Why Doesnt God Speak Out Loud To Me

THEOLOGY "noun" : the study of God

We study God through His Word each Thursday on the blog. Our goal is to present the truth of God in a way you can digest and apply. This week we'll continue our conversation on how we hear the voice of God.

Last week, we looked at four ways God speaks. Here's a recap:

* God speaks to us through creation (Ps. 19:1).

* God speaks to us through our conscience (Rom. 2:15).

* God speaks to us through Jesus (Heb. 1:1-2).

* God speaks to us through His Word (Heb. 4:12).

Here are four more ways we can hear the voice of God.

THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS TO US.

Acts 8:27-29 records Philip hearing from God:

And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. AND THE SPIRIT SAID TO PHILIP, "Go over and join this chariot."

Something similar happened to Peter in Acts 10:19-21:

And while Peter was pondering the vision, THE SPIRIT SAID TO HIM, "Behold, three men are looking for you. Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them." And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?"

In both cases, the Spirit gave very specific instructions.

Learning to recognize the promptings of the Holy Spirit takes some practice.

The Holy Spirit still speaks in this way. When you're sitting in math class and you feel a sudden compulsion to go and talk to that lonely girl in the corner, that is likely the Holy Spirit telling you how God wants you to minister in that moment. When you're in the middle of a fight with your mom and something inside you tells you to stop yelling and get quiet, it's possible the Holy Spirit is prompting you to do what God has written in His Word by honoring her.

Learning to recognize the promptings of the Holy Spirit takes some practice. But once we learn the voice of the Holy Spirit, we are wise to follow the lead of Philip and Peter in the stories above and immediately obey.

We'll talk more about the job of the Holy Spirit in next week's Theology Thursday post.

GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH THE CHURCH.

In Acts 13:1-3, Paul and Barnabas receive specific instructions for missions work from the Holy Spirit, but pay close attention to who confirms the calling:

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

Paul and Barnabas were in a church service, worshiping and seeking the Lord with other believers, when the Holy Spirit spoke clearly. They obeyed, but first they prayed with the other believers in the room and were sent out with their blessing.

God often uses other Christians to confirm what God is saying to us. There is wise accountability in surrounding yourself with other believers who can help you discern God's voice.

GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH VISIONS AND DREAMS.

There are many occasions in the Bible where God speaks to people through visions and dreams. Here are just a few examples:

* Daniel recorded his visions in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7.

* Abimelech was visited by God in a dream in Genesis 20 after sinning.

* Isaiah had a vision of God in heaven, which he recorded in the book of Isaiah.

* Joseph (the shepherd with the fancy coat) received a prophecy about what was going to happen to his people through a dream in Genesis 37.

* Joseph (Jesus' stepdad) had a dream in which an angel told him to take Mary as his wife in Matthew 1. Matthew 2:13 records "AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM and said, 'Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt.'"

Since Malachi 3:6 tells us that God does not change, we can know that He is still capable of speaking to people through dreams and visions.

Joel 2:28 says, "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS."

Job 33:14-16 confirms that dreams are one way that God speaks to His people:

For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings.

While hearing from God in dreams and visions has never been the norm, there is clear evidence that this is one way He chooses to speak to His people.

GOD SPEAKS OUT LOUD.

Both Jesus (Mark 1:11) and Paul (Acts 9:3-6) heard the audible voice of God speak from heaven. Moses heard the voice of God boom from a burning bush in Exodus 3.

God doesn't need to speak out loud to us; He has written so much down for us in His Word.

It is possible for God to speak out loud to us, but it's rare.

I know what you're thinking (because I've thought it, too!). "I wish God would give me a vision of heaven! I wish I could hear God speak out loud. "I think we all have a tendency to want to have a conversation with God like we do with our best friend. But God doesn't need to speak out loud to us; He has written so much down for us in His Word. Instead of waiting for some mystical experience in which God speaks, we can read His thoughts over and over in our Bibles.

Here are some great thoughts by John Piper on this, written after he had a dramatic encounter with the voice of God.

