How does the Lord talk to you?

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through Sacred Scripture, through the teaching of the Catholic Church as contained in formal materials I read and study, in the prayers and liturgy of the Church, especially the Mass, in of course the homilies and wonderful teachings by our popes, in the testimony of the saints, through those things he has engraved in my heart since before I was born, through the witness and testimony of the lives of other people, and as he manifests his power and glory in creation.
 
he tends to anwser me through the homilies at mass or through shows on EWTN or I will open up my bible and three is the scripture answer to my question or the saints. I have found that when I ask a question i am always answered just not when I want. Sometimes I hear a message three or four times on tv or read it and I realize I am being told to do something or I am being corrected about something.
 
Lord talks me through His scriptures during daily mass. What I observed is evertime I have some question when I attend Mass, i get the answer. From 2 days I was asking God, “why I see You very faraway from me, why do I feel that you are not with me. Did You forget me.Why did you Adandom me?” Then in todays’ scripture during Mass He answered me this way

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.

PRAISE THE LORD.

But I wanted to find out from you all something. I always struggle to get answers from Bible. If I want to know answer, how will you read Bible, will you just take some chapter randomly. Or specifically do you read some known scriptures. Appreciate your help on this. I really suffer at times how to go about reading answers from Bible.

Thank you
Anu
 
All of the above.

And i would add: He speaks to me in the silence when i am in an isolated natural setting (no people around 2 distract…). 🙂
 
Right now through the Church. I had 50 years of being told to interpret everything as to “what feels right,” and I justified a boatload of sin with relativism, etc. Now, I’m trusting the Church and its teachings, God’s word, and re-learning it all.
 
Junebug999 said:
Right now through the Church. I had 50 years of being told to interpret everything as to “what feels right,” and I justified a boatload of sin with relativism, etc. Now, I’m trusting the Church and its teachings, God’s word, and re-learning it all.
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If you have time/inclination, would love to hear more of your story. Were you raised non-Catholic or in a nominally Catholic home or what?

How exactly did you find the Church?

thanks, God bless.
 
anu said:
I really suffer at times how to go about reading answers from Bible.

Thank you
Anu
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Some “answers” to life’s questions are not specifically in Scripture (such as where do you want me to work, God? or what vocation do you want for me) but the answer can be found there to some extent anyway. For instance, if your vocation is marriage, you can read the passages about marriage, about relationships, about adultery, etc.

I thought i was supposed to do this one thing God seemed to be telling me to do. But at every turn, things went haywire… :hypno: I had to remind myself of certain scriptures, particularly the one about how if your right eye offends you pluck it out. My vocation was becoming my “right eye” in the sense that its fulfillment became my all, a god. :eek: :ouch: :doh2:

Then i also had to remind myself that we are to pick up our crosses & carry them, so just being “in pain” of one kind or another does not necessarily mean that what I did in supposed obedience (?) was not, after all, from God.
When people say such things as “God would not allow you to go through that…” well, it sounds odd, as if the person doesn’t believe one should ever have to suffer. My own sufferings help me to understand why the Son of God himself had to suffer. Doing the right thing always involves suffering… I wish i had known that yrs ago… 😦

I am running out of time but

am wondering if this helps any??
 
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Some “answers” to life’s questions are not specifically in Scripture (such as where do you want me to work, God? or what vocation do you want for me) but the answer can be found there to some extent anyway. For instance, if your vocation is marriage, you can read the passages about marriage, about relationships, about adultery, etc.

I thought i was supposed to do this one thing God seemed to be telling me to do. But at every turn, things went haywire… :hypno: I had to remind myself of certain scriptures, particularly the one about how if your right eye offends you pluck it out. My vocation was becoming my “right eye” in the sense that its fulfillment became my all, a god. :eek: :ouch: :doh2:

Then i also had to remind myself that we are to pick up our crosses & carry them, so just being “in pain” of one kind or another does not necessarily mean that what I did in supposed obedience (?) was not, after all, from God.
When people say such things as “God would not allow you to go through that…” well, it sounds odd, as if the person doesn’t believe one should ever have to suffer. My own sufferings help me to understand why the Son of God himself had to suffer. Doing the right thing always involves suffering… I wish i had known that yrs ago… 😦

I am running out of time but

am wondering if this helps any??
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Thank you soo much, it helped me. I could read some versus from Bible I could find answers 🙂 PRAISE THE LORD.

Do you have any info on what versus have to read in order to know about a particular ones like you mentioned about Marriage. It would be great if you can share.

Thanks again
Anu
 
I usually start with scripture but often in my meditation on the particular passage the Lord speaks to me of many different things, not always what the passage is about. The thing is not to expect any big revelation every time you sit and pray or read scripture. Sometimes it takes a long time. That is why I journal with scripture during my prayer time. When I look back I see movements in prayer and can usually see where the Lord is leading me.
 
Every once in a while, he gives me a swift kick in the backside, since this is usually the shortest route to my brain.
 
