What is the Holy Spirit Whispering?

[architectlink]

Today my husband's bible study was about what the Holy Spirit whispers in our ears, our minds, our dreams.

Anybody have anything that the Holy Spirit prompted YOU to do. Did you do it or not?

[architectlink]

Last weekend my husband was in Tennessee at a Father Son camp and about to go off the 700' long zip line with lunch money in his pocket. He felt that the LORD impressed upon him to give some guys sitting alone his lunch money ($20 & a $5 bill).

He brushed off the impulse and zipped down the zipline.

His money promptly washed out of his pocket.

[architectlink]

Somefriends were on the highway from New Orleans after Katrina with barely enough gas in their tank to make it to Orlando.

Suddenly, their daughter said, "I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM."

Fortunately he swerved to that exit...and found out that if he had stayed on the highway he was on, he would have been another 200 miles to the next exit for gas and he would have been going away from his destination in Florida.

God is good!

[Patty T]

Yes He is -- all the time. Thank you for sharing your stories.

[My Abba's Child]

About a month after accepting God's gift of salvation, the Holy Spirit started teling me I needed to stop smoking. Silly me, I argued... "There's nothing in the Bible that says smoking tobacco is a sin, or even that it's wrong to do." But, whenever I'd pray, I would get the thought that I need to stop smoking. I kept arguing that I don't want to stop smoking and there's nothing in the Bible that says I should. Well, one day, while praying, I got this verse in my mind, "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?" Argument over. :laugh By the next month, I was no longer smoking. That was 4 years ago this October. :D:

Earlier this year, my husband ad I stopped at a KFC on our way home from a trip to the next city (about 100 miles) and a boy and his grandpa came and sat at a table next to ours. It seemed to me that the boy was visiting Grandpa. They got their food and sat down at the table and the Grandpa had to hold the boy up from digging in to lead him in a prayer.

As we were getting up to leave, I looked down at the cross necklace I was wearing and got, "Give it to the boy." My husband gave me the necklace (which was just a cross on a thick black thread chain) for Christmas one year... I fought the idea for a few minutes... but I realized that the idea was something I would NOT come up with on my own, so it must be the Holy Spirit guiding me. So, I walked over to their table and handed the necklace to the grandpa and told him, "I'd like to give this to your grandson to remind him of what you've been teaching him and remember who he's praying to, but I want to give it to you for you to decide if it's something you want him to have." (because I don't want someone giving my kids something without my permission. hehe) He said, "Umm... Ok... Yeah, he can have it." I can only imagine what God is going to use my little $5 cross necklace to do in that little boys' heart."

In His love,

[OwnedByJesus]

I often pray for many people I do not know that well. I believe He has given me that desire.
It does happen often that, when talking to people, I feel I should bring up God in the discussion. Some times I do not:(: Some times I do:):

When I read the bible I often pray before hand that I will hear Him and I must say that doing so helps.

This remindes me of the old hymn 'This is my Father's world'
...This is my Father's world,
he shines in all that's fair;
in the rustling grass I hear him pass;
He speaks to me everywhere...

Our Lord is GREAT! He has enabled us to hear Him and for that I am forever thankful! Praise be to our Lord!!! :clap

[Amy214]

I have had the Holy Spirit tell me not to do something. I tend to be a worry wort. I kept worring about something happening to my husband.Then I heard
"I'll take care of him, I always do".
Let me tell you I did not worry about him at all.
One of those I did not actually hear it but the thought was not my own.

[Blessed4ever]

He recently told me to get on my knees once during a prayer service and once during our worship service....Not really unusual but He did say it and I did obey, but not something I had done before in a corporate setting. I started to hesitate when it happend during worship and I immediately started feeling like my knees were going to buckle! It was like He was saying, "Do it or I'll do it for you!" (not in a mean way, btw)

Lately He's teaching me alot about immediate obedience and about waiting on Him and He's blessing me through it!

God is good, all the time!