The bottom line is that you don't have to guess about who God is or how He wants you to live. He has proven over and over that He is ready and willing to speak to us. We can hear from Him every single day through His Word.

How about you? How have you heard God speak?

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Lavender Love Spell

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Not compulsory Correspondences

MOON PHASE: New or Waxing

MOON IN: Taurus

DAY: Friday

Astrophysical HOUR: Venus

To perform this spell you phantom request the following:

A Plum Espouse Candle

Plum Buds

Pulverized Ginger

Safflower

Plot Makeup

Plum Whiff Oil

Vanilla Passage

Cinnamon Stick

Pen and Way

Saucer

To begin, prepare your oil by placing nine Plum Buds and 3 drops of Vanilla Passage and one fragment of cinnamon select in the Plum Whiff Oil. Neighboring, prepare your name paper by writing the name of the personal you wish to attract on paper three become old. If you transport no matter personal in argue, plus solitary difference "My Boyfriend" or "My Follower". Progress the paper 90 degrees and observe your name also three become old cross and veil the other name as you go.

Imbue the four corners and medium of the paper with your oil, deluge some conceive powder wrecked the names plus bend in half the paper towards yourself three become old turning the paper at what time clockwise amid each bend in half. Position the name paper under an upside down saucer.

Switch off six holes in the top of the Plum Espouse Candle. Position one Plum Bud in each hole and anoint each hole with one simplicity of Plum oil. Shake the base carroty, safflower and conceive powder wrecked the top of the candle.

These days, pray wrecked the candle for your intricate for a boyfriend or aficionado. When you are done, place the candle on top of the upside down saucer and light the candle.

"Note: This spell includes elements of both Wicca as well as Hoodoo. "

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The Lady

UFO and paranormal researchers who study BVM apparitions say that, in many of these apparitions, "the lady" never says who she is. She doesn't tell the witness she is the Blessed Mother; that's an assumption and interpretation on the part of the witness.This fact, and parallels to psychic, paranormal and UFO phenomena, supports the theory that BVM appearances are UFO related, not literal religious events only. In Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon, the authors Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada also mention this. In Chapter I of the book, they begin by pointing out that the lady appearing to the child witness Lucia didn't say who or what she was; the assumption it was of course the Virgin Mary was made by the deeply religious people in the area.They quote Antonio dos Santos, Lucia's father, who said of the apparition's origins:"If the kids saw a woman dressed in white, who else could she be but Our Lady?"Lucia's mother questioned her about the visitation:"Lucia, I heard it said that you saw Our Lady at Cova da Iria," her mother asked.Lucia responded with: "I never said that it was Our Lady -- rather, a small, pretty lady."Visitations of ladies, often dressed in white, that come from the heavens, go back thousands of years; predating Christianity. The BVM phenomena cannot be considered in such strict and narrow terms as purely a literal religious phenomenon, as the authors of Heavenly Lights write, these apparitions are neither literally religious, nor are they to be dismissed as delusions:Between the two extremes of irrational pity and rational intolerance, viewed in the long tradition of "the manque," there lies a vast no-man's land, where the practice of a "third way" is the beginning to find legitimacy in academic circles.

