To me, it is a slippery slope to talk like that and Really opens up the weirdest behavior. I was in a faith based book group and the leader said she was in an abusive relationship for 7 years “Because god told her to stay in it”, I RAN from that group.
The great saint St Rita was in a most abusive sacramental marital relationship with a murderer and cheat. She was told to stay in her relationship by God. He was eventually was murdered by a rival but not after 18 years of marriage. She produced two sons who took their father's charge even to avenge his death. Sister Rita prayed for her son's as she had prayed for her husband's conversion and her children died of dysentery seen as a blessing from her prayer instead of them leading violent lives after their father. Afterwards she became a nun. Part of her canonization comes from her testimonial as a faithful wife enduring such brutality. We all are given crosses in life and to run from your cross is to take your hand from the plow and look back. He who tries to keep their life will lose it yet he who loses their life for Christ's sake shall gain it. Any priest would direct such a person in an abusive relationship to leave it but it is only God who would instruct such to stick it out and see how God can take a bad situation and bring about a greater good. It is difficult to see Jesus in others especially when they live such deplorable lives but we are all made in God's image and likeness. Some may say God doesn't give us more than we can bear but this contextually refers to temptation and not igregious circumstances.
People often get confused when they hear the voice of the devil, because it sounds like God. The devil has learned how to sound like God to confuse people and lead them astray but the pesron on the recieving end of that message cant tell the difference. So we all need to becareful when we hear a voice that tells you to do something that goes against your heart and also of course anything that goes against the word of god.
Hi Lizzie, you just described how God speaks to you. He moves you emotionally and grants you wisdom. As for being a prophet, it is through your baptism that you are made a prophet. Any time you share the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ, you are a prophet by your baptism as priest , prophet, and king. Many blessings to you and keep up your work sending the message of the the good news of Jesus and His Church to the world.
I forget her name but as Saint and Mystic of the church once told her fellow sisters who were jealous of her apiritions they should "feel blessed because God didn't need to reveal Himself to them in order to strengthen their faith and sanctity". Gave me another perspective
@@rochelleperry2242 That's definitely your opinion. Not sure how true it is. One thing is true, if God does or did speak to us through another thing or person; it would NEVER contradict His Word. That's how we can measure whats true. God bless 🙏
I almost converted to Islam my freshman year of college and I had a sleep paralysis episode one night where my guardian angel might have visited me. I woke up one night and my room was lite even though 8 sleep with the lights off and couldn’t move and a glowing figure was at the foot of my bed and a voice sounding like it came from behind my ear kept repeating “Jesus is Lord”
My personal thought is he speaks to us each in the ways that impact us the most. I have never had the “I heard the voice” but my husband on the other hand has had several encounters that were direct messages from God. Maybe some of us need that stronger interaction to believe or realize that it’s God at work guiding us.
Some people do the craziest things in the name of God speaking to them. I am 21 and I have done this. I used to really believe that when I prayed, the thoughts that came to my mind were God's voice. I thought God told me to quit college and go teach English in Costa Rica. Then I came and things didn't go well and now I am moving back home to go to college. I actually stopped praying for a long time and felt confused about my faith because I knew logically that these things that "God was calling me to do" didn't make sense. But when I would tell my Christian friends about it they were like "no, don't stop praying God DOES speak to us and tell us what to do." So I was confused for awhile and my relationship with God suffered. But I am so glad to see your video and see someone else who doesn't believe God directly speaks to us. Your point about studying scriptures and not feeling like you would NEED Him to directly speak to you really stood out to me. I also came to the realization that in the NT I have never read about someone praying asking "what do I do God?" I used to think prayer was almost exclusively for this- so God will tell us which decision to make. But now I know that prayer and meditation of scripture is to prepare our minds, to keep us sober-minded so we can make decisions without needing a voice or signs from God.
Your experience is the experience of the vast majority of believers. I have met people who have claimed that God 'spoke' to them, and for some it may be true. For most of the people I met, I believe that they are interpreting their own desires as 'God'. For example, one man I know told me that 'God' told him to be in a polygamous relationship. I don't know who he was talking to, but it wasn't God.
LOL, I remember that video, Lizzie. My friend in Mexico went to a Mexican Catholic private high school. My other friend and I got to see it. And were all together buying Catholic books and prayer books, etc. I didn't buy one, I did not know Spanish.
We had a class at my Protestant seminary calling “Calling and Vocation” and it basically was all about how there are many different roads you could take/decisions you could make that are pleasing to God and how no matter what you choose, you have the same calling … it discussed what our calling is as believers and how calling doesn’t change when vocation does. Cool class. Really enjoyed it
God always speaks to me just not audibly. He usually speaks in words of instruction and edification. For example, once I prayed the last decade of the Joyful Mysteries for a friend's situation and the thought and meditation lingered after the prayer. I beheld the Tabernacle and thought Jesus how wonderful I found you here in this place. Now Jesus was a bit perturbed and said "No, it's not you who found me it was I that found you! I was never lost now nor ever. Those who are lost are in a panic and I was never in a panic but my parents and the others were. I have never been lost." So now I'm still trying to find what shall I call the final decade of the Joyful Mysteries; "Panic at the Disco?"--probably not. Maybe the panic of Joseph and Mary? One time I was frantic and prayed how can I be more like you Jesus make me like You are. Jesus replied, "The world is more Jesus to you than you can be Christ to the world. Do unto the least of these. Find Jesus in those you meet."