[architectlink]

About a month after accepting God's gift of salvation, the Holy Spirit started teling me I needed to stop smoking. Silly me, I argued... "There's nothing in the Bible that says smoking tobacco is a sin, or even that it's wrong to do." But, whenever I'd pray, I would get the thought that I need to stop smoking. I kept arguing that I don't want to stop smoking and there's nothing in the Bible that says I should. Well, one day, while praying, I got this verse in my mind, "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?" Argument over. :laugh By the next month, I was no longer smoking. That was 4 years ago this October. :D:

Earlier this year, my husband ad I stopped at a KFC on our way home from a trip to the next city (about 100 miles) and a boy and his grandpa came and sat at a table next to ours. It seemed to me that the boy was visiting Grandpa. They got their food and sat down at the table and the Grandpa had to hold the boy up from digging in to lead him in a prayer.

As we were getting up to leave, I looked down at the cross necklace I was wearing and got, "Give it to the boy." My husband gave me the necklace (which was just a cross on a thick black thread chain) for Christmas one year... I fought the idea for a few minutes... but I realized that the idea was something I would NOT come up with on my own, so it must be the Holy Spirit guiding me. So, I walked over to their table and handed the necklace to the grandpa and told him, "I'd like to give this to your grandson to remind him of what you've been teaching him and remember who he's praying to, but I want to give it to you for you to decide if it's something you want him to have." (because I don't want someone giving my kids something without my permission. hehe) He said, "Umm... Ok... Yeah, he can have it." I can only imagine what God is going to use my little $5 cross necklace to do in that little boys' heart."

In His love,

What a great story! Praise the LORD!

I think that God uses humans whenever we listen...and if we don't listen then HE just sends an angel to do our jobs...

I'm always blessed to hear when someone listens to the Holy Spirit and obeys...I have heard so many miraculous stories. Bless you!

[bopeep1909]

Yes, I did it.<><

[mama_bear]

Before I married my husband I was very torn (because he's an unbeliever). I was praying and talking with the Lord about it and he told me "Don't worry, he'll come around." I was so surprised. Surprised He told me that and surprised that He didn't use words like in the Kings Jame Bible.

[valerie]

A very long story shortened - years ago my husband and I and our first two young toddlers were driving very late and ended up at a motel that was sort of Bates-ish. It was the wee morning hours yet we'd still had nothing to eat, so we had to drive back into the town for food.

By all rights those two toddlers should have been wiped out and sleeping, but for the 10 minute ride back to the motel they kept jabbering incessantly. Even more interesting was they kept mentioning the motel.

Every time they said the word "motel" I got butterflies. Right before we got there, my husband turns to me and says, "I don't think we should stay at the motel." I asked why and he said, "Because every time the kids say 'motel' my stomach gets sick."

We backed in, my husband told us to stay in the car, he threw our possessions out the door directly into the back of the truck and we left a big dust cloud behind us. We had to go in the filled city and spend 200 for a hotel room by then, but it mattered little to us by that time. To this day I don't know what the Lord saved us from, but I know He was merciful to us that night.

[ipjones6000]

My relationship with the Lord is based a lot on faith. I haven't got, and got the impression I never will, the whole 'burning bush' experience. I've come to rely on my total faith in God, and discerning what I ought to be doing or not. I trust that he will put me where I should be.

[Greeneyes]

I've had that sort of "sick to your stomach" or 'knife jab" experience a lot lately where I feel God was leading me away from someone or something evil:

1. When a teacher was gossiping about our teacher and I had to distance myself from what chaos she was spreading. (It was true but unkind).

2. When a bible study leader tried to limit the number of people we could include at a fellowship meeting.

3. When I found by accident some terrible stuff someone had posted online about a good friend, including photos, etc.

4. When I've had to help friends distance themselves from stalkers.

[BloodoftheLamb]

When you carry out those whispers I think each time you get a step closer to God....

[architectlink]

Right before hurricane Katrina hit (I think) I posted about this incredible aurora we saw in Orlando...now I just noticed on spaceweather.com that many people around the world saw this before Katrina:
Tonight we had dinner outside at the pool and were amazed to see the Aurora's that probably resulted from the recent solar activity yesterday. If you were outside in ORLANDO FLORIDA looking west from around 6 pm-7:30, you probably saw the most amazing northern lightshow!.

I'm wondering if there will be any photos in the paper tomorrow. (Please let me know if you see anything in the media about it! It was awesome!

