How do I know it's God talking to me or it just my mind?
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When God speaks to you, you will know. and just remember that what ever you think you "hear" in your mind will always be justified by the Bible. If what you "hear" and what the Bible says is different. Then Watch out!!!\nYou will always feel peace if it is God.\nRead and Pray!
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well areufair,\n\nAs you name dictates it you can veiw it as trying to be fair to other Gods. What makes you think your God is right. Because your parents told you and it sounds nice. Ask someone with a different denomination. You would be surprised how similar their feelings are for their God or Gods. It really is amazing what your brain can make you feel. Make sure what you feel is not your brain. With somehthing like faith well... you not have much choice of questioning, right? \n\nI can also think of a reason to believe in the Christian God. Because is you don't you are condemed to Hell but if you believe you are saved and you go to Heaven. Sounds a lot like the 12 Virgins you get when you suicide yourself doesn't it? All and all, I guess its a matter of choice wether you believe in God or you dont?\n\nA little advice... Don't kill yourself and be a good person wether you believe in God or you don't, it is possible you know.
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talk to god or look your dreams up
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yeah. littlecat is right. pray and wait for ananswer. you can't always hear it but you can always see it if you look hard enough.
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GOD SAID HE WILL ONLY GIVE US ENOUGH THAT WE CAN CARRY... ALSO, HE SAID LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING.. IF WE DO NOT HAVE STRENGTH, WE GET IT FROM HIM......FEEL GOD IN YOUR HEART, IN YOUR SOUL AND IN YOUR SPIRIT.....GOD DOES NOT LIVE IN OUR THINKING, BECAUSE SATAN AND TEMPTATIONS RESIDE THERE ALSO...GOD LIVES IN OUR INNER BEINGS...LET SITUATIIONS GO THAT YOU CANNOT CONTROL....GIVE THEM TO GOD..PRAY ON THEM AND THEN LET IT GO...GOD WILL HANDLE EVERYTHING.....REMEMBER, WHEN YOU PUT GOD IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, KEEP YOUR HAND OFF THE STEERING WHEEL!!! YOU JUST DO YOUR BEST, LEAVE THE RST TO GOD!!! GOD BLESS YOU
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My dear friend, you have nothing to worry about because THERE IS A GOD! Oh yes!! \nHe is a father or mother to us. Just get close enough and you'll realise. You know what, sincerely ask Him to show Himself to you and it'll happen. Ask with a genuineness of heart and spirit. I shall be here to hear your wonderful story.\nAll the best
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The best way is to be in the Word (Read the bible) and prayer (pray continually). Also pray and ask God for spiritual discernment. This is the thing. All of us have three "voices" that talk to us. There's God, the devil, and our self. Spiritual discernment is what allows us to be able to tell the difference between the three. \n\nThere are a few ways you can check things you "hear". \n\nFirst, when God speaks to us it will always line up with the Word (the bible). So if you have a thought, and it contradicts anything in the bible, then you can know immediately that it's not God. (That's why reading and studying the bible is so important).\n\nAnother way to check would be to ask, is this clear or is it complicated and confusing. God's word is always clear. On the other hand, the devil is called "the author of confusion." So if something is complicated and confusing, you can be assured that it is not comming form God.\n\nAlso read Galations 5:19-26\n\nRead the entire passage and decide for yourself, but from it it's probably safe to say that thoughts involving/containing the fruits of the spirit (love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control) are from God, and thoughts of sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, rage, selfishness, envy, drunkenness, orgies, etc. are not.\n\nHope this helps.
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No.  Though, I'm sure some people think God talked to them.  The brain will fill in whatever voice you want to hear if you really want to hear something badly enough.
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I have never heard God's literal voice. But that does not mean he can not speak. I believe he can, in fact he could actually have a conversation. However considering that God is watching over the universe 24/7 for him to actually voice something to you, it must be very important.\nNow after saying all that, I do believe that God does communicate with us when we pray. He sends his massage to us through, nature, the word, friends, family e.t.c\nSo for those who seek to talk to God he will answer
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Yes. I feel God,s presence all around me. he speaks to me. He said, My sheep hear my voice.Sometimes i dont understand something in the Bible, he revels it to me.  In rough times i can feel his presence. he lets me know everything is ok.  I pray and Trust Him. He will guide my life.