"Blessed is he who believes without seeing" (John 20:29). God speaks to us through His Bible and Jesus' words. Dr Peter Kreft says that "books are a way of connecting with another person's mind. It transcends time. When you're reading a book written by a dead person, you are connecting with his ghost, with his spirit, with his mind." I've had dreams that I thought were inspired by God. And our mother Saint Mary promised signal graces to those who say the rosary. So I have noticed signals graces, but an unbeliever would just dismiss them as coincidence.
Joseph Nuesse " God speaks to us through His Bible and Jesus' words. " Amen brother... Truth!!! Hebrews 1:1-2 1 On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. 2 But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. In John 14, Jesus is telling His disciples that He is going to the Father. Jesus tells the disciples in verse 16: John 14:16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; 17 the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you. This Helper is the Holy Spirit and in verse 26, Jesus says: “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I HAVE SAID to you.” The Holy Spirit guided the disciples to record and write the New Testament (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21). For us today, the Holy Spirit enables us to understand and live out God’s Word as we follow Jesus so God speaks to us through His word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
I had a direct encounter. I was in the presence of God Himself. So Holy. The Love Indescribable. God knows what you need. Your faith is strong enough. Now that I know God exists, I find it hard to discern or hear. I turn to the Bible to listen.
Lizzie, God has never spoken differently to me. He has answered my Prayers and discernment by giving a person that could direct me, an unexpected resource, or an opportunity was placed before me. Other times the Lord pushed me off my stubborn coarse and gave a hard lesson on looking at my life. Years later I am doing better, no direct word from God. But I have been led to pray more, slow down more and spend more time with the Lord. God bless you Lizzie!
I think God speaks to everyone in different ways. While you don't hear God in the same way others do, I believe he does speak to every baptized Christian in some way. God speaks to me a lot through song, there will sometimes be songs that I hear which are so close to what I'm experiencing that it sounds almost like the words were just for me. Many people hear God speak to them through scripture. If ever a certain verse stands out to you, that is God speaking to you. As it comes to images and hearing words, I never used to get those either, but I get them more now. I've learned not to overthink it. Those images and thoughts that people have during prayer are often simply the first thing that comes into their minds after asking God a question. The important thing is not to stress, but simply to ask and listen. If you don't get anything though, that's still fine. The best question to practice hearing God's voice is asking him to share with you His heart. He loves to share with us His heart. Try asking God, "How do you see me?" (instead of asking for the bigger choices) and take note of the first thing that comes to mind (be it a word, image, song). That is God speaking to you. You also may try asking God for something for another person, "What is your heart for this other person?," and then you can share that with the other person if you get anything and see if it connects with them. One key to hearing God's voice more is believing that you can hear his voice, because he says we can, "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me," (John 10:27). Try praying "In the name of Jesus, I believe and declare that I can hear your voice." It would be a lie if you thought that you couldn't hear God's voice. If you believe that lie, try praying, "In the name of Jesus, I renounce the lie that I can't hear God's voice". Also, listening for God's voice has a childlike dimension. We are most able to hear his voice when we approach him with childlike faith. That's a bit of my journey and what has helped me to hear God's voice more in my life. I also used to think I never heard God's voice. Just because God hasn't spoken to you doesn't mean he never will, but it takes practice.
Of course, everything you think you hear from God needs to be discerned, because sometimes we could just think things from our own human perspective or from an evil spirit, which we want to avoid. You will know a thought is from God and not an evil spirit if it is encouraging and if it doesn't conflict with any truths laid out in the bible or Catholic teaching. Sometimes it's hard to tell human thoughts vs. God's thoughts, that's sometimes where our reason has to come in.
I’m Catholic and I struggled years thinking God doesn’t hear me. I still didn’t doubt because I didn’t want to miss blessings ahead. Gods speaking and all protection is around you. You’re here doing videos aren’t you? Have you ever experienced a twinge/tingling/ouch in your tummy? No doubt you have everyone has it. People say gut feeling/instinct/intuition when they aren’t sure of situations they face. That’s God just wait and pay attention. Just because you’re bipolar doesn’t mean anything. I’m bipolar 1, mixed anxiety, social anxiety disorder, with excoriation issues and never thought of hurting me because I know it’s God’s job. He has spoken dear sister just be still and listen.
You should thank God that you have never heard a spirit speak to you. If you ever hear a spirit speaking to you, don't immediately trust it! It is not the norm in the Bible.
