, and knew as a preacher I'd NEED to know HIS voice. Like many on here, He speaks to me in my heart and mind, though the preaching, through other and through His Word.
One thing I want to encourage everyone to realize, if it's the Lord, it WILL line up with His Word. I have found people, for instance, saying their relationship (sex outside of marriage) was ok with God, cause He understands. He's God, of course He understands, but what He understands is that they were not honoring Him in their relationship. Ok, though I have more, and for the sake of everyones attention: I'll give four examples when the Lord spoke in my mind, a situation, the preaching and audible.
In Bible College God spoke to my heart/mind in the midst of a huge struggle in Bible College. My world basically fell apart. You know how when your minds in a "tornado" and you can't find any solid footing? That's what was happening. I clearly remember the voice of the enemy speaking to my heart also. The voice said to quit college, serving God and the improvments that were made in my life in college. For whatever reason that made me mad! I spoke and said, "I've come to far to turn back now!" And immediately God spoke to my heart the verse from Heb 10(39). That verse became the theme verse from that moment on in Bible College.
Just this May, the 9th I believe, I was in a huge struggle. I had been taking care of someone for years, and others had sown discord in our relationship. You may ask why. It was because this person and I were very close, and her mother wanted me to fall for her, not her daughter. Her mom isn't a Christian, and has a very....loose lifestyle. Anyways, I saw things slipping away, and I felt like I should pray like Gideon. I normally don't ask for a sign, but at that moment, I felt as if the Lord was giving me permission to. So, I looked out over the pasture and saw the cattle grazing. I asked the Lord to answer in two ways: That a calf would be born my morning if the relationship is to be restored. That's part one. The second part will remain unspoken, but it consisted of a yes or no answer. No was if it was a male, yes was for female. The following morning a, born from one of the more wild, difficult cows, there laid a little female calf on the ground. The mother let me handle the calf to check her out. As soon as I was done, I felt I was to name the calf. I was given a name: Janaye, which means, God has answered.
As of July 14th-18th, we quit speaking all together. I asked, in my heart not verbally, that the Lord would speak through the preacher a verse the following Sunday morning. He spoke the verse: The gifts and the callings of God are without repentence. Meaning, if God said it's going to happen, it will happen no matter how things LOOK. Remember, we walk by faith and not by sight. Easier said than done at times, I understand.
Lastly, some years ago, I was having issues in a dating relationship that was going to turn into a marriage within a couple of months. But we were arguing like cats and dogs. I didn't understand . I thought the failure lied in myself. I went to the Church by myself, laid down at the front of the alter and asked the Lord to forgive me because I was failing. I heard a voice so loud in my ears, that I got up and looked around quickly for someone. It was that loud! The voice said: She peirced her tongue and she's seeing another man." Clear as a bell. I suprised her at work the following day to have lunch with her. She turned around and saw me, and I saw the tongue peircing. Needless to say, I also found the boyfriends number written on a napkin that was left in my car I let her borrow.
God still speaks. He can speak through His preacher, His Own Voice, the Bible, other people, but the Words and what's said should always, always, always line up with God's Word. And remember, He's not always in the winds and thunder, but in the still small voice.

I hope this helps.

 

[nw2u]

Has God ever spoken to you, personally? If so, how?

Once, on night turn at work, the power went out because of a summer thunderstorm. The emergency lighting came on and was enough to see to leave the building but, it wasn't enough to see everywhere.

I stopped working and listened for a moment to hear if the foreman was going to tell us how he wanted us to proceed. I heard nothing.

All of a sudden, I heard this muffled voice call my first name. I didn't recognize it. I looked up and said, "Yes, God?"

A roar of laughter went through the shop. HeeHee

This post is not to make fun of anyone's posts. I just wanted to introduce a little humor to this discussion.

 

[OFM]

God speaks too me in His Holy Silence often.

 

[yode]

I have hears the Fathers voice as in a all powerful voice, Like a thousand speaking, powerful and it will humble you. Pure power and authority.
I have heard Christ speak he preaches. LOVE pure love.
And i hear the Holy Spirit all the time.

