I got saved in June of 2004. Before that, I had never stepped foot in a church. So I had no doctrine pre-implanted. God lead me to a reformed church shortly after my salvation. With no prior bias, I took to the doctrine pretty well because it was scriptural.

Since that time I've seen in scripture that we are spiritually blind and cannot understand God's Word without Him revealing it to us. We can read a verse many times and years later, God will show us something new in it. So in this sense, there is revelation being made. However, we have a closed cannon and no new revelation will be made as far as additions to God's word.

Also during my walk, God leads me and guides me. Mostly with feeling, that he confirms through others. I always check everything by scripture to make sure it fits God's Word. However, there were 3 occasion when God spoke to me in such a strong manner, that it seemed to me that I heard him audibly, but in my head.

The first was the night I got saved. I was resisting his draw even then. I remember thinking that if I could just resist until the service was over, I could wait another week. About this time I heard "No, do it NOW!". I actually turned and looked over my right shoulder because I thought somebody in the room had said something. There was no one there. Looking back, I've always just said that was God telling me to do it.

Three years later, I was asked to lead a Wednesday night service. God showed up and I preached that devotion. For the next three days, I felt as though I'd be saved all over again. Through prayer, I heard God a second time. He said "What you did the other night, you will be doing a lot more". This was when I was called to preach. ( I have preached twice since, one of the sermons is online. )

If you look in the prayer request forum, I signed up here and asked for prayer at a particularly hard time in my life. I'd had my heart broken worse than it's ever been by a woman. Just as I was getting over her, she calls back. She wanted to stay friends because she enjoyed talking to me and hanging out. I told her I couldn't do it because it was too painful. It had to be everything or nothing. She agreed we would both pray about it and see what God told us to do. I was praying several times a day for probably two weeks about the situation with her when I heard God again. This was obviously consuming my time. He said to me "Stop focusing on her, focus on me and what I've called you to do".

All three of these instances were basically the same feeling as any other time God leads me in decisions, except much more intense and I swore I heard His voice.

Tonight I was sovereign grace singles chatting and when I said I heard God's voice, I thought the stones were gonna come out of my monitor. I was basically told that God does not speak audibly to us anymore. He just talks to us through the Word. And I was told not to base my beliefs on experience, but the Word. Thing is, I study alot since I teach and preach. I've seen nothing in scripture that says God does not talk to us. Yet I see tons where the Holy Spirit is given to us a comforter, and that God calls us individually, and that we could know nothing spiritual if not for revelation from God. Yes, we get it from the Word, but we are unable to understand the Word apart from the Holy Spirit.

Long story short, I was given grief because if God spoke to me audibly, then that would mean it was new revelation which contradicted closed cannon. I disagreed with this and said God speaks to his people all the time. It's usually a whisper which is why a lot of times we don't hear it. However, if we are walking in His ways, we are more at piece and things are quieter and we can hear Him. And that His individual guidance in our lives is not new revelation scripture wise regardless of how He does it. With a voice we hear, or feelings we have to follow because we don't hear His whisper.

So what is the situation here? Is it unbiblical and heretical to say God speaks to individuals in the manner I claimed? Just for guidance and calling? Is there any scripture that addresses this subject?

My biggest problem was the accusation that God speaking to me meant new revelation. I never claimed that or thought that about it at all. The implication was that ANY TIME God speaks, it's new revelation. Is this Biblical?

Any advice on this subject would be appreciated. Especially with any scripture to back it up.

Thanks,
Greg