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Have you ever heard a Voice? Is it your inner wisdom? Is it an angel?
The Voice is so well-known that we read of it in novels. Nikolai Gogol in his short story Old Fashioned Farmer writes: “It has doubtless happened to you, at some time or other, to hear a voice calling you by name.” And he adds that he’d heard it many times in his childhood. The Russian peasants of that century believed a Voice to be the man’s spirit calling him to death. But I think it’s something else.
I heard of a woman who was camping by the Grand Canyon on a rafting trip, when she heard a Voice speaking in her ear: “In 11 months you will give birth to a baby girl.” It startled her that she looked around. What was that? And who did she think she was, the Virgin Mary? Since she wasn’t pregnant at the time she put it aside. But exactly 11 months later, her little daughter was born.
What are we to make of that?
A National Geographic photographer wanted a publisher for his photos. Walking alone in Hawaii one day, thinking how he wanted a publisher, he heard a Voice speaking out loud: “Go see So-and-So.” He had never heard the name before. When he got home, he asked his sister if she’d ever heard of someone with that name. She had. The man became the publisher of the photographer’s book.
I know of two women who heard a Voice announce that they were meeting their future husband. “Remember his name; you will marry him.”
Have you ever heard a Voice? Will you tell me your story? What did your Voice say?
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I was age 35 and had been single my whole life. I had been talking with God about why I could not find the right person. I had re-committed my life to Christ a couple of years earlier and had gotten active in a Methodist Church.
I had taken a seminar at the church one Saturday and at the end of the seminar the pastor had provided us communion as we were each seated in our chairs. Just after I had taken the bread and wine and the pastor moved on, a voice spoke clearly in my head "You will marry."
Within about a year, I got to know a woman in our church that I knew from a distance. And after becoming friends in October and dating for two months, I just asked her to marry me and it felt right. We have been happily married for 28 years. We had wedding bands made that have panels with two hearts under the cross. Two heart united by Christ.
Craig Rambo
I have heard the voice a few times. (1)I had prayed to God the night before and asked him to show me that he was there for me in every area of my life. The next day i was about to get in my car to take myself and my sixteen year old daughter to the dentist. the voice told me to drive the SUV. I walked over to the SUV; then i said to myself i want to drive the car. I walked back over to the car, when the voice said NO drive the SUV. I listened to the voice and drove the SUV. Fifteen minutes later a car plowed into the back of the SUV and flipped it over. Once the car stopped sliding on its side i heard the voice of God say know you see, i will take care of you. We walked away from the crash, but i know that if i was in my car we probably would have been dead or near dead.
(2)Another time i heard the voice, it told me that guy is your husband we married five and a half months later. We had a wonderful marriage for eighteen years. He went on his last tour with the Arny before retiring and returned home. The voice told me to check his cell phone. I had no reason to do it and i have never did it in the past, i trusted him, he was a great husband, father,and provider. I told the voice i was not going to do it. The voice insisted that i do it and now. The funny part is that i did not know how to check text messages but i went straight to his messages. There was all sorts of messages from a women he had meet a few months prior and started an affair with. She was trying to get him to leave me for her. I was furious reading these text messages to MY husband. The voice came back after i read them and told me don't say anything. I argued with the voice and told the voice i have to handle this. The voice told me NO I WILL HANDLE THIS,BE QUITE!!! I ignored the voice and confronted my husband and all hell, like i have never seen before broke loose.My husband left me and moved in the woman's home, in the state the woman lives in. The one thing i learned is that we must obey when the voice speaks to us. That was two years ago and we are not divorced so i am waiting to see what God is going to do.
May, 9, 2001, my 15 year old son had just died of leukemia and we were waiting for the mortician to drive to the hospital and pick up his body. I decided to go for a walk in the hospital courtyard.
It was an absolutely perfect spring afternoon: warm sun, blue skies. Spring flowers were blooming and the grass was greening up but I was miserable. My mind was troubled with all of the things my son would never experience: learning to drive, going on dates, even the sun, sky, grass and the flowers around me.
I was walking on the hospital's sidewalks and from my right hopped a young rabbit. I thought to myself, "He will never see bunny rabbits again. Then I heard a voice say, "He is with Me." I was in mid-stride at the time and it startled me so much I actually jumped and for a split second had both feet off the cement.
Immediately, I had peace and I realized that he now had Heaven and all its splendors. I thought I had been feeling sorry for him, but I was really feeling sorry for myself.
Hi Sophy. Thank you for your inspirational article. Yes, I have heard the Voice many times in my life. When I was a child walking home from school, I heard a Voice whisper for me to run home quickly. I felt that there was a man behind me and that I was in danger, so I listened to the Voice and ran home without looking back. A few days later, I heard that a man had killed a child in that same area. Who knows, that could have been the same man behind me when the Voice warned me to run.
Also, in 1978, I met a man and as soon as I saw him, a Voice said, "There's your husband". Within 4 years he and I married and enjoyed a beautiful relationship together before his death in 1994. I describe it in my book, "Dancing Within the Vortex".
Recently the Voice spoke to me when I was in a deep depression and contemplating suicide. The Voice said, "There is victory in Christ". Those words gave me renewed strength to go on and within a few days I experienced a financial windfall that helped me to pay my mortgage and find renewed faith that God does fulfill all of my needs.
I love that Voice and listen to It often. It brings me joy, love, peace and the will to live. Thank you.
Blessings,
Phyllis
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