![]() ![]() It doesn’t matter how many goosebumps you get, how many signs you get, or how many people confirm what you think you heard God said- if it clearly violates scripture it is not from God. I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth for You have magnified Your word above all Your name. In fact, He has elevated it above His own name. He will never, ever violate His written word. This is so important to understand.Īny thought that contradicts the written word of God (the Bible) is not from God. When God Speaks Through Your Mind, It Will Never Contradict Scripture Here are 5 ways to know if God is speaking to you through your mind: 1. As you learn how to separate them, God will be able to speak more and more to you through your mind. Now that you know where your thoughts can originate from, it is so important that you learn to determine which thoughts are yours, which thoughts are from God, and which thoughts are from the devil. If you are someone who hears a lot of condemning thoughts, read my article What Does the Bible Say About Condemnation? It will be really helpful for you! He loves to make us feel rotten about ourselves and about God. The devil’s voice is very often accusatory and condemning. He uses the weaknesses of the flesh to entice us. He plays on our pride and love for money very often. When the devil or a demon gives you a thought, it can be very subtle because the devil will also give you thoughts in the first person. Of course, I prayed about this thought and allowed the Lord to confirm it in other ways, but this ‘spontaneous thought’ was how the Lord first told me to make a life-changing move across the country. Then, one day out of nowhere, I had a thought that said “I should move to Colorado”. When God told me to move across the country, He communicated it to my spirit at some point when I was completely unaware. We will talk more about how to accurately determine if thoughts are from God below. This is God speaking to you through your mind! The thought seems to come out of nowhere and will carry supernatural joy and peace with it. It may seem more like an inner knowing that a distinct voice. All the sudden you get a thought that sounds like “I should mow the neighbors lawn”. Your spirit takes that message, agrees with it, and communicates it to your mind as a thought. God communicates to your spirit that He wants you to mow the neighbor’s lawn. The thought is in the first person tense because God first communicated it to your spirit, and then your spirit sends the thought to your mind in the first person. This is why we can have a thought from God that sounds like “I should mow the neighbor’s lawn”. God is a spirit (John 4:24) and He speaks first to your spirit, and then your spirit translates it to your mind as a thought. ![]() ![]() Thoughts from your spirit are the channel by which God communicates with you. The carnal mind is all about me, me, me.īecause the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The carnal mind, or the flesh, is corrupt and not subject to the law of God. The flesh is the un-renewed mind, the part of you that was trained by the old sin nature before you were born again. Thoughts from your carnal mind or the flesh tend to be self-preserving, self-glorifying, and just plain selfish. Thoughts in your mind can come from three different sources: your own carnal mind, your born-again spirit that is one with God (1 Corinthians 6:17), or the devil. How to Know When God is Speaking Through Your Mind You are probably already hearing God in your thoughts but don’t even realize it’s God speaking through your mind! So let’s look at how we can start to discern whether our thoughts are from God or just our own mind. Learning to hear God speak to you in your mind is exciting, but requires practice to determine which thoughts are from Him. The ability to tell which thoughts are from God and which thoughts are just from yourself will get easier with experience. God can speak to you through your mind, but it comes through your spirit. Research reported by t he National Science Foundation found that the average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day! Out of those thousands of thoughts, could any of them be God speaking to you? If so, how can you tell? Does God speak through your mind? How do you know if the thoughts you have are from God or just your own thoughts? And how do you know if God is talking to you through your mind? Can God Talk to You in Your Mind? ![]()
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