thats a dangerous game to be playing.

imo if you're hearing voices and shit that shit aint God. its something pretending to be in order to fuck with you.

God, i think, when God offers a suggestion, it just sort of manifests into you.

I don’t know if it was conscious contact with God, but the Holy Spirit for sure. I’ve had things laid out for me about what happened and why they happened that hit me like a punch in the nose. Kind of really cool and scary at the same time.

I don't think I can honestly say that I have, but I feel like I'm more open to it now than ever before.

I saw a youtube video in the past year about a man named Titus living in Appalachia. He lives a very simple lifestyle similar to the Amish. He talked about how God always wants to give us gifts, but sometimes we block the channels through which we would receive them.

I started asking myself how I might be blocking those channels, and I came up with a few answers. I haven't fixed everything yet, but I'm doing better.

When I suffocated to death and went to the other side I knew that I could choose whether to come back or not.

There was no voice or anything. I just knew that I could stay in that place that felt like being wrapped in euphoria or I could come back to this realm.

So what was that? Was that the edge of the afterlife and God letting me know I had a choice to make?

Or was that just my body shutting down and my nervous system letting me know I still had enough energy to start moving my lungs and regain normal consciousness?

Is there even a difference? Does God act in subtle ways through natural processes that he sets in motion somehow?

Anyway, I have no idea if there is a God or if he has spoken to me, but that time when somehow I just knew that I could stay or come back during a near death experience is the most obvious candidate for that.

I think so. I said to God that He has a lot of explaining to do if I die. In response I got more time.

It could be God communicates through idea, realization, and coincidence and not voices or language. If God is indeed a creator then his higher intelligence could have evolving methods of contact that are both effective and least evasive.

When I was 12 I was feeling lonely and depressed at a super mega church. I was a good Christian girl and had spent my whole life in a constant state of prayer like the Bible said but was so confused by the lack of God in the church.

Until that point I never asked God to show me a sign He was there, because my faith was strong enough I didn't need it. But I was so confused by the hundreds of children dancing and singing to the super cool and loud Christian band while feeling a distinct lack of His holy presence so I made a special request. I left the crowd and stood alone to pray.

"Dear Lord father in heaven, I don't know if you're really here with us. I don't sense you at all. Can you give me a sign that you are here with me please? Amen."

I honestly didn't expect anything but at that moment I felt a huge warm hand grab my shoulder and I was filled with the Holy Spirit. I turned around and no one was here, but it still felt like there was a hand on my shoulder. It was overwhelming and I began to cry.

Due to life, propaganda and drama I eventually became an insane feminist and left the faith because I didn't feel Christianity took itself seriously, and the people i loved used it to hurt and manipulate me. But no matter how much I denounced it, I couldn't forget what it was like to be filled with the Holy Spirit. After the red pill I eventually returned to the faith, regretting ever having left. Now I'm doubling down on the whole Christian thing. Maybe y'all hate me for it but I know the Lord is just happy to have me back, and I'm happy to be here :)

You can say your prayers to God and God will listen (also, be sure to thank God for all that he has done, it's good to give him praise). But I don't think God speaks back to you, often sends angels to give you his message.

I have had a message to me, this is not "don't listen to the voices" crap. These were things that I knew were right, "do this" "don't do this" It felt like "nudges" in the correct path, but much more "if you don't, you are going to regret that later" It did not feel like "my concious coming forth" but my concious stepping right in front of me.

It depends on what you think God it.

To me, the notion that you could ever not be in direct contact with God is preposterous.

It seems I get help from angels quite often. For example, today I was looking for something and exhausted all the possibilities I could think of, so I did something completely unrelated. Picking up an item, I found the one I had been looking for underneath. A helpful heads up?

Yes, He told me you are a faggot, but I told him you were ok