***Not exactly, not an audible voice, if that’s what you are referring to. The Lord communicates through prayer***
Are you saying that the Lord prays to you?
***When you are in a relationship with someone, you talk.***
Prayer is you talking to God. How does the Lord communicate with you?
***A favorite verse of mine is in Jeremiah 29, verse 13 “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” That is God talking, no?***
It is Scripture. You read it; how does it talk to you?
***That is God talking, no? He is saying (promising) that when we dilegently search for Him with a true heart, we will find Him. That’s just what the Lord Jesus did. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. He came with a heart that was perfect, loving, seeking.***
You said that He talks to you. How does He do that, with you?
***Why wouldn’t He continue to demonstrate that love, reveal it, let His loved one know just how much s/he means to Him? ***
Never said that He wouldn’t. How does He reveal it to you?
I am seeing responses here that the Biblioters give. I had a different opinion of your faith previously.
“...The Lord communicates through prayer***”
You said:
Are you saying that the Lord prays to you?
When you pray, do you ever wait (listen) for the answer? Why is that not plain to you?
You said,
“It is Scripture. You read it; how does it talk to you?”
It is the very nature of scripture to speak to the one reading it. When you read something, you comprehend its import. Well, the scriptures are the Word of God!
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
God’s word taught me about myself. Through His Spirit, the word cut into me with its truth, contending with my spirit, convicting me of my sin, convincing me of His goodness and mercy, persuading me of His Truth, His righteousness, revealing to me His Son. Now, after receiving salvation, it continues to work in me (on me) by reminding me day by day of God’s will for my life. Jesus took the basin of water and went around washing the disciples’ feet. To Peter He said, “He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.” Peter was not in need of the washing of regeneration (he had already obtained it in professing Christ as His Savior), but he needed the cleansing of his feet (daily, don’t you suppose?) Now, forward to Ephesians 5, “Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Those in Christ need the daily washing of water by the word that they might be cleansed. The word is instructive in this regard, as the psalmist has said, “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”
There are many other examples to be found of the efficacy of scripture. When the believer reads it, it instructs him it admonishes him, it exhorts him, it rebukes him, it commends him. It talks to him!