One time, and the only time in my life, I had an experience where, in a time of great stress, a very strong thought came into my head. I cannot describe it, but it did not come from my own mind. It “said” “Everything will be all right.” And a feeling of peace came upon me. Now, in times of stress, I remember that. I feel it was a gift of God for me to always carry around.

Other than that, He talks to me just as most have described–coincidence, Scripture, other people, etc. Now, do I always listen? No.

However, my Guardian Angel has saved me from death or serious injury two or three times somewhat miraculously.
 
Differently at different periods of my life. I heard Him in other people’s words (as a teen), in prayer and meditation in my 20s, 30s and 40s also Scripture passages (usually random or “accidental”), Readings, Gospel or homily at Mass. Right now thru my grandkids actions (I think they’re physically and emotionally about where I am spiritually - they’re toddlers, could be that’s why I’m attached right now to St. Therese!), and occasionally even now Scripture “speaks” along with spiritual reading. The dreams I have I don’t trust to be any other than myself (although, if supernatural they could be from d____).
 
It’s funny I just came across this thread because there have been two occasions recently where God almost directly sent me a message and I’ve just been blown away by it.

I guess I’ll start with the most recent, sorry if it’s long. My grandma passed away in January after a short “touch 'n go” stay in the hospital. While she was sick, we weren’t sure what was going to happen…one day she’d be on death’s door and the next she’d be up and talking. I come from a big family,she had 13 kids and there was a lot of tension in the family. It took several people in the family a lot of time accept the possibility of her death, including my mom. She just would NOT accept it.

I, on the other hand, felt that if it was God’s will, it was her time and I just put it in His hands and just kept asking him to bring our family together and help us get through this if it was her time to go. It was very important to me that the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy was prayed at her bedside when she died, so I left a pamphlet, along with my rosary in her hospital room. My uncle showed a great deal of interest in it and asked about the story behind it. I told him about, taught him how to pray the Chaplet, and we both prayed the Chaplet together at grandma’s bedside. (And she actually seemed to have a miraculous recovery within the next hour. She went from being completely non-responsive, we thought this was it, to up and talking and smiling!)

Well, after about two weeks in the hospital, the very night my mom finally surrendered and accepted God’s will, my grandma passed away. The next day, my mom told me a story about what happened to my uncle. He was at a prayer group meeting and they had to randomly pick a word off a sheet to prepare a meditation or something on for the group. They landed on the word vine. They didn’t like that word and decided to try again…and came back to the word vine. Tried a few more times and kept coming back to the word vine…so they went with it. Well, after my grandma’s death, my uncle realized that the prayer for the book of prayers for the Church (I don’t remember what it’s called) on the day that my grandma died was about the vine. We all thought that was pretty amazing.

So the morning of the calling hours (Sunday) I had strong urge to go buy St. Faustina’s Diary for my uncle. So I decided to stop into a nearby Catholic Church that has a bookstore in the basement. Mass was in progress while I was there. I snuck in quietly, bought my book and was on my way. As I walked out the door, I could hear the bells ring for the Consecration and I mentally greeted Jesus as I walked down the sidewalk. Just then, at that moment, I looked down at the bag I was carrying and about fell over laughing. The bag has a beautiful picture of a vine around the edges and in the middle was the verse, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, He it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” I laughed all the way to the car! Wow!

So later on at the calling hours I gave my uncle the book and told him and my mom about what happened to me at the church. But God wasn’t done talking to us yet. The next day at the funeral, just as I walked away from the casket at the burial site, my uncle came up to me and asked me if I noticed what was on the priests stole (is that what it’s called? I forget…). I said no…and then I remembered. It was a vine! Haha!

Oh and I almost forgot! It turned out that this uncle was the only one there when grandma died (it happened very fast in the middle of the night) and he was praying the Chaplet when she passed!

ETA that took awhile, I’ll share the other story later!
 
anu said:
versus have to read in order to know about a particular ones like you mentioned about Marriage. It would be great if you can share.

Thanks again
Anu
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Malachi 2:16 (i think it is 2:16) says that “God hates divorce”… which tends to support Catholic position that there is no divorce & remarriage (if marriage was valid). Protestants say adultery is excuse 4 divorce… (most do anyway).

Jesus said that Moses was only allowed to permit divorce because of the hardness of men’s hearts… (obviously, not a good reason).

“What God has joined, let no man put asunder.” (don’t know where that is…)

Hope this helps some… I am running out of time or would mention more…

Maybe tomorrow…

Was wondering: exactly what did you want to know about marriage? Is that your vocation?

I thought God was surely caling me to marriage (He as much as told me so years ago), yet i am still single & have less a desire to get married than ever before… can’t find the right mate, apparently, or if i have, that person isn’t “interested”… etc…
Very confusing! :eek: If you are inclined to want to help me clear some cobwebs in my head about this, please offer some “advice”… Thanks. God bless.🙂
 
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