 

[AgapeSpiritEyes]

I hear Him speak in my mind sometimes fluid conversation other times i feel unexplainable sensations while praising and worship other times a quickening while reading the Good book then times the holy spirit prays for me i hear what the translation is , then sometimes He speaks in visions and in visions in my sleep but only things that are to come in the futher, lately i hear songs and poems from my heart that i write down my most recent one while i was listening to a song by a famous Hawaiian Somewere Over The Rainbow i think His name was AZ Israel he past some time but the song stirred my heart and soul and i began to write what i heard as follows:

Somewhere under an emerald Raaainbow
wheeere my Father sits
Wheeere angels fly
with their constant cry
hooly hoooly
There is where you'll find God’s beautiful Son
Perfect in glorious majesty
His Beauty untold
Under His rainbow
where I dream
my dreeam to be
To look upon His face
Perfect beautiful Son of God’s grace
His face marred
His body scarred
Now laced with threads of sparkling Glory where streams of Agape flow
Only for us to intimately know

Somewhere
under His rainbow
where I dreeeam
my dream is tooo beee
Revelations 4:3, 10:1

 

[LisaMarie29]

I just became a member on here today and because I'm feeling pretty down this week, I thought I'd answer this thread to remind me of the times God has spoken in my life.

When I was fifteen I was a hopeless case. I was so scarred by trauma from my past that I was housebound for years. Too terrified to leave my own house, I had to be home-schooled and rarely spoke to another soul except my Mother and brother. I did not believe, nor did anyone else believe, I would ever be well enough to live a normal life. But I 'sort of' knew God. I 'sort of' was a Christian.

One normal day, the phone rang. My sister. She was having a lot of problems at her work (she was 17 at the time). Before she hung up, she half jokingly said to me, 'you have this to look forward to in the future, too." I think she meant that because I was unwell, I would never have a good job and would always struggle with life.

Well. I hung up the phone and went back to doing the dishes. We've always had a picture of Christ on our windowsill. So I prayed very briefly. I said, "Lord, please don't let that happen to me."
That was all.
And then after a few minutes I started feeling something overwhelming. It took a minute or two, but it was undeniable. It was the presence of God. All I remember, was that it was thrilling, amazing, beautiful and infinitely sweet. I felt the love my Father had for me. It just about knocked me over.
To make a long story, short.
All through this feeling, I was being prompted to do something, I didn't know what though. Then God revealed I needed to ask Him a question. Then He reminded me of my sister's call, and I knew the question had something to do with my future.
So I prayed again, and like a bolt, the question hit me. I said to Him, "There's a big future for me, isn't there?"
And when I asked it, the answer hit me like a flood. I heard the word YES. YES. YES. repeated over and over. I was so relived, that I wept and wept and praised God.
I rang my Mother and to this day, we still tell that story to help in our dark days.

Other times God has spoken:

I was full of fear in my teen years. Just overwhelming terror day and night. One day in church, the sermon just wasn't seeming to help, I was still frightened. In the car in desperation, I read my little bible, and was directed to Psalm 91.
The Psalm promises God's protection, but even that didn't help. Then clearly, I heard God say, 'I am protecting you, Lisa.'

Another time:
I think I was about 16 (come to think of it, God spoke a lot when I was a teen)
I was in church and once again was just terrified. I now know it was the devil just attacking me with fear, but I was still young and didn't know that at the time.
I kept thinking that God was going to abandon me. I was in terror constantly. Then one day in church someone prayed for me and on the way back to my seat I heard God say to me, "I will never leave you. Never. Never. Never."

Um, what else...
I don't think God has spoken audibly since, actually. Which is sad, as I'm 29 now.

Still, God saved my life the day he told me about my future. Go God. He's cool!

 

[Grace-Like-Rain]

I just became a member on here today and because I'm feeling pretty down this week, I thought I'd answer this thread to remind me of the times God has spoken in my life.

When I was fifteen I was a hopeless case. I was so scarred by trauma from my past that I was housebound for years. Too terrified to leave my own house, I had to be home-schooled and rarely spoke to another soul except my Mother and brother. I did not believe, nor did anyone else believe, I would ever be well enough to live a normal life. But I 'sort of' knew God. I 'sort of' was a Christian.

One normal day, the phone rang. My sister. She was having a lot of problems at her work (she was 17 at the time). Before she hung up, she half jokingly said to me, 'you have this to look forward to in the future, too." I think she meant that because I was unwell, I would never have a good job and would always struggle with life.

Well. I hung up the phone and went back to doing the dishes. We've always had a picture of Christ on our windowsill. So I prayed very briefly. I said, "Lord, please don't let that happen to me."
That was all.
And then after a few minutes I started feeling something overwhelming. It took a minute or two, but it was undeniable. It was the presence of God. All I remember, was that it was thrilling, amazing, beautiful and infinitely sweet. I felt the love my Father had for me. It just about knocked me over.
To make a long story, short.
All through this feeling, I was being prompted to do something, I didn't know what though. Then God revealed I needed to ask Him a question. Then He reminded me of my sister's call, and I knew the question had something to do with my future.
So I prayed again, and like a bolt, the question hit me. I said to Him, "There's a big future for me, isn't there?"
And when I asked it, the answer hit me like a flood. I heard the word YES. YES. YES. repeated over and over. I was so relived, that I wept and wept and praised God.
I rang my Mother and to this day, we still tell that story to help in our dark days.