Your videos have been really helpful so i would like to offer something valuable in your walk. I believe god led me here for a reason and with certainty you will be experiencing him directly soon. In your studies, you may have come in contact with what people call "mystical" experiences in which lots of claims are made. In other religions, it is called enlightenment, moksha, somati, etc. In Christianity, it is the actual born again experience in this life that few professing Christians actually recall having. In this experience, you encounter the alpha and omega directly, you remember who you were before you were named, you recall your life purpose (why you were born), and you discover the answer to every question you ever had about life. With this you feel God which is like every single emotion combined times a thousand. All of which at the core is the highest love possible. It cannot be mistaken for a hallucination or the devil for in that moment it feels like pure love and he that is loves all infinitly. This is much greater than hearing a voice in your head and its your destiny to find it. When you do, please tell me the perspective of the approach from the female direction. You'll know why im asking that when it happens. God bless 🙌
Chances are God speaks to you everyday, but you aren't hearing Him because you aren't looking for His voice. God's voice is very quiet and He doesn't always use an actual voice. He will use a unique language you'll understand. Music, emotions, situations even the people in your life. You have to look for Him and want to hear His voice. If you seek Him, you will find Him.
Lizzie, I understand where you are coming from. I used to be like that. Wanting to hear God's voice. I asked myself, "What does His voice sounds like? Majestic? Scary? Is it the same it was portrayed in movies, shows, etc.?" God used your videos to speak into my life. You planted seeds. I still remember you giving advice about listening to others, and it help me to become a compassionate human. I believe in prophecies. We are going to see it more than before. God used ravens, crows, nature, Marvel movies, music, the right people in my life, any media source to be glorified. He can use anything He wants. Best of all, is His Word. We have our doctrinal differences, but our unity in Christ matters the most. I hope you and your husband are safe. Thank you for this video. Godspeed. :)
(sorry for my English) I think it became a "trend" in "more charismatic" communities to have extraordinary things with God, so people can have experiences that arent sure if its from their mind or something related to spirituality, or even became sad for not experiencing that. If you search and study Mystical theology you will find that God "talking directly" is extraordinary, is not a common thing. My experience: Once I got an interior locution, that helped me to go confess, and ttwo times I received visions while praying but later I realized that it was only an "imagination thing". Praying also sometimes brings feelings to God, but its not so often.
Some people think that if they have not heard the voice of God themselves, then this must mean that God does not speak to anyone at all, but this is an irrational conclusion to make. Just because something never happens to me doesn't mean it never happens to anyone.
@@rickdavis2235 - When I talk about the voice of God I mean an actual sound we hear with our ears. This has been recorded as happening many times in the bible and throughout history. It is possible that this could happen since an omnipotent God could certainly make it happen. No one could prove that it didn't happen.
I would sit on a fence here. I think God has a plan but, that as long as we are doing good and making good choices, to the best of our ability, he will bless us in our efforts and what we do.
Look up Genesis 20 I think it is. A servant gave conditions for G-d to show him the woman for his masters son. I'm very serious. But, as an older person, maybe there isn't that innocence that the divine likes.
I've never heard God's voice. I have had prayers 🙏 answered in a way that I knew: this was from God or somebody sometimes even a stranger will be a witness or just say the right thing and it hit me: this is from God. This rarely happens to me but when it does, I just know...
Cher Lizzie your faith is so on fire if the Lord spoke to you, He knows you would burst into flame. So many who have heard the Voice of God were made to suffer for it; Joan of Arc, etc. A very mixed blessing. I am sure you have had a specific thought, and then later opened your bible to a verse which expressed that very thought. This is God “speaking” to you, gently, without setting your world on fire. He knows you feel things much too deeply for overt displays on His part. Just my suggestion. Peace be with you and with your spirit.
Ma'am I humbly request you study the lives of the saints the lord spoke to them after my car accident that put me in a coma the lord spoke to my mother and she was a non practicing Norvus ordo Catholic not knowing how to pray or anything about the bible God spoke to her she opened a Catholic bible and read the story of Abraham where God asks him to sacrifice his son my mother after talking to a priest she then gave me to our Lord consecrated me to our lady as I lay in a coma dying
When I was younger my friends would always say God spoke to them and I just never understood it and figured they had to be lying or something. I still don't really believe in God, but it does feel nice to know that I'm not the only one to not feel God when they do believe.
@friendlyTroll I've tried to force myself to believe in God before and it just didn't work. I have journal's where I've tried writing my prayers to a God and I just don't belive in it even though I've tried. As a kid I believed because I was told to and as I grew up it just didn't make sense and didn't sink in. I go to church with my fiance even though I don't believe. When I tried to force myself to be religious I started watching lizzie and I kept it up just because I like her personality and stuff but it just doesn't sink in even when I try.
@friendlyTroll No I get that, I'm just saying that is exactly what I did on multiple occasions. I even have the journals to prove it to myself still it just didn't work for me.
You got to remember Jesus said blessed are those who believe and have not seen. What are you now if you don't mind me asking? I'm a former atheist so I get not believing.
God gives us free will, however I believe God will nudge you without you knowing. like reading a passage from the Bible that you needed at that time, or a red light that prevented you from being in an area 30 seconds down the road you didn't need to be at that moment, quick example, I was driving a stick shift, my light turns green, I accidently pop the clutch and stalled out, just than a big rig ran the red light and drove through the area I would have been had I not stalled out. God has a hand in what we do even if we don't realize its him.
