Ways God speaks

This is for those that think no matter how many times you cry out to Him, that God has "forgotten" you or doesn't hear you.  Maybe you are waiting on him to audibly give you an answer for something you have been asking him about, or maybe you are just waiting on a "sign."  God just seems "silent" to you.


Regardless, our God still speaks.


One of Job's friends said to him, "Why do you complain to him that He answers none of man's words?" Job 33:14.  Then he mentions some of the ways God speaks....

¹⁴ For God does speak—now one way, now another—    though no one perceives it. ¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night,    when deep sleep falls on people    as they slumber in their beds, ¹⁶ he may speak in their ears    and terrify them with warnings, ¹⁷ to turn them from wrongdoing    and keep them from pride, ¹⁸ to preserve them from the pit,    their lives from perishing by the sword.^[b] 19 “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain    with constant distress in their bones, ²⁰ so that their body finds food repulsive    and their soul loathes the choicest meal. ²¹ Their flesh wastes away to nothing,    and their bones, once hidden, now stick out. ²² They draw near to the pit,    and their life to the messengers of death.^[c] 23 Yet if there is an angel at their side,    a messenger, one out of a thousand,    sent to tell them how to be upright, ²⁴ and he is gracious to that person and says to God,    ‘Spare them from going down to the pit;    I have found a ransom for them— ²⁵ let their flesh be renewed like a child’s;    let them be restored as in the days of their youth’— ²⁶ then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,    they will see God’s face and shout for joy;    he will restore them to full well-being. ²⁷ And they will go to others and say,    ‘I have sinned, I have perverted what is right,    but I did not get what I deserved. ²⁸ God has delivered me from going down to the pit,    and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’ ²⁹ “God does all these things to a person—    twice, even three times— ³⁰ to turn them back from the pit,    that the light of life may shine on them.

The truth is, God may not be speaking audibly to you, but He might be speaking to you in ways you wouldn't imagine.  Look around you and be alert to what He is saying to you.

You just might find He has been speaking to you and you just weren't listening to His voice.