Yes. Conviction. God's voice within your heart. It is a great sadness that many people pray, talking at God without ever pausing to listen for an answer. Or, an even greater tragedy, they deafen their hearts to anything but what they want to hear, and often think they have not been answered at all.

THAT's why I don't like it when people try to take the Bible literally. They get all hard-headed and pompous. You try to ask questions and they just look at you with a nasty expression and say, 'because it says so.'

Well, at the risk of being 'deaf,' you're getting rather preachy.