Dear Miss Lizzie, i don´t know why God has never spoken to you audibly and i don´t pretend to have the answer. I only want to tell you that our Lord Jesus has spoken to me audibly on 4 or 5 different occasions and i was tremendously surpised! What is wrong and why has He not spoken to you? Probably nothing, but let me ask you a question. If you read the Bible and i´m sure you do then you know that after Jesus went to heaven after 10 days he sent the Holy Spirit into the world and He is going to take care of the "church" until Jesus returns. Question: Have you earnestly asked Jesus to baptize (i.e. fill you) with His Holy Spirit? Have you asked your prayer group to pray for you and your group of believers ? That is how untold multitudes of catholics became "charismatic" and are now on fire for God! 💗🙏Israel Perez viewing from Guatemala, C.A.
Have you ever talked with someone you don't know personally? That is the issue here. Relationship is key and there is always two way communication in healthy relationships. You must have the holy spirit Romans 8:9, Acts 2:38 for this communication to take place at an intimate level. John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. (A guide speaks to you and leads the way for you to follow, notice, he WILL SPEAK and TELL YOU)
Hi, thank you for your post. I believe Christ in the Great Discourse - his great sermon just before the events of his Passion - which you quoted a verse or two from, Jesus is addressing his Apostles, i.e. the Church, the New Israel. The promise to guide into Truth is made to the Church. Granted, on one level, Christ speaks to the individual soul in many ways, and it is crucial that one have a personal relationship with the Lord. However, this relationship must take place within the relationship the individual has with the Church, whom Christ is here addressing. Grace. 💗🙏💗
@@rhwinner There is no “New Israel.” The Church has not become a new Israel, nor has it taken the place of old Israel. Simply put, followers of the Jewish King, believers in the Jewish Messiah make up true (not new) Israel. If those followers are Gentiles, then they have been grafted in and given citizenship in Israel-that is, they have been made part of the people of God.
@friendlyTroll " The 1 time I was asking Him if He knows me, and the second time He just said my name out loud because I wanted to do something really bad... kind of regretting it now but YOLO " How do you know it was God speaking to you? Scripture says He no longer speaks to his people but through HIs Word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 2 Thessalonians 2:9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
@friendlyTroll At various times God spoke to us through the prophets UNTIL Jesus. Then He spoke to us through His Son. Hebrews 1:1-2 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; When Jesus told the disiciples He was going to the Father, Jesus said the He would send ANOTHER HELPER--the Holy Spirit. John 16:5-9 5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment: 9 regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me; The Holy Spirit will bear witness about Jesus and teach and guide us in all truth. What is truth? God's word is truth. Psalm 119:160 The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever. Will there be new revelation? No, not when taken in context. Does the Bible teach there will be new revelation? No, not when read in context. The canon of Scripture was closed after John died around the end of the 1st century A.D. Can we make the bible appear to teach there will be new revelation? Absolutely! Exactly what position are you in today? You believe something the Bible does not teach. Deception is a powerful tool that Satan uses to lure people away from the truth. That is your spirit.
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To me, it is a slippery slope to talk like that and Really opens up the weirdest behavior. I was in a faith based book group and the leader said she was in an abusive relationship for 7 years “Because god told her to stay in it”, I RAN from that group.
The great saint St Rita was in a most abusive sacramental marital relationship with a murderer and cheat. She was told to stay in her relationship by God. He was eventually was murdered by a rival but not after 18 years of marriage. She produced two sons who took their father's charge even to avenge his death. Sister Rita prayed for her son's as she had prayed for her husband's conversion and her children died of dysentery seen as a blessing from her prayer instead of them leading violent lives after their father. Afterwards she became a nun. Part of her canonization comes from her testimonial as a faithful wife enduring such brutality. We all are given crosses in life and to run from your cross is to take your hand from the plow and look back. He who tries to keep their life will lose it yet he who loses their life for Christ's sake shall gain it. Any priest would direct such a person in an abusive relationship to leave it but it is only God who would instruct such to stick it out and see how God can take a bad situation and bring about a greater good. It is difficult to see Jesus in others especially when they live such deplorable lives but we are all made in God's image and likeness. Some may say God doesn't give us more than we can bear but this contextually refers to temptation and not igregious circumstances.
People often get confused when they hear the voice of the devil, because it sounds like God. The devil has learned how to sound like God to confuse people and lead them astray but the pesron on the recieving end of that message cant tell the difference. So we all need to becareful when we hear a voice that tells you to do something that goes against your heart and also of course anything that goes against the word of god.
Hi Lizzie, you just described how God speaks to you. He moves you emotionally and grants you wisdom. As for being a prophet, it is through your baptism that you are made a prophet. Any time you share the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ, you are a prophet by your baptism as priest , prophet, and king. Many blessings to you and keep up your work sending the message of the the good news of Jesus and His Church to the world.
As a woman does she also share in the priestly and kingly ministries, I wonder?
@@rhwinner yes she does 🙂
@@rhwinner it's different then Catholic Priests
@@rhwinner It's called royal priesthood.
