When God Talks Back (CNN)

[Freed Fox]

Interesting to see this perspective in the MSM... (Apologies if this has been posted already, I couldn't find it myself);

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/29/my-take-if-you-hear-god-speak-audibly-you-usually-arent-crazy/?hpt=hp_t3

[kreagle]

Interesting to see this perspective in the MSM... (Apologies if this has been posted already, I couldn't find it myself);

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/29/my-take-if-you-hear-god-speak-audibly-you-usually-arent-crazy/?hpt=hp_t3


Freed Fox,

Thanks for the article, brother. I enjoyed reading it, my dear friend. While I acknowledge that I have yet to hear the 'audible' voice of God,...make no doubt,....He has 'spoken' to me on many, many splendid occasions. Truthfully, a great deal of people 'hear' from God all the time, only to fail to 'hearken' to His voice and Divine directives for their lives.


James 1:22-24 (KJV)

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

[Knowrainknowrainbows!]

Excert from the article:
"For the last 10 years, I have been doing anthropological and psychological research among experientially oriented evangelicals, the sort of people who seek a personal relationship with God and who expect that God will talk back. For most of them, most of the time, God talks back in a quiet voice they hear inside their minds, or through images that come to mind during prayer. But many of them also reported sensory experiences of God. They say God touched their shoulder, or that he spoke up from the back seat and said, in a way they heard with their ears, that he loved them. Indeed, in 1999, Gallup reported that 23% of all Americans had heard a voice or seen a vision in response to prayer.

These experiences were brief: at the most, a few words or short sentences. They were rare. Those who reported them reported no more than a few of them, if that. These experiences were not distressing, although they were often disconcerting and always startling. On the contrary, these experiences often made people feel more intimate with God, and more deeply loved."

I would like to share my personal experience as I am one of the 23%.

My life (as well as my children) took an abrupt turn the day after 9/11/2001.... It was then I learned my husband was seeing someone else and "in love".

A few days afterward I was walking outside in my backyard. I had been in a state of shock and cried, prayed for understanding and guidance and chose to believe something good could come of it. Anyway, while walking and breathing the fresh air I heard a voice INSIDE MY HEAD yet OUTSIDE TOO (I don't know how to explain it other than it also was like I perceived the words directly via my eardrum ...

"Everything is as it should be." I stopped walking, looked around and, seeing no one else around, I thought to myself, " Oh my gosh, I'm having a mental breakdown ... I'm hallucinating!"

Then, again I hear, "Everything is as it should be." This time I realised WHAT was said and felt calm, reassured. I did not hear anymore messages after that. I had a reassurance of faith and reinforcement that the spiritual realm is more real than anything we can fathom.

It was a difficult time but having that experience made "moving forward" (and to another state) much less of a burden and more ofd an adventure.

For what its worth :wink:

No Rain No Rainbows

[kreagle]

Knowrainknowrainbows,

We have the Divine promise that 'while others may abandon you',......He won't!


Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)

5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.




Hang in there, sister, God loves you!


Your brother,........kreagle

[kreagle]

God Speaking

The man whispered, "God, speak to me"
And a meadowlark sang.
But the man did not hear.

So the man yelled "God, speak to me"
And the thunder & lightning rolled across the sky.
But the man did not listen.

The man looked around and said, "God, let me see you."
And a star shined brightly.
But the man did not see.

And, the man shouted, "God, show me a miracle."
And a life was born.
But the man did not notice.

So, the man cried out in despair, "Touch me, God, and let me know you are here"
Whereupon, God reached down and touched the man.
But the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.

The man cried "God, I need your help"
and an e-mail arrived reaching out with good news and encouragement.
But the man deleted it and continued crying.....

The good news is that you are loved.

Author 'unknown'




The 'Author' is unknown,.......or is HE?

'HE' may be 'speaking',.....after all



Proverbs 3:6 (KJV)

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Interesting to see this perspective in the MSM... (Apologies if this has been posted already, I couldn't find it myself);

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/29/my-take-if-you-hear-god-speak-audibly-you-usually-arent-crazy/?hpt=hp_t3

Thanks for sharing...


Most people reading the ancient scriptures understand these accounts of hearing God’s voice as miracles that really did happen but no longer take place today, or maybe as folkloric flourishes to ancient stories. Even Christians who believe that miracles can be an everyday affair can hesitate when someone tells them they heard God speak audibly. There’s an old joke: When you talk to God, we call it prayer, but when God talks to you, we call it schizophrenia.

Except that usually it’s not.

Hearing a voice when alone, or seeing something no one else can see, is pretty common. At least one in 10 people will say they’ve had such an experience if you ask them bluntly. About four in 10 say they have unusual perceptual experiences between sleep and awareness if you interview them about their sleeping habits...

what makes it worse is when he tells you something no one around you believes...

He gives you a message to deliver to a different religion... that hates yours...

I think he has a great sense of humor...

[GCS1103]

Years ago, I experienced the spirit of God when my mother was dying of cancer. I couldn't cope with her impending death and each day it was harder for me to function. My mother was living in my home and we had health care aides assisting with her care. One night, while I was praying, I was literally filled with a feeling of peace and love and heard, in my head, that my mother would not die. The overwhelming depression I had was gone and I knew that while she would "die" in the physical sense, her spirit was going to live on. It is hard for me to properly describe the "fullness" that I felt, but I can truthfully say that it was the most incredible feeling of love I have ever experienced.

[Rocky_Shorz]

do you think that might have been the first time you heard your Spirit?

the first time your Subconscious reached through and touched your conscious?

for me I consider that a moment of re-awakening, as children that connection was normal...

once you realize the duality of self it opens up to directing dreams, guides, and communications.

I was touched by an angel, and I mean one that bent over and put a hand on my shoulder, I looked up and saw her...

through dreams have visited heaven...

so I do believe

but I have only met God through dreams, never when awake...

insights come through the Holy Spirit, those flash images of future events...