Need Your Help (Survey/Poll)
November 7, 2011 | 
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Hello readers! I need your help. I’m doing some research for a paper I am writing and I need your input. I’m looking for insight and perspective to the following questions:
- Do you “hear” God’s voice?
- What does God’s voice sound like to you? (In what ways do you hear God’s voice?)
- How often do you hear God’s voice?
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Thank you in advance!
I sincerely appreciate your time and your perspective.
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1. I hear God’s voice in my heart, and just recently audibly heard Jesus speak to me.
2. Before I became a Christian, my life was strife-filled. At age 20, n the midst of a struggle to overcome drug addiction and a destroyed marriage, I cried out, “God, I don’t have the strength for this.” I definitely heard something in my heart that didn’t sound like me: “You have My strength.” I never would have thought to say that to myself; I didn’t even know God. Satan came in like a flood with doubt after doubt the night I was healed of MS. After a time of weeping, I laid in bed, staring up at the ceiling. I remembered Peter walking on the sea toward Jesus but then sinking as he looked at the impossibility of his circumstances. I heard the Lord say in my heart, “You’re sinking in a sea of doubt.” I reached up to Him, just like Peter, and cried, “Help me!” He touched me and healed me that night. I also hear God’s voice in the Word of God, as He uses the Word to teach me, encourage me and correct me. I come upon a passage of Scripture, and it is as if God is speaking directly to my heart in that passage. I only recently heart the audible voice of Jesus for the first time. I was praying on my dock after I gave a particularly intense sermon. Suddenly, I heard, “Sue, I love you!” I looked for my husband, but I was alone. No neighbors, no nothing. I never thought to look up, but I know now that it was His voice. It simply sounded like a man’s voice. I also hear from God in visions and dreams. Some visions are to warn me of dangers or of demonic activity. Some visions are prophetic regarding the Church. The Lord also “downloads” lyrics and melodies to me, through the work of the Holy Spirit. I suddenly hear a melody. As I sing and play it, lyrics come. Sometimes a flood of lyrics comes. As I write them down, a melody comes into my mind. All of these songs are in praise of the Father and the Son.
3. I hear God’s voice every day. I am often in the Word, often meditating upon it and turning it over in my mind and spirit. And sometimes He just speaks “out of the blue” (I.e., in songs or dreams or when I’m not doing anything “spiritual” at all).
Sue, Dear Sister Sue…
Thank you. You are a blessing to me.
jb
1. I feel God’s voice in my heart and in my head and I see God’s voice all the time…but not in a tripped out drug induced sort of fashion=]
2. Sometimes I wake up in the morning after I’ve been praying about something and God will put something in my head…Scripture or part of a song that speaks to the situation… Very often I’ll wake up with God saying “Be still and know that I am God” possibly because I’m so twitchy all the time…as you know… and God just reminds me to be still. Also when I’m feeling really uncertain about a situation God brings other situations to my mind when I was uncertain and He brought me through and then he sort of says “Remember when you were worried and I helped with this?”
When I read my Bible sometimes I feel like it’s a letter right to me, like a personal letter from God to me. Which is like a conversation…I read something that speaks to my heart, then I have a little back and forth and write about it and then sometimes God speaks to my heart about it.
And sometimes when I’m outside, especially in the spring…when trees start turning green again and flowers start growing and I get to dig in the dirt I think about how cool it is that God spoke these things into creation and now thousands and thousands of years later…it’s still happening…It sounds kind of fruit nut-ish and it kind of is…but that’s just because I read too much Wendell Berry…but it’s true…and how cool it is that God spoke light and darkness and the ability to have babies and for rain to fall…God spoke and all of these crazy things happen…I love it.
And sometimes God speaks to me through other people… during a sermon or when I’m listening to music or reading a book…a lot of times when I’m playing with Pace and Tubz they’ll say something or do something and God speaks through it…especially when I show up looking like a hot mess and being kind of grouchy or just feeling lousy and then run up and give me snuggle snuggles and smooches…I always hear God say…that’s how I love you too…despite all your hot mess…I still love you…just like Pace and Tubz do…
3. I hear God everyday…sometimes not in a warm fuzzy kind of way…I kind of feel like if I’m reading my Bible everyday God will speak to me everyday….and also if I believe that the Spirit of God is in my heart then it would make sense that if I pay attention and am quiet then he’ll speak to me…maybe even through me=]
[...] As a reminder, here are the original questions I have put up on the survey a few days ago: [...]
I wanted to share my story:
The most recent experience I had hearing God changed my life. I was in a place where I was holding grudges against Him for various things that had happened in life that I did not understand. Everytime a pastor would speak or I would hear a Christan song on the radio, this STUFF would well up in my heart, and I would automatically refute whatever was being said/sung with a memory of time when that wasn’t true for me. It got to the point where I could not hear God. He could not speak to me because my heart was so hard. This lasted for about a year. Then, with the help of some loving Christians (who’ve become like second parents to me) God slowly began to soften my heart. They would listen to KLove all the time (ever heard of that radio station?) and it began to grow on me. I began listening to it to and from work, only rarely flipping the station. I began to start identify with the songs. I went to church with this couple, a very traditional church – I disagreed with a lot of the sermons because of the conservative bent but kept going. I was also going to the young adult sunday school class. But I would not speak – because I feared if I did that I would either break down or all the bitterness would come out and I didn’t want to lead others astray. So I did not speak – I just listened. And I was almost brought to tears many times watching how God was speaking to these people and working in their lives. They got me hooked up with another church close to where I live, where I still attend. By the time I moved out, I was determined to get back on track but wasn’t quite sure how. Then I moved into my apartment. Whereas last I formerly had Christian roommate, this time my roommate was Hindu. I noticed a change in the spiritual atmosphere almost immediately. I began having horrible, horrible dark nightmares that left me with an unsettled feeling. I felt empty. It was so bad that I went ‘running’ back to God – cracked open my Bible for the first time in ages out of pure desperation to get rid of the oppressive feeling. Then I went to visit a friend for a weekend. I visited two church services with her while I was there, and it was as if a dam broke – I didn’t just cry, I wept. I was suddenly overcome with gratitude – gratitude! – for everything that had happened, even the bad, whereas before I was so bitter. For the first time I was able to see God’s mercy in it all. The night before I left, I talked to my friend’s father, a pastor, about the dreams and the oppressive spiritual atmosphere at my apartment. He suggested I pray a wall of protection around my room. I was afraid to do so at first – what if I prayed and then still had nightmares? What would that mean? But I got home, plopped on my bed, quieted my spirit, and opened my Bible, preparing to read from Psalms before I prayed (as per his suggestion). I opened up to Psalm 125 “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people; For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous….” That first part hit me hard, for I was just about to pray asking God to ‘surround’ my room with His protection! In that moment, it felt like God was speaking so clearly to me – perhaps the clearest I’ve heard Him my whole life. I prayed, and haven’t had a nightmare since (it’s been months). And I cannot describe the complete 180 my spiritual life has done. That was a catalyst for me. I’m in a better place now than I’ve been in a long time – and God has been soo merciful in the things He’s allowed me to be a part of since (like witnessing to a ‘searching’ friend, seeing another friend accept Christ, becoming involved in a Bible study, etc.). It’s refreshing to the soul.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing! We are lifted, encouraged, and inspired by the stories of others. As my friend said; “there are as many God experiences as there are God experiencers” Thank you for sharing your God experience and how you “hear” from Him. Blessings to you, Friend.
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