How do I hear from the Holy Spirit.

[aspie3000]

No long explaination needed. I want to hear from God without going through intermediaries claiming to hear from God. I want to hear from God myself. How do I hear from God? And how do I tell God's voice from other voices? Likewise, what does God's voice sound like? I've heard that it's not a feeling, but if it's not a feeling then what is it? Do you hear a voice, do thoughts pop into your head what?

 

[timf]

We have all we need to hear from God in his word. Specifically the Apostle to the gentiles (Paul). In his letters to the churches we can hear all that we need. The work of the Holy Spirit is not auditory. When we trust in Jesus and his death, burial, and resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins, the Holy Spirit places us into the body of Christ. After salvation the Holy Spirit works in us to make us better people if we chose to let him.

The Christian life is supposed to be a process of becoming more like Christ. This is a transition from the selfishness of the flesh to the selflessness of love. Christianity is supposed to be transformative. It is understandable that we would like to hear specific instructions. However, Christianity is moire about surrender and trust in God than about achievement and rule following.

 

[Lost Witness]

No long explaination needed. I want to hear from God without going through intermediaries claiming to hear from God. I want to hear from God myself. How do I hear from God? And how do I tell God's voice from other voices? Likewise, what does God's voice sound like? I've heard that it's not a feeling, but if it's not a feeling then what is it? Do you hear a voice, do thoughts pop into your head what?

only ever "heard" the Lord ...(In my spirit once that I'm was aware of it...often he'll speak to us externally signs, other people etc)
I had perceived,"that's what the old you would've done"
The thought was contrary to what I wanted in my natural state to do.
I wanted to go home but the Lord wanted me to do elsewise and I obeyed him in that moment.
I had thought I would never hear him but I have.
You will hear him if you believe.
Trust that he wants that relationship with you and believe it.
He does afterall.

 

[linux.poet]

Read God's Word and the Holy Spirit will interpret it for you correctly.

Don't trust any voices inside your head. Even if they are the Holy Spirit, God's thoughts are so far above your thoughts that He's hard to understand that way, and your mind can twist that voice to make it what you want to hear.

 

[tturt]

Also, suggest reading "How to Hear the Voice of God in a Noisy World" by Teresa Seputis. She gives examples.

We can asks The Holy Spirit for confirmation (Matt 18:16; Acts 9;9-19 especially v 10-12; II Cor 13:1),

 

[Pop D.]

He speaks in many different ways. Sometimes through revelation while reading God's Word. Sometimes through the doors in our lives that open (or refuse to open, when we aren't meant to go through them). However you hear Him, it's important to obey-don't ignore Him if you want to Him to keep guiding you.

 

[timf]

Here are some links to a free booklet with some thoughts on walking by the Spirit;

Walking by the Spirit (web pages)

Christian Pioneer - Current blog

Christian Pioneer - Ebook for cellphone - The Leaven of the Pharisees

christianpioneer.com

Walking by the Spirit (free downloadable pdf booklet)

http://christianpioneer.com/ebooks/wbts.pdf

 

[KevinT]

I want to hear from God myself. How do I hear from God?

I have been around people that talk like they have a telephone line directly from God. “God told me this,” they’ll say, or “God laid it on my heart to _____”. While it is not my position to say if this is true or not, I can’t help but wonder why it is that God has a running conversation with them but not with others or with me.

We all have a conscience that helps guide towards what we should do. I feel that the Holy Spirit uses our conscience, but it itself is not God. And I think many people conflate these two. I will often have thoughts pop into my head. especially when I am listening to scriptures. Are these thoughts originating from God? Or are they a natural working of my God-given brain? I don’t know, but what I do know is that God has given us instructions in the Bible, and we can be confident in its guidance.

But I think it would be dangerous to ascribing to God the authorship of every thought that might pop into my brain.

KT

 

[NBB]

Do like the disciples did, and look for being filled with the Holy spirit, like pentecostals believe.
This is real, and the theologies saying 'we get filled at believing' are very harmful, are hampering people from receiving this.

 

[Marie333]

No long explaination needed. I want to hear from God without going through intermediaries claiming to hear from God. I want to hear from God myself. How do I hear from God? And how do I tell God's voice from other voices? Likewise, what does God's voice sound like? I've heard that it's not a feeling, but if it's not a feeling then what is it? Do you hear a voice, do thoughts pop into your head what?