Other times God has spoken:

I was full of fear in my teen years. Just overwhelming terror day and night. One day in church, the sermon just wasn't seeming to help, I was still frightened. In the car in desperation, I read my little bible, and was directed to Psalm 91.
The Psalm promises God's protection, but even that didn't help. Then clearly, I heard God say, 'I am protecting you, Lisa.'

Another time:
I think I was about 16 (come to think of it, God spoke a lot when I was a teen)
I was in church and once again was just terrified. I now know it was the devil just attacking me with fear, but I was still young and didn't know that at the time.
I kept thinking that God was going to abandon me. I was in terror constantly. Then one day in church someone prayed for me and on the way back to my seat I heard God say to me, "I will never leave you. Never. Never. Never."

Um, what else...
I don't think God has spoken audibly since, actually. Which is sad, as I'm 29 now.

Still, God saved my life the day he told me about my future. Go God. He's cool!

Lisa, this is SO BEAUTIFUL... thank you for sharing it with us. I'm overwhelmed with God's love, just reading it. His deep and personal attention to us always amazes me! I'm also rejoicing that there was a turning point in your life at that time, and that you have overcome.

As for being 29 and not hearing audibly from God anymore... I know what you mean. When we are at our most desperate, God reaches out in his mercy and compassion and touches us. He knows that we NEED that, because of the darkness around us. When we start doing a bit better, and he doesn't show himself in the same way, perhaps it is because he knows that we are stronger.

Welcome to the forums, and blessings to you for the rest of this week.

 

[just_monicat]

i enjoyed reading juliana's and the rest about their own experiences about this. thank you for sharing.

i've never heard audible words, but i often hear what i describe as whispers. they are often there when i am studying the word and have also heard this during music and other's testimonies that were especially relevant to me.

i have also heard really loud whispering when i've asked questions or been asked questions. but possibly the most memorable times have been when i've been seeking the words to tell/share with others. as a young girl i was raised to be a "pleaser" and while it's run so counter to what my personality and goals are, i have lived the majority of my life struggling to rein in and conquer my need to be so concerned about other's feelings/experience that i neglect myself.

dealing with my family and with guys i have thought, "ok, what do i say?" and it has felt like i have an earbud in my ear with the Holy Spirit feeding me lines. i've experienced hating to say what i was saying, but with the complete peace that what i was saying was what i needed to do in spite of myself and my cowardly feelings.

 

[Sponge_Bob]

He speaks all the time

 

[kenthomas27]

Once. Several years ago a friend of mine worked in this cabinet shop. The owner was going out of business and was going to sell all his equipment and I went over there mainly meeting up with my friend but I also asked what they wanted for their tools. The owner came out; a busy looking guy, maybe a no nonsense looking guy, and he told me he was more interested in selling all the equipment as a grouping. I asked him his price, more out of curiosity and not wanting to act like I was wasting his time than anything and he told me $25,000.00. I shrugged and said something stupid like "don't think I could afford that" and laughing and immediately he turned away and went back to his office. When he did, the rest of his workers at the shop started working again. I was embarrassed but couldn't figure out why. Just felt inept.

When I was 17 I accepted Christ into my life and at the very least understood for the first time the sacrifice of Jesus and the concept of God's mercy and grace. I had been attending a protestant church with this girlfriend during this "revival" session at the time. The preacher was quite motivating and I honestly felt moved and filled by the Holy Spirit. And I told a church leader there that I was ready to devote my life to a calling from God because I thought God was reaching out to me to go preach His word! And I sat up on the front row of the church during a 3rd night of this revival, sure that I was being led and the preacher had us all pray and I diligently prayed and raised my hands up like everybody else and yelled amen. The preacher said for us to listen hard to our hearts to hear where we are being led that night and I listened hard.

What I heard was God. A busy God. A no nonsense God coming out of his office and asking me "Are you really ready, son?". He asked it in a way that I knew I'd be going along with Him and that the Work would begin at that hour and that He KNEW I wasn't going to go. And I wasn't. I felt embarrassed and inept but I knew I wasn't ready and He knew I wasn't ready too. Wasn't no sense in saying I was.

