How does the Lord talk to you?

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I was wondering how the Lord talks to different people, so we can learn to listen in other ways. The Lord talks to me through my conscience, the religous (Priest and nuns, even on TV), Mass and scripture and in dreams. The latter is harder to discern from the self and other influence’s. The self and the enemy also use my dreams when they can’t reach me waking, so I have to be leary of them. But I’ve had some wonderful dreams that I think the Lord’s hand was in. My conscience is the most powerful way the Lord talks to me. There, I can almost make out His voice and if I verbalize my thoughts, I can seperate what the Lord has to say from my own thoughts. Yeah, so it looks like I talk to myself at times:o . He has talked to me through others, I think , but that I don’t trust because people have different intentions. How does He talk to you? Tim
 
All of the above.

Sometimes something comes up and is repeated 3-4 times in a very short space of time, like the same day. Then I pray for discernment and guess what? Usually the next random thing I read, in Scripture or spiritual writings, confirms what has happened.

Lately it was to pray the rosary daily, I had fallen out of the practice. But just this last weekend it was about hell and praying for the Holy Souls in purgatory and the salvation of sinners.

If something comes to me in my thoughts that I think is from God, I pray that the Holy Spirit will confirm it from a most unlikely source - my husband. LOL
 
Mostly with other people in my life.

And if I’m too busy, I will not learn the lesson immediately, it will take a while. Or rather it will take me a while to hear Him.

That’s why it is so important for me to stop in the evenings, reflect on my day, because He may have talked to me during the day and I didn’t hear.
 
Eileen_T said:
All of the above.

Sometimes something comes up and is repeated 3-4 times in a very short space of time, like the same day. Then I pray for discernment and guess what? Usually the next random thing I read, in Scripture or spiritual writings, confirms what has happened.

Lately it was to pray the rosary daily, I had fallen out of the practice. But just this last weekend it was about hell and praying for the Holy Souls in purgatory and the salvation of sinners.
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Thats interesting, last week I prayed for a certain religous and another religous answered a two year old question of great importance to me. Probably the most important question I have ever asked about my spirituality was answered without hesitation by this Priest. The original prayers where quickly answered. The Lord must love this person much. Tim
 
DJgang said:
Mostly with other people in my life.

And if I’m too busy, I will not learn the lesson immediately, it will take a while. Or rather it will take me a while to hear Him.

That’s why it is so important for me to stop in the evenings, reflect on my day, because He may have talked to me during the day and I didn’t hear.
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Thats a gift. You get to see Christ in others. I am lacking in this area, but am working on it. Tim
 
It seems like each week at Mass, the priest’s homily is often directed right at me, no matter what the topic, so I guess that’s a combo of God’s Word and other people! Also, whenever I look at my daughter, especially when I rock her to sleep at night (she’s 19 months old) I can’t help but that God for giving me such a blessing in her. ❤️
God speaks to me through other people too - for example, my brother sent me an email today that touched me very deeply. His reasoning for sending it was just that he “felt a need to tell me” the things he did. I don’t believe in coincidence. 😉 :crossrc: ❤️ :crossrc:
 
I feel His wisdom most often during Eucharistic Adoration or immediately following. I, too, often find just the right scripture passage or quote from a saint that I need. Not always the same day I pray for it, sometimes weeks later, but the answer comes.

I also find it in the daily “coincidences” of life. Like a few days ago I was having a very difficult day and I decided to call a friend who really understands my struggles. I had been crying and when she answered her phone she said “Oh, I was just getting ready to call you, I was praying and crying and just needed someone to talk to!” How like God!
 
God talks to me slowly, and uses little words. He knows I often have trouble understanding what He has to say.
 
OutinChgoburbs said:
God talks to me slowly, and uses little words. He knows I often have trouble understanding what He has to say.
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I know what you mean. When the Lord said through St. Paul “what hindered your progress” and basically you should know better by now, in scripture, I took it personally. Tim
 
The Lord to talk us in so many different ways that in my knowledge, I can’t name all of them. However, He helps us understand Him by giving us the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

In other words, He talks to us through the Holy Spirit.
 
water said:
The Lord to talk us in so many different ways that in my knowledge, I can’t name all of them. However, He helps us understand Him by giving us the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

In other words, He talks to us through the Holy Spirit.
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Good point, the unified source. Tim
 
A lot of times through the advice of others, my mother and father especially. And, like other posters, I’ll have the same subject come up 3 or 4 times in a week…almost a sure sign I’ve been failing to listen to something and I’m getting another chance. Like a few weeks ago I heard the same piece of wisdom from a friend, my mom, a counselor, and during a homily.

