Does God really speak to us?@!?!?

Well, the answer to that is Yes, absolutely 10000% God speaks to each of us~ the real question is do we stop and Listen to what He is saying to us. See just like our customized plan that we discussed in the previous post God speaks to each of His children in a different way. There are many many many ways that God speaks~ sometimes, His majestic mountains might speak to our hearts, or a beautiful spring rain that leads to a rainbow, maybe it is the homeless man asking for a dollar that gives you that little pull in your heart. Many times it is through His word~ He gives us scripture and many times He gives us each other. I have always been skeptical so to speak when I hear someone say " God told me....." I always want to say really, how can you be sure, did He yell that out to you~ did you hear Him audibly~ the answer~ probably not~ I think many times we put God away in a little box and pretend that the same God that raised Lazerus from the dead and walked on water and turned water into wine doesn't exist anymore which is such a lie from Satin. He exists now more than ever~ we pretend as if the day that Jesus stopped walking as a human on earth, that the miracles just stopped~ another big lie~ God doesn't need us, He wants us, He wants two way communication with us His children. He knows all, so why don't we take the time to ask Him ~ He is in every detail, so no discussion is trivial with God. Tonight, I was at a prayer group and there was a man there that I had never met before, He shared a very stressful prayer request~ I opened my Bible and had decided that when the group was leaving that I would give him Psalm 91. I opened my Bible to Psalm 91 so that I would have it ready and He immediately without knowing my thoughts or that my Bible was open to the specific scripture, shared that on Thursday his wife gave him a very special scripture Psalm 91 ~ I was amazed and I couldn't help it I just told him right then and there that I had marked my Bible to give him Psalm 91~ see many would chalk that up and consider it coincidence~ my dear sisters and brothers in Christ~ THAT IS OUR FATHER MAKING SURE THAT THIS SWEET MAN COULD CLING TO GOD'S WORD~ SO THAT HE COULD CLAIM THAT PARTICULAR VERSE~ GOD WANTS TO USE THAT IN HIS LIFE. I didn' know this man at all, but God does and God knew that He needed that verse. This is just one way that God speaks. When I pray to God I ask him to please speak very clearly to me, so that there is no misunderstanding, and He is faithful in revealing Himself in extremely clear ways, I will give one more example before closing for the night. When I became pregnant with my 4 year old, the fertility clinic called and said you're pregnant, but your progesterone level is a 2 and this is bad it should be like 22 at this stage in the pregnancy to sustain the baby~ this was a Friday afternoon, so they sent me home with little hope and explained without a doubt that I was on my way to my 3rd miscarriage. It was more than I thought I could bear and the fear overwhelmed me. I prayed for God's peace in that desperate moment, I prayed that He would show me His control and that everything was going to be ok one way or another. I was sitting in my home office which was later to become the nursery in Nashville, TN. It was a cold fall day,and the brightest bluebird that I had ever seen tapped on the office window. I didn't think too much about it, I since have learned that bluebirds are not out very often in cold weather and I had never seen a bluebird around our Nashville home, but the next morning again this bluebird kept tapping on the window. I would go in and acknowledge that I heard it and it would fly away. I told my Christian mother about my returning bluebird and she thought that perhaps my emotions were running a bit high ,probably a coincidence. Well, she came for a visit and the bluebird did not fail to miss a morning, that bluebird came rain, sleet and snow. 9 months passed, the office was now a nursery, and the bluebird had not missed a morning. I went to the hospital to have Bella and I brought her home, and I never saw the bluebird in Nashville again,I found peace in that bluebird in the midst of some fearful times, well the story gets better, we moved to Atlanta, and to my knowledge never saw a bluebird again, 4 years passed, no bluebirds, we moved to Birmingham, and I became unexpectadly blessed with another pregnancy ,but again fear set in, and I was overwhelmed ~ I again fell on my face before Jesus and prayed for peace and rest from fear. It was a February day a year ago, and David and I were standing in what would be the dining room of the house that we were having built. It was so cold, and as we looked out of what would become the dining room window a bluebird flew right towards us .As I wept over a bluebird, I found God's promise for me , His peace for me. See it might not be a bluebird, God speaks differently to each of us. I promise you though, that if you are willing to listen to Him He will tell you some amazing things and provide you with love and peace like no other can. See for me it is not coincidence in the bluebird ,even though skeptics could call it that . That little bluebird sent from God Himself helped me hear His voice of peace at the moment that I needed to hear it. I just get so excited at the anticipation of what He wants to tell me next. We do not serve some far away God that sits so far way on a throne where He cannot be reached and cannot hear us. We serve a God that adores us, that made us for His glory, that loves to talk to us and hear us and He loves miracles and He knows all things and understands every fiber of your being. He is alive, in your heart and all around you at every second of every moment of every single day!! It is my prayer for each of you that God is so tangiable in your life that the little bluebirds never become coincidences!!! I am praying for each of you daily, if you have specific prayer requests feel free to either post them in comments, or you can e-mail them to me privately at kimstarkville@yahoo.com

Until His name is Heard everywhere~
Kimberly
Matthew 7:7-8