Through my life I've found that God does speak to those willing to listen. I can't number the times when I've been feeling lost or down, only to be picked back up by a messenger of God who "just happens" to cross my path (I don't believe in chance). God has placed His Word in front of me many many times, and I rarely miss His Word. That is why I try to provide for others what God has placed before me. I try to be a testament to His Word so that others may come to Him.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Have often been super amazed, incredulous . . .
naysayers like to rant that [paraphrased] when John the Beloved ran out of ink at the end of Revelation, God quit speaking to individuals directly and only speaks via the printed Scriptures, period. No Holy Spirit beyond having birthed the Scriptures.
Yet, I know of few Christians who have NOT had the expreience of a verse of Scripture jump off the page highlighted vividly and emotionally by Holy Spirit in answer to an intense burden that had been a matter of recent prayer for some time.
There's nothing functionally that different
from Holy Spirit highlighting a Scripture as a specific pointed answer to a specific prayer
vs
Holy Spirit speaking directly to the inner man in God's still small voice; through tongues and interpretation; through a prophetically gifted person.
But they rarely see the connection.
Bump your beautiful testimony!