AURORA ALERT: Sunspot 798 exploded twice yesterday, August 22nd, and hurled a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs: #1, #2) toward Earth. Geomagnetic storms are possible when the clouds arrive on August 23rd and 24th. Sky watchers, particularly those in Alaska and Canada, should be alert for auroras!


August 2005
Aurora Gallery
back to spaceweather.com
Summary: A pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hit Earth's magnetic field on August 24th, sparking a severe geomagnetic storm. These CMEs were launched toward Earth by M-class explosions near fast-growing sunspot 798. Sky watchers saw auroras as far south as Colorado and Utah in the United States. [See also the July 2005 aurora gallery.]

[comicnurse]

God understands my profound love for animals. One night during the summer months, I was driving home from work. I worked the 3-11 shift so it was close to midnight. I was putting along on this curvy road when all of a sudden the Holy Spirit started telling me to slow down. The speed limit was
55 mph, but I slowed down to about 45. Again, the Holy Spirit said to slow down again and again until I was going about 25 mph. I said out loud, "Okay, Lord, I know you have me slowing down for a reason." I soon rounded a corner, and there laying under a street light, was a big ol' golden retriever. He was all stretched out. I could not have stopped for him had I been driving the speed limit. He looked up at me, wagged his tail and wandered over to his owner's yard. He was not limping or acting as if he had been hit.

I gave thanks. I would have been an emotional wreck had I hit that dog.

Kendra

[peoplz266]

God understands my profound love for animals. One night during the summer months, I was driving home from work. I worked the 3-11 shift so it was close to midnight. I was putting along on this curvy road when all of a sudden the Holy Spirit started telling me to slow down. The speed limit was
55 mph, but I slowed down to about 45. Again, the Holy Spirit said to slow down again and again until I was going about 25 mph. I said out loud, "Okay, Lord, I know you have me slowing down for a reason." I soon rounded a corner, and there laying under a street light, was a big ol' golden retriever. He was all stretched out. I could not have stopped for him had I been driving the speed limit. He looked up at me, wagged his tail and wandered over to his owner's yard. He was not limping or acting as if he had been hit.

I gave thanks. I would have been an emotional wreck had I hit that dog.

Kendra
Cool story! God knows I love animals too, I think that is why all of the stray dogs/cats always find their way into my yard. :heh

[peoplz266]

Today my husband's bible study was about what the Holy Spirit whispers in our ears, our minds, our dreams.

Anybody have anything that the Holy Spirit prompted YOU to do. Did you do it or not?
I don't think I have ever really had a prompt from the Holy Spirit. I have had "feelings" like I really should do something for some reason, but they always turned out to be false. :confused

[Waiting4theKing]

The Holy Spirit prompted me to pick up a hitchhiker. This was shortly after I got saved (May '05). I have not picked up a hitchhiker in like 15 years. I was on my home from work (about a 45 min drive) and there on the entrance ramp was this kid maybe 25 or so, with a rather road-weary look about him. I passed him by with hardly a glance, as I usually do and started down the expressway. As soon as I passed him something in me said "pick him up." I ignored it and continued on my way. Each yard further from this kid I got the stronger the feeling to pick him up got. After about 3 miles I turned around and went back and picked him up.
Turns out the kid was a Christian on his way to a new job in Maryland and had been hitchhiking from Minnesota for the last 3 weeks. We had a great talk about Jesus, and how people do not pray enough anymore. When I dropped him off we gave God's blessing to each other.

I guess I should mention that this kid looked a lot like Jesus does in all the paintings. Afterwords I read the passage from Matthew 25:
Mat 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Coincidence? Maybe. But I'd like to think it was the Holy Spirit talking to me.

[SnoDog]

I don't think I have ever really had a prompt from the Holy Spirit. I have had "feelings" like I really should do something for some reason, but they always turned out to be false. :confused

Same here, it's no wonder I always feel left out in threads like this.

[JesusLover_2002]

yes, I have!!

[IamHis]

This is just a small something, but , sometimes when I sign off on an email to a customer ( I sell on ebay) something prompts me to say "God bless". Sometimes I hesitate because of not knowing that person's personal persuasion of faith, but lately I have been doing it more and more. I am more often than not very pleased to get a response with a Christian message to it. Like they were pleased I said God bless and felt free to answer in kind. Even though part of my email signature has the words " I am the Good Shepherd, I know my sheep and they know me" I still added the "God bless" instead of something like " sincerely "or whatever. Ok, I guess my whole point is that the Holy Spirit is prompting me to be open about my faith in the Lord and I am more boldly going forth with it.

