Has anyone ACTUALLY heard God "speak to your heart?"

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A bit of a rant here, but I am having a crisis of faith and am struggling to believe in God. I do watch a lot of catholic/christian videos online (Ascension Presents, Paul and Morgan, etc.) I used to find these videos very comforting and now, not so much. I’ve seen a lot of conversion stories or stories about God in general saying how God “spoke to their heart.” I used to think, “Wow, that’s amazing! I can’t wait until I experience something like that.” Then there have been times in my life where I’ve genuinely asked for God’s guidance or help and: silence. I am still young, but I want to know that life has a purpose. I tend to watch videos or hear other christians talk about a dark point in their life, where God “spoke to their heart” and all was well again. I’ve been restraining myself from calling BS as of late. It seems God does not listen to prayers or communicate with you in any way (the bible, I guess, but it’s near impossible to have a relationship with a book), much less would he ever “speak to your heart.” I’m frustrated, but has anyone had this experience? Please be real with me here.
 
My advice is to stop concerning yourself with other people’s experience and testimonies. God shows personal favoritism to nobody my friend. Grow in your faith and seek humility not voices. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Have faith like a child. Disregard these other testimonies if they trouble your faith walk.
 
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What is your faith background? Are you Catholic? Protestant? It would help to understand how you came to where you are now.
 
Sure, God speaks to my heart sometimes. However, he doesn’t do it on demand, he doesn’t respond to every question I might have, he has various ways of communicating including just putting a thought in my head or a person in my path, sometimes he’s quiet, and I don’t go around calling BS every time I don’t get an answer back.

I also don’t tend to ask God all that stuff about Does Life Have Purpose. The Baltimore Catechism already answered that question: our purpose is to love God and serve him in this world and to be happy with him in the next. I ask God practical stuff like will I ever find someone to help me with a big task.
 
I don’t either. I guess i do have my own thoughts (eg knowing that I should do something), so I would assume that sometimes it was just our thoughts.

I had an odd experience when I told God to wake me up if he thinks I should go to confession the next morning (or the following week) and I didn’t set an alarm for it. I happened to wake up just on time to go that day. Was odd because I rarely wake up around that time in general, but then it got less odd throughout the week as I kept waking up at the same time even after confession, lol.

If you’re referring to moments when I thought God really spoke to me, nope. I think it was just my thoughts. I tend to have conversations to myself, I refute/support etc so it’s pretty hard to differentiate I guess.
 
I’ve heard God many times. Last year, I was in Michigan for my cousin’s wedding. When the reception was over and I got back to the hotel I was staying at, I heard the Lord tell me to pray for unity in the Church. So I did-- and then He let me go to sleep. I know it was Him and I would be willing to die for that belief. I think the problem with your experience is that you are hearing God, but are not recognizing it as such.

Is there sin in your life? perhaps the reason you aren’t hearing God is because you’re living in darkness. The book of James says “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you”. Just ask Him to speak to you. You just have to be humble about it and listen to what He says. Also, don’t be jealous of what God does in other people’s lives. That will only lead to resentment towards God and that’s not healthy.
 
I’m speaking more along the lines of: “how do you even know God was the one who put the thought in your head?” What if it was your own brain that has millions of thoughts a day. Why do we give God the credit when there’s no way of being sure that he even works that way?
 
Who else would it be? I live a pretty isolated life. God’s usually the only one around. Unless you want to credit Mother Mary with the thought.

My own brain is not capable of doing jack doodley without God. I can do nothing on my own but I can do all things through God who strengthens me. I don’t have thoughts without God being involved.
 
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lilypadrees said:
God speaks to my heart all the time in so many ways. You just have to be open to listening for and hearing His Voice.
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Would you mind elaborating on how this feels or what you experience? I’m genuinely curious because I really don’t know what that means.
 
When I’ve felt distant from God, I ask the Blessed Mother to carry my prayers to her Son. I remember her words to the waiters at Cana, “Do whatever He tells you.”
 
