When was the last time God spoke to you?

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Since I became a follower of Jesus around 16 years ago, I have always loved reading the Bible, and learning about God and his plan and purpose for our lives. I'm also fascinated by biographies of men and women who have given all to follow Jesus, and stories of miracles and healings.

One of the things I've always longed to learn more about was around discerning God's voice and how to hear from God. The Bible lays out God's will and purpose for our lives and records how God has dealt with his people through history, and his story of salvation through Jesus and building a relationship with his people throughout history, but does God still speak to us today?

God still speaks today

Whether from personal experience or through the experience of those around me who I know and trust I know God still speaks today. I know at least three people who started following Jesus after vivid visions or dreams where Jesus appeared to them, and one of them is my wife.

I read a book recently called Surprised by the Voice of God: How God Speaks Today Through Prophecies, Dreams, and Visions, by Jack Deere. I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about whether God still speaks to people today. There are countless examples from the author's own life and throughout recent history where God spoke through audible voices, visions, dreams, impressions and thoughts. Many of those words and prophetic visions have later turned out exactly as the recipients of these divine revelations declared earlier.

So if you are a follower of Jesus, you can ask God to help you understand and discern his voice more, and be open to new ways that God might be wanting to speak to you. And if you are just curious about the Christian faith, I'd be happy to try answer any questions you may have.

Blessings
Jimmy


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Indeed God is still speaking today.
A great write-up.
God bless you.

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Good evening (here) brother! Our Heavenly Father most definitely still speaks to us today @nextgen622. Through an ongoing family crisis, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt He hears our prayers. And His answers were on the way, before we ever began to pray about it, since He is sovereign and knows all things.

Not been able to spend as much time “in here” recently, so just now seeing this. Thank you for writing it. A book I have been reading through all of this is “This One Thing I Do.” A biography of Bob Pierce, written by Franklin Graham. I believe we are clearly commanded to walk by faith. While I believe I do that, reading a book like this one is very humbling, as I read about what our Lord did through the life of one simple man in the lives of “little people” all over the world. Who through his life and even on his deathbed prayed faithfully, ”Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.”

Until “next time,” I hope this finds you and yours doing well!

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Hi brother, thanks for dropping by. It’s good to hear from you.

Cool, I’m always keen for book recommendations. I’m going to check out that biography.

Btw, I just bought a few Crypterium tokens after reading your posts. I will now need to transfer from Bet2 to ERC20 too. :)

Blessings to you and your family.
Jimmy

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Thank you @nextgen622. Our oldest daughter is in a local hospital, fighting to save the life of our newest grandchild, due to premature labor. Our loving and merciful Lord has answered our prayers favorably thus far.

Our youngest daughter is coming down to visit the family over our favorite American holiday – Thanksgiving. If this precious little one can stay inside his mother’s womb until then, his prospects, at least as man knows anything about it, will be so much better. 20 days and counting …

Once you’ve read the book, I’d be interested in “comparing notes.” It has been a remarkable book so far, in the impact it has made on me in reading it.


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I will pray for your daughter and grandchild. God knows our concerns and he is merciful and gracious.

Yes, if I can get a hold of the book electronically, I will definitely read it. At the moment, I could only find the book in physical format. It does sound like a book I want to read after reading the reviews, so hopefully I can find a copy. :)

Thanks for the link. I will check out the live stream.

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Good morning 🌄 (here) @nextgen622. Thought I would “drop by” briefly, to provide you two more links to some Crypterium info.

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Hope you are having a nice day, my brother, in “the land down under!”

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Thank you for your prayers, my brother! Our daughter is still thankfully pregnant and doing well. Her doctors told her, over the weekend, that of all of the women there (who are going through the same thing), she and her baby are both "doing the best."

18 days and counting ...

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God looks out for me and makes sure that when it is really important, things work out in my favour. As for discerning the "voice" of God; that isn't so easy because that voice is kind of a subliminal message that comes from the subconscious mind. Having said that, I do believe that God has spoken to me many times and helped me to understand things.

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Hey mate, good to hear from you. If you have time, the book I linked is a great read and very informative.

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The book describes one person's experiences... a person I don't know and can't be sure if what they say is actually what happened. I have my own experiences to rely on... someone I know intimately and can dig as deep as I want into questioning the validity of my belief of actual facts. Perhaps I should be writing a book of my own? Sometimes I think I'm a modern-day prophet. Who knows... perhaps in another 50 years Google will collect all my electronic writings of e-mails and posts and compile them into a book which people will read and say, "Wow, we should have listened to him way back then."

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The book is not just his own experiences. It goes into detail about recorded cases throughout history. And it’s not just that book. There are so many people I personally know that have had supernatural visions, encounters and experiences of God personally speaking to them. I know at least 3 people who decided to follow Jesus after Jesus appeared to them in a vision or dream, including my wife.

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There are so many people I personally know that have had supernatural visions, encounters and experiences of God personally speaking to them.

I guess I'm one of them. I just had another message implanted into my head this evening as I was washing the dishes.

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Just curious, what was the message and why do you think it was from God?

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The message was that we will not be living without any tears after the big cleanse as many believe because this would require removing free will, and that would be like enslavement. As long as Man has free will, there will be those who will choose to do bad things to others.

I never considered this line of thinking, so who else would be talking to me and making me see things this clearly?

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