I forget her name but as Saint and Mystic of the church once told her fellow sisters who were jealous of her apiritions they should "feel blessed because God didn't need to reveal Himself to them in order to strengthen their faith and sanctity". Gave me another perspective
I think it was Teresa of Avila! But might be wrong!
@@phoebelim4531 oh I think you might be right! I was reading up on her not long ago so that would make sense haha thanks
I've never heard "God" speak directly to me either. Sometimes I'll get a feeling.
God has never spoken to me, either. But I feel comfort from reading the Bible.
That's exactly how God speaks to us, through His Word- the Bible
@@philarevolutionarywarriorp8295 God speaks audible and uses people and other things in life to speak to us
The bible is only one way.
@@rochelleperry2242 That's definitely your opinion. Not sure how true it is. One thing is true, if God does or did speak to us through another thing or person; it would NEVER contradict His Word. That's how we can measure whats true. God bless 🙏
The bible which trample as Catholics IS the very word of God literally God speaking so its not surprising at all !!
Lizzie I do believe God actually does speak to you. Whenever you read Holy Scripture, God speaks to you. Blessings.
I almost converted to Islam my freshman year of college and I had a sleep paralysis episode one night where my guardian angel might have visited me. I woke up one night and my room was lite even though 8 sleep with the lights off and couldn’t move and a glowing figure was at the foot of my bed and a voice sounding like it came from behind my ear kept repeating “Jesus is Lord”
My personal thought is he speaks to us each in the ways that impact us the most. I have never had the “I heard the voice” but my husband on the other hand has had several encounters that were direct messages from God. Maybe some of us need that stronger interaction to believe or realize that it’s God at work guiding us.
Some people do the craziest things in the name of God speaking to them. I am 21 and I have done this. I used to really believe that when I prayed, the thoughts that came to my mind were God's voice. I thought God told me to quit college and go teach English in Costa Rica. Then I came and things didn't go well and now I am moving back home to go to college. I actually stopped praying for a long time and felt confused about my faith because I knew logically that these things that "God was calling me to do" didn't make sense. But when I would tell my Christian friends about it they were like "no, don't stop praying God DOES speak to us and tell us what to do." So I was confused for awhile and my relationship with God suffered. But I am so glad to see your video and see someone else who doesn't believe God directly speaks to us. Your point about studying scriptures and not feeling like you would NEED Him to directly speak to you really stood out to me. I also came to the realization that in the NT I have never read about someone praying asking "what do I do God?" I used to think prayer was almost exclusively for this- so God will tell us which decision to make. But now I know that prayer and meditation of scripture is to prepare our minds, to keep us sober-minded so we can make decisions without needing a voice or signs from God.
God speaks to us through His word by the Holy Spirit. If we want to hear God's word, read the Bible.
Lizzie, wise words. Thank you. Keep posting your thoughts.
Your experience is the experience of the vast majority of believers. I have met people who have claimed that God 'spoke' to them, and for some it may be true. For most of the people I met, I believe that they are interpreting their own desires as 'God'. For example, one man I know told me that 'God' told him to be in a polygamous relationship. I don't know who he was talking to, but it wasn't God.
That was definitely the devil speaking.
God has spoken to you, Just not how you think he would.
Same. I'm a devout Catholic...I mean not as devout as Joe Biden, but as a traditional Catholic I've never had God speak audibly to me either. ⚜️❤️🔥
I have. After ignoring Him for decades, He welcomed me back and told me to stay. Kind of a Prodigal Son moment.
“Not as devout as Joe Biden” you must be joking
@@francescogorbechov4192 I must be
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God led you back to what? The Catholic Church?
@@rickdavis2235 Back to Him in general. I'm pretty sure he's not finished with me yet.
LOL, I remember that video, Lizzie. My friend in Mexico went to a Mexican Catholic private high school. My other friend and I got to see it. And were all together buying Catholic books and prayer books, etc. I didn't buy one, I did not know Spanish.
Love you Lizzie 💛💛💛💛💛
I think I heard Him say one time I forgive you but not sure. I feel He talks to me through other people ❤
We had a class at my Protestant seminary calling “Calling and Vocation” and it basically was all about how there are many different roads you could take/decisions you could make that are pleasing to God and how no matter what you choose, you have the same calling … it discussed what our calling is as believers and how calling doesn’t change when vocation does. Cool class. Really enjoyed it
Lizzie, doesn't God speak to us during confession, through the Priest?
God always speaks to me just not audibly. He usually speaks in words of instruction and edification. For example, once I prayed the last decade of the Joyful Mysteries for a friend's situation and the thought and meditation lingered after the prayer. I beheld the Tabernacle and thought Jesus how wonderful I found you here in this place. Now Jesus was a bit perturbed and said "No, it's not you who found me it was I that found you! I was never lost now nor ever. Those who are lost are in a panic and I was never in a panic but my parents and the others were. I have never been lost." So now I'm still trying to find what shall I call the final decade of the Joyful Mysteries; "Panic at the Disco?"--probably not. Maybe the panic of Joseph and Mary?
One time I was frantic and prayed how can I be more like you Jesus make me like You are. Jesus replied, "The world is more Jesus to you than you can be Christ to the world. Do unto the least of these. Find Jesus in those you meet."
