When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.
I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
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