Bible Question: I know little about scripture, I have felt the Holy Spirit. I am saved. I am miserable, lonely, depressed, sad. I can't hear Jesus when I pray and I have given up. I talk to Jesus all the time (like right now). "Knock and I will enter" "Ask and you will recieve" I have begged on my knees . I have done EVERYTHING I can think of. (for years) I am actually disgusted when I think about not EVER getting answers. If the Lord is speaking to me and I am just not hearing or understand, I have asked Him to Please make it clear, I have begged Him not to make it so hard for me to hear him. I have the right to speak to my Lord. I have a right to be answered. Our family is not one that has been raised in the Church, I am referred to as the "Bible" "God" etc person of the family. Nothing will ever make me give away my belief and salvation (even if I never again feel i have comunicated). I know He hears me everytime I speak and I know He is aware of everything I feel, think or do. The Lord knows every hair on my head. Can you tell me why I dont hear anything from my God? I ask why and I am told I am getting answers but i am not listening. Sure, I see the beautiful earth, I see the awsomeness in a child. I know I am a creation of God. I want and need something personally. I waited 50 years and I finally got a visit from the Holy Ghost, I was on high for several days but that eventually went away. I have asked so many times and in every possible way I know for help to open my ears. I am so desperate I am asking someone I dont know, through a computer keyboard. I wont take advice from just anybody but I have been a member for several years and I will take into consideration the answere I get from this site. I think it's pethetic that I should resort to this. What advice do you have for me? |
Bible Answer: Mamametal: Reading between the lines of your question, I think I hear you say a few things of importance. I think you may be in a church that says unless you speak in a language given by the Holy Spirit you have reason to doubt your salvation. Am I right? You have given a lot of time to trying to hear God speak to you and have not really heard Him. Is this correct? I am risking that what I think you are saying to give some advice. God speaks to us most often by reading HIS WORD. The Holy Spirit uses the Bible to answer prayer, and direct our path, give us correction, peace, and courage just to name a very few areas. In HIS WORD He answers our prayers, most of the time. In over sixty-five years, I can count on both hands the times I have heard the silent voice of God speaking to me. His voice is silent, but there is no doubt when He has spoken. I can tell you when such times I did hear Him there was no doubt. Once the LORD spoke to me and He gave me a very stern warning. Latter the person I was warned about, I went to and told them what the Lord said to me. That person said they had prayed the very words, God had spoke to me. That was a life changing moment, I can't go into. I can not stress enough how important being consistantly in reading the Scripture is. I pray and know this will help you. Blessings. justme |