To hear the inspirations of the Holy Spirit
The course of the meditation: In order to hear the inner speech of the Holy Spirit, it is necessary to calm down completely. It is also necessary to renounce every sin, to repent. Bow to God who dwells in you first. Ask him then to speak to you, to teach you, to encourage you, to advise you, to enlighten your mind. Then calm down completely and listen. You may not notice anything at first, but you will get a little closer to your soul and become sensitive to the word of God in it. After about ten minutes, thank God… and write down what you heard.
The Christian believer is the temple of the Holy Spirit. In him, the Holy Spirit speaks, comforts, teaches, testifies, leads to the whole truth. The Holy Spirit enables the believer to hear and understand him. Much like we hear the voice of conscience. Or as inspiration. Yet the speech of the Spirit in us can also be articulated, expressed in words. This is testified by the prophets of the Old Testament, but also of the New. Saint Paul speaks of how the Spirit taught him, led him, blocked his way, spoke to him. In Joppa, Peter is told by the Holy Spirit to go to Caesarea.
Almost all Christian saints bear witness to this speech of the Holy Spirit. Today, the number of books in which the speeches of the Holy Spirit are recorded is growing.
How to distinguish the speech of the Holy Spirit from the speech of our spirit or our subconscious as well as from the speech of others, especially evil spirits?
Simply: The Holy Spirit is one in the Church, in Scripture and in us. Therefore, as soon as the words I hear in myself are contrary to the teachings of the Church or to the words of Scripture, it is clear that it is not the speech of God. Also, if that speech drives into fear, despair, if it judges instead of calms then it is certainly not the speech of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit comforts, calls to conversion and encourages and brings hope, revives, saves and leads to Jesus, because he is his Spirit. The Spirit of God drives away fear, cleanses from sin, frees from slavery to sin and the flesh. He is the Spirit of freedom.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