Me too! No voice or dreams or anything else. That's why the Bible is so important to me.
"Blessed is he who believes without seeing" (John 20:29).
God speaks to us through His Bible and Jesus' words. Dr Peter Kreft says that "books are a way of connecting with another person's mind. It transcends time. When you're reading a book written by a dead person, you are connecting with his ghost, with his spirit, with his mind."
I've had dreams that I thought were inspired by God. And our mother Saint Mary promised signal graces to those who say the rosary. So I have noticed signals graces, but an unbeliever would just dismiss them as coincidence.
Joseph Nuesse
" God speaks to us through His Bible and Jesus' words. "
Amen brother... Truth!!!
Hebrews 1:1-2
1 On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
2 But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
In John 14, Jesus is telling His disciples that He is going to the Father. Jesus tells the disciples in verse 16:
John 14:16
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; 17 the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.
This Helper is the Holy Spirit and in verse 26, Jesus says: “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I HAVE SAID to you.”
The Holy Spirit guided the disciples to record and write the New Testament (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21). For us today, the Holy Spirit enables us to understand and live out God’s Word as we follow Jesus so God speaks to us through His word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
I had a direct encounter.
I was in the presence of God Himself. So Holy. The Love Indescribable.
God knows what you need.
Your faith is strong enough.
Now that I know God exists, I find it hard to discern or hear.
I turn to the Bible to listen.
Lizzie, God has never spoken differently to me. He has answered my Prayers and discernment by giving a person that could direct me, an unexpected resource, or an opportunity was placed before me. Other times the Lord pushed me off my stubborn coarse and gave a hard lesson on looking at my life. Years later I am doing better, no direct word from God. But I have been led to pray more, slow down more and spend more time with the Lord. God bless you Lizzie!
I think God speaks to everyone in different ways. While you don't hear God in the same way others do, I believe he does speak to every baptized Christian in some way. God speaks to me a lot through song, there will sometimes be songs that I hear which are so close to what I'm experiencing that it sounds almost like the words were just for me. Many people hear God speak to them through scripture. If ever a certain verse stands out to you, that is God speaking to you.
As it comes to images and hearing words, I never used to get those either, but I get them more now. I've learned not to overthink it. Those images and thoughts that people have during prayer are often simply the first thing that comes into their minds after asking God a question. The important thing is not to stress, but simply to ask and listen. If you don't get anything though, that's still fine. The best question to practice hearing God's voice is asking him to share with you His heart. He loves to share with us His heart. Try asking God, "How do you see me?" (instead of asking for the bigger choices) and take note of the first thing that comes to mind (be it a word, image, song). That is God speaking to you. You also may try asking God for something for another person, "What is your heart for this other person?," and then you can share that with the other person if you get anything and see if it connects with them.
One key to hearing God's voice more is believing that you can hear his voice, because he says we can, "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me," (John 10:27). Try praying "In the name of Jesus, I believe and declare that I can hear your voice." It would be a lie if you thought that you couldn't hear God's voice. If you believe that lie, try praying, "In the name of Jesus, I renounce the lie that I can't hear God's voice". Also, listening for God's voice has a childlike dimension. We are most able to hear his voice when we approach him with childlike faith. That's a bit of my journey and what has helped me to hear God's voice more in my life. I also used to think I never heard God's voice. Just because God hasn't spoken to you doesn't mean he never will, but it takes practice.
Of course, everything you think you hear from God needs to be discerned, because sometimes we could just think things from our own human perspective or from an evil spirit, which we want to avoid. You will know a thought is from God and not an evil spirit if it is encouraging and if it doesn't conflict with any truths laid out in the bible or Catholic teaching. Sometimes it's hard to tell human thoughts vs. God's thoughts, that's sometimes where our reason has to come in.
not all see visions or hear Gods Voice Speaking
Your love and devotion to Him and people is so joyous! I love your choice of Scripture!
Blessings to those who have not seen, yet still believe!
God bless you, Lizzie and thank you!
I’m Catholic and I struggled years thinking God doesn’t hear me. I still didn’t doubt because I didn’t want to miss blessings ahead. Gods speaking and all protection is around you. You’re here doing videos aren’t you? Have you ever experienced a twinge/tingling/ouch in your tummy? No doubt you have everyone has it. People say gut feeling/instinct/intuition when they aren’t sure of situations they face. That’s God just wait and pay attention. Just because you’re bipolar doesn’t mean anything. I’m bipolar 1, mixed anxiety, social anxiety disorder, with excoriation issues and never thought of hurting me because I know it’s God’s job. He has spoken dear sister just be still and listen.
You should thank God that you have never heard a spirit speak to you. If you ever hear a spirit speaking to you, don't immediately trust it! It is not the norm in the Bible.
Me either. But usually I wake up one day and Bam! make my decision.
