Five Ways to Know What Your God is Telling You


Millions, maybe billions, of people each day believe they hear from a god. It is entertaining to read someone's view of how to discern that a god is telling him something different than what their own mind is telling him.

Just now it's the season to hear from the Christian God. Pat Robertson always claims he hears from God who is going to win the Presidential election. God always tells him the candidate Robertson likes will win. When God told him Romney would win over Obama he said God actually had told him Obama would win but he had misinterpreted the "signs." I had been led to believe God's native language is English so I was surprised to learn about the "signs" business. I have not heard Robertson say God has sent the sign Trump will win but I know its coming.

Sadam used to use the language of religion also. It was "God be willing." I think this implied he knew personally what God wanted.

To learn what God is telling you, the first couple of things you should do is pray a lot and practice looking at and feeling nature in some natural environment. After that, you are to ponder what people you encounter say to you in case there is any message there. If you are having trouble figuring out what and how God is communicating to you so far I'm with you. But, not to despair. There are still a couple other ways you might here from him. 

The link author goes on to advise you should analyze the news and events of the day. There you will find events that send the message of what God wants you to know. Everyday I here nonstop polls telling me Biden will win the election. This seems suspicious because Christian pundits say Trump is going to win. Why would God tell me one thing and his own fans something else?

The fifth way to hear from God is to note what you are drawn to read. Certainly with the internet there is a wide variety of material to choose from. If God entices you to read some of it and skip looking at other material that is supposed to be some kind of message. Today, for example, I looked for articles that I might want to refer to in this blog. That's what I do everyday. So I found this article and decided to lampoon it. 

I'd have to say if God is speaking to me he is doing it in mysterious way.

Comments

  1. Matt NoahOctober 31, 2020 at 12:34 PM

    There are many people who should be mocked for their perceived personal direct communication with God. Then again, it is the simple ways that they could rightfully claim God is communicating with them. Ignoring for a moment the non-Christian religious claims, one simple way is the Word of God revealed through Holy Scripture. The prime problem is that people claim to have supreme, personal interpretation of scripture. This leads to personal error, the proliferation of seemingly countless Christian denominations.

    What does this say about the theory of personal direction from God?

    As a Catholic, our Church stands because Jesus Christ ordained Peter as the leader of the Church. Peter was charged to instruct the faithful in the teachings of Christ, make followers of Christ throughout the earth and grow the Church. Those who were steeped in the Faith, the Apostles, were essentially the first Bishops. All except John were martyred for the Faith, after having spread it.

    Fast forward to 2020, and about 2000 years have passed. The Church has taught that Christ teachings consist of the Bible, Tradition and the Magisterium as God's revelation to mankind of His teachings. God speaks through the Bible, Tradition and the Magisterium.

    God can also speak to us in everyday life or through miraculous events. Fatima and Lourdes are two such miraculous events. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas and the host of other saints help us understand God's will.

    Too many Christians claim God talks to them personally. Many times this is false. It pumps up the person who makes the claim.

    Instead, God speaks at times through His Mother Mary to children, the uneducated and the meek. Bernadette was such a child to whom Mary revealed much in France, a country beset by atheism. The three children of Fatima, were poor, uneducated and meek.

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