LaRoyalHighness:


Some people call her 'conscience'... I call her God'.

Weah96:

Really?

Weah96:

Non believers dream too, some with astonishing accuracy. Back in medieval times, you woulda been burned at the stake for practicing sorcery.

DrummaBoy: T-Mama, pls forgive my pasting this without much scriptural quotes. My bible softwares packed up and I am yet to download a new one.

When I became a Christian, I was continually intrigued by the "God told me" talk all around me. I begged God to speak to me too but... no show. One day I read a book by one practically unknown Anglican priest and after he explained how God speaks, I realized I had been hearing him all along and I didn't know it!

Hebrew1:1-2 - God had spoken to us through the prophets but today he speaks through his Son (paraphrase).

God speaks primarily through the bible. Christians are encouraged to read the bible and read it voraciously, as you do the capacity to hear God increases. Example: I marvel at how my baby can tell my voice or his mother's in a crowded room even after being away from him all day. He had spent time with us and could discern our voice.

Now practically. When the Christian knows the bible and has learnt to commit his ways to God, he begins to learn to make decision from a sanctified mind set, that is God leading him. Example: there is the option to begin an office romance or to work on an ailing marriage. Of course God is speaking to him to work on his marriage. Then comes the very rare one: the believer in prayer, in meditation, in reading the Word or by observing life events, a thought drops in his heart and he is certain it was not from his mind. He ruminates on the thought. He finds it deeply scriptural. He takes steps in that direction, it yields divine results: he realizes God had spoken to him. Example: God told Jeremiah to buy land in Israel that had gone to captivity, saying his nephew will come to offer it to him. When it happened, Jeremiah said now he knew God has spoken to him (Jeremiah 32:8b).

Hearing God is mostly By faith. The Christian will just believe that this is God speaking. Unfortunately, sometimes we make mistakes and that is why we should never say "God told me" it rather safe to say "I felt an impression". This is necessary so that what we claim to hear from God is not equated to the bible. What we hear is fallible. The bible is infallible. Whatever any man said God said, the bible has higher authority than it.

Recently a brother taught us the meaning of the words RHEMA and LOGOS. Many consider rhema as God speaking to us through scripture in the now. while logos is just the letter. In that study, we discovered this is untrue. Rhema and logos are synonyms and are used interchangeably for "word" in Greek (link to my thread in this: discovered its lost to Seun data loss). The implication is that God is not saying anything outside what he has said in the bible. When Christians read scripture and develop sanctified mindsets, the decisions they make in life will be by Gods leading. It will be as if God is speaking to them literally, everyday.

Finally, there is a great abuse of this concept of God speaking especially in charismatic circle. Even though God speaks, God is not talkative. So all this "God said..."; "Daddy said..." things are mostly errors and crafted to deceive the simple mind.

Get into the bible and hear God speak loudly to you. A brother will say to us "if you want to hear God speak, read the bible. If you want to hear God speak loudly to you, read the bible out loud"!

God bless you all.

ayobase:


...my question is this, some people do hear from God audibly like when talking with a friend.......I wanna believe this is one of the effective ways God can deliver one from a die-minute impending danger.

how do one attain this level of relationship with God, provided one has fulfilled the aforementioned methods?

thegoodone2: it started when i was 12 years.then i can say am d boy who see tomr.when i was 18 years i started hear voice. now my wife said i belong to ........or may be my father has give me something when i was small. if i tell her anything it always come to pass. some time it come through dream and voice.

Tgirl4real:

Lol

Iya big bumper

SirAweezy: He speaks to me through visions, trans, and words of Wisdom.. He allow me see through my tongues(I can Intreprete). And aslo he talks to me through Nature, the tree, winds, and deep moment of silence). Guess what... I'm still finding it difficult to be faithful To him... Social life is very interesting, and wouldn't want be a pastor.. But I see him most times when he smiles at me and just shook his head slowly... So many incredible revelations but I prefer to be Solo..(Don't know for. How long. Sha)

Busybody2:

Feel free to come in here. Thread was long but was lost during the NL crash...
https://www.nairaland.com/1794213/seeking-face-god-journey

malvisguy212: I will just give you the detail.I don't go to church when all this happen to me, I don't even care about heaven or hell when I had this dream, the first one was in a desert, some people want to convert me to there religion when the face apper on the sky and save me.
The second happen when my friend say somtin bad about the same religion, they wanted to kill him, but when I pleaded for him, they hold me tight, sharpen there knife and wanted to kill me, all of a sudden a lamb apper from no were enter in between my legs, carry me away. The lamb was jesus. Thank you.

RedClay:

Lol,

#Frowns and shakes head.

Tgirl4real: Good morning everyone.

It's been a while I did this. Lol

I saw this thread this morning (https://www.nairaland.com/1831971/how-pastors-hear-voice-god#25024510 ) and I thought to start a discussion on <b>"Hearing the Voice of God".</b>

A lot of havoc has been caused in christiandom, homes, marriages, businesses and even in individual lives because of this short phrase "thus sayeth the Lord" or "the Lord spoke to me".

If you claim to have heard from God before or you do hear from him constantly, could you please explain to us:

- how to identify the voice of God

- how does the voice of God sound?

