Who is Talking?

Date: 07/27/2025

Introduction: There are always voices all around us. Each one expects us to listen and respond rightly. How can you know who to listen to and who to ignore? Some helpful hints to figure it out. Tell yourself the truth. If someone or something is wrong, let yourself believe it. If someone is right, even if you don’t want them to be right, let yourself believe it. It is hard but make your choices with the goal of having no regret. I have found that studying what is right, and filling my head and heart with what is right makes it extremely easy to recognize when something is wrong. Because, if it isn’t right…. It’s wrong. The Bible says if they are not against us, they are on our side.

Scripture:

Mark 9:40

For he who is not against us is on our side.

Ask yourself, is what I am hearing lining up with the word of God? Is it telling right or wrong? When the Holy Spirit is your friend, he will guide you into what is right.

When I was a teenager, I read books that you would find in the occult section of the bookstore. Books by authors like Stephen King and John Saul. These books would have people hearing voices. They were affected by the voices and did what the voice said, and then bad things would happen. So, one day I am driving down a residential area. I’m about 16 years old and not exactly the most responsible driver on the road. I hear this little voice that says, “make a complete stop at this stop sign.” I thought to myself nobody made a complete stop at this stop sign and then I heard that little voice again saying make a complete stop at this stop sign. And then I thought, “who is this little voice? And I thought let’s do what this little voice says and see what happens. After all, the little voice is telling me to do the right thing and not the wrong thing. Keep in mind all these thoughts and things happen quickly. I heard that little voice repeat itself “make a complete stop at this stop sign.” So here I am thinking okay let’s just see what happens, so I did. I made a complete stop at the stop sign. So I’m sitting at this stop sign and I’m thinking okay here we are complete stop at the stop sign nothing’s happening and I go to look around to see if maybe I’m missing something and it wouldn’t you know that they’re to my right sat a police officer. If I had not listened to the little voice and continued as I usually, I would have gotten a ticket. So, I’m thinking, “wow this little voice must be my friend.” And this happened a couple more times. For example, I had a rough day at school, I was driving home, and I was getting ready to light a cigarette when that little voice said, “put that cigarette out, you don’t want it.” I said, “you must not have been there with me at school today because yes, I kind of do want it.” The little voice would just repeat itself again, “put it out you don’t want it.” And again, I said, “yes, I kind of do.” This time I did not listen to the little voice, and I lit the cigarette anyway. Wouldn’t you know as I went over the railroad tracks there was my dad. Now I was busted with a cigarette. Another time with me having a cigarette that the little voice would say, “put it out you don’t want it.” This time I was home, my dad had just left and that little voice would repeat itself, “put it out you don’t want it.” I thought to myself, “my dad left so, yes I do.” Again, I did not listen and within a few minutes my dad walked right back in and again I was in trouble smoking a cigarette. So, I could Begin to see a pattern that listening to this little voice would keep me out of trouble.

Unfortunately, I was not the controller of this little voice. There was situations and times where I would say, “this is really serious. I don’t know what to do. Little voice what should I do?” You know what I would hear? Nothing! “Little voice, little voice, where are you?” Again, I would hear nothing. Then I would have to choose for myself.

