I've only heard a voice once for sure. I was driving down Smithville Rd. in Dayton Ohio. I was approaching an intersection and had a green light. It was late and I was the only car heading my direction. Clear as day I heard a voice in the back seat say, "STOP!". I thought someone was in the car with me and was about to rob me. Terrified I slammed on my breaks just before the intersection. At that very moment a large semi ran the red light at about 35 or 40 mph. Sitting there, I was still terrified. My primary thought was "Who is in the car with me. Are they going to hurt me." After maybe a minute or a minute and a half I didn't hear another word from the back seat. No one was in my rear view accept some cars that were approaching a few blocks down. I would have been T-boned by that semi. To this day I don't know if it was the Lord or an angel. But I do know it was a voice. It still gives me chills talking about it. It was very scary to just hear another voice where there shouldn't be one. I hope God doesn't do that again... I might have a heart attack.
Beyond that, when dealing with the Spirit, I sometimes get what I call "impressions" and visionary pictures in my head. For example I'll be shopping and suddenly I'll see a mental picture of someone I know, or perhaps a vivid memory of them will come to mind... then suddenly I'll bump into them. Or I'll get a strange "feeling" regarding something and find out later I was right to follow my "gut".
I'm waiting for a voice in my head to tell me the lottery ticket numbers.
Be sure and post them, here, so we can all share.
Nobody has voted "The Holy Spirit talking". And this is the Spirit-filled poll. The HS got two votes in the non-Spirit-filled believer poll, and none in the unbeliever poll. Interesting.
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Great Thread, Timmy. It bothers me to no end when people say, "God told me".
At least they should say, "I felt the Lord impressed me to..."
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At least they should say, "I felt the Lord impressed me to..."
Why not, "I really think this is a good idea...?"
I have seen the most comically lame and schtoopid schemes promoted with a "God told us..." Then, after it all fell apart and turned to dust and ashes, there is not accounting. YOU must have a "bad attitude" for noticing that "God was wrong."
Seriously, the OP movement would number in the hundreds of millions today and there would be revival and joy everywhere if we'd just stop saying, "... God spoke to me..."
God spoke in His Word. If you don't line up, then the problem is YOU. If anyone thinks that their own private revelation trumps the Word of God - or trumps just plain common sense - then they need to be sat down and made to restudy the first principles of the oracles of God.
Sometimes when I turn everything off at night and turn over to go to sleep I hear music and there's no music. I think it's just my ears ringing from all the droll and input from the day.
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Originally Posted by Timmy
I feel a cell phone vibrating in my pocket sometimes, when it's not even there. It's a pretty common thing, apparently.
I've "heard" my cell phone ringing when it really wasn't. And sometimes I "hear" Jon call my name from across the house when he isn't there. Like Timmy, I figure that pretty common, though.
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