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Post by christopher on Feb 5, 2018 19:54:28 GMT
This has really been bugging me recently. Ill get a voice that tells me to do or not do something in my head but I am often not sure whether it God talking to me, or my own imagination or the devil messing with me. Sometimes the voices are obvious, like when I feel something urging me to cheat in class or something nasty like that. Othertimes I hear a voice that sounds like it COULD be God, but Im not always sure. I'll be honest, there are times where I really don't want to hear God say something to me so when I feel like there's a voice telling me to do that thing, my first reaction is to brush it off as satan trying to get under my skin or just my overactive imagination getting the better of me.
I guess my question is how can I know for sure it God talking to me and not just me. I use the 1 John 4 test but I don't usually trust the answer I get because I still fill in the blanks (not on purpose usually).
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Post by moni on Feb 5, 2018 23:38:45 GMT
I have same problem. Usually i try to obey when it seems like Its God. I feel God will honour your obedience when you believe its Him and act on faith. Unless youre unsure. I think then we will start recognizing His voice more and more. Getting familiar with it.
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Post by christopher on Feb 9, 2018 6:26:56 GMT
Ok so I just stepped out in faith on something and I think its going to cost me BIGTIME if I wasn't hearing God. Last week, I felt God was nudging me to sponsor a kid who is in poverty and I didn't go right ahead because I wasn't absolutely SURE it was God telling me to do it and my Dad told me specifically to stop donating money to charity so I just kind of set it aside and tried to ignore it. Fast foward a week to today: I still was feeling unsettled about the whole thing and I really felt like God was pushing me to go through with it so I went ahead and did it. I felt peace and relief after going through with it but just a few minutes ago my Dad is calling and he's MAD. I didn't pick up the phone but I could tell through the texts he sent. I know I should have expected this and I knew he would find out, Its just now Im REALLY wishing I was 100% sure it was God before I went through with this. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that God honored my actions because I acted under the assumption that I WAS obeying God. But if this wasn't God's idea this possibly could go BADLY.
Seriously though. I need advice. I have to call my Dad back eventually and I dont like the idea that I was obeying the wrong voice. I definately would consider myself to be a person with a weak(as in oversensitive) conscience. Its almost certainly demonic and is problably my main source of confusion over decerning God's voice. Im worried that I was obeying a voice that wasnt God but I was unwilling to ignore it for fear that it was. And I don't have a reliable way for getting confirmation short of literally contacting somebody who hears God really well and asking. I feel like I might have gotten punked by Satan.
Edit: Writing this post actually helped me realize that God sounds sounds alot like my Dad to me. I've suspected that I have a Dad filter but I havent realized HOW that has affected my hearing until now. Praise God! What a fortunate bonus to all this. Ill probably make a post about this later.
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Post by christopher on Feb 9, 2018 7:10:03 GMT
Ok so I have some follow up question related to the last post but they are more so I don't end up in a similar situation in the future. Treat this one seperately if you want.
Lets suppose I did hear right and it was God. For the future, how can I know for sure? If I use the 1 John 4 test, how do I know if God answers or if its just me? (I have trouble not filling in the blanks myself). What other ways can I confirm the voice I'm hearing? If I can't confirm the voice that im hearing, am I held accontable for trying to ignore it? If so, am I better off obeying it without confirmation?(Thats what I just did). Does God ever expect you to step out in faith and obey without confirming to you that its him?
Just as a note, I'm talking about hearing on more ambiguous stuff. Specifically ways to test against a counterfeit spirit that pretends to be God.
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Post by waris on Feb 9, 2018 14:07:40 GMT
Well your dad said to stop, but you did it anyway. That’s not honoring your parents like the Bible says. You hear God better if you are grounded in the word more and it will be easier to discern if it can be backed up by scripture. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. I think there is just some naivety in the mix. Read more of the Bible before you get into hearing God especially if you don’t know what filters you have.
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Post by christopher on Feb 9, 2018 16:02:48 GMT
You know what I think your right. I think I actually might have heard the wrong voice. I have to take it all back and repent to my Dad. For whatever reason I expected that God would expect me to obey him in spite of what my Dad says because my Dad will oppose anything I do for Christ but in this particular circumstance I think I screwed up. In fact last week, I heard a voice that told me to call my Dad first. Whether that was God or not, had I obeyed THAT voice I might have gotten a 'no' from my Dad and would have reconsidered whether I was hearing right.
