Christians........?

Question

How does God communicate with you, is he a voice, feeling etc.

Answer 1

God communicates in a multitude of ways:

1) He speaks--sometimes audibly sometimes in that small still voice you sorta feel in your gut

2) He uses others to tell us what He would have us to know

3) Situations--He sets things up where we can do only one thing

4) And His word the bible.

I have experienced all of these but the audible voice of God.

Answer 2

When I pray or meditate I have a feeling of closeness to God, but I know people who actually hear a voice or 'see' pictures. And I have a 'feeling' which is difficult to descibe when I feel the presence of the holy spirit.
When I am reading the Bible I might notice a passage jumping out and seeming relevant to me that day, I think that is God talking to me.
Also through things that happen to me, like when prayers are answered or things I see in nature, for example.

Answer 3

The bard
How does your mind communicate with you? Do you audibly hear a voice telling you to ask this question about God? What precisely do you think drives your imagination to speak the words you speak?

The question you have asked suggests you, like many people, are puzzled by the expression 'God told me to do this'. I think it is to do with the problem of discerning the difference between imagination and the 'prompting' or 'directional influence' of God.

Naturally and most understandably those who don't know God will argue that it is ALL in the imagination - an attempt at articulating the unseeable using a complex internal revelatory strategy to play the role of top dog in the moral sweepstakes. Academics are generally dismissive of a personal single deity as creator and judge because the whole idea of an empirical voice seems so irrational.

I would dearly love to have a generous conversation with you about an endemic communication problem that frustrates definition and meaning for certain abstract words in every language. Understood, the problem often leads to the realisation that words have no authority per se other than within whatever master / slave relationship you have chosen to place yourself.

Whatever it is that prompts you to do anything in life is 'weighed up' by words in your head and in your head you make decisions based on an internal dialogue that involves a huge number of words that are usually thought of in a role play format of a conversation between yourself and whoever/whatever it is you need to make a decision about. For some this can be an experience of audible words allied with dreams of actions like 'fantasies'. All people, whether they believe in God or not have the common experience of 'listening' to their imagination arguing for or against a position of decision.

The question still remains. How does your mind communicate to you in your head? With words. Where do these words come from but your inner voice, the voice that only you can 'hear' mentally and is part of a private world that you have a conversation with. You wouldn't say that you are talking to God but that you are talking with yourself. Everyone talks to themselves.

Everyone also is dominated by someone else or other groups because of the very nature of words and of their potential value as a device for constructing a social position of authority where knowledge becomes power to dominate.

The master / slave in a human relationship, where sin abounds, is far more potentially destructive, than in a Father / Son.Daughter relationship where eternal love abounds. Especially when the authority of the words of love is proven as reliable by the voice that predicted it would not be snuffed out by evil men who hated the love of God.

The answer then is God communicates to us by a voice that cannot be snuffed out and He rose again to obstinately prove it.

Answer 4

I am Catholic, of course you won't be able to hear his voice out loud, but when you hear or read the Bible, sometimes you just feel it says something that has a direct meaning in your life at the moment, it is really impressive, it has happen to me and I know it is God's way of communicating.

Another, is when you have a real troublesome problem and you pray with faith and suddenly out of nowhere you feel an interior kind of peace that amaze you, it is God helping you.

On the other hand, whenever you are in peace and suddenly you have these crazy ideas in your head that makes you really uncomfortable and you tend to do things out of fear, for example jealousy, hatred or something like that, you have to pray really hard to God to let go these bad feelings; if you pray they will go away really fast!.

Answer 5

God perpetually communicates with everyone. It is up to the individual what frequency they tune in to. A book, a still small voice imagined, the wind, a child's cry, a barking dog, yep, even Yahoo answers (though hard to believe at times).

Answer 6

It depends I've heard Gods voice sometimes I'll get a check in my spirit but most of the time He will speak to my heart

Answer 7

He gives me a call about twice a week, and occasionally pops in for a nice cuppa.

Sometimes, whilst I am walking down the street, I hear his voice in my head and he tells me to do horrid things to people.

I feel nearest to God when I am extremely drunk though, as I can sense his presence, and the only way he can hear me is when I place my head in a lowered position over a white porcelain bowl and proceed to sacrifice my paid for Curry.

Answer 8

He communicates by His Word, by His Spirit, by His body, through circumstances, by the still, small voice, through other Believers...however He chooses.

Answer 9

Thoughts often come to mind that seem to not be my own.
Answers come in that voice within. I know it's not my own because I sometimes get the perfect answer and it doesn't become the perfect answer until after I think about it for a while.
There are many ways. Different ways for different people for His own purpose.

Answer 10

HE chooses many ways to communicate with me. Sometimes in the night I literally hear someone call my name or a tap or a bell or something. It's so audible it wakes my spirit and I wake up with a fear. (Not scared but like a respect, like don't go back to sleep) It gets my attention in ways I can't express in words. When I hear the VOICE I usually wake up and check if someone in the house is calling me and there's no one there. So I go on my knees and I listen, then HE speaks to me in my mind. Recently I was troubled by something and I was walking down a road I hardly walk on and I saw the name of a pub (that's going to be demolished) and its called Take Courage. I knew GOD was speaking then. Sometimes HE wakes me up at 3am to teach me something, but when HE wakes me up at 5am I know its to do with my family.

Answer 11

He's a feeling, really. He's not some big booming voice. Some relate it to your conscience. He is more like a whisper inside you that tells you what to do. Not a voice, really, more like an instinct. It's hard to explain.