Do you ever feel like...
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Are you praying about it seeking His wisdom?
Also seek the console of others.
Also seek the console of others.
hotcoffee
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We're talking regularly. I pray, listen, read....
He's talking.... but I just don't have a clear understanding of what He's saying yet. Just wondered if others feel that way..... sometimes....
I don't want to get swallowed by a big fish or step out before he wants me to do so.... know what I mean....
He's talking.... but I just don't have a clear understanding of what He's saying yet. Just wondered if others feel that way..... sometimes....
I don't want to get swallowed by a big fish or step out before he wants me to do so.... know what I mean....
We're talking regularly. I pray, listen, read....
He's talking.... but I just don't have a clear understanding of what He's saying yet. Just wondered if others feel that way..... sometimes....
I don't want to get swallowed by a big fish or step out before he wants me to do so.... know what I mean....
God speaks to us in dreams, visions, through others and sometimes directly. Remember to test the spirit. God is not inconsistent. He will not instruct you to do something that is against His Word.
hotcoffee
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I'm not worried that He won't instruct me. I'm worried that I'm not listening intently Yes He's talking to me clearly in dreams... but when I wake, I only know we were talking... but I don't remember the discussion.
i'm right there with you coffee! I've been feeling that way too - there's something more I should be doing, but am not "hearing" it. Then it came to me yesterday in my QT in the morning. Every morning I pray & ask God to show me what i need for the day in His word. Be it, something I'm searching for answers on or something I think at the time is completely unrelated & later in the day it makes sense - He knows what i need & i trust in that. So while i have "regular" reading as well (study of a certain book of the Bible), when I do this, I pray then just open up my Bible & the 1st thing that catches my eye, I read.
So yesterday, i was taken to Isaiah 46:12 - "Listen to me, you stubborn-minded..." I was floored! WOW! So I'm not listening (kinda figured that, but I guess my "self" didn't want to acknowledge that) to the voice of God. I know He's here all the time, and if i only listen/see with His heart, I'd hear/see. So then I had a funeral to attend yesterday & the pastor during the service was speaking to seeing the face of God and he looked directly at me & said "Listen to Him, listen for Him"
For me it was convicting because i knew i wasn't in tune like i should be or normally am - so now it's what is distracting me? Please Lord, show me...
So yesterday, i was taken to Isaiah 46:12 - "Listen to me, you stubborn-minded..." I was floored! WOW! So I'm not listening (kinda figured that, but I guess my "self" didn't want to acknowledge that) to the voice of God. I know He's here all the time, and if i only listen/see with His heart, I'd hear/see. So then I had a funeral to attend yesterday & the pastor during the service was speaking to seeing the face of God and he looked directly at me & said "Listen to Him, listen for Him"
For me it was convicting because i knew i wasn't in tune like i should be or normally am - so now it's what is distracting me? Please Lord, show me...
ItalianScallion
Harley Rider
I'd highly recommend a book by Dr Charles Stanley called: "How to listen to God". VERY informative...
hotcoffee
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Read it already.... also did the Bible Study... "Experiencing God" Henry Blakaby?
One of the assignments was to pray to wake up early, awake & refreshed... ready to study.... I got on my knees beside the bed.... asked God to wake me early, fully awake, refreshed and ready to study....
The next morning I awoke... fully awake, refreshed.... and ready to study at 2AM!
hotcoffee
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Wow.... wonder how many others He's calling? Maybe it's an army of us that He'll speak to all at one time... Wow...
CRoyal
Infinite Impetus
Nice!!
ItalianScallion
Harley Rider
That's funny but true! God used to bug me in the middle of the night and I finally asked Him why??!! He said I wasn't giving Him enough time during the day...Read it already.... also did the Bible Study... "Experiencing God" Henry Blakaby?
One of the assignments was to pray to wake up early, awake & refreshed... ready to study.... I got on my knees beside the bed.... asked God to wake me early, fully awake, refreshed and ready to study....
The next morning I awoke... fully awake, refreshed.... and ready to study at 2AM!
Vince
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Found out a long time ago why God put me here. I have to take care of my son as long as I'm alive as he is handicapped and will never be able to care for himself completely. As for anything else, I just thank God for letting me stay alive another day. He doesn't make things real complicated for me. 
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hotcoffee
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See now that's exactly the way I was feeling a few years ago. I love to garden. I was digging in the deep mulch one afternoon I realized that I was talking to myself. I kept saying "Oh man, oh man, what am I going to do?" I was dealing with some anxiety at the time.
Then I realized that I was asking the wrong question. I should be saying "Oh My Lord, what am I going to do?" Right then I understood that only My Father knows what I'm supposed to be doing. He's more than happy to tell me if I ask and I listen for the answer.
Every single one of God's children has a chore. God's a great Father and He will show you that you are not useless. Hang in there and keep the line open.
Becky
CRoyal
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Abc123
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My line has always been wide open. I have begged and pleaded...I just don't think it's time for me to know yet.
Abc123
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Dondi
Dondi
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." - Luke 12:48
Have you been doing everything that God has already given to you in His Word? For us to get a clearer message from God, it makes sense to me that if we are not already doing the things of God of what we know the Bible is teaching us, we would be hard pressed to know more of God's plan for us if we aren't at least in obedience to these rudimentary things. We need that foundation to build on.
Maybe God is waiting on this?
Have you been doing everything that God has already given to you in His Word? For us to get a clearer message from God, it makes sense to me that if we are not already doing the things of God of what we know the Bible is teaching us, we would be hard pressed to know more of God's plan for us if we aren't at least in obedience to these rudimentary things. We need that foundation to build on.
Maybe God is waiting on this?
hotcoffee
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I have found that when God wants to say something.... what you do or don't do doesn't much matter.... He's going to say it... When a great Father talks to a child... a great Father makes it heard...
The feeling I'm talking about is the anxiety of knowing there's something coming but not knowing yet what it is.....