When I was a young girl, my parents read the Bible to me and took me to church, but they said I had to learn to hear and see God myself. I needed to find a place to meet God where it was quiet enough to think and to go there every day to speak with Him. Just like Adam did every evening.
Naturally, I was perplexed. How could Someone who made the sun, moon and stars speak to me? "Don't worry," Mom said. "He speaks every language because he invented languages, and he knows how you hear because He made your ears. "If you are interested, He will make sure you hear."
So, after breakfast every day I would sit on the steps and chat with "God". I wasn't sure it was Him, but I spoke aloud as if He were standing right there. My Father mentioned that if He tells you to do
something, you need to do it quickly because your life might depend upon it. You see, my parents were missionaries where being a Christian was illegal.
Days later, I went to store to buy bread and before I was to cross a busy six lane street, I heard "God", the voice I'd been speaking with daily, shout "Ellen!" I turned around and saw no one. Maybe this was God?!? I turned to cross the street and He shouted my name again. No one was behind me again!
I was sure it was Him this time. At that very moment, a car ran through the red light in the middle of the street where I would have been. Like Samuel, I learned a lot about God's voice that day.
God doesn't speak aloud every day. Sometimes He gives a thought, a suggestion or He'll remind
you of an idea from the Bible that relates to what you are doing. So, read the whole Bible.
He can't remind you of something you haven't read. And God never contradicts what is in the Bible.
God is real, He loves you and He speaks.
"You will seek Me and find Me when you search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13