Sometimes there will be silence or dryness within your spiritual life so you can centre God in your life. God allows many of these things to happen so we can humble ourselves we might have something that’s opposing from humility deep down. Take this grace as an opportunity to grow and discover God. Sometimes it’s apart of the test. One thing, never ever ever stop praying.
The devil feeds off ceased prayer, discouragement and distrust are all works of the devil. Keep praying, pray the holy rosary it’s better to pray badly then hardly pray at all. Don’t give in trust me.
Stay strong keep yours prayers up
As St Pio says, pray unceasingly !
May God strengthen you
God Bless
 
How would you go about recognizing it as God and not as a passing thought? I do struggle with some sexual sins. I’m a college student and its rampant everywhere. Not an excuse I know, but I’m still a virgin. I tend to sin after I become frustrated with God’s silence. Even when I’m in a state of grace, I go all out. Rosary every morning, bible reading at night, avoiding occasions of sin. I suffer from depression and anxiety and sometimes beg God for help. If not help, at least to know he’s with me and is actually there. I am in a state of grace at this point yet I still don’t experience anything. This, along with the current university’s outlook of evolution as fact, as many scholars not believing in God whatsoever, makes me question if God is there, thus causing me to sin, because: No God=No sin
 
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When I’ve felt distant from God, I ask the Blessed Mother to carry my prayers to her Son. I remember her words to the waiters at Cana, “Do whatever He tells you.”
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Does it help?
 
You cannot get through to Jesus without Mary, and you cannot get to the Father without Jesus.
Rosary Rosary and Rosary the biggest weapon and Mother Mary and Jesus rejoice when we pray this !! Mother Mary always guides Her children allll the time I cannot stress this enough !!
 
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You cannot get through to Jesus without Mary, and you cannot get to the Father without Jesus.
Rosary Rosary and Rosary the biggest weapon and Mother Mary and Jesus rejoice when we pray this !! Mother Mary always guides Her children allll the time I cannot stress this enough !!
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I have prayed the rosary and it doesn’t seem to do anything. This is so frustrating because I am trying really hard but it seems like there’s nothing or no one out there to even hear the prayers. I thought God would be proud of me for following him so closely for so long but he doesn’t seem to care at all.
 
Walterross said:
How would you go about recognizing it as God and not as a passing thought?
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Because the voice I heard was authoritative. My own mind can’t produce divine authority. It might have been an angel, but it certainly was not a demon because the voice told me to pray for something good, whereas a demon would’ve told me to to pray for something bad or to neglect prayer altogether. If you will repent of your bitterness towards God, you will be drawn nearer to Him, which will lead to you hearing him more. I will pray for you.
 
If any of us do have specific instance of God speaking in our lives, it would be inappropriate to share such experiences in an open forum.
For all of us to begin to share preceived experiences could lead to various kinds of misleading misuse. We can easily confuse the meanderings of our own will and preferences, as being religious experiences.
In general I’d say, like Tis-bearself, that yes, I believe there have been times … but if if we did relate those times, we can’t prove them to a third person.

Any of us, even the most devout person can have times of discouragement in prayer.
We need to remind ourself that God chooses His own time, should He happen to speak more directly to any of us.

In any case, God has given us His word in scripture, and in the teachings of the Church, and in the intelligence and moral compass within us.
It’s always important to remember that God uses such means to speak to us, sometimes even through the words of another person.

THere is an important message, I think, from Jesus early thirty years, yes there was divine message through the Angel before His conception, an acknowledgement from Elizabeth during Mary’s pregnancy, and a dream for Joseph to escape with Mary and infant Jesus, and another when Jesus was twelve, but apart from that, God Incarnate lived a quiet life, a life lived in goodness, and yet barely referenced in the gospels, so that even those who knew the family and watched Jesus grow up, were astonished when he returned to their town to preach as the messiah, “isn’t He the son of Joseph the carpenter” (that is, someone ordinary), they marvelled.

In think in this part of the gospel, most of that early 30 years, Jesus was witnessing that the apparently ordinary life lived in goodness and love, of God, and of others, is the witness we all can follow. And this is what most of us must do, in quiet faith and faithfulness.
 
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The Blessed Mother does carry my prayers to Jesus. And that always helps. You might also want to check out “Story of a Soul,” the autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. She talks about distance from God a lot. She’s a wonderful saint. She’s down to earth and extremely holy. Make sure to read the John Clarke translation. God bless you!
 
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