God’s Ways: Communing With His Own (35) 2025
I believe it is of considerable importance to acknowledge and understand that indeed God does speak to His sons and daughters. He does so in a number and variety of ways.
I have experienced the following ways God uses to commune with His own:
1) Speaks with an audible voice
2) The Holy Spirit’s still small voice (gentle whisper)
3) Through sitting in God’s Presence and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead my thoughts
4) The Holy Spirit’s process of revealing God and His ways and of teaching / bringing to you His wisdom, knowledge & understanding
5) Through dreams with and without spoken messages
6) Through visions
7) Through God’s Word, the Holy Bible, and His revealing levels / layers of understanding
8) Through prayer / talking with God
9) Through God answering prayer
10) Through the Gift of Tongues
In this writing, I will share two of the ways God has communed with me: 1) Through the Holy Spirit’s still small voice and 2) The Holy Spirit’s process of revealing God and His ways and of teaching / bringing to me some of His wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
The Holy Spirit’s Still Small Voice (Gentle Whisper)
The Holy Spirit spoke directly to me for the first time shortly after my born-again experience on October 2, 2001. The Holy Spirit’s direct voice is not audible. His voice always comes as a quiet whisper into my spirit. This still small voice could go unnoticed if it wasn’t for the fact that God makes it known that the Holy Spirit is directly speaking to me. The Holy Spirit has always spoken in short phrases, sometimes as short as one word. In many instances He has used phraseology/ terminology that I would not normally use when I speak.
I have shared in other writings some phrases the Holy Spirit has spoken such as “put your house in order,” “this is but a prelude of what is to come,” A few more examples: “literal”, “spend time with family” and “take possession of your destiny”.
Other direct phrases accompanied four dreams; “It is time for the harvest of souls to begin,” “Read 1 Corinthians 15:22,” “The gathering of thy people, Israel” and “The Church will be removed.” And, there have been a number of other experiences of hearing the “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit.
A number of months after the first experience with hearing the “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit, I watched interviews on two different Christian programs during which the “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit was mentioned. This “still small voice” was described in the same way as I have experienced it.
1 Kings 19: 11 & 12 – The Lord said, Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
The Holy Spirit’s Teaching Process
When I have said to people God spoke this, I have received strange looks and responses (or lack of responses) that seem to indicate what they were thinking, which is something like, “Dorothy, you have an active imagination.”
What I have learned is that the Holy Spirit uses a process as He reveals God, His character and His ways to you and brings you wisdom and knowledge with understanding.
The process works something like this: The Holy Spirit introduces a topic. This topic may be introduced through a sermon, God’s Word, another person, a Christian TV program, reading material or in some other way..
Then, the Holy Spirit draws my attention to this topic over and over again and feeds me until I have pondered, digested, and discerned the knowledge that leads to an understanding of the truth found in God’s Word.
Oftentimes, shortly after the topic is introduced, I feel bombarded with information about this subject. Everywhere I turn the topic seems to be going through dissection for my benefit. This process that includes information gathering, going through experiences and witnessing demonstrations may take as little as a day or two, a couple of weeks, may go on for many months, or is still on-going.
The process continues until the Holy Spirit decides I have pondered, digested and discerned enough to have obtained the knowledge needed to reach a point of understanding. Then, this understanding is taken into the depths of my soul and becomes a part of who I am in Christ. Depending upon the depth of the subject matter, understanding may be deepened and taken into my soul at progressive levels.
John 16: 13 & 14 (Jesus speaking) When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He (Holy Spirit) will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to Me by taking from what is Mine and making it known to you.
I have loved how the Holy Spirit works to bring God’s Word to life for me. Most of the time, I read and study using the King James Version or New King James Version of the Bible, because on many occasions I will come to a passage and it’s like the Holy Spirit just lays God’s Word out right in front of me and I think to myself, this is exactly what the Holy Spirit has been teaching me. The Holy Spirit draws you into God’s Word and is the person of God who guides you into all truth.
Personal Testimony of
Dorothy von Lehe
Post 35
2025