I can't say as I have heard God since. It's not like I don't think God is with me because He is and never left my heart and He is my Father but I'm just not going to be helping Him in that kind of capacity. It wasn't my calling. And I recalled some time after why I felt embarrassed that day at the cabinet shop. I'm not blaming that protestant church for filling me with lies because they didn't lie. I lied to myself but in my own way of thinking, I think I was probably impressionable enough to freely lie to myself with a little push and so, didn't go to that church again. I came away from that with discernment, I think. Men do things in fervor they wouldn't dream of in indifference.

 

[IloveyouGod]

Yes, God talks to me all the time everyday!
through small things, through the bible. Like sometimes I would be talking to Him and then open my bible and it opens on a verse that is an answer from God to me! Sometimes He reminds me with things that He has done for me when I'm feeling down for whatever reason. Even one time I lost my cell phone and I didn't even know I dropped it or lost it. He told me and thanks to Him, I found it!! It's a small thing, but He still took care of it cuz He's my Father and I'm His child whom He loves more than anyone else loves me He spoke to me about several major things, but I don't really wish to get into details about it cuz it's personal.

What's also important is for us too to speak to Him all the time. It takes two for a conversation

When God talks, it's always very clear like black and white. If you doubt it for a minute, then it's not His voice. I know that from experience!!

 

[secularhermit]

@ IloveyouGod

I haven heard HIS voice (I wish it were that way He speaks to you) but He uses circumstances "to let me know".

Recently I sold a paper shreder and the client felt I lied or tricked him. When I noticed he was somewhat bipolar, I asked him his bank acoount number, so I could place his money back, and I was unwilling to receive the machine I gave him functioning (I made a video to prove what I sold on line).

When he started to say I tricked him, I felt it disgusting. I asked him question to know if he did anything wrong... It was one or two days after the operation but, while I was pondering my feelings, my ideas regarding that, the very man texted me telling he was unhappy or feeling I made something wrong, so I insisted on asking his bank account number, telling to keep the thing I sold him with trickery, because I knew how GOD operated, and I didn like those words he used to curse me, instead of blessing me (deep in me I was upset for his cursing, I knew I did nothing wrong, I thought he could be that type of people who lies to get his money back) but I decided to do what I said I 'd do, because "I knew" how GOD works (That's what I actually told him, without knowing I was right) He! He!

Later of he found out the falilure (something odd no one expected) but it served me to release the money I needed (not badly, but as a tool).

He told me -without and apology- the operation was well done.

It was a test I had to live up (but I still miss how GOD would speak. I have heard HE does it)

 

[Charlene1]

The Holy Spirit speaks to me all day everyday. Sometimes its a whisper inside, other times He may confirm something He has layed on my heart through His Word or godly people that I trust. A word of correction or encouragment, direction or leading me to pray about a person or situation. Here's an example: God told me I had to move in with my sisters family. I was very angry. I prefer the peacefulness of living by myself. The Lord told me one day after I left the YMCA that I was being 'petulant'; to look it up in the dictionary! I got my journal and did a dictionary study on the word petulant. Ill-tempered, angry, wrath, not happy with the present circumstances. I got the message and changed my attitude!

 

[secularhermit]

The Holy Spirit speaks to me all day everyday. (...) The Lord told me one day after I left the YMCA that I was being 'petulant'; to look it up in the dictionary! I got my journal and did a dictionary study on the word petulant. Ill-tempered, angry, wrath, not happy with the present circumstances. I got the message and changed my attitude!

It's been years since I haven't heard that word of petulant (petulante, in Spanish). Here it's out of fashion, but it was used, a lot, when a was a teen.

I gess HIS is absolutely right. All of us are like that: petulant,

 

[sureshjames]

Has God ever spoken to you, personally? If so, how?

hi i will say
i am suresh from india hyderabad
when i go to missiontrip with my fellow churchmates
i felt spirit of god inside me is telling to give away my beloved watch which was presented by my brother
then i am ready to give it to one of my church mate at the same time my church mates called for the prayer
when i am singing a song as part of the choir god directly spoke to me no need to give i have tested you
this is one situation
second one is
once i was thinking that i have done a wrong thing so i started asking forgiveness from god
then god spoke to me you have done no mistake
these are just samples only

 

[chevell]

you can not only feel , it in your heart but also in your soul . for god says his children no his voice . for me it happen many years . ago . I have been saved now for 15 years year's

 

[Jullianna]

Thank you all for sharing these.