Devotion 
Speak O Lord, your servants hear you!
David Jacobs 

If I told you that I can hear voices in my head, what would you think? You might think that I had a mental problem, as would be perfectly in your right. So what can we make of people claiming to hear the voice of God? How can they hear it and it is considered normal but if we heard it, we might be considered insane?

When praying, I sometimes feel that I am talking or feeling God. I can feel that something is guiding me, and the deeper and more regularly I pray, the stronger this feeling becomes. Eli and Samuel were devout men, faithful and studious to the word of God. Prayer was a large part of their lives. Eli had grown accustomed to feeling and hearing God's guidance, but the younger Samuel had not. For the more stubborn of us, it might take years of practice praying before we grow to feel any connection with God, but it will come.

We need to practice hearing God's voice before we can hear it. We need to test what it means to hear God's voice with other Christians, as Samuel did with Eli. God does talk to us if we try to talk and listen to Him. It might not happen overnight, it might not be what you expect, but God will listen and talk if we do with Him.

Prayer 

Do you feel that you have ever talked with God? What did He say? More importantly, what did you say and what prompted this exchange?