Your videos have been really helpful so i would like to offer something valuable in your walk. I believe god led me here for a reason and with certainty you will be experiencing him directly soon. In your studies, you may have come in contact with what people call "mystical" experiences in which lots of claims are made. In other religions, it is called enlightenment, moksha, somati, etc. In Christianity, it is the actual born again experience in this life that few professing Christians actually recall having. In this experience, you encounter the alpha and omega directly, you remember who you were before you were named, you recall your life purpose (why you were born), and you discover the answer to every question you ever had about life. With this you feel God which is like every single emotion combined times a thousand. All of which at the core is the highest love possible. It cannot be mistaken for a hallucination or the devil for in that moment it feels like pure love and he that is loves all infinitly. This is much greater than hearing a voice in your head and its your destiny to find it. When you do, please tell me the perspective of the approach from the female direction. You'll know why im asking that when it happens. God bless 🙌
Old subbie here! Congrats to you both, please tell us about work culture differences between the states and France.
Chances are God speaks to you everyday, but you aren't hearing Him because you aren't looking for His voice. God's voice is very quiet and He doesn't always use an actual voice. He will use a unique language you'll understand. Music, emotions, situations even the people in your life. You have to look for Him and want to hear His voice. If you seek Him, you will find Him.
I have the same experience and thoughts about the topiv, thank you Lizzie, love your content :) ❤
By the way, He’s never spoken to me either.
Lizzie, I understand where you are coming from. I used to be like that. Wanting to hear God's voice. I asked myself, "What does His voice sounds like? Majestic? Scary? Is it the same it was portrayed in movies, shows, etc.?" God used your videos to speak into my life. You planted seeds. I still remember you giving advice about listening to others, and it help me to become a compassionate human. I believe in prophecies. We are going to see it more than before. God used ravens, crows, nature, Marvel movies, music, the right people in my life, any media source to be glorified. He can use anything He wants. Best of all, is His Word. We have our doctrinal differences, but our unity in Christ matters the most. I hope you and your husband are safe. Thank you for this video. Godspeed. :)
(sorry for my English) I think it became a "trend" in "more charismatic" communities to have extraordinary things with God, so people can have experiences that arent sure if its from their mind or something related to spirituality, or even became sad for not experiencing that. If you search and study Mystical theology you will find that God "talking directly" is extraordinary, is not a common thing.
My experience: Once I got an interior locution, that helped me to go confess, and ttwo times I received visions while praying but later I realized that it was only an "imagination thing". Praying also sometimes brings feelings to God, but its not so often.
Oh, me neither by the way lol 🕯🕯🕯🕯
Thank you for sharing, me too I feel the same and have similar experiences. Thank you!🌈⚘🌈⚘🌈⚘🌈
I don’t think one can be bipolar and make the claims God is speaking to them.
He might speak to you as you get older..You will know ❤
Some people think that if they have not heard the voice of God themselves, then this must mean that God does not speak to anyone at all, but this is an irrational conclusion to make. Just because something never happens to me doesn't mean it never happens to anyone.
God speaks to us through His word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. If we want to hear God speak, all we have to do is study the Bible.
@@rickdavis2235 - When I talk about the voice of God I mean an actual sound we hear with our ears. This has been recorded as happening many times in the bible and throughout history. It is possible that this could happen since an omnipotent God could certainly make it happen. No one could prove that it didn't happen.
Dont you feel God called you to be a Catholic ?
Why would God call someone to a church that teaches a false gospel when Paul warned about that very thing in Galatians?
I would sit on a fence here. I think God has a plan but, that as long as we are doing good and making good choices, to the best of our ability, he will bless us in our efforts and what we do.
its probably a good thing right 🥰
Look up Genesis 20 I think it is. A servant gave conditions for G-d to show him the woman for his masters son. I'm very serious. But, as an older person, maybe there isn't that innocence that the divine likes.
I've never heard God's voice. I have had prayers 🙏 answered in a way that I knew: this was from God or somebody sometimes even a stranger will be a witness or just say the right thing and it hit me: this is from God. This rarely happens to me but when it does, I just know...
I have.
I have also heard Him laughing. He can speak audible and through many things.
You need to do an updated GRWM video.
Great point
Very good.
Cher Lizzie your faith is so on fire if the Lord spoke to you, He knows you would burst into flame. So many who have heard the Voice of God were made to suffer for it; Joan of Arc, etc. A very mixed blessing. I am sure you have had a specific thought, and then later opened your bible to a verse which expressed that very thought. This is God “speaking” to you, gently, without setting your world on fire.
He knows you feel things much too deeply for overt displays on His part. Just my suggestion. Peace be with you and with your spirit.
Pray the Rosary!
Ma'am I humbly request you study the lives of the saints the lord spoke to them after my car accident that put me in a coma the lord spoke to my mother and she was a non practicing Norvus ordo Catholic not knowing how to pray or anything about the bible God spoke to her she opened a Catholic bible and read the story of Abraham where God asks him to sacrifice his son my mother after talking to a priest she then gave me to our Lord consecrated me to our lady as I lay in a coma dying
I'm going to an Eastern Catholic Church eventually✝️☦️
When I was younger my friends would always say God spoke to them and I just never understood it and figured they had to be lying or something. I still don't really believe in God, but it does feel nice to know that I'm not the only one to not feel God when they do believe.
