It is funny how all this week I have wrote an entry a day. Notice that I do it in the mornings though. That is how unbusy my life has been this week. All because of a 5 hour training tommrow. Subbing really does make a week go by faster. Let me tell ya! Anyways, that's not why I am here. I am here because I have learned the different ways that God can speak to me and I want to share them with you. The different ways God can speak are: through pray, the Bible, the church/people, and situations. I'll try and give you examples of each.
Prayer is where I can hear God speak the most. I see a lot of answers to prayer. It is something easy I can do and very meaningful too since I write mine out. Ideas even pop into my mind during a prayer or afterwards if I would take the time to sit there and just listen for awhile. Prayer is a good way for me to speak to God because I can write out my personal thoughts even more personal then I do on here about people and my life. I also love it because I can look back at the prayers I have written out and see how God is working or has been working in my life. I can look back for answered prayers. I can be reminded that God does listen to me at times even if it is takes like 6 years to make things happen.
Prayer is where I can hear God speak the most. I see a lot of answers to prayer. It is something easy I can do and very meaningful too since I write mine out. Ideas even pop into my mind during a prayer or afterwards if I would take the time to sit there and just listen for awhile. Prayer is a good way for me to speak to God because I can write out my personal thoughts even more personal then I do on here about people and my life. I also love it because I can look back at the prayers I have written out and see how God is working or has been working in my life. I can look back for answered prayers. I can be reminded that God does listen to me at times even if it is takes like 6 years to make things happen.
I learned something this past two weeks about prayer though. You have to be on the lookout for things to happen and be expecting them throughout your day. God can do amazing things around you even the littlest of things but if you aren't expecting God to fix it or take control over it then you won't know it is Him working in it. You can say the littlest prayer during that day about your car getting fixed or stop making the noise that it is and then you notice it do later on that day or right then but you just think it is by chance when really God heard that small pray that you prayed. It was God that fixed the car. I know some people would even go ahead and take it in because they are scared it might make the sound again but worse next time. I will admit I am not there yet but that is where I want to be in my life. God is growing me in that area of prayer.
The Bible is not a strong suit for me yet but I am going to work on that area of my life. I can't really say how God speaks through the Bible to me because I don't read the Bible like I should especially with situations in mind that are going on in my life. I mainly read it just to study it and see what and who God is all about. Yeah, this is another area where God really needs to start working on me with. Yes, I will come across a verse or words for that day or that problem, which I guess is a way of God speaking using the Bible but I never look at it to see what I should do in life or with a situation. That is what I need to grow in more of with the Bible. I want to see that God will do the same things for me as He did for the people of the Bible times if only I will believe in that way. I think seeing the Bible for certain situations with help me make my faith stronger too. I always learn a new passage in or idea about the Bible in a Bible Study and I say I want to go study that more to put it with my life but I never do. I always forget to do it when I have the time.
The church and people around me are two separate things for me. I can hear God talking to me by the sermons that are taught in church but not in any other way. The sermons are tied in second place with situations being important to me. There isn't much more to say about the church. The sermons are the only thing that gets to me besides the worship songs that we sing. I guess I could also say the Bible Studies that they provide like the one I am in now. I am hearing God speaking a lot in it but that is it. I don't quite understand how else God speaks through the church other then those ways and maybe I am overthinking and that is all. I don't know.
The church and people around me are two separate things for me. I can hear God talking to me by the sermons that are taught in church but not in any other way. The sermons are tied in second place with situations being important to me. There isn't much more to say about the church. The sermons are the only thing that gets to me besides the worship songs that we sing. I guess I could also say the Bible Studies that they provide like the one I am in now. I am hearing God speaking a lot in it but that is it. I don't quite understand how else God speaks through the church other then those ways and maybe I am overthinking and that is all. I don't know.
I don't hear God speak through people to me a lot but that could be because I am not the talking kind. I am also stubborn when it comes to talking about my feelings and personal life. You really have to know me for me to talk to you about my life. I don't just open up to anyone. If I am going to ask a person a question I want them to follow up with me or that question and situation. I want them to care about me too in a way. I am adding this one but God can even speak through words and maybe this is what is also meant by people. When someone says, "Come see me again soon" or "You better come see me again soon." Do it if you can! Because you never know when the last day will be for a person especially if it is a grandparent or someone you dearly love. More words are, "She is getting bigger/taller every time I see her" means you are growing to fast so you need to come and see me more often. I think for me when I hear God speak through people, they have to be people closest to me or that I know really good.
Then there are situations that God speaks through and that is probably the 2nd way that I can tell He is speaking through me personally. It might even go a little above the church and people. Just because I am really observant and like to know everything about everyone. I know that sounds creepy but I don't mean it to sound that way. If you knew me, you would know what I mean. I love it when God speaks through situations for me especially if they are good situations like quitting a job for a better one or doing this thing for a friend or so on. Now it is the sad situations that I don't like so much but I know sadly God has used some of those situations to get my attention about things in my life. I know I have grown stronger in some areas because of those situations. Situations like losing jobs or losing loved ones and so on.
Then there are situations that God speaks through and that is probably the 2nd way that I can tell He is speaking through me personally. It might even go a little above the church and people. Just because I am really observant and like to know everything about everyone. I know that sounds creepy but I don't mean it to sound that way. If you knew me, you would know what I mean. I love it when God speaks through situations for me especially if they are good situations like quitting a job for a better one or doing this thing for a friend or so on. Now it is the sad situations that I don't like so much but I know sadly God has used some of those situations to get my attention about things in my life. I know I have grown stronger in some areas because of those situations. Situations like losing jobs or losing loved ones and so on.
God doesn't only speak through the big situations. He speaks through the little ones too even the very little ones like should I main this card to this person. Should I say "hi" to this person? Should I stop by and see this person even though I am sleepy and busy? When God tells us to send this or go see this person, we should because we never know God's plan in that moment of time. It could be for them or for us. It could be the last time we get to see them or say something meaningful to them. We don't know life but God does. I know for me giving hugs to the ones I love have really grown on me. I use to be so shy as a girl that I wouldn't go up and hug my grandparents because I wanted to. Mind you, they would come and hug me but it just wasn't the same. I knew they loved me but did they know I loved them back. Now I go up a give the ones I love a hug every time I see them.
There are just some ways that we can listen to God in different ways and these ways are from my Bible study book. I do believe that there are more ways because God can chose anything to get a message across to us if He needs it to get to us. Another way I love to listen to God is through His Creation. There is no better way then that. Actually that might be my 1st way that I can hear God listening when I am out in His Creation. Everything He made/make has something to say about who He truly is. Every flower, every sunset, every storm, every season, and so on. Don't think I am teaching you the four ways God can speak because like I said I am not one to limit God at all. I'm just summarizing what I learned from a book.
Challenge: Think about how God speaks to you the best. How can you hear God the best?
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