Edit: Ok so I ended up canceling the sponsorship. I also just called my dad and he recieved the whole thing extremely well. I was actually suprised. He was actually mad about me not picking up the phone more than anything else. He calmly explained to me why I can't do a sponsorship now and even suggested that we would do one this summer if I wanted. He was actually more interested about how I was doing in school than anything else. This just confirms to me that I'm the one who acted wrongly in this situation. If I had called him BEFORE going through with the sponsorship, I probably would not have gotten scolded like I thought I might have. I'm just going to take some time to work out some of my filters and get more rooted in the Bible to figure out what is and what isnt God.
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Post by demetri on Feb 18, 2018 20:45:54 GMT
Another way to test could be to see whether or not God gets glory for it. I don't know the full situation so only you would know how to go through all possible avenues.
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Post by theverylastcall on Mar 7, 2018 21:40:17 GMT
Ok so I just stepped out in faith on something and I think its going to cost me BIGTIME if I wasn't hearing God. Last week, I felt God was nudging me to sponsor a kid who is in poverty and I didn't go right ahead because I wasn't absolutely SURE it was God telling me to do it and my Dad told me specifically to stop donating money to charity so I just kind of set it aside and tried to ignore it. Fast foward a week to today: I still was feeling unsettled about the whole thing and I really felt like God was pushing me to go through with it so I went ahead and did it. I felt peace and relief after going through with it but just a few minutes ago my Dad is calling and he's MAD. I didn't pick up the phone but I could tell through the texts he sent. I know I should have expected this and I knew he would find out, Its just now Im REALLY wishing I was 100% sure it was God before I went through with this. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that God honored my actions because I acted under the assumption that I WAS obeying God. But if this wasn't God's idea this possibly could go BADLY. Seriously though. I need advice. I have to call my Dad back eventually and I dont like the idea that I was obeying the wrong voice. I definately would consider myself to be a person with a weak(as in oversensitive) conscience. Its almost certainly demonic and is problably my main source of confusion over decerning God's voice. Im worried that I was obeying a voice that wasnt God but I was unwilling to ignore it for fear that it was. And I don't have a reliable way for getting confirmation short of literally contacting somebody who hears God really well and asking. I feel like I might have gotten punked by Satan. Edit: Writing this post actually helped me realize that God sounds sounds alot like my Dad to me. I've suspected that I have a Dad filter but I havent realized HOW that has affected my hearing until now. Praise God! What a fortunate bonus to all this. Ill probably make a post about this later. It sounds as if you heard from God and obeyed and those that are not folowing the Lord fully rose up agaisnt you. I know it can be hard to stand for the Word of God, especially if you are in a position where he supports you. I don't know if that is your situation or not. I have also been in a stuation where I know I heard from God, but because I listened to some outside source, I doubted whether He really spoke to me. It cost me dearly in the l ong run. James says that if you doubt, you will be alike a wind tossed to and fro. And that's what the powers of Hell do to us continually. BELIEVE the Word of GOd and say "I believe if I oobey 1 John 4, God will be faithful to honor His Word". If it doesn't work out the way you think, the fault is not in the Word of GOd, but in our FAITH. Don't worry. God has it all worked out. Don't give up and KEEP BELIEVING. God will work into YOU TRUE FAITH and you satnd and BELIEVE ONLY tehe WORD --- OF --- GOD@!!!!!!.
