How Do You Truly Listen To God?

[Annie12]

I haven't read through all of the responces, so parden me if i am missing something( ) but..

In my exsperience, I have always felt as though I come up aginst a road block when trying to listen for God. But recently, I have actually been able to understand what he is saying back to me as though I was converseing face to face with him. And I know it is him speaking to me because I can feel it in my heart. It is diffrent than [i]me[/i] formulating word in my head. Its like he inspires the words in my mind. I feel like I am pretty strange for this but I haven't read all the responces so I don't know. But, God makes him self known to each individual in the way he wills to. Sometimes I will try to listen for his voice but nothing comes and then I read something in the bible and it's the answer to my question! So, trust that God does answer your question and you may be able to see his answer more clearly. Good luck and God bless!

[LinaSt.Cecilia2772]

[quote name='Julie de Sales' timestamp='1342165857' post='2455261']
Sometimes I really want to hear God's voice, because in prayer I bombard him with requests and questions and He does not have much space to speack. However, I stop once in a while and I make silence, or I think about a vers from the Gospel and take this as His answer to my prayer. I don't know if it's the right thing to do, not always I get what I'm looking for, but I don't have another method to make God speack.
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I know exactly how you feel, I do the same thing. It's almost as if I'm at a standstill not knowing what to do or how to go forward.

[BarbTherese]

I have just finished reading a book "God's Voice Within" (The Ignatian Way to Discover God's Will) Fr. Mark E Thibodeaux SJ. I found it wonderfully helpful and plan to put the book away for a couple of weeks and then read it again. This book would also be very helpful to a person on a discernment of God's Will journey - and who feels 'stuck'. I have an Ignatian Spirituality Centre not far from me and next year hope to be able (after more research into the Centre) to put away sufficient funds to be able to go through the Ignatian Exercises, with Jesuit direction. It's not cheap. I daresay one can get a reduced cost, but religious orders have to survive too and whatever one pays is a donation to the works of an Order.
[url="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Voice-Within-Ignatian-Discover/dp/0829428615"]http://www.amazon.co...r/dp/0829428615[/url]

"Book Description:



[left]Many of us do not trust our own thoughts, feelings, and desires when it comes to discerning God’s will. Instead we look outside ourselves to determine what God wants from and for us. In [i]God’s Voice Within[/i], spiritual director Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ, shows us how to use Ignatian discernment to access our own spiritual intuition and understand that the most trustworthy wisdom of all comes not from outside sources, but from God working through us.[/left]
[i]God’s Voice Within[/i] is intended for people who know that there is more to the spiritual life than they are currently experiencing and are ready to take the next step in their walk of faith by making effective discernment—specifically Ignatian discernment—a daily practice.
Ultimately, [i]God’s Voice Within[/i] teaches us to discern what is at the root of our actions and emotions, which in turn allows us to respond to God’s promptings inside us rather than unconsciously reacting to life around us."

Edited July 15, 2012 by BarbaraTherese