It can be simply their own feelings/emotions, can even be manipulation
@friendlyTroll I've tried to force myself to believe in God before and it just didn't work. I have journal's where I've tried writing my prayers to a God and I just don't belive in it even though I've tried. As a kid I believed because I was told to and as I grew up it just didn't make sense and didn't sink in. I go to church with my fiance even though I don't believe. When I tried to force myself to be religious I started watching lizzie and I kept it up just because I like her personality and stuff but it just doesn't sink in even when I try.
@friendlyTroll No I get that, I'm just saying that is exactly what I did on multiple occasions. I even have the journals to prove it to myself still it just didn't work for me.
You got to remember Jesus said blessed are those who believe and have not seen. What are you now if you don't mind me asking? I'm a former atheist so I get not believing.
@@faithwisdom788 I'm an athiest.
There's a guy on RUclips his name is Troy black he says God talks to him about world events and the end times.
God gives us free will, however I believe God will nudge you without you knowing. like reading a passage from the Bible that you needed at that time, or a red light that prevented you from being in an area 30 seconds down the road you didn't need to be at that moment, quick example, I was driving a stick shift, my light turns green, I accidently pop the clutch and stalled out, just than a big rig ran the red light and drove through the area I would have been had I not stalled out. God has a hand in what we do even if we don't realize its him.
You are currently doing God's will. You can't hear Him in words, more through inspirations.
So maybe God IS speaking to you through scripture and your own intuition.
Dear Miss Lizzie, i don´t know why God has never spoken to you audibly and i don´t pretend to have the answer. I only want to tell you that our Lord Jesus has spoken to me audibly on 4 or 5 different occasions and i was tremendously surpised! What is wrong and why has He not spoken to you? Probably nothing, but let me ask you a question. If you read the Bible and i´m sure you do then you know that after Jesus went to heaven after 10 days he sent the Holy Spirit into the world and He is going to take care of the "church" until Jesus returns. Question: Have you earnestly asked Jesus to baptize (i.e. fill you) with His Holy Spirit? Have you asked your prayer group to pray for you and your group of believers ? That is how untold multitudes of catholics became "charismatic" and are now on fire for God! 💗🙏Israel Perez viewing from Guatemala, C.A.
The only way to God is through his son Jesus Christ 🙏
Apparently to muslims though they have god's phone number on speed dial...
Look at Genesis 20, a servant laid down conditions for G-d to show him a woman for his masters son.
Have you ever talked with someone you don't know personally? That is the issue here. Relationship is key and there is always two way communication in healthy relationships.
You must have the holy spirit Romans 8:9, Acts 2:38 for this communication to take place at an intimate level.
John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. (A guide speaks to you and leads the way for you to follow, notice, he WILL SPEAK and TELL YOU)
Hi, thank you for your post. I believe Christ in the Great Discourse - his great sermon just before the events of his Passion - which you quoted a verse or two from, Jesus is addressing his Apostles, i.e. the Church, the New Israel. The promise to guide into Truth is made to the Church. Granted, on one level, Christ speaks to the individual soul in many ways, and it is crucial that one have a personal relationship with the Lord. However, this relationship must take place within the relationship the individual has with the Church, whom Christ is here addressing. Grace. 💗🙏💗
@@rhwinner
There is no “New Israel.” The Church has not become a new Israel, nor has it taken the place of old Israel. Simply put, followers of the Jewish King, believers in the Jewish Messiah make up true (not new) Israel. If those followers are Gentiles, then they have been grafted in and given citizenship in Israel-that is, they have been made part of the people of God.
@@rickdavis2235 Hi, no problem. We love you no matter what particular set of beliefs you hold. Thank you!
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He doesn't directly speak to anyone. Anyone who tells you he has is bullshitting you lol
@friendlyTroll
" The 1 time I was asking Him if He knows me, and the second time He just said my name out loud because I wanted to do something really bad... kind of regretting it now but YOLO "
How do you know it was God speaking to you? Scripture says He no longer speaks to his people but through HIs Word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
@friendlyTroll
At various times God spoke to us through the prophets UNTIL Jesus. Then He spoke to us through His Son.
Hebrews 1:1-2
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
When Jesus told the disiciples He was going to the Father, Jesus said the He would send ANOTHER HELPER--the Holy Spirit.
John 16:5-9
5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
6 But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart.
7 But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment:
9 regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me;
The Holy Spirit will bear witness about Jesus and teach and guide us in all truth. What is truth? God's word is truth.
Psalm 119:160
The entirety of Your word is truth, and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
Will there be new revelation? No, not when taken in context. Does the Bible teach there will be new revelation? No, not when read in context. The canon of Scripture was closed after John died around the end of the 1st century A.D.
Can we make the bible appear to teach there will be new revelation? Absolutely!
Exactly what position are you in today? You believe something the Bible does not teach. Deception is a powerful tool that Satan uses to lure people away from the truth. That is your spirit.
@friendlyTroll yep. He speaks and WE HEAR HIS VOICE and it lines up with the bible. People who say that he doesn't ARE WRONG!!!
why do you talk like that
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