I know each of us longs for the day when we will speak to God "face to face"
as we spend eternity with Him in heaven. We long for the day our minds will be opened to
understand His mysteries which are hidden from us while we learn how to become sons and daughters.
I know every child of God has been through those times when we wish He would speak to us as we search
for His will in our lives. There are always those decisions that are so difficult to make as we seek
to know the "WHYS" and we seek to know the right thing to do.
Guess what? God is speaking to you! It's you who have failed to listen or when
it was not what you wanted to hear you ignored what the Holy Spirit was saying in your heart.
We carnal humans have a great way of justifying in our minds things that don't match up with
what we want to hear or things that don't agree with what we think we understand.
 What I want everyone to understand is that there is a great deal of
difference between 'head' knowledge and 'heart' knowledge. Let me explain this a little
more - we can hear a thousand sermons and sit under great teaching for many years but if
it only becomes knowledge that sits in our heads and never reaches our hearts then it does
us no good. For example, we can read passage after passage about the gift of the Holy Spirit
and believe it in our heads but until we begin living like we believe it in our hearts we will
never understand it. God sent His Spirit to live in us when we accepted Jesus and were born again.
His Spirit is with you every second of your life, sleeping or awake He is there.
Every word you speak He already knows it. Every action you take He has
already seen the outcome. Your thoughts and intentions are already known to Him. He
understands your dreams even when you think no one but you understand. When you begin
to accept these things and live with the knowledge in your heart that God is always there
and sees the intent of your heart then you can develop that relationship that allows you to hear when He speaks to you.
How many times have you heard or read Jeremiah 29:11-13 KJV
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
 It is your heart that must understand that God is always there ---
you must search for Him with all your heart. It is your heart that God searches and knows;
if you're not seeking Him with all your heart then your search will come up empty.
How about Psalms 139, a very important part of scripture to know and understand.
Verse 16 KJV Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book
all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Verse 16 NIV your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
You can know this scripture in your head and even believe it but until
you understand it and live your life with this understanding in your heart you will never
know the peace that comes from knowing that God is in complete control and there is nothing
that can happen to you that He doesn't already know about and is in control of. Yes, He has
written each and every one of your days in His book before a single one of them came to be.
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