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i would like to put aquestion in front of you\nmy question is do you believe in GOd?\n\nif yes , then please keep faith in him\nhe has never shut the doors of his heart for anyone who came to him for help\n\nplz pray to him, know him better because he is the only one who can understand you better\n\nand later in your life one day you may realize that this problem had come to you so that u could come closer to God as i have
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nope it's not mental, because it's socially acceptable. Hearing god's voice is probably the one voice you can hear and not be put on medication for it. This message wasn't in anyway to disprove God, i'm a believer, I'm just commenting on the mental argument.\n\nSpeaking to god, listening to god, hearing god, I think we've all got problems if we take it all too literal. First of all, he's personified in the bible, depending on your sect, maybe you see him as the guy in the clouds or not.\n\nAnyone who has any character beyond their mouth has had a debate with their conscience. If I asked you to make a 100% accurate depiction of that debate to me, in words and in sounds, you couldn't do it, because inside you there's so much more going on, there's memory, there's interpretation of words and memory, there's feelings, and chemical reactions. If you can get that all across to me, then you've talked your conscience to me. Using this example, I think you can see how difficult it would be to\ninterpret a discussion with god, for someone who knows you better than you do, how am I supposed to say, yeah, yeah, and I was half way through my pint and he said, you better get another.\n\nWhether you see God as a safety net or not, most Christians will argue that god gives you what you need, and not always what you ask for.. Let's take a dumb example 'Please god, I love this girl, please let her notice me'...  Now I could start cursing the day I let god negotiate my love life because she didn't look once, but then I would never have ended up where I am would I? The simple truth is, we're morons, and we don't know what's best for us, because we act on impulse, and apparently, God knows what's best for us not only in this life, which I might add is generally a good 75 years and not a week of fling! But also in the eternal life that believers are promised.\n\nWhether or not you believe in god, or if you just think it's a scam, let's face it, it's not a bad concept to believe someone is always looking out for the greater good of you. Someone who apparently never cheats on you, or has an ultimatum, his concept won't divorce you, it wouldn't lie to you, and it would definately never have the impulse of what if.
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God definitely knows you... he created you!  The real question is whether or not you know him.  If you do, then chances are good that He's testing you (not in a mean way, of course).  Sometimes He is silent to see if you continue to trust in and rely on Him when you can't feel his presence as strongly.  Soon enough the tide will turn and you won't feel as lonely.  Have you read Purpose Driven Life?  It actually talks about some of this... light reading if you have the time.  If you DON'T know Him... well, I don't want to preach to you or anything... maybe you can post another question about that if you need to.  =)  \n\nAs for a plan... I think God places a calling on us; we're innately drawn to certain things and talented at certain things.  However, we're not forced to follow God's ideal plan for our lives.  If we, for example, make some bad choices along the way I believe God still tries to give us the best as long as we are following Him.
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Faith and hope is inside yourself you must sit down in the quiet and discuss this with the Lord,empty your mind of any negative thoughts,concentrate on what it really is you want to know, and you will be answered.\nWomen of the Lord are all around you,you seem to be looking in and reaching out in the wrong places.\nCenter positive energy,and ask for what you want through Gods Help and it will come to you.Be open minded do not close a door on a possibility.
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GOD answers your heart-the voices in your head are your reasoning powers. yer brain is a muscle -the more you use it the stronger it gets...invite as many as you wish!
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It is okay if you think I am nuts but here goes.I talk to God by prayer, sometimes silently and sometimes outloud. God talks to me occassionaly at His time frame, In other words I don't have to be in a prayerful or spiritual mood for Him to speak. I cannot explain it but when He speaks to me, it is not silent in my head and it is not audible so that others can hear it but it is clearly audible to me.So yes, I have a relationship with Him. I also can feel His prescense in my life.Look to John 8:47,& 10:26-30 Jesus stated my sheep hear my voice and they know me(Jesus) and follow me. God may not communicate with everyone the same as He does with me but if you do not hear His voice in some manner then you don't know Him. My relationship with Him indeed started out as faith but you are correct in the change that takes place. I cannot prove this relationship to anyone but to me it is fact. You can not achieve fact without first having faith.
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I think from God's  breath.