- do you have examples similar to your experience in scriptures?

- do you have witnesses who could testify to have heard God's voice when he spoke to you like Saul on the way to Damascus in Acts 9.

- what is the purpose of His speaking to you today?

- what is the place of God's word - Holy scriptures in the lives of believers today?

Kindly provide answers with enough scriptural backing.

Thank you.

LaRoyalHighness: Yes my God speaks to me.



She is that still small voice within me.


Anytime I am quiet I hear her speak to me.


When she speaks, I don't listen, she leaves me.
When I am ready to listen, she is there for me.


Some people call her 'conscience'... I call her God'.

Bidam: Interesting thread and views, i took my time to read all through the comments here.

For one i don't quite agree with professing christians here that God ONLY speaks through his word.

If we are to follow the bible and throw away our prejudice and erroneous insinuations that the Holy Spirit left when the apostles died, we should know that God can speak to believers today through:

1. Spiritual discernment ( 1 corinthians 2:14).

2. Revelations ( 1 corinthians 14:6).

3. Visions (2 corinthians 12:1), i don't share the belief that this is the exclusive right of Paul afterall he was only human.Even Peter had this previledge to know the unfolding plans of God in Acts 10:9-17.

The truth is any one that claims he had a vision or revelation, a psalm,hymns or spiritual songs from God should be proved through God's word the bible, If it doesn't measure up it should be quickly discarded.

When John wesely wrote the hymns we sing today it wasn't as if the bible wasn't there. The hymns were inspired by the Holy Spirit and very much in line with what scripture said..so you see God not only Speak to vessels today, He speaks through them.

I was in a meeting where God gave me a prophetic message for a woman who all her years have spent time, energy and money looking for a child because she was childless. Her last resort was to turn to God, she never told me her problems, it was while we were worshiping and praising God that the word of the Lord came. It was just a knowing in my spirit that God wanted to speak to someone in our midst, i yielded and God spoke through me in tongues and the intepretation also came. It was spontaneous, it was never arranged and that is the way God speaks to His people.

Doubters like thomases could choose to take it with a pinch of salt for all i care.

If you check through scriptures, prophecies do not come because men willed it, holy men spoke as they were MOVED by the Holy Spirit.

The same Holy Spirit spoke by the mouth of David( Acts 1:16).

The same Holy Spirit spoke through Jesus and the Apostles of old.

And it is the SAME HOLY SPIRIT that is speaking to His Church, the problem is with men's private interpretations never God.

MANY christians even after the death of the apostles have cast demons out of people, worked miracles, received baptism of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues, laid hands on the sick and seen them recover, operated with spiritual gifts, and raised the dead SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THE WORD OF GOD and put it to work in their lives.

For the doubters on this forum Jesus pointed the way forward when He said "If any man will do his (God's) will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether i speak of myself" ( John 7:17). God has indeed spoken to us by His Son in these last days..

If an unbeliever studied God's word, and began to put into practice in his life, belief would certainly come and He will hear God clearly and see things the way God sees it.

Shalom...

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@ d first bold, please what do you understand by the word prophesy?

Strong's Concordance
prophéteuó: to foretell, tell forth, prophesy
Original Word: προφητεύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: prophéteuó
Phonetic Spelling: (prof-ate-yoo'-o)
Short Definition: I foretell, prophesy
Definition: I foretell, prophesy; I set forth matter of divine teaching by special faculty.

In the New Testament, prophecy is referred to as one of the Spiritual gifts given by the indwelling Holy Spirit. From this, many Christians believe that the gift of prophecy is the supernatural ability to receive and convey a message from God. The purpose of the message may be to "edify, exhort and comfort" the members of the Church. In this context, not all prophecies contain predictions about the future. The Apostle Paul also teaches in First Corinthians that prophecy is for the benefit of the whole Church and not just the individual exercising the gift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy

And the second bold, please i am curios to know what you mean by tongues and its interpretations.
Thanks

Olumurphy:


Can you please explain what God told you about Gej? don't bother whether people are ready to believe you or not, just prove the work of God.

Tgirl4real: Good morning everyone.

It's been a while I did this. Lol

I saw this thread this morning (https://www.nairaland.com/1831971/how-pastors-hear-voice-god#25024510 ) and I thought to start a discussion on <b>"Hearing the Voice of God".</b>

A lot of havoc has been caused in christiandom, homes, marriages, businesses and even in individual lives because of this short phrase "thus sayeth the Lord" or "the Lord spoke to me".

If you claim to have heard from God before or you do hear from him constantly, could you please explain to us:

- how to identify the voice of God

- how does the voice of God sound?

- do you have examples similar to your experience in scriptures?

- do you have witnesses who could testify to have heard God's voice when he spoke to you like Saul on the way to Damascus in Acts 9.

- what is the purpose of His speaking to you today?

- what is the place of God's word - Holy scriptures in the lives of believers today?

Kindly provide answers with enough scriptural backing.

Thank you.

fightforchange1:

I say speak to me manifestations....
circumstances.....different scenarios......death bereavement....joy pain sorrow ......triumph...happiness....truth.