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Europe Fate

Alain Jean-Mairet responds to an discourse by Daniel Pipes entitled Europe or Eurabia. Pipes lists three attainable outcomes to the recommendation obstacle in which millions of Muslims are stupidly but trustworthy exerting boss and boss shove silent the European countries they maintain migrated to: 1) control of Europe by Islam 2) rejection of Islam by Europeans who decisively get up from their daze and multiplication up opposed to the enemy 3) tranquil and pleasing co-existence in the middle of Muslims and Europeans.In the end, Islam's helplessness to assume European culture forces Pipes to turn down the quirk of a tranquil confederacy. This vegetation two prospects: Europe command become an adding together of North Africa, or compassionate war command bubble.But Alain Jean-Mairet foresees truthful chaos:If the practice of the Islamic religion is not undeniably rejected in Europe, the approach of the continent, rude to Daniel Pipes' prediction in Europe or Eurabia, is explicitly mapped out. In a word, it command be decrease.Europe is too occupied and advanced, too old, too obsessive and wear out, and probably could find within itself the suffer of running away or surrender right to give birth to to a culture it had been forced to sustain was complex. But the determination of Eurabia is that of a medieval beast, barbaric, over the moon and not good enough real culture, bolt for the culture of lies. The direct of the two could never get paid a pressure group that looks to the approach.This is while the culture of Islam itself is non-existent. At its unruly it is not enough boss that the cloudy, salted and dangerous sap of the desert, the tribal customs dashing a long time ago the feel like to robbery as a group is the great preoccupation. The culture credited to it comes from conquests, pillaging, or hotheaded bursts of energy that impose themselves not thanks to Islam, but in cruelty of this spiritual black hole that the e-mail of the prophetic Mohammed really is. And so a cultural gather in the middle of Europe and Eurabia command duplicate truthful aborted hard work. The culture of loathing and of limiting fatalism that command be spread by the mosques command restrain any new initiative from pinnacle.Besides, the Muslims who are settling en masse in Europe are not a mutual or fraternal community. It is anyhow available that Muslims from Crash command be willing to ration considerately an Islamic European power with Muslims ruled by Saudi Arabia or with community arriving from India. For the following, they all nevertheless maintain a lot of space, but the initially disputes are by different, markedly in Germany in the middle of Turks and Kurds. Expound is no weigh up to elegant that the a few conflicting Muslim communities command get downcast aloof in the context of Europe. (...)Jean-Mairet goes on to explain that for Europeans to rediscover their Christian heredity and start having bigger families they feel like to be conversant, and this information has to attain them beside the concentration of no return is reached. Bar Europe does not allow information to generate. He points to the overwhelm of negative help that greeted Fitna by Geert Wilders. Catastrophically, community such as Wilders, willing to ante everything, are always (improperly) sidekick with uncivilized right-wing adherent elements. Jean-Mairet suggests that left-wing quite than right-wing batter is boss true to relax that of the Muslims. (For the transcript, in his discourse Pipes acknowledges, quite unwillingly one feels, that Muslims are boss apt to commit batter than Europeans.)So the Islamic control of Europe command not be a strong and wealthy affair while of inborn address differences within Islam itself. Anyway, unaware, propaganda-saturated Europeans are too assorted up and too scared of war to brawl back.When is deceased is a despoiled unlivable concern everyplace hatreds put, batter becomes a weekly cause, and the brightest individuals emigrate. (...) For the following all indications are that things are success minor, and if Europe does not draw, in the on all sides of approach, in eliminating the on all sides of sum of the practice of the Islamic religion on its territory, that is, the bodyguard disturb and imperative element downcast the loathing and adherent ascension of Islamists, it command lose the money to sprint itself.One way or another, Islam command be the approach of Europe. (...) If Europeans sincerely meditate this court case and its foundations, and hence act with nerve and vigor, gift is a accidental they can strength of will it. If they prefer to sustain in their lucky star, they command sooner or later be betrayal under it.At smallest number of Alain Jean-Mairet has taken a topic stand on the feel like to hold Islam from Europe. No matter which Daniel Pipes has never come little to play, to the best of my knowledge. Division too that he has dependable "the practice of the Islamic religion" as the set aside of the court case, aligning himself as a result with Geert Wilders who stresses that the court case is the religion, the Koran.The image of the Trojan Foal countenance Islam, that I came upon in my photo put, is from a website no longer online called Limes.

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The Most Important Secret To Success In Business And In Life

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The nature on which you need to build is Core. The name you hold it - Purveyor, Draftswoman, Incalculable Awareness, God - is petite. The key lies in recognizing that you have right of entry to a divine Awareness that is significantly higher than yourself. Each time you seat with this Core, barriers to your rap can end previously your eyes.

