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When I was younger, before the year of 2007, I was open to people who said they could hear God speak. But now days I find myself feeling scared when someone tells me this.
Why do we need to hear the voice of God when the Bible is the complete word of God?
I got emotionally damaged by someone who said to me: "God told me not to talk to you anymore". I was like that is mean! Several years later the same person tried apologizing to me, telling me that they were going through depression. The conversations kept getting weirder after that.
I used to watch a Bible prophecy program, and lots of the so called "Prophets" said they could hear the voice of God, and yet none of the prophecies came true. Which meant they were false prophets. If they would of lived in the Old Testament times, in Israel they would of been stoned for it.
With that opening statement, here is my set of questions.
Do you hear the voice of God? What do you think of people who say they hear the voice of God? Do we need to hear the voice of God when we got the Bible to tell us?
Delusional people are in every corner of life's experience and Satan is an active participant in the forming of opinions and experiences.When I was younger, before the year of 2007, I was open to people who said they could hear God speak. But now days I find myself feeling scared when someone tells me this.
Why do we need to hear the voice of God when the Bible is the complete word of God?
I got emotionally damaged by someone who said to me: "God told me not to talk to you anymore". I was like that is mean! Several years later the same person tried apologizing to me, telling me that they were going through depression. The conversations kept getting weirder after that.
I used to watch a Bible prophecy program, and lots of the so called "Prophets" said they could hear the voice of God, and yet none of the prophecies came true. Which meant they were false prophets. If they would of lived in the Old Testament times, in Israel they would of been stoned for it.
With that opening statement, here is my set of questions.
Do you hear the voice of God? What do you think of people who say they hear the voice of God? Do we need to hear the voice of God when we got the Bible to tell us?
Hoo boy. This is a tough one.Do you hear the voice of God? What do you think of people who say they hear the voice of God?
100% agree, Amen!But I do think we can hear a still small voice and have the Holy Spirit direct us if we are still and are listening.
Yes I agree with the way you are saying it above.I think we can definitely hear from God but we are to test the spirits. I don't think we should follow any voice that contradicts God's clear commands in the Bible.
But I do think we can hear a still small voice and have the Holy Spirit direct us if we are still and are listening.
Very good verses here my friend: Where is it then that one gets the "ears to hear"? By and through the Holy Spirit as you wrote.John 10:8,27 KJV
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
[27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
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Hearing his voice is through the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 3:7-8 KJV
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, [8] Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Hebrews 3:15-16 KJV
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. [16] For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
Hearing is obeying.
Matthew 7:24-27 KJV
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: [25] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. [26] And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: [27] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Mr 7:34 | And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. |
Mr 7:35 | And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. |
Mt 7:7 | Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: |
Mt 7:8 | For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. |
Mt 7:9 | Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? |
Mt 7:10 | Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? |
Mt 7:11 | If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? |
Why do we need to hear the voice of God when the Bible is the complete word of God?
Just my input was …that you got emotionally damaged because in distress you could discern it wasn’t Gods Voice and that voice troubled you. I’m not saying who said this to you was bad. But I felt the same maybe judgmental when I read a mother comparing “no love can separate you from me” to her son in reference to getting a shovel to bury a body of a young girl he admitted to killing. It bothered me because I wished I could say that is not His Voice. Hopefully not as judgmental but discerning in recognizing good grief that is not Gods Voice even though the words come from the Word of God. So do you throw away the Bible as the cause of what one does with the Bible?I got emotionally damaged by someone who said to me: "God told me not to talk to you anymore". I was like that is mean! Several years later the same person tried apologizing to me, telling me that they were going through depression. The conversations kept getting weirder after that.
I don’t know. Which prophets do you mean?I used to watch a Bible prophecy program, and lots of the so called "Prophets" said they could hear the voice of God, and yet none of the prophecies came true. Which meant they were false prophets. If they would have lived in the Old Testament times, in Israel they would have been stoned for it.
Do you hear the voice of God?Do you hear the voice of God? What do you think of people who say they hear the voice of God? Do we need to hear the voice of God when we got the Bible to tell us?
I can relate. Sometimes through nature confuses me. Yes, can see beauty. But sometimes things throw me into doubt and questions. Not so beautiful (Imo). One right now is the bird house mounted to our home right beside the door under our porch. It looks more like a decorative mailbox which we didn’t think birds would ever next in. A momma bird has made her nest in the house. The last time a snake got them. In fact a snake gets the babies more often than not out of all our birdhouse. This bird though has gotten used to us. We call her “hopper” because she hops around at your feet staying around us while feeding her babies. She will even come sit on the swing while you are swinging and stare right beside you. The grandchildren adore her. Chucking at the way she hops more often than flies. My stomach drops every morning coming out wondering if I’ll still hear her babies and see her. Or if they will be gone. Stupid I know but it isn’t only about a snake eating the babies and sometimes the mother trapping them all inside…but the consuming of something that I see as vulnerable in the nest every night without any defense just waiting. This part of nature I question why it has to be so? Because it doesn’t seem to aline with His nature? Again I know this is a part of it…but I was outside late last night spraying vinegar, garlic, and cinnamon all over the deck under her house and up the walls around her house, just wanting one time for the snake not to get this momma and her babies.God speaks to me in various ways. Through dreams, through the bible, through nature and also other ways too. Often he gives me something I can share on this site and sometimes it's personal.
Does that mean you can't understand how God speaks to me through nature? An example of that is this:Sometimes through nature confuses me.