Do you ask God questions?

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Do you ever ask God questions? For instance, if you want to know if a particular thing is good for you or if you should buy that home or not. Ect.

If so, how do you approach it? Do you ask the Holy Spirit for good counsel? Or do you just ask Jesus Himself. Would love to hear suggestions on this.

Tia
 
I ask God questions like that sometimes. I usually ask the Holy Ghost to guide me according to His Will.
 
I ask God questions but mine tend to be deep like. What is the meaning of life? What does a soul look like and so on.
 
I often ask God questions. For example, if I don’t understand a teaching, I might say, “Please bless me with obedience to your will, and someday please help me understand why this is your will.” Because there are some things that I just don’t understand that are teachings of the Church that I don’t understand why they are sins. I accept that they are and try to be obedient, but someday it’d be nice to understand why they are sins. But I accept that I may never get that answer as God demands obedience, not understanding.

In other instances, understanding would really help me. For example, I have read that the Miraculous Medal, the rings on the fingers of Our Lady which are not lit up represent those Graces we forget to ask for. I have, on occasion, prayed for wisdom to know which graces I am supposed to be asking for.

Or, as another example, I have recently begun to wonder about what the “fruits” of the different Rosary mysteries was. Are they part of what we meditate ON, or are they rewards we can hope for through our meditation? I’m a bit unclear on that. So I have been praying to understand that better.
 
I begin each day with a prayer to the Holy Spirit…asking to be led in the way that would be pleasing to the Most High. Whatever the task or situation.
 
You betcha. A lot. But I don’t ask “Why?” Did that once. Never wanna do that again.
 
I keep asking if I should get another dog. There are several pros and cons.

Pros: I would be giving a poor little homeless dog a home.
It would give my present dog a companion.

Cons: Dogs can get expensive.
Who would take care of them if I died?

Funny, nobody seems willing to do this. I asked around, but got no “yes” from anyone.

I just got a jury summons … I guess I could wait a little longer.
 
Tia,

I love your name (my niece’s name is Tia as well). But in answer your question — before I learned how to “tune in” to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit, I used the following method to ask God questions and receive answers and it usually worked. I most often did this when it came to big decisions or last minute decisions. What I would do is pray before bed for God to reveal to me in a dream the answer to my question. I had faith and trust that He would do it. It happened on several occasions, although not always that He would answer me in this way. On those occasions, I would wake up having dreamed the answer to what it was that I had asked and was at peace.

Interesting enough, I offered this advice to a friend who was hesitant to take a job offer with an international organization in an a country rampant with fighting and instability. So much so that, the compensation offered was highly excessive (10,000 euros a month) because of the risk involved and they also provided home leave every 6-8 weeks. She did what I advised her and she told me that, that very evening she had a dream that she was fleeing a building that was under fire and ended up on the ground screaming for someone to get her out of that place. She turned down the job offer.

May God bless you,

Josie
 
Thanks to all for these idea’s!

@Josie, Wow. I love your idea about praying for God to reveal the answer in a dream! I’m doing this tonight!
 
For everyday concerns, the guardian angel would be a more fitting guide than the Holy Spirit. It’s best to let the lesser servant handle the lesser questions.
 
Faxero said:
For everyday concerns, the guardian angel would be a more fitting guide than the Holy Spirit. It’s best to let the lesser servant handle the lesser questions.
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I don’t think the Holy Spirit ever thinks we bother Him.
Guardian angels are always assisting and steering us.
Offering ourselves totally in service is a very Catholic practice.
 
Rosarydevotion said:
Do you ever ask God questions? For instance, if you want to know if a particular thing is good for you or if you should buy that home or not. Ect.

If so, how do you approach it? Do you ask the Holy Spirit for good counsel? Or do you just ask Jesus Himself. Would love to hear suggestions on this.

Tia
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I think it is a good idea : ) The priest in Mass today during the Homily said something like “If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans”.

Prayer is the raising of one’s heart to God. It does not really matter how you approach except that it is in the name of Jesus and is from a humble and contrite heart. Sometimes I just say Jesus and others especially when seeking the gifts and fruits of the spirit in me or others I may address the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus and other times I may just say a simple Our Father knowing in my heart that God knows what I am needing to know better than I do. It is also wonderful to be able to ask the Saints and Angels for their prayers and intercessions.
 
I ask God ‘‘Why?’’ alot, but He knows it’s a rhetorical question. He fluent in rhetoric.😃
 
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I don’t think the Holy Spirit ever thinks we bother Him.
Guardian angels are always assisting and steering us.
Offering ourselves totally in service is a very Catholic practice.
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:ehh: I’m not sure what message you got from post #10. I’ll clarify my intended message below.

The Holy Spirit is a higher being, while our guardian angels are lower beings. In humility, it would be wise for us to discuss more important topics, such as the state of the world and the universe, with the Holy Spirit, and lesser topics, such as everyday troubles, family life, and discernment, with our guardian angels.

Since the angels are our personal servants, they should be the first recipients of our requests. For example, if one loses the keys to his car, it would be more fitting for him to request his guardian angel for help, rather than the Holy Spirit for help.

If one desires advice from Heaven, such as advice on how to solve a particular family issue. The guardian angel should be contacted first, in respect for their assigned role.

I personally communicate with my guardian angel more than Christ himself, which should be acceptable, as the angels are representatives of God. :angel1:

I’m not attempting to downgrade the importance of the Holy Ghost or the saints. I just noticed that people *seem *to value the intercessions of the saints more than they value their guardian angels, which is quite sad. Even though the saints love us dearly, they are not our personal bodyguards or servants, not like the angels are.
 
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