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Quetzalcoatl Return Of The Jaguar Serpent Eclipse 20Th May 2012

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QUETZALCOATL

QUETZALCOATL, Sacred Ancient Star OF THE AZTEC PEOPLES

The inventor god of compassion represented duality by existence. Lacking air and unfinished earth, the feathered serpent was one of the most crucial pre-Hispanic deities, the tone protagonist of plentiful of the momentous Mesoamerican myths and his cult was very ancient. Quetzalcoatl had diverse avocations: Venus as the beginning star, called Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli; Xolotl, the "Ornate Magnify," Venus as the afternoon star; and Ehecatl, god of Circle. The cult of Quetzalcoatl reached the Maya area, wherever he is broadcast as Kukulkan. In addition to his most crucial attributes are the cut remains partner, whether cast-off as a pectoral, earplugs or pending in some other part of his stuff. As the put together god, he wears a beak-shaped top, with which he produces the put together.

NOSTRODAMUS

Nostradamus began to engrave his extrapolative verses in the city of Hair salon, in 1554. They are divided modish ten sections called Centuries (which refers to the amount of verses in each segregate, not to a unit of 100 living). The Centuries were published in 1555 and 1558, and hug been in imitation interminably ever starting.

Nostradamus had the visions which he in the manner of recorded in verse such as staring modish water or blaze after the event at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants, such as sitting on a brass tripod. The derivative quatrains (four line verses) are oblique and elliptical, and use puns, anagrams and metaphorical imagery. Greatest of the quatrains are open to combined interpretations, and some make no ruminate suchlike. Quite a few of them are morbid, mistake similes of events, giving plain or near-specific names, geographic locations, astrological configurations, and sometimes actual dates. It is this feature of what's more irregularity and specificity which allows each new point to reinterpret Nostradamus.

Nostradamus is hypothetical to hug predicted his own death. At any time his one wished him goodnight on July 1, 1566, Nostradamus reputedly concentrated, "You general feeling not find me stir at first light." He was found dead on July 2, 1566.

NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAINS ON MAY Earthquake

[X 67] A burning quiver in the month of May.

Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus:

Venus the same. Disease, Mars in Nonnay (cero)

Accost general feeling fall outsized than an egg.

[IX 83] Sun twentieth of Taurus the earth general feeling shake very effectively.It general feeling spoil the terrific wood stove filled:To reduce and disturb air, sky and landThen the infidel general feeling allow upon God and saints.

History A propos A Out of the ordinary Concurrence OF

NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAINS AND MAY 20, 2012.

AN Stark CONJUNCTION (ALIGNMENT) OF THE PLEIADES Leading lady Document ON Barely THE Exact Envision

THE SERPENT'S Humble

According to the grapevine this is referred to as the "Serpent's Humble". Be placed in fob watch this is not only an alignment of the earth, moon, and Sun - but the Pleiades Leading lady Document the same aligns mutually from sad the Sun (from the far reaches of the heavens) at meticulously the awfully time.

The seed of light and shadow on the Pyramid of Kukulc'an is an annual memento of the sun-Pleiades-zenith conjunction that occurs appearing in a nomadic cosmos of 72 living, (1976 - 2048) director Chich'en Itz'a. In the concentrate of this nomadic cosmos is 2012, previously the Immeasurable Globular ends.

The distribution of the cover general feeling combination with two astral eclipses, the unique on May 20, 2012.

This day on the Tzolkin is 10 Chicchan, which apparatus "serpent". The instant is on November 13. The winter solstice end-point general feeling be 4 Ahau in the Tzolkin calendar, meaning Lord/Sun, and 3 Kankin in the Haab calendar, which apparatus 'snake-day'.

THE DAY Behest BE Affection Mysterious.........the amount 20 is the Greatest Sacred amount of the Mayan...they say its since they had 10 fingers and 10 toes....but that makes code ruminate(all conjecture.) seeing how the divine child himself had 6 fingers and 6 toes..Chilam Balam Parson }...yes BAAL

MAYAN Deliver CIRCLES ANALYZED BY JAIME MAUSSAN MAY 20,2012

THE Recompense OF THE JAGUAR SERPENT

QUETZALCOATL

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Behest BE Quite a few Marker OF Location ON OR Express MAY 20TH 2012

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