After reading Gino's post today, I felt led to share what happened to me about 25 years ago.  I was in a physically/emotionally abusive marriage where hardly a day went by without a major confrontation.  One afternoon, while my son was taking his nap and his father had gone back to work, I knelt by the side of the bed and just poured out my heart to the Lord.  I had a Bible but it pretty much was just a dust collector.  I had no idea what was in it.  While kneeling and crying I HEARD a voice that said, "Linda, you are mine."  I looked up because it was so clear I was sure someone had come in the room even though the door to the apartment was locked.

About 3-4 days later at a laundromat I saw a Guideposts magazine and picked it up to scan through it.  About halfway through the magazine, my eyes lit upon the verse from Isaiah 41:1 "Fear not, I have called thee by name, thou art mine."   I put the magazine down and cried.  I didn't know about confirmations from the Lord or any of that stuff.  I only knew it was not my imagination.  He really did speak to me.

I have told this to a few others and most of them have pooh-poohed it.  They told me that doesn't happen anymore.  Now God speaks through His Word.  That is true, but I am not so ignorant of what the Bible says anymore.  My Bible says "I am the Lord God, I change not."   If He chooses to speak in an audible voice to someone, who are we to say He cannot do that?  I tell them,  "You could have been in that room and you wouldn't have heard Him because He was not speaking to you.  He was speaking to me."

Thank you.....and Maranatha!!

Linda