Very late to this thread, but Iām a 16 year old high school student and Iāve recently started going to Church again and coming much, much closer to God after several years of running away from my Catholic roots.
As a response to your last question: a definite yes. Many times, but my favorite was when once, as a child, I was watching a movie with my family and started to drift off to sleep. I was kinda half-way there when all of a sudden I began to picture a man riding a bicycle down a road with big bushes lining it; it looked like a scene from a 50s movie. Then I heard a beautiful voice in my head, and He said: āIsnāt it nice to be a part of the Kingdom of Heaven?ā I woke up after and knew that God had spoken to me. And even after I committed so many terrible sins as I grew up and drifted away from my faith, God has taken me back time and time again and loves me just as much as He did in that moment. Now I want to spend the rest of my life worshipping Him, glorifying Him, and thanking Him.