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Post by theverylastcall on Mar 7, 2018 21:50:14 GMT
Well your dad said to stop, but you did it anyway. That’s not honoring your parents like the Bible says. You hear God better if you are grounded in the word more and it will be easier to discern if it can be backed up by scripture. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. I think there is just some naivety in the mix. Read more of the Bible before you get into hearing God especially if you don’t know what filters you have. HOw to you know? Did God reveal tht to you or are you applying your human reason to the situation. Did you ask God about this situation and how to approach it or did you use the scriptures to FORCE your RELIGIOUS IDEANS INTO THE SITUATION. We better be sure we are hearing God. WE MUST KNOW HIS VOCE. WEMUSTASKGOABOUTEVERYSITUATION. W e will not survive the djugment that's about to fall on this earth if we are not CONTINUALLY before the throne of God. Have you not rad that David at the shewbread that was not lawful to eat. Do you think HE DISOBEYED the WOrd of God. No. The scriptures talk of the lengh of a woman's hair. LEGALISTICALLY that can mean God cares wheter a man should have long hair. When are we going to UNDERSTAND --- GOD LOOKS ON THE INSIDE and MAN LOOKS ON THE OUTSIDE> If you don't undestand something --- TAKE IT TO GOD. There are FAR TOO MANY MINISTERS GIVING THEIR "OPINION" as if it were teh Word of GOd. We better learn to KEEP OUR MOUTH SHUT until God reveals somethint to us or just like the Pharisees in Jesu's time who quoted chapter and verse, but MISSED GOD, WE WILL MISS HIM TOO. ASK GOD ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!!.
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Post by waris on Mar 7, 2018 23:21:36 GMT
Well your dad said to stop, but you did it anyway. That’s not honoring your parents like the Bible says. You hear God better if you are grounded in the word more and it will be easier to discern if it can be backed up by scripture. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. I think there is just some naivety in the mix. Read more of the Bible before you get into hearing God especially if you don’t know what filters you have. HOw to you know? Did God reveal tht to you or are you applying your human reason to the situation. Did you ask God about this situation and how to approach it or did you use the scriptures to FORCE your RELIGIOUS IDEANS INTO THE SITUATION. We better be sure we are hearing God. WE MUST KNOW HIS VOCE. WEMUSTASKGOABOUTEVERYSITUATION. W e will not survive the djugment that's about to fall on this earth if we are not CONTINUALLY before the throne of God. Have you not rad that David at the shewbread that was not lawful to eat. Do you think HE DISOBEYED the WOrd of God. No. The scriptures talk of the lengh of a woman's hair. LEGALISTICALLY that can mean God cares wheter a man should have long hair. When are we going to UNDERSTAND --- GOD LOOKS ON THE INSIDE and MAN LOOKS ON THE OUTSIDE> If you don't undestand something --- TAKE IT TO GOD. There are FAR TOO MANY MINISTERS GIVING THEIR "OPINION" as if it were teh Word of GOd. We better learn to KEEP OUR MOUTH SHUT until God reveals somethint to us or just like the Pharisees in Jesu's time who quoted chapter and verse, but MISSED GOD, WE WILL MISS HIM TOO. ASK GOD ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!!. Ok well if you can't honor your birth parent then how can you honor God you real parent? Also i don't like the way you approached this situation. It's kind of hypocritical scolding me for not asking God when you yourself did not ask God.
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Post by Larry Marquez on Mar 8, 2018 5:30:21 GMT
Didn't David disobey, since he ate bread only for priests to eat?
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Post by karen on Apr 18, 2018 21:49:16 GMT
This has really been bugging me recently. Ill get a voice that tells me to do or not do something in my head but I am often not sure whether it God talking to me, or my own imagination or the devil messing with me. Sometimes the voices are obvious, like when I feel something urging me to cheat in class or something nasty like that. Othertimes I hear a voice that sounds like it COULD be God, but Im not always sure. I'll be honest, there are times where I really don't want to hear God say something to me so when I feel like there's a voice telling me to do that thing, my first reaction is to brush it off as satan trying to get under my skin or just my overactive imagination getting the better of me. I guess my question is how can I know for sure it God talking to me and not just me. I use the 1 John 4 test but I don't usually trust the answer I get because I still fill in the blanks (not on purpose usually).
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Post by karen on Apr 18, 2018 21:54:30 GMT
If it is the will of God it will be in agreement with His Word in the KJV Holy Bible. If it isn't the will of God it will go against His Word. God doesn't contradict His Word. If it is a matter of going somewhere and it happens to be that you must be somewhere else at the same time - you know that you can only be in one place and keep one appointment and that God is not the author of confusion, so one of those two appointments is definitely out of the will of God. If you feel in your flesh resistant to doing something God asks you to do and you know in your heart it is the right thing to do - you can be assured that is God. Usually your flesh will not want to do it. That is a good indicator it is the LORD. He is comfortable when we are uncomfortable! So we have to get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable!
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Post by meow on Sept 30, 2018 19:51:30 GMT
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