When I finally got into the Word, I often found that I had a verse that would just get stuck in my brain, like a song you cannot get out of your head. I think the first was "Be Still and Listen and Know that I Am God!" Along with this also were the words "sound and fury"
Whenever I get a verse in my mind, it is up to me to figure out how this applies to where I am at in my walk. I think the above was meant to tell me to slow down and be quiet and spend time with the Lord in the Word.
I agree that God speaks to me through the Word (Bible) and through my conscious. Also, though, I believe God speaks to us through other people. And not just "pastors" or other important people. It can be through a complete stranger or even through a person who denies His very existence! I have, on a few occasions, experienced a moment where someone expels some extremely profound wisdom that seems to just come out of nowhere. In your head, it just clicks. Then I know that God got my attention through another person when I refused to give Him the time to speak to me. It is an amazing experience, to discern God's call and to try and follow Him, but it a hard thing to explain to another person. I get a lot of unbelievers who ask, "Have you ever heard God speak?" They tend not to understand that He doesn't always have that deep, audible voice that shakes the earth. After all, God spoke to Elijah through the silence.
Thank you for your thread� it made me take a trip down memory lane and it was/is nice� instantly three examples popped into my mind.
Papa speaks to me through that �still small voice� and then Scripture to back it up. 1st I was an unwed mother, and I was saved for only three years at this time and I would have gone to heaven but I didn�t really know too much about the Bible, and I thought fore sure He cursed me with my son for breaking the law. I was so scared that the sins of father (or in this case the mother) would be passed down to me and I too would hate my child because he was a product of sin. I was talking to Yahshua (Jesus) about it and He told me to go read Galatians 3:13 I did not have a clue what it said, I honestly don�t know if I had ever read it before or not� but He spoke specifically to me that day. Galatians 3:13 says: �The Messiah redeemed us from the curse pronounced in the Torah by becoming cursed on our behalf; for the Tanakh says, "Everyone who hangs from a stake comes under a curse." (The Complete Jewish Bible). Instantly I filled with love for my son and from that day forward, I only see him as my blessing.
Another time I was doing laundry and I�m just going on and on to Papa about a certain sin that just would so easily beset me� I mean I went like through the whole 20-year gamete�lol I was so sick of repenting and repeating over the same thing�. I was about 10 or 15 years saved at this time and had a very personal relationship with Papa. I remember saying to Him at one point in my spiel �don�t you remember?� and I so clearly heard Him say �No, I don�t�� it took me by surprise, I cocked my head to the side and thought �OH�� then I was instantly reminded of the Scripture that says He removes my sin as fare as the east is from the west� and I said OK, well I won�t remind you then and dropped the whole thing�.
Lastly, I was with friends, we were in a big debate over the Scripture, and I knew I had just read a few days before detailed Scripture (a whole chapter) on the subject, but I could not remember where it was at in the Bible. Frustrated I went outside and smoked a cigarette (that could be another thread right there�lol) and asked Papa where is that Scripture. Immediately, as soon as I asked he answered� I heard in my head Ezekiel 18. I rand inside to look and it sure was.
I have to admit though there are plenty of times (more often than not) than He speaks to me words of correction or telling me to do something I�m not gung-ho on doing and to my same I all too often quench Him. I would say though that He normally speaks to me as I read and study His Word.
What just amazes me the most is not just that Papa knows His word, I mean He should, but He knows book, chapter and verse!
