I have never actually heard God's voice but when I do, I figure it will 
sound like mine.  I laugh when I say things like that but in one of my 
ebooks called Symbol of Evil, a man dies and goes to Heaven.  As he meets 
the Lord, he tells Jesus he thought he'd look more like himself.  Don't be 
surprised when we get there if the Lord does indeed look like you.  Anyhow, 
tonight, this is Thursday, we found out a newly married Christian couple 
were heading out to the hospital.  She had not felt movement for about a 
day, she thought, so they wanted to make sure.  The baby is almost due so it 
won't be long now.  Anyhow, I knew, since this is their first, both husband 
and wife would be more than a little concerned so we did the only thing we 
could do; we prayed.  By we, I mean, my son, Sandy, me, and everybody else 
they contacted.  I was at my desk so I stopped to pray.  I did not open my 
mouth but I prayed in my thoughts as I mostly do these days.  I was praying 
for a number of things concerning the couple of their baby and when I 
mentioned the little girl, still in her mother's womb, I heard what easily 
could have been taken as my own voice but it wasn't.  The thoughts that 
touched me were these.  "She is asleep."  The feeling of well being touched 
me emotionally and I believe the words I heard.  After all, the Bible says 
we have the mind of Christ.  An hour or so later, the couple contacted our 
son, the husband works for our son, Everett, in his drapery shop, and 
reported all was well.  I then told my wife and my son what the Lord told 
me.  Why didn't I call the couple myself and tell them what I had heard?  I 
could have done just that but I didn't because the Lord never told me to 
tell them.  If the Lord had said to tell them, I would have done just that 
but with fear and trembling.  When you receive a Word from the Lord such as 
that, you best be buddies with Jesus and your relationship best be tight, if 
you know what I mean.  If you say, "This is what the Lord says," you better 
be right but I also learned from the Lord a long time ago, intercessors are 
to keep such things to themselves unless the Lord says otherwise.  I'll tell 
you something more.  As I received the all clear report about the little 
unborn girl, I sat and thank God for everything and I did something else. 
If you know nothing of the position of an intercessor, this won't make much 
sense to you but I'll tell you anyway.  In my attitude of thanksgiving for 
all God had done, I was praying along, silently, and my thoughts changed on 
the fly, as it were, and I said, "Little girl?  You are ok now.  Jesus wants 
to sing to you.  Will you listen?  He is going to sing to you and He likes 
singing to little ones."  As I said, this likely sounds weird to you but it 
has happened to me personally so many times over the years, I accept it for 
what it is; God.  So it all boils down to one thing and that is, what are we 
willing to accept from God.  Are we willing to accept His Word?  How about 
His mind and His thoughts?  No, you say?  It's too new age for you.  Ok, 
what did I hear in my thoughts?  Some would say you heard a lying spirit. 
This means you know little about lying spirits, if that is what you think, 
because they don't speak of life nor do they ever tell the truth or speak 
the truth.  Additionally, some of us believe God never speaks outside His 
written Word.  If you believe all there is to know about God is only talked 
about in the Bible, then I understand why you don't believe God has a voice 
and He uses it.  If you know the Bible at all, you know it says we, as born 
again children of God, carry within us the person of the Holy Spirit; the 
third personage of the Trinity.  The Bible clearly teaches the Holy Spirit 
is in communication with God the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ, and this 
communication is perpetual and eternal.  God doesn't have to use words but 
He functions entirely within the framework of His written Word.  That is, 
within the context of the Bible.  Do I hear God's voice because I'm such a 
wonderful guy, a wiz of a Christian, and the best Bible interpreter and 
teacher to come down the pike since the first century?  We both know the 
answer.  So why does God talk to me?  The answer is simple.  It is because I 
am learning to listen.  Most of the time, we want God to listen to us and to 
be aware of our feelings.  There is nothing wrong with that but Jesus wants 
to share all of whom He is with us.  It is known as fellowship.  I don't 
know, you say, it is still weird and there is something wrong with it.  Let 
me tell you of another way I prayed once upon a time.

We were holding Friday night prayer meetings in our home and Sunday morning 
church type meetings.  We sang and worshipped both times.  One Friday night, 
someone made a request.  We did not go around the circle and ask for 
individual prayer requests alone.  That is to say, we did do that, but it 
was understood, and practiced by all, to speak up during the time of prayer 
so we could focus on that request at any given moment.  Sometimes we prayed 
together, that is more than one person praying at a time, and other times we 
prayed quietly to ourselves.  The Lord nudged me in the spirit and said, 
"Pray for," and He told me to focus on whatever someone had mentioned as a 
request.  I did pray for that request and near the end of the petition I 
laid before the Lord, I spoke something I had not previously had in my mind. 
This means, I spoke without thinking and the words came out of my mouth 
before my brain registered them.  I said, "Lord, I am asking you for this 
because we are friends and friends do things for each other.  I'm asking 
you, as your friend, to do this for me."  The strange thing isn't what I 
spoke without afore thought; the strange thing is I felt the power and 
authority of the words themselves.  You see, they weren't my words but those 
of the Holy Spirit speaking through me and they bypassed my brain and 
thinking processes.  In other words, they bypassed my mind.  Did I make it 
up?  No, because I said them before my mind registered the words I spoke. 
What if they were not of God?  By this, I suppose, you are saying they might 
be demonic in nature or just something I thought sounded cute and spoke them 
to impress everyone in the room.  First, using a little common sense, not to 
mention some Biblical discernment, is what I said wrong or even 
unscriptural?  If you've read the Bible at all, you know we have fellowship 
with God through the finished work of Jesus Christ and the ministry of the 
Holy Spirit who dwells within us.  Don't make me quote all the Scriptures 
that confirm what I just said.  If you doubt what I said, look it up for 
yourself.  So, it can't be demonic but it could be something I made up on my 
own.  No one in the room, unless they have spiritual discernment, would know 
if I were faking it or not.  I know the truth, of course, because those 
words literally left my lips before my mind had a chance to identify them. 
Yes, it is my word against yours.  Again, it gets back to what we are 
willing to accept from God.  The lack of acceptance of who God truly is, 
relates to pride.  That may be a hard pill to swallow but if you stop and 
think about it, unbelief is nothing more than pride hiding behind human 
reasoning.  Also, if you know next to nothing of New Testament covenants, 
you will be unable to accept much from God at all, including a salvitic 
experience of being born again; the greatest covenant of all.  Let's talk 
about covenants for a minute.  The basic definition of a covenant of any 
kind is this:  Everything I have belongs to you and everything you have 
belongs to me.  Most Christians can accept the first half of that definition 
but not the second.  How can everything God has belong to me?  I mean, I get 
it that I owe everything to God but it sounds, and feels unscriptural, to 
think it works both ways.  What about a marriage?  Does my definition of 
covenant manifest itself in a marital relationship?  If it doesn't, it is a 
mighty poor marriage.  Many marriage relationships, even Christian ones, 
fall apart, or at best are miserable, simply because they do not understand 
the nature of a covenant.  It is true, on the other hand, that a marriage is 
a covenant, meaning, everything the wife has belongs to her husband and 
everything the husband has belongs to his wife.  I can talk about covenants 
later but for now, what does God say.  The answer?  Whatever we believe.

Phil.