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mongoose:
Never started a thread before so please bear with me.  I have a general question for everyone.   Do you ever feel like God talks to you or tells you things sometimes? I mean, not like through other people or something you read but more directly, almost like a voice in your head or somthing? I do but have wondered for a long time if I am crazy or making stuff up although a friend recently told me that they have had similar experiences so I know I am not completely alone.  It's not a lot but just sometimes and for some reason what I hear sticks with me...um... somehow different from other memories.... memories of these things seem to come back when I am having the most trouble or really upset about something (I have had full-blown panic attacks on a regular basis for as long as I can remember although over the last few years they have been coming a lot less) and they are so comforting.

I've never talked with anyone about this before cuz I was afraid they'd put me in the loonie bin or somthing. I mean, it's not something you can tell most people...sometimes a voice tells me somthing right?  But it's not strange stuff like to hurt people or anything like that.  It's more like "You are going to be okay" (that was the first one) and if I am hoping for someone to teach me (sorta someone to follow I guess which I know is not what I should do unless that someone is Jesus) something like "I am sufficient for you". Like a "no" or something to that request.

So there it is.  I was wondering if other people have similar experiences that they might be willing to talk about.  I have never met anyone yet who I could tell or hear their stories (assuming they would have any).... Hope this is okay to post....um...i'm gonna hit submit now..... mongoose

eutychus:
greetings.

 ever had the hairs stand or gotten goose bumps?

Job 4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

 i beleive God talks to us through the spirit.
this is tricky though and we must be carfull.

 i have heard people say God told me to fast for 40 days, of coarse they fail and then are depressed and think unheathy  thoughts.

had a friend who was searching and got involved with a denomination
i wont mention, and first he literally tried to gouge an eye out, two weeks later shot himself.

he had a problem with pornography.

 we must be able to decern.


peace
chuckt

eutychus:

--- Quote from: bobbys43 ---Mongoose,

 I have the same thing happen to me. It is like this still small voice that lets me know He is ever so present.

 I will be thinking about somethiong and scripture verses will come to mind and it is like God is speaking. It is a peaceful voice and when things are not quite going well there is again that still small voice that lets me know everything is going to be ok.

 That voice at times also leads me in certian things that God wants me to do. It is not an audible voice but a voice that gives me comfort and direction.

Sister you are not crazy and I have the same experiences.

Great post!!!

bobby
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yes!!!
that small still voice, thanks bobby!!!!

peace and grace
chuckt

mongoose:
Thank you Bobby and eutychus.  I appreciate the comment about needing to discern.  That is, I guess, what I am most afraid of sometimes.  Is this real or something not so good?  How can one tell?  But it is such a comforting, peaceful voice...yes, still and small, but so powerful.  And it's never anything bad or that would be hurtful to anyone...just reassuring and loving and guiding.  I actually heard it first about 9 years ago when I was really upset.  A person who I literally thought was the world had just died and I was soooo angry that the sun still rose in the morning and the earth was still turning.  I couldn't understand how that was possible with this person gone and I was really really angry at God.  I had been barely sleeping for a month (mostly crying all night and working 90+ hrs a week to try to dull the pain) and was driving home one day and there was a beautiful sunset and I was so mad.  That's when I heard this "You are going to be okay".  It's like things changed in an instant.  I started crying again but not with sorrow, with relief and this feeling I had never had before...which I now think is joy.  I dont' know.  I feel like I've been slowly changing ever since and my friends tell me that too.  But I've never told anyone what happened before....

eutychus:

--- Quote from: mongoose ---Thank you Bobby and eutychus.  I appreciate the comment about needing to discern.  That is, I guess, what I am most afraid of sometimes.  Is this real or something not so good?  How can one tell?  But it is such a comforting, peaceful voice...yes, still and small, but so powerful.  And it's never anything bad or that would be hurtful to anyone...just reassuring and loving and guiding.  I actually heard it first about 9 years ago when I was really upset.  A person who I literally thought was the world had just died and I was soooo angry that the sun still rose in the morning and the earth was still turning.  I couldn't understand how that was possible with this person gone and I was really really angry at God.  I had been barely sleeping for a month (mostly crying all night and working 90+ hrs a week to try to dull the pain) and was driving home one day and there was a beautiful sunset and I was so mad.  That's when I heard this "You are going to be okay".  It's like things changed in an instant.  I started crying again but not with sorrow, with relief and this feeling I had never had before...which I now think is joy.  I dont' know.  I feel like I've been slowly changing ever since and my friends tell me that too.  But I've never told anyone what happened before....
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mongoose.

cool, hey remember too that God is love.

so if it goes against this its not from GOD.

 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love


grace to you dear friend
chuckt

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