Is this in your head, or is this an audible thing?
Perhaps you're just answering your own questions through your own logic and wisdom...or perhaps it's something else.
I'm truly curious.
Sometimes God seems to almost yell within my mind/spirit/heart. But those times are rare.
Is this in your head, or is this an audible thing?
Perhaps you're just answering your own questions through your own logic and wisdom...or perhaps it's something else.
I'm truly curious.
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Many times, it's very obvious--because what The Spirit is saying to me is ATYPICAL--not a common sort of thing for me to think in a certain context AND is accompanied by a particular flavor of peace, and inner sort of HOLY SPIRIT flavored inner knowing, affirming--hard to describe--all within my spirit/heart/mind--not usually audible.
Have had very few "audible--I think" experiences--where it sounded audible but others nearby didn't hear--and I couldn't be certain 100% whether it was audible for me or merely seemed like it.
99% of the time, it's the still small inner voice.
Yes, it is SOMETIMES--too often for my comfort--very easy to have a hard time distinguishing between His still small voice and my own fairly constant inner dialogue with myself and with Him--I do try and practice the PRAY ALWAYS exhortation and to listen for Him always to reply--so it's in that context that it can be less than crystial clear.
But the clearest times are when He speaks starkly out of the blue to something I wasn't at all thinking about and with words, phrases, input that would not have been typical for me to have thought of in such a context.
And, a few times, He's virtually yelled--in my head--to STOP! and if I'd kept driving or walking, I'd have been hit and killed.
One time, after ministering extensively to a Navy friend who'd been involved with satan worship, The Lord warned me as I was getting in my VW beetle to go to my Navy job downtown at the wharf in San Diego--that there would be 3 attempts on my life on the way to work. That I was to pray against such before I started out and to be very sensitive to His voice all along the way to work and to pray in tongues going to work.
The first one was a fellow ran a red light at a high rate of speed in a big vehicle coming from my driver's side. If I hadn't slowed down as His quiet voice within had instructed, I'd have been hit and killed.
The 2nd, I think was a really crazy, probably drunk fellow again in a big vehicle, came careening toward me and would have sideswiped me hard on the driver's side had I not driven according to Holy Spirit's voice within just prior to that.
I forget what the 3rd one was but also rather starkly riveting and scary.
Much of the time, the still small voice of The Spirit will encourage me to reach out to folks such as in a WalMart line; on public transportation; etc. saying initially whatever Holy Spirit suggests I start the conversation with. There have been many blessed times like that in Taipei and in Mainland China.