Has anyone ever told you that God spoke to them? Has God spoken to you?
Before we get too far into this discussion let me just say that there have been people I have encountered along my journey who have used the phrase, “God told me . . .” to justify things that I believed could not have been of God. So I would caution us from the beginning to be wise in how we approach this issue. If you ever encounter someone who says, “God told me to . . .” make sure you test what they say with scripture. People can use that phrase to give credence to what they want to do.
I believe with all my being that God does still speaks. We read in scripture that God spoke in different ways to different people. Moses heard a voice and even saw God. Scripture says that the word of God came to the prophets. In Genesis, God actually walked with Adam and Eve. Paul encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus and had a conversation. Peter and others heard from God in dreams.
Throughout scripture, we are told that God spoke to people. So the question for us today is this, “Does God still speak today?”
This coming Sunday during our worship time, we will address this subject. I would like to hear from you this week – and who knows, your comments might make it into the sermon. Here is what I would like to know: Does God speak to you? How?
I look forward to hearing from you!
Clay in the Hands 
God primarily speaks to me through His Word. Both when I read it and those times when a verse I’ve memorized makes an impression in my mind. For instance the verse 2 Corinthians 4:16-18–I’ve been reminded of that verse often this year.
There have been a few times when it has not been so much as a voice in my inner person, but a compelling presence. For example, I had an early breast cancer in 2005. The doctors twice felt I could wait that it was an insignificant thing, but I felt urged, almost pushed, to get a biopsy. After the biopsy the surgeon asked me, “what led me to push for this”. I had no other answer but that I felt the Lord Jesus had compelled me and urged me as if someone was pushing me from behind.
During the time our son David was in combat in Iraq there were many times I would be awakened in the middle of the night as if an alarm had gone off (no sound), I would be told in my inner person–“Annette you’ve got to pray right now for David.” Of course scrambling out of the covers I would kneel beside my bed and pray. There were a few times that that instruction to pray for David was more urgent, “Annette you’ve got to battle in prayer for David, this is serious.” I would then lay prostrate on the floor of my bedroom and pray all night until the sun came up. I’d never prayed before like this, nor had I ever prayed kneeling beside my bed (not since I was a child). I have asked David about 1 particular time when there was this strong serious urgency, he looked at me and with great seriousness he said, “Mom, we had been ambushed that night.”
There have been many times as well when the Lord has “seemed” quiet. That is when faith is stretched and grown.
I am a little apprehensive about sharing these times when I felt that the Lord has spoken to me in my inner person. I’ve never heard Him speak audibly.
But I do remember at about age 12 which was about 2 years after I had accepted Him as my Saviour. It would be late at night and I would be trying to go to sleep, but I felt as if something was drawing me like a magnet. I would peer out my bedroom window and would not see or hear anything, I would look around my room and not see or hear anything. Yet, there was a–I have know other way of describing it but it felt as if I was being drawn like a magnet does. Almost as if I was being called. I’ve not shared this but with a couple of people.
Thank you Brian.