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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.
I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.