Prayer is the short answer to your question. The long answer- I think God speaks to us in many ways. Sometimes it’s thought, sometimes it’s through scripture, sometimes it’s our intuition, sometimes it through someone else’s words. When we ask things from, or of God, the key is patience. Waiting, watching and listening. Sometimes God doesn’t answer right away and the key is to wait, listen and anticipate an answer in one form or another, no matter how long it takes. No matter what- if you think you received an answer, message, or word from God in any form, you must make sure it aligns with His will, and His word to know for sure that it was from Him. Ask yourself these questions and take it to the Bible- is the answer or word I received, or think I received, line up with how God has responded to others in scripture (perhaps in a similar situation). Does this answer or message I received line up with scripture and Gods will?

Either way, pray for it and about it.

 

[timewerx]

How do I hear from God?

I was non-believing, problem-child when I first heard the call of the Holy Spirit.

It's like a gentle whisper of few words from the wilderness. The silence the drowns the noise of the world. I'm not being poetic but describing my literal experience hearing the Holy Spirit. It was in the middle of the city where I live, loud construction going on and the noise slowly faded then I heard a whisper when I looked up to the sky and the clouds.

You'll never know when you'll hear it. It's not up to you.

Although it happened at the same time I saw the foolishness of all the things going on in this world. Money, happiness in worldly things. Something opened my mind and it wasn't the church nor the Bible and it broke my spirit.

I'm still broken in spirit today but different, now in my mid forties. I hear from the Holy Spirit now more than ever. Recently that resulted to the healing of a physical affliction made me suffer for most of my life and made me poor. I healed miraculously without any medical intervention. Not a single cent spent.

 

[timothyu]

Listen to your conscience.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

The conscience or heart is not always right

Jer 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things,
And [a]desperately wicked;
Who can know it?

Why we need to test it against what the Bible teaches.

A large role of the Holy Spirit is to convict us of sin which is breaking God’s law 1 John 3:4 God’s version Exodus 20 Exo 20:6 James 2:10-12
John 16:8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

and to lead us away from being in rebellion to God.
Heb 3:7 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,


The Holy Spirit enables us to obey God though our love and cooperation

John 14: 15 “If you love Me, [d]keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

And is given to help teach us and remember what God‘s Word says

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

So praying before we read the Bible is vital. God’s will for us is expressed through His Word. Many people teach they have a revelation from the Holy Spirit but goes against what God’s Word says- thats is not the spirit we want to follow. Going outside of His Word is where it becomes dangerous Isa 8:20. The Holy Spirit speaks to us through His Word so its important to pray that we agree to submit to God’s will and allow His Word to guide the decisions in our life.

 

[timothyu]

The conscience which can be confused with heart is not always right

Heart looks to self interest, the original sin. A proper conscience will look to the will of God which is concern for others.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Heart looks to self interest, the original sin. A proper conscience will look to the will of God which is concern for others.

Proper is the key word- not everyone has that unfortunately our heart can convince us of a lot of things outside God’s will, why we need God’s Word to be our guide. Psa 119:105

I’ll give you an example, I have a family member who was raised as a Christian, but she now reads taro cards and claims its a gift God gave her, it does not bother her conscience that its wrong and something God calls in His word an abomination.

 

[KayJoy]

No long explaination needed. I want to hear from God without going through intermediaries claiming to hear from God. I want to hear from God myself. How do I hear from God? And how do I tell God's voice from other voices? Likewise, what does God's voice sound like? I've heard that it's not a feeling, but if it's not a feeling then what is it? Do you hear a voice, do thoughts pop into your head what?

Scripture is very clear ...reading/hearing the Word of God attunes our ears to hear His voice.

Romans 10:17
[17]So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Jeremiah 29:13
[13]And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Simply stated ....faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the Word of God. Just get in the Word ....seek Him and you'll find Him. He will teach you.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Sometimes, the Lord speaks to me about things that will soon happen. For instance, He told me a couple of days ago that Jimmy Carter would pass away before the end of the year. I have experienced this sort of thing all my Christian life. This is how I learned to recognize when it is Him and not just my own thoughts. With me, it comes like that. It comes to me like a memory of a thing, but that I never experienced. We remember things said and events. We can bring these things to our minds because we remember them. When the Lord speaks to me, it is like remembering something, but I never experienced it. So, where is this "memory" coming from? He inserted the thing into my mind at some point, and I "remember" it just like I remember anything else. Because the thing never happened in my past, the thing has no context or connective memories. Like the Jimmy Carter death... the thought just came to me like any memory. I remember what I had for lunch, what my wife said a few minutes ago, and then the memory of Jimmy Carter dying before the end of the year just comes out of nowhere... but just like any other memory. I hope this makes sense.