[mudshell1]

The biggest one that I can remember is when I was about 10 years old. It was late, my mother, infant sister and I were :car home which was about 45 minutes away. For some reason, when we stopped at a stop sign, I told my mom that I was putting my seat belt on, she did to. (We were NOT seatbelt wearers back then.) We also decided to unbuckle my sister's carseat, turn it sideways and buckle it back in. :hrm

We were a block away from home when we were rear ended by a truck that was speeding (we were in a little Ford Festiva). I still remember, to this day, the force of the impact and being thrown forward, then backward and hitting my head on the seat. When we got to the hospital, the doc said that if I had not had my seatbelt on, there was no away I would have survived the accident. :fear Also, my mom's seat broke and had my sister's carseat been buckled in correctly, she would have been injured as well when the broken seat was thrown back on her.

Today, I know that this was the Holy Spirit that told me to buckle up and turn my sister around.

I have learned to obey the "messages" I receive no matter how silly or trivial they may be. :nod

[I Believe!!!]

Wow!

[Kathe]

I have gotten myself in trouble more times than I can count not listening to the Holy Spirit. I've learned the hard way to listen and follow through fast. No point in waiting because it is always for good. I also believe the more you believe and the more you listen, the more you will hear. If you don't listen, then why should the Holy Spirit even bother. I love the way God speaks. I can't wait to be closer someday.

[Darin]

Around December 20th I was trying to decide which church to go to for Christmas Eve. I was trying to decide between the local Roman Catholic Cathedral, which I like because they do the service in French, and the local Anglican Church. I was leaning towards the RC Cathedral, because I find the services sound somehow more profound in French [i'ts kinda like what the Latin would sound like], but I was strongly considering the Anglican [even though they're way more seeker-friendly] because they allow anybody to take cmmunion, wheras the Catholics have fairly strict rules on who can participate in Mass.

Anyways, I was thinking about this as I was coming home from work, and I got the strongest impression in my mind from the Holy Spirit, that I should go to the Anglican service and take communion, even though I was personally leaning against it. This happened about a minute before I was about to pass the Anglican church building. As I passed the Anglican church, I saw on their billboard that they had just put up the times of their Christmas Eve services that afternoon. The coincidence seemed really, well, non-coincidential, if you know what I mean :)

[Joyfull]

In my job, periodically there are opportunities to increase your pay if certain conditions are met. Over the years I have been SO tempted lots of times to cheat just an itty-bitty bit to get a pay increase. Because of the way things are set up, it would be very easy to cheat and with little chance of getting caught.

However, EVERY TIME I have given serious thought to cheating, there has been this small voice in the back of my head saying "Have I not ALWAYS taken care of you? Yes or no?" The question will keep repeating over and over until I say "Yes, Lord, you have. I won't do it". I always feel so humbled that He would choose to speak to ME. There is nothing that escapes His notice!:thumb

[Sophie]

I hadn't spoken to my dad in almost five years by mutual agreement. One day after a particluar sermon, as I was walking out of church, the Holy Spirit told me to call my dad as soon as I got in my car. And I'm arguing with him out loud through the parking lot saying, "No. Please do make me do this! You know how it will turn out. Please, I can't. :fear Okay fine but I can't be held responsible for my emotional state afterwards." So I did. It was what I expected, but my emotional reaction wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. What that call did for me, was make me realize he could no longer hurt me.

About a year later I hear from my aunt (his sister) saying that their aunt had just died, (my aunt and my dad have not spoken in over 20 years), she asked me if I would tell my sister, so she could tell our dad, that his aunt died (because she knew I wasn't speaking to him). I hung up and and the Holy Spirit told me to stop being silly. To just call and leave a message on his answering machine at his weekend house." So I did. This time no arguments. About 4 days later my dad called me back thanking me for letting him know.:twitch AND THEN, I got a Christmas card from him this year - the first in about 14 years.:faint So who knows!!?? I keep heeding the Holy Spirit and my dad and I may just have a relationship before Christ's second coming!

Blessings to ALL!