Guess God knows I can be a little dense… and stubborn! 🙂

One time during prayer I think I heard an actual voice.
 
cecilia97 said:
A lot of times through the advice of others, my mother and father especially. And, like other posters, I’ll have the same subject come up 3 or 4 times in a week…almost a sure sign I’ve been failing to listen to something and I’m getting another chance. Like a few weeks ago I heard the same piece of wisdom from a friend, my mom, a counselor, and during a homily.

Guess God knows I can be a little dense… and stubborn! 🙂

One time during prayer I think I heard an actual voice.
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Its comforting to know some of you get repeated promptings. That I won’t miss something as long as I continue to listen, even if I don’t hear. Tim
 
TOP said:
Its comforting to know some of you get repeated promptings. That I won’t miss something as long as I continue to listen, even if I don’t hear. Tim
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God is much more patient with us than most people are - how many times did He tell Jonah to go and preach in Nineveh even after Jonah refused - eventually He made His intention unmistakeably clear.
 
TOP, Your experience is similar to mine. I would just add, that I get prompted to do or say or do certain things at a certain time. Like perhaps pick up a book off a shelf. If it is of a spiritual nature I may be prompted to read it (this might just be decernment). Othertimes, I may get prompted to speak to someone in need, even if I don’t really want to talk to that person. I’ve had a few conversations with people about future events (not necessarily related to that person) where the next day, they came true or where the mass that week was exactly what I was talking about.

During my rosary meditation, I hear God speaking through the images in my mind. Getting me to focus on aspects of the mystery that I never contempated before.
 
coincidences. lots of em…

images in things, like things that make the shape of a cross or scene…
 
He speaks to me in Scripture, spiritual reading/books, sermons at church, my priest, spiritual director, and through some of you (yep, it’s true)! It really amazes me. I will ask the Lord to clarify something to me, or ask Him a question, and He will answer it for me! Not usually immediatly, but like, within a week or so, I’ll run across somthing that addresses my question on CAF, or in a spiritual book I’m reading, or at mass, etc… And it’s always in a way that I can understand and accept, too.

He’s amazing, isn’t He? I honestly never thought that God would take the time to answer my puny little questions for me. I’m glad I was wrong! He listens, and He cares, and He even answers stupid questions for me.🙂
 
I’m honestly not sure how he tries to talk to me, if at all. I know for a fact that Satan tries to contact me in dreams (probably shouldn’t go into that!) though.
 
TOP said:
I was wondering how the Lord talks to different people, so we can learn to listen in other ways. The Lord talks to me through my conscience, the religous (Priest and nuns, even on TV), Mass and scripture and in dreams. The latter is harder to discern from the self and other influence’s. The self and the enemy also use my dreams when they can’t reach me waking, so I have to be leary of them. But I’ve had some wonderful dreams that I think the Lord’s hand was in. My conscience is the most powerful way the Lord talks to me. There, I can almost make out His voice and if I verbalize my thoughts, I can seperate what the Lord has to say from my own thoughts. Yeah, so it looks like I talk to myself at times:o . He has talked to me through others, I think , but that I don’t trust because people have different intentions. How does He talk to you? Tim
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After prayer I might have a certain sureness in what to do after I have prayed. Generally no dreams here. I don’t know—haven’t felt much of this lately. I just pray and hope it is okay.
 
Just found this thread, & it’s a good one.

I have a friend who says she occasionally hears an audible voice which she has discerned to be God and another who has an extreme peace come over her. At first it bothered me that I was not worthy enough to have God speak in an obvious way to me, but now I realize that God wants me to hear His “still small voice” and not expect the spiritual kick in the pants all the time. He wants me to know He is there even without the spiritual frying pan over the head.

As for dreams, mine are almost always an unraveling of myself & my situations and are very symbolic in nature. They have never been prophetic.
 
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