TALK TO GOD
I am always in awe of someone when they say, “God told me.” I envision God speaking to them in the same way He did to Moses. I envision God speaking in a burning bush. Maybe God spoke to them in their dreams or sent visions to them. How did they know that “God told them” to do something?
One of my favorite Christian authors is Beth Moore. I love her and I am doing a devotional from her right now. However, it is her video that I watched about an old man with wild unruly hair in an airport that I think about all the time. In the video, she says that she and Jesus were having a conversation. She even went on to say that he was “bossy.” The whole time I am listening and watching this video I keep thinking how wonderful it would be if the Lord talked to “ME.”
I know that I am not Beth Moore, but the Lord loves everyone. So, I started to think about ways that the Lord might be talking to me, just not in a physical voice. Is the Lord my conscious? Is He that little voice I hear in my head telling me to give a donation to the person on the street? I think of that as compassion and not the Lord moving me to do something. Is He that “feeling” you get when you just “know” that something is wrong. I thought that was intuition.
So, I got to thinking about ways that the Lord “might” be talking to me and I am just passing it off as something else. One of the first things that come to my mind is when I go to church and the Preacher is delivering his sermon. As I sit there I feel like he is preaching to ME. I feel like he knows what I am feeling and that he made that sermon just for me. I am friends with my preacher but he doesn’t know my mind and “he” doesn’t do a sermon based on me. But, the Lord knows me! The Lord could be speaking to you through other people. How about when you read a book or watch a television show that “speaks” to you. Is the God?
Does the Lord speak to you through dreams, visions, or even that little voice in your head? YES! YES! and YES! It is so easy to ignore the message that we might be receiving if we don’t know that it is from God. My best advice would be to ALWAYS assume that it is God, at least that way you won’t miss His prompting. My grandmother had a prompting once. We were traveling down the road when I was very small, around 5 years old. She saw a comet streak across the sky and felt like something was wrong. She made me get in the front seat and out of the little compartment that I was in the back seat. Shortly after that, we had a wreck where we were rear-ended. The little compartment was crushed but I only ended up with a bruised chin.
The one place that you can go to and KNOW that the Lord is talking to you is the Bible. The Bible was not written by God but it was written about God and inspired by Him. 2 Timothy 3: 16-17 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
As I go through this week I am going to concentrate on “listening” to the Lord. I am going to try to not do so much talking but instead let Him talk to me.
Have A Blessed Sunday!
You are so right! God talks to us and sometimes we are not aware of it until you start thinking of what happens. I so believe he is with us and I’m like you always the one doing the talking! I also need to stop and listen. Thanks and hope you had a great Sunday!
Priscilla Shirer is doing an online Bible study beginning January 18th about Discerning the Voice of God. I think it’s through Lifeway…..
Thanks Tania !! I know he speaks to all of us but sometimes we are so busy we just don’t pay attention. Reading my devotional daily keeps me listening. I am reading Billy Gram morning and evening devotional. Hope you have a wonderful week!
Another great book to read is by Priscilla Shirer, Discerning the Voice of God; How to Recongize When He Speaks. Thanks for sharing Tania!
What a interesting post! The reason being and I have had that very topic on my mind. Wanting to follow his plan not mine. But how do I know. I often say to him…Gosh, I wish we could do coffee and you could just tell me what I need to know. I know the video you are talking about, it’s great. I am hoping God talks in his way to all of us!
I have seen that video! Very interesting to think about.
“Whoever has ears, let them hear.” May we be listeners and not just talkers, Tania.
The same book and chapter of the Bible kept coming up for me, four of the verses in the the same book kept popping up in different places! After reading and querying about what this all meant, I realized that it was the answer to a prayer that I had prayed. Another time it was in the strangest ways and in three and in Bible related ways like Debbie mentioned that I feel that God was talking to me. My takeaway from all of this is that He is talking to us every day and sometimes in peculiar ways if we look for Him and listen. I am learning!
Happy Sunday!
Beautiful & motivating message.
Thank you!
Great thoughts today! Thank you!