Do you ask the Lord or seek people for answers?
We are told to ask and it will be given unto you but who do you ask when it comes to scripture that doesn't set right with you or you don't understand something that God or Yeshua said? Most people seek others or mention it to a spouse or friend and get opinions and don't mentally take it to the Lord and ask in silence and then wait on the Lord for an answer first. When you are willing to wait on the Lord for a question you have in heart and mind you will get an answer. Not saying a word or speaking it outloud. When that happens to you, there is a joy and an awe of God Almighty and Yeshua at the same time. It leads you to start doing it more. I encourage you to start doing that soon and believe the Lord will answer you. Drawn to wanting to know from God Himself, He will for me give scripture most of the time, but He can use people to confirm something to you also. Believe me often the Lord will say to me Be Still and know that I am God. I have heard it a lot.
A conversation with the Lord By His Word
Can you have a conversation with scripture with the Lord, yes you can, but for me I got my first computer Bible back in about 1996, prior to that did use the book Strongs Concordance, but not that often. I loved the computer Bible and would look up for myself wondering what God thought about certain topics. It was several years later after doing that words would pop into my mind for no reason really just one or two words, so I would run to my Bible and enter them and scroll the search list. In scrolling I would be surprised as questions I wondered about to the Lord would all the sudden I would see an answer to my thoughts.
I had been raised knowing by my young 20s maybe my Dad telling me Satan couldn't read my thoughts only God could but that Satan could put things in your mind and would even use scripture as he did when Yeshua fasted after being baptized. Anyway with this a new growth season was happening for me and my communication with the Lord. It eventually got to where I would take scripture to the Lord and He would reply with popping anywhere from 1 to 4 words give me and reply with scripture. I would just know what one answered my question...sometimes with several words He allowed on 1 scripture to pop up.
This morning I had started with prayer but when led to the page I have full of scriptures re praying for the nations with persecution of the Church..I flew down to the last verse posted don't ask me why but often first last and last first will enter my mind. Well when I saw the last scripture of over 30 scriptures on that page I was like hummmm
Nahum 1:2 (KJV) God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
How the Lord Answers Through Scripture
Well the Lord knows me and I want the good stuff He said, you know pouring out His spirit on all flesh, and the one He says all would know Him and you wouldn't have to say know the Lord. So I sat there a bit rereading it haha Well I had also been praying as brought to me was also praying the Lord of the harvest saying that in my mind to the Lord and ask then why can only some hear, I know some are finding you even through dreams visions so His first words back to me was *the heart* and there is a lot of scriptures out of the mouth of Yeshua and God in the Old Testament. And shortly after seeing them all the words *seek know* came to my mind and I went to that search. Now just those words alone speak to you but there is scripture making it more clear and several on those words also. So basically we jumped then from drawing people topic back to nations. I said in my mind to him dividing of the nations? Yet I go look up what I said as sometimes the answer is what you speak, it was not the case and I heard Yeshua say *sheep goats* and then He said "the way*,, now I know those scriptures but I usually go look them up anyway, why? Because I have found new things before often times so I never usually just trust my memory.Now I do have a site Hearing the Lord but since I was the one that started this conversation I am posting it here and not over there. So can you have a conversation with the Lord by His words the answer for me is yes, and I pray you start hearing and desire to know what God Himself Old Testament and Yeshua also God to me in one have to say about things. It starts with having a desire to know what the Lord thinks and a desire for Him to direct our paths, and learning to abide in Yeshua and a desire for them to make their abode with you.
The Lord did then have a word for me and you as after this I did ask Him and wow He made my day again!! hahaha