Years later I am hungover and I’m on my way on a road trip to see my boyfriend at the time. As I’m driving, I hear that little voice saying to me, “you shouldn’t go but you got to go.” I said what is that. What kind of message is that? What am I supposed to do with that? And again, the little voice would repeat, “you shouldn’t go but you got to go.” Okay, if I got to go, I got to go. So, I drive for 3 hours, and I get to where I’m going, and I meet up with my boyfriend. He tells me that we are having a cookout at his brother’s girlfriend’s place. Great, it should be fun. So, we’re at his brother’s girlfriend’s place. They’re doing the cooking, so he and I are sitting out on the porch chatting. I had just recently started a new job, and I hated it. It really was not a job for me. It was working for a life insurance company and it just not what I thought it would be. It was really causing me to feel high levels of stress. So, I was telling him how I needed a new job, I needed new glasses, and I needed new tires for my car. The evening went on, everything was pleasant. We got in my car and headed back to his brother’s place where we were staying. This is an area that we’re not exactly familiar with. Luckily, there were not many cars on the road at the time. We didn’t see any cars. That made it easy for us to take our time to read the street signs. So, we come up to a flashing yellow light and he tells me to go straight. As I began to go through the intersection a car, who had a flashing red light, did not stop at the flashing red light. That car hit me extremely hard. My car spun around and backed into a telephone pole. This really was an event that was kind of complicated because I am out of town, I have no family around, and now I don’t have a way home. My boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend agreed to give me a ride home. 3 hours later, I’m home with no glasses, no car, and I have a half cast on my right hand. Note that I am right-handed. So, I make it into work to talk with my supervisor about my situation. My supervisor tells me that he will have to let me go because in order to do my job I need to be able to drive, and I need to be able to write. In my current situation I don’t have a car and if I did get a car I can’t drive because I don’t have glasses. And, because I have a half cast on my right hand I cannot write so I could not perform the job that I was hired for. They did an audit on my accounts and found that all was in order but now I don’t have a job. As scary as that was, it took care of one of the items that I was just telling my boyfriend about that I wanted to get a different job. And because I lost my glasses in the accident the other driver’s insurance is now paying for me to get new glasses and since my car is now at the car graveyard, I can now get a new car that does not need new tires. So, the little voice said you shouldn’t go but you got to go and by going three of the concerns that weighed the heaviest on my heart were all addressed, and all solved through this event.

Later on when I rededicated my life to the Lord Jesus I was attending a church and decided to join that church and in order to be a member of that church you had to go through a class and in that class you took what they called a spiritual gift survey were. You would answer the questions, and it helped you figure out what your God-given spiritual gifts were. While speaking with the teacher the subject of the little voice came up, so we talked about that little voice. Come to find out between the teacher and I it was decided that that little voice was the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that Jesus sent to us the Holy Spirit as a comforter, a guide, and a conscience. I don’t always hear the audible little voice but since I try to keep an open communication with the Holy Spirit, I find that I can follow the convictions of my heart. So, when I am compelled to do something, even if it doesn’t make any sense, I know it will all work out for my good.

I would like to encourage you to open a Bible written in aversion that you can understand. Read it really slow as if you were meditating or chewing on each word as if each word had a message of its own. Because it does. Invite Jesus into your heart to be The Driver of your life So that you too can be friends with the Holy Spirit. Talk to the Holy Spirit often just like you would you’re absolutely very best friend because He is. Don’t treat your relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit as if you must wear a mask and be something that you’re not yet. Jesus knows your heart and He knows that we were created out of dust, and we are a mess, so you don’t have to come to Him after you get your stuff straight. You don’t have to wait until you’re all that to approach Him or to talk to the Holy Spirit. It’s better to come to Him bare-faced and bold letting Him know exactly how you feel, why you feel that way, and ask for help. If you wait until you make yourself good enough, then you will never approach Him because no matter how hard we try we are never good enough.

Father God in the name of Jesus I thank you so much that you are always there when we call upon your name. Lord Jesus, please forgive us of all our sins, and be The Driver of Our Lives. We surrender this mess of a life into Your hands. Thank You for forgiving us, for dying on the cross, and when You rose again, defeated death, hell, and the grave. Please make this life a life worth living. Holy Spirit, we invite You to be our absolute best friend. To surround us on all sides and help us to be the best version of ourselves that we can be as we walk toward fulfilling the assignment that God has for us. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for all that You have given us. Thank You that you never leave us forsake us or let us go in Jesus’ name we pray….

Further your Faith:

These verses remind us that no matter our past or current circumstances, God offers us hope, forgiveness, and a fresh start. By trusting in Him, we can embrace new beginnings with confidence and faith.

John 14:26 (New King James Version-NKJV)

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

John 14:25-27

New King James Version

The Gift of His Peace

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶ But the ^[a]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.