Featured Have you heard the voice of God? Or, if He talks, what ways do you hear Him?

"John Bunyan says that one Sunday when he was playing the game of tip-cat on Elstow Green, as he was about to strike the cat with the stick, he seemed to hear a voice saying to him, 'Will you leave your sins and go to Heaven, or will you keep your sins and go to Hell?' This morning the voice from Heaven sounds forth this question—Will you trust in Christ and go to Heaven, or will you keep apart from Him and go to Hell?—for there you must go unless Jesus becomes your Mediator and your atoning Sacrifice. Will you have Christ or not? I hear you say, 'But'—O that I could thrust your 'buts' aside! Will you have Christ or not? 'Oh, but'—No, your 'buts' ought to be thrown into limbo, for I fear they will be your ruin. Will you trust Christ or not? If your answer is, 'I trust Him with all my heart,' then you are saved! I say not you shall be saved, but you are saved! 'He that believes in Him has everlasting life.'" —Charles Spurgeon "Putting the Hand Upon the Head of the Sacrifice"

 

"And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known"

Here is the story behind that song:

C. Austin Miles (1868-1946) was a pharmacist turned hymn writer and church music director. He was also an amateur photographer. One day in March, 1912, while in his dark room waiting for film to develop, Miles had a profound spiritual experience in which he saw an incredible vision of Mary Magdalene visiting the empty tomb. He saw her leave the tomb and walk into a garden where she met the Master and heard Him speak her name.

When Miles came to himself his nerves were vibrating and his muscles tense; the words to a new song were filling his mind and heart. He quickly wrote out the lyrics to In The Garden and later that evening composed the musical score. The song was published that same year and became a theme song of the Billy Sunday evangelistic